Women
Rape Culture & capitalism
The following article appeared in the Socialist Party (CWI-Ireland) website, the sister organization of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India).
Editors
Socialism.in
The vile gang-rape of a 23 year old student in Delhi, India and her resultant death in December 2012 has brought the social scourge of rape into sharp focus. Horrifically, this particular case was in no way out of the ordinary in its nature or severity. What made it exceptional was the explosive response to the travesty – the “rage against rape” that brought masses of women as well as of men opposed to the huge prevalence of rape and sexual violence perpetrated in the main against women and children, onto the streets in outrage.