Confronting the reality of domestic violence
Socialist Outlook1990sScanned print read by OCR, and not yet proofread: expect run-together words, dropped letters and, where a piece began partway down a page, a few lines of its neighbour. The printed page is the authority.
out in history reviews How the Blue Union came to Biggest breakWing in the ports and which would soon be reflected in other sectors such as cars and engineering and which HEDDWEN JONES reviews the Contrary to the common characters. how there was no room in the tontiv they cance crave owomen trapped and denied routes of escape - provocation is a key issue in the Sara Thornton case.
The script writers now face the challenge of the appeal. It remains to be seen whether they will stick to their guns and deny a happy resolution to the plot. Brookside has stretched the boundaries of soap opera - now they have to break them. what morals/freedom, but whose morals/freedom?
Unfortunately the class struggle is not a dignified human conflict. This means that the workers have to take the military initiative.
We do not simply wage a defensive struggle and then claim the moral high ground. In the meantime thousands will have been massacred by the other side. Such was the case in Nicaragua and Chile.
Of course I am not advocating massacres or glorifying violence. But there are questions - like Kronstadt, which are military necessiLikewise, in times of struggle, the death penalty becomes a practical rather than a straight moral issue. And we should never advocate freedom of expression to counter-revolutionaries.
True we are fighting for a Marxist society without one person dominating another. But first we must go through the transition of the dictatorship of the proletariat where the workers do dominate the bourgeois elements.
To skip this phase is again to counterpose an idealist humanism to historical reality and necessity. Regrettably, we cannot impose the ideal today. Morals are a product of a material world and we must go through the class struggle Joe Nairn, Bath
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