Posts Tagged with ‘rape’
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Is there Blood on your Strawberries?
12 May 2013
The situation for the migrant workers of Manolada hit the international headlines last month in the aftermath of a mass shooting. But behind that acute incident lies a murky world of slave labour and sex trafficking all overseen by a corrupt and mafia infiltrated establishment. In 2010, the investigative journalist, …
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Rape and the American Right
14 Mar 2013
Abortion, welfare and gun control are major preoccupations of the American Right. The right to potentially kill people is sacrosanct, and allowing children to starve is fine, but attempt to end the development of a zygote, embryo or foetus and you are an evil murderess, which must be compelled …
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Redefining Rape: A dangerous development
06 Mar 2013
This blogpost comes with a trigger warning as I understand that there are a group of people who are upset by this discussion continuing and would not wish to read anything more about it. Consequently, I would suggest that anyone who personally affected and is likely to be upset by reading further stops reading …
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Sexual Violence and the Greek Left
14 Feb 2013
Article also available in French As anyone who reads this blog, particularly the updates from Greece will know, this is incredibly difficult time in the country's history. The veil of democracy which hides an authoritarian and despotic government is threadbare, and the rise of an openly fascist party, combining thuggery …
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Rape and Community Response
25 Jan 2013
The recent scandal in the Socialist Workers Party has reignited a lot of issues around rape within radical communities, and more generally. One of the themes raised by this issue has been the establishment of a kangaroo court which exonerated the accused. Commentators have questioned both why the police were …
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A response to critical feedback
14 Nov 2012
The blogpost that I wrote back in February, on "What is Rape" has generated some quite considerable controversy. Much of the discussion has taken place outwith this blog, on other forms of social media and I find my views repeatedly misrepresented by others in such forums. As I am continually …
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Covering up Child Rape
13 Nov 2012
Guest Post by El. Senior members of the British Establishment are implicated in the systematic rape and torture of children. If the whole truth were to come out, I believe the British public would be so appalled at the corruption that allows such wicked behaviour, that the future of the …
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Operation Sapphire: spectacularly missing the point
11 Oct 2012
Operation Sapphire, the specialist unit at the Met designed to cover up prosecute sexual offenses, has been dogged with controversy this year, since it emerged that officers were systematically covering up sex crimes and refusing to investigate, while sexual predators within the force have targetted vulnerable women who have approached …
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On Strong Sisters
01 Oct 2012
Regular readers may have noted that the blog has been down for a little while, while I effected a re-location to Greece. It was a sudden decision, but a move that I had been thinking of for a good time, and if not now, then when? It was not only …
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Rape, Regret and Rosie Dodd
20 Sep 2012
Rape has been in the news of late recently quite a bit: genuine rape, real rape, legitimate rape, forced rape, rape of an unwilling victim, it would seem that every politician on both sides of the atlantic these days wants to make a public statement simultaneously telling people how terrible …
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Socialist Unity: Cesspit of the Left
07 Sep 2012
Those familiar with the state of the UK left will be familiar with the Socialist Unity blog, the cesspit which has taken over from the UKLN email list as the place for old white men to put the world to rights. It must be the most misnamed blog in the …
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Believe me, there is worse than Texas…
03 Sep 2012
Not content with waging war on sovereign countries around the globe, the US has also launched a civil war against half its population. And in the front line of this offensive are the women of Texas. Its over two decades since Louise announced that she wouldn't set foot in the …
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Showing Respect for Women’s Voices
24 Aug 2012
Last week, George Galloway, a darling of the English Left, made some pretty unacceptable comments. The general creepy aura that surrounds him when you meet him in person spilled over into the pages of the news paper and he held court on his views around "sexual ettiquette" and requests for "insertion", …
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Are We Surprised?
22 Aug 2012
Guest post from Laura McKeon Are we surprised? The left creates heroes of men like George Galloway, then feigns shock at their chauvinism. I see his comments as part of a wider network of sexist beliefs that are shared to a lesser or greater extent in different sectors of the …
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The Idolatry of Assange
20 Aug 2012
For the first time in the history of my facebook, I've had to do an actual purge. Oh, I've deleted one or two here and there, and watched as others have had to go through the mass delete process: Sheridan and the English Riots stand out as particular prompts, and …
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Virginity and Violation
14 Aug 2012
Trigger Warning: the entire post talks of state sanctioned rape. The recent changes brought about by the inauguration of the Muslim Brotherhood taking control in Egypt has brought it back to centre stage. Reducing the powers of SCAF and replacing top commanders, it would seem the moves are afoot to …
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Afghan women and Western values
07 Jul 2012
Afghanistan is the world's most dangerous place for women. Following the 2001 invasion by the US and the UK, the UN established the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), control of which was assumed by NATO in 2003. The pretext of the invasion was to find Osama Bin Laden, a comic …
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The Policing of Rape
30 Jun 2012
Anyone reading the Guardian's aricle today on the scale of sexual abuse by police officers may be given the impression that the policing of rape isn't very well done. On the contrary, rape is policed very well. We can't tolerate rape in this society - so we don't. We …
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Asylum law taken over by lunatics
20 Jun 2012
In general, I support asylum seekers. The vast majority flee under difficult conditions to seek sanctuary from state prosecution, of course you get some trying their luck. Criminals wanting to escape charges, who flee not persecution but prosecution, who use their power and connections to subvert the asylum process, getting …
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America’s War on Women
20 Mar 2012
The US's War on Women seems to be escalating by the day. In Idaho, the Senate has just passed a bill making it mandatory for all women seeking abortion to have an ultrasound. There is no medical need for this procedure, and indeed the legislators accept this, but maintain …
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What is rape
23 Feb 2012
Being the nosey kind when I got a pingback on a previous post which explored the constructs which support rape, I immediately took a shifty. At first I thought the blogger had just misunderstood the kind of assumptions that women live under compared with men, but once the comments started …
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Rape: Eyes, Laws and Codes
04 Feb 2012
It was Germaine Greer who said that women never really know how much men hate them. Thanks to the internet we're starting to find out, as "banter" comes out of the backrooms and spews itself over the web. Unilad has just been shut down after it pointed out approvingly that …
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Rape: Myths and Media
31 Jan 2012Alison Saunder, head of the CPS yesterday warned that the demonisation of young women is contributing to the failure to secure more convictions of suspected rapists. In an interview with the Guardian she states that a debate needs to be opened up about the myths and stereotypes that jurors bring with …
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Porn, Rape and Consent
14 Jan 2012
A really interesting twitterspat broke out yesterday over this article on the anti-porn men blog, with several feminists becoming rather enraged at the perceived denial of agency and objectification of women in the sex industry as base materials for the extraction of a commodity as well as the concept of "implicit rape". Sophie …
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Pornography: Ethics and the Industry – Part 1
29 Dec 2011
The Free Hetherington was a wonderful place. Over the seven month occupation as it emerged as a hub for activists of all stripes to congregate and share ideas. In amongst the activism, probably due to the student influence, there was a very good if a little impromptu programme of political …