“Suicide!” was my first thought when I heard about Leon Brittan’s death at work this afternoon. I’d been expecting some VIPs to top themselves if they were accused of child sexual abuse. Over the next few years I certainly expect this to happen. In decades to come, historians will see our cultures widespread acceptance of…
MPs like Simonn Danczuck are now talking of “direct action” and “more and bigger peaceful protests, more challenging of ministers, more challenging of the police to take action”. This is because it is beginning to feel like the current inquiry panel was going to be more of whitewash than a genuine expose of “VIP pedophiles”. The…
Facing Reality’s piece on “Silence of the Left – child sexual abuse” eventually, via another piece after Rotherham, and a meeting with a difference for Left Unity, eventually led to the possibility of something practical. Facing Reality put a motion to his Left Unity branch, who improved it, and got it passed at Left Unity’s national…
Like Susan Brownmiller in “Against Our Will”, I feel I must begin this piece by stating that I have never been raped. Unlike Susan Brownmiller, I haven’t researched rape in any academic way. And I am male. However, I do think I understand shame around issues of sexuality, and I would like to bring this to…
As the EDL attempt to present themselves as the opponents of child sexual abuse as they march in Rotherham today, I would like to now why it is not the left building a movement for justice for survivors. Instead, we are reduced to protesting against the EDL. Imagine if the left had seriously taken up the…
TRIGGER WARNING: This content deals with accounts of sexual assault and may be distressing for some people How I was a rape denier & accepted rape myths Denial :Twenty odd years ago I picked up a battered old paperback in one of my city’s many wonderful second hand bookshops.It was called “A Woman In Berlin”.…
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