Work of the Negative: A Marxist-Humanist blog

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Rape

February 20, 2015

Özgecan Aslan: Sexual assault and murder in Turkey spark widespread outrage, demonstrations

Preview of article on women’s oppression and freedom struggles worldwide for March-April issue. Comment now so that your thoughts can be taken into account in the finished article. Continue reading

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Abortion, Ahmet Suphi Altindöke, AKP, Ankara, Özgecan Aslan, Berlin, Cyprus, feminism, Frankfurt, Gaziantep, Germany, Hamburg, India, Istanbul, Justice and Development Party, Jyoti Singh Pandey, Mersin, patriarchy, Rape, rape culture, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive rights, sexism, sexual assault, students, Taksim Square, Taliban, Terry Moon, Turkey, Violence against women, women’s liberation, youth, İzmir
September 14, 2014

Woman as Reason: Fighting rape is in our hands

From the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: Woman as Reason: Fighting rape is in our hands Since the beginnings of the Women’s Liberation Movement in the early 1960s, we have been fighting rape, and rape culture. Finally, 50 years later, a U.S. president issued some mild recommendations on how to fight rape on college campuses, and… Continue reading

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Air Force Academy, Andrea Pino, Annie Clark, anti-abortion, Barack Obama, campus rape, Charles Grassley, Claire McCaskill, Clery Act, Dean Heller, End Rape on Campus, feminism, injury response, Kelly Ayotte, Kylie Angell, Marco Rubio, military service academies, Northwest Florida State College, Occidental College, Occidental College Sexual Assault Coalition, Paycheck Fairness Act, Rape, rape culture, self-organization, sexism, sexual assault, social media, Terry Moon, Title IX, University of Connecticut, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Southern California, Violence Against Women Act, war on women, women’s liberation movement
September 4, 2014

Editorial: ISIS, U.S. both savage Iraq

The explosive advances of the army of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS), crossing from Syria into northern and central Iraq, have brought deeper miseries to the Iraqi people who might have expected they had already endured the worst, including the effects of U.S. imperialist policy. Atrocities from mass shootings and beheadings to systematic kidnapping and… Continue reading

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2003 invasion of Iraq, Aleppo, Arab spring, Baghdad, Barack Obama, barrel bombs, Bashar al-Assad, beheading, boots on the ground, Caliphate, chemical weapons, counter-revolution, Damascus, Dick Cheney, Egypt, Erbil, European Union, Free Syrian Army, George H.W. Bush, Haider al-Abadi, Hosni Mubarak, Iraq, Iraqi Army, IS, ISIS, Islamic Dawa Party, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, John McCain, Kurds, Marsh Arabs, Marxist-Humanism, Mosul, Mosul Dam, new humanism, Noury al-Maliki, Ottoman Empire, peshmerga, Rape, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, state capitalism, Sunni Arab, Syria, Syrian revolution, Tahrir Square, Tigris River, U.S., U.S. imperialism, World War I, Yazidi.
May 16, 2014

Women Worldwide, May-June 2014

Women’s Memorial March in Canada, and Save Wiyabi Project; premiere of docudrama film “¡PODER!” on girls in Concepcion Chiquirichapa, Guatemala; Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s “Stop Telling Me to Smile” project. Continue reading

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Atlanta, ¡PODER!, Canada, Concepcion Chiquirichapa, domestic violence, Elba Velasquez, Emelin Cabrera, feminism, Georgia State University, Guatemala, Indigenous women, Laura M. Madison, Lauren Chief Elk, Let Girls Lead, Lisa Russell, Maya, Municipal Office of Childhood and Adolescence, patriarchy, Rape, Save Wiyabi Project, sexism, sexual harassment, Stop Telling Me to Smile, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Vancouver, women’s liberation, Women’s Memorial March
May 14, 2014

Massacres continue in Central African Republic

Violence continues in the Central African Republic. French troops are present, but not heavily involved in peacekeeping. The French were never in CAR for humanitarian reasons, but to protect investments, something that has become less pressing for them with the closure of their once-profitable Areva uranium mine. Continue reading

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2012–2013 Central African Republic conflict, Africa, anti-balaka, Areva, Association des Femmes Juristes Centrafricains, Bangui, Catherine Samba-Panza, Central African Republic, France, Francois Bozize, Michel Djotodia, Rape, Seleka, uranium, women
May 14, 2014

India’s Modi: ‘free market’ authoritarian

Narendra Modi states openly that his program will be to unleash “free market” reform coupled with authoritarianism in government. Modi’s history tells us what his authority portends: the massacre of 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat. Continue reading

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Amrit Wilson, Bangalore, Bharatiya Janata Party, Bidadi, BJP, capitalism, Communist Party, Congress Party, domestic violence, feminism, Gujarat, Hindutva, India, Indian National Congress, labor, Maharashtra, Mohandas Gandhi, Narendra Modi, National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi, Nokia, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, patriarchy, Rahul Gandhi, Rape, religious fundamentalism, religious Right, Sangh Parivar, sexism, Tamil Nadu, Toyota, West Bengal, women’s liberation, workers
March 13, 2014

Women fight for freedom against growing retrogression

While experiences in the squares of the Arab Spring, in Turkey’s Gezi Park, in the streets of Spain and Greece, and in the U.S. Occupy Movements have revealed moments of what new human relations between women and men could look like, those moments of hope and exhilaration have been followed by devastating reaction and retrogression. Continue reading

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Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Abortion, Afghan Women’s Network, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, African Americans, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, birth control, Black liberation, Burma, Contraception, Dina van der Zalm, Egypt, feminism, food stamps, Gezi Park, Greece, Hamid Karzai, Heather Barr, Human Rights Watch, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Jordan, Kachin, Latinas, Lebanon, Louisiana, Middle East revolutions, Missouri, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Myanmar, New York Times, Nouri al-Maliki, Nuba Mountains, Occupy Gezi, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, patriarchy, Planned Parenthood, poverty, racism, Rape, Raqqa, Reproductive rights, sexism, sexual harassment, Shan, Sima Samar, South Dakota, Spain, Sudan, Suraya Pakzad, Tahrir Squares, Taliban, Texas, Turkey, U.S. military occupation of Iraq, Unemployment, United States, Violence against women, Virginia, Wendy Davis, Women’s League of Burma, women’s liberation
March 11, 2014

Call for News and Letters Committees Convention, 2014

News and Letters Committees has posted its OFFICIAL CALL FOR CONVENTION to Work Out Marxist-Humanist Perspectives for 2014-2015 February 23, 2014 To All Members of News and Letters Committees Dear Friends: The sharpness of revolution and counter-revolution contending now, while the prolonged global capitalist economic crisis refuses to end, cries out for… Continue reading

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1953 Letters on Hegel’s Absolutes, 2014 Winter Olympics, Absolute Idea, Absolute Negativity as New Beginning, Arab spring, Ban Ki-moon, Barack Obama, Bosnia, Cameroon, Canada, Chattanooga, climate change, Congo, counter-revolution, Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy, Egypt, European Union, fast food workers, Gezi Park, global warming, Iran, Keystone XL pipeline, kill list, LGBTQ rights, low-wage workers, Middle East revolutions, Moral Mondays, News and Letters Committees, Nigeria, Occupy Boston, Occupy Gezi, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Pelican Bay prison hunger strike, philosophic moment, philosophy of revolution, queer liberation, Rape, Raya Dunayevskaya, revolution in permanence, Rosa Luxemburg, Russia, Ryan Crocker, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Sudan, Switzerland, Syria, Tahrir Squares, tar sands, The Philippines, Turkey, Typhoon Haiyan, U.S. military occupation of Iraq, UAW, Uganda, Ukraine, Unemployment, VW, Walmart strikes, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
November 30, 2013

Queer Notes, Nov.-Dec. 2013

Queer Notes: Discrimination in Russia; Intersex in Germany; no prison for rape in Iowa; transition surgery in Iran; Lembembe murdered in Cameroon. Continue reading

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adoption, Africa, Alternatives-Cameroun, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Brent Girouex, Cameroon, Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS, Council Bluffs Iowa, Eric Ohena Lembembe, Europe, Germany, heterosexism, homophobia, International Olympic Committee, intersex, Iran, lgbt, Middle East, Rape, Russia, Same-sex marriage, transition surgery, Victory Fellowship Church
September 23, 2013

Latin America in view, September-October 2013

Latin America in View, Sept.-Oct. 2013: Ecuador oil drilling; Brazil rapes; Mexico Escuelita Zapatista. Continue reading

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Amazon, Brazil, Chiapas, direct democracy, Ecuador, Escuelita Zapatista, feminism, Indigenous peoples, Latin America, Mexico, oil drilling, patriarchy, Rafael Correa, Rape, Rio de Janeiro, sexism, sexual assault, women’s liberation, Yasuni national park, Zapatista