Sex workers, trade unionists, women’s and human rights organisations were briefing MPs against a Ten-Minute Rule Motion to criminalise sex workers’ clients, being read in Parliament last week. English Collective of Prostitutes The motion, tabled by Diana Johnson MP, proposes a Bill to “criminalise paying for sex” and […]
Politics
Resistance during the pandemic
Increase in domestic violence and unpaid work shape the reality enforced by Covid and ignored by the British government. Immigrants and Afro-descendants are the most affected. A virtual event on 10 December in London, makes an appeal to getting involved in this feminist struggle. Daniela Arias Baquero The […]
Julian Assange, an agonising wait
After concluding the second and last phase of the judicial process in October, the verdict is expected on 4 January of next year, a decision that further prolongs the agony of the Australian journalist, who has spent more than eight years in confinement. Néstor Marín First came seven […]
The favela does not shut up and neither does he
According to data from the 2020 Atlas of Violence, 75% of homicide victims in Brazil in 2018 were black. And the situation seems to be getting worse. Andr Constantine knows this and together with him a movement has emerged that redefines the class struggles, the decolonisation struggle, the anti-racist and anti-capitalist struggle.
Indigenous strength in Brazilian democracy
The indigenous movement ends 2020 strengthened in the biggest country in Latin America, where of the 210 million Brazilian men and women, around 900,000 are indigenous. A progressive occupation of spaces that were previously exclusively for white society is starting: democracy, universities and rights.