Of the approximately 72,800 sex workers in the UK, at least 88% are women. Prostitution has always been connected to women’s poverty – that’s why overwhelmingly clients are men and sex workers are women. English Collective of Prostitutes Prostitution is increasing because poverty is increasing. 86% of austerity […]
Politics
Strong criticism against motion to criminalise sex workers’ clients
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 […]
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. André 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.
















