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Who says decriminalised red-light districts are safer for women?
A kerb-crawler attempting to pay a woman £10 to hand over her baby shows the Leeds ‘managed prostitution zone’ is a failed experiment, says ANNA FISHER
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As Unison launches its Year of Women Workers, ANNIE COGAN-THOMAS argues that stronger organisation and collective bargaining are essential to winning equality
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Recent violence in Belfast was not spontaneous — it was built on years of failure and political neglect, argues STIOFAN O NUALLAIN
As delegates meet in Brighton this week, Unison faces pressing questions about pay, organising, workers’ rights and political representation, explains ANDY CHAFFER
Andy Burnham’s growing stature has fuelled hopes of a Labour revival – but ALAN SIMPSON warns that Britain’s crisis runs far deeper than just its leadership and traces its roots to decades of financialised capitalism
IN my early twenties I lived for a while in a shared house in Spencer Place, then the heart of the red-light district in Leeds.
I remember well the sick feeling whenever I went out and one man after another would drive his car slowly alongside me, keeping pace as I walked along the pavement, peering at me, sizing me up like a piece of meat.
It always provoked feelings of fear and confusion, an inarticulate struggle between my nascent feminist consciousness and the imperative my mother taught me to never allow myself to see uncomfortable truths and particularly not this one — that the men were treating me as a commodity and that they had full human status, but I did not.
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