IAN LAVERY MP says an immediate focus on raising wages and reducing costs must be part of a strategy to show Labour can deliver for workers again
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
[Pic: Nils Hamerlinck / Creative Commons]
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
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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