Thinking differently about the sex trade ANNA FISHER explains why you should go to the ‘Students for Sale’ event on Saturday October 15 for some real-world perspectives on prostitution
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Friday 30th Jul 2021 Who will remember the sex trafficking victims? Considering the monstrous profits that third parties can make from women’s prostitution, it’s not hard to figure out why some people might want to remove it from the scope of anti-trafficking law, says ANNA FISHER
Sunday 20th Jun 2021 Victory for local campaigners as Holbeck red-light zone is set to close As locals celebrate a win for women’s safety as a ‘managed’ prostitution area is shut down, ANNA FISHER wonders how Labour could so easily forget the working-class and women’s movements’ history of opposition to the sex trade
Wednesday 14th Apr 2021 Woman: human being or profit centre? Socialists should not support the decriminalisation of prostitution – an institution of oppression that has been used for centuries to ensure the subordination of women and the division of the working class, writes ANNA FISHER
Monday 20th Jul 2020 Another stitch-up for women in Leeds Far from being a success, the decriminalised red-light zone in Holbeck is a misogynistic sticking plaster over a cancerous lesion of male violence, organised crime, exploitation and female suffering, writes ANNA FISHER
Friday 08th Mar 2019 International Women's Day Women of colour stand up against the sex trade ANNA FISHER reports on a recent conference organised by Space International which heard first-hand from black and ethnic minority victims of the sex industry