Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Sex workers across the world are demanding decriminalisation

IN 1975 sex workers in France and Switzerland surprised everyone by going on strike against repression — just like “real workers.”
The strikes started with the occupation of a church in Lyon and a banner saying: “Our children don’t want their mothers in prison.”
They complained bitterly about police arresting and fining them on the spot, and the hypocrisy of a society which targeted mothers working to feed their children.
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