Sex Work: Solidarity Not Salvation

Syndicated from Libcom on Tue, 2012-06-05

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<p> An article by an Australian Wobbly sex worker advocating solidarity and syndicalism. Orginally published in <a href="http://www.iww.org/en/content/industrial-worker-issue-1745-may-2012" class="bb-url">issue #1745, May 2012</a>, of the IWW&#039;s newspaper <span style="font-style:italic">Industrial Worker</span>. </p>

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<p> An ongoing debate is taking place in anarchist and feminist circles on the legitimacy of sex work and the rights of sex workers. The two main schools of thought are almost at polar opposites of each other. On the one side you have the abolitionist approach led by feminists, such as Melissa Farley who maintains that sex work is a form of violence against women. </p>

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