This article is from the Workers Liberty site and is by author: Jade Lori Baker

The launch of UK Feminista – a new feminist organisation seeking to link up grassroots feminist activists with larger campaigning bodies – sees sex workers take another quiet but harsh blow.

In the run up to the launch last Saturday, Kat Banyard, the brains (albeit brains without much logic) behind the campaign spoke at an event launching her new book The Equality Illusion: The Truth About Women and Men Today along with Anna van Heeswijk of Object, an organisation devoted to combating the objectification of women. No guesses as to what was top of their agenda: the condemnation of sex work and lap dancing clubs!

It seems that hostility to sex work will be UK Feminista’s main target area. This is something we have to prepare to counter as socialist feminists.
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