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Video: ECP Church Occupation 1982
Since 1981, when the English Collective of Prostitutes issued the first rights sheet for prostitute women in England and Wales, we have been taking up cases of false arrest and intimidation by police. In 1982, we occupied the Church of the Holy Cross in King’s Cross, London, for 12 days. We were inspired by […]
Statement: Prostitutes are innocent ok!
Excerpt from Some Mother’s Daughter, The Hidden Movement of Prostitute Women Against Violence, International Prostitutes Collective, Crossroads Books 1999, pp49-51. 1981: The trial of the Yorkshire Ripper, serial murderer Peter Sutcliffe, who murdered 13 women. PROSTITUTES ARE INNOCENT OK! We are picketing today to protest against the handling of the Ripper case — by the court, the […]
London Review of Books: Letter – Selma James response to Rosemary Dinnage
Letters: Vol. 2 No. 23 · 4 December 1980SIR: Rosemary Dinnage in her review of Prostitutes: Our Life (LRB, 18 September) does not escape society’s puritanism. Thus she confuses prostitution with prostitutes, and morality with the law. Despite compassion and a great effort to be balanced, she cannot hide her disgust and her distance from women who […]
The Guardian: From the archive, 16 May 1980 Lunch voucher madame wins cut in jail term
Aileen BallantyneBrothel keeper Cynthia Payne, whose clients allegedly include vicars, barristers and a peer of the realm, has her sentence reduced to six monthsA 48 year-old “madame” whose brothel was said to be used by a peer of the realm, a member of the Irish Parliament, several vicars, barristers and solicitors, yesterday lost her appeal against a […]
Washington Post: Prostitutes Win Round in British Parliament
A growing movement to decriminalize prostitution in Britain won its first significant victory today when the House of Commons voted to allow introduction of a bill that would make the law much less harsh on prostitutes.As a group of women representing a lobby for working prostitutes watched, applauded and shrieked their approval form the visitors’ […]
Statement: For Prostitutes and Against Prostitution (1975)
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The International Wages for Housework Campaign (1975)
In 1975 the ECP was started as an autonomous organisation within the Wages for Housework Campaign. At the time the WFHC was one of the few women’s organisations that was ready to work with sex workers and help us defend our rights.