Political Parties Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/political-parties/ Since 1975, the English Collective of Prostitutes has been campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers and our families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages. Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:31:32 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://prostitutescollective.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/favicon-260-x-260-150x150.png Political Parties Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/political-parties/ 32 32 Action Alert: Ask your candidates to support the decriminalisation of sex work and take action against the cost-of-living crisis https://prostitutescollective.net/action-alert-ask-your-candidates-to-support-the-decriminalisation-of-sex-work-and-take-action-against-the-cost-of-living-crisis/ Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:33:23 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17866 The post Action Alert: Ask your candidates to support the decriminalisation of sex work and take action against the cost-of-living crisis appeared first on English Collective of Prostitutes.

]]> Young Greens: Sex work – is decriminalisation the answer? https://prostitutescollective.net/young-greens-sex-work-is-decriminalisation-the-answer/ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:06:27 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=12152 Sex work is legal in the UK. But whilst the exchange of money between two adults for consensual sex is allowed, lots of activities surrounding sex work remain illegal. Laws on ‘brothel-keeping’ and ‘loitering and soliciting’ in particular have made sex workers’ lives significantly more difficult. This legislation prevents sex workers from working together from premises, and […]

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]]> Action Alert: Support our submission to the Labour Party Policy Forum https://prostitutescollective.net/urgent-support-our-submission-to-the-labour-party-policy-forum/ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:12:54 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7717 Dear Friends,The Labour Party is inviting people to submit proposals to the National Policy Forum which they say will shape policy.We have submitted a proposal for the decriminalisation of sex work to be included in the Labour Party manifesto.We also demand the reversal of austerity cuts which have increased destitution and consequently prostitution.If you are […]

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]]> Novara Media: Strippers Take Aim at Women’s Equality Party Over ‘Sting’ Operation https://prostitutescollective.net/novara-media-strippers-take-aim-at-womens-equality-party-over-sting-operation/ Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:54:06 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7659 A union has said it will seek “legal remedies” following a sting operation by anti-strip club campaigners linked to the Women’s Equality party (WEP).In recent months, the anti-strip club campaign Not Buying It has paid male private investigators, including two former police officers, to pose as customers in strip clubs in Sheffield and Manchester with […]

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]]> Camden New Journal: Letter – how can the Women’s Equality Party campaign to close strip clubs? https://prostitutescollective.net/letter-how-can-the-womens-equality-party-campaign-to-close-strip-clubs/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:42:42 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7532 21 February, 2019HOW can the Women’s Equality Party (WEP) justify campaigning to close strip clubs without saying how women, deprived of this source of income, should support themselves and their families? (Campaigners fight on against lap-dancing clubs but The Griffin secures new licence, February 15).The WEP says about stripping that: “Degradation of women is the business […]

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]]> Novara Media: Labour Must Not Contribute to the Oppression of Sex Workers https://prostitutescollective.net/novara-media-labour-must-not-contribute-to-the-oppression-of-sex-workers/ Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:49:33 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7441 We Need Decriminalisation Now by Lydia Caradonna   A few months ago, around 200 sex workers and allies gathered in Parliament Square with placards, banners, and a sound system. Inside, just metres away, a Westminster Hall debate was taking place on a UK equivalent to the US SESTA-FOSTA laws, legislation that would shut down online advertising platforms that […]

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]]> Statement: WEP leader insults and dehumanises sex workers https://prostitutescollective.net/wep-leader-insults-and-dehumanises-sex-workers/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:43:28 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7241 Last night Sophie Walker, the leader of the Women’s Equality Party responded to a comment by a sex worker on twitter by calling her a “sex bot”. For Walker to disparage and dehumanise sex workers in that way is sickening. Is the Women’s Equality Party not for equality and respect for all women, whatever our […]

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]]> New Statesman: John McDonnell is a better gender equality campaigner than his MP critics https://prostitutescollective.net/john-mcdonnell-better-gender-equality-campaigner-mp-critics/ Mon, 05 Sep 2016 20:44:29 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=5003 Women at the top of the party are no guarantee of representation at the bottom, six female activists argue. Kate Green MP, former shadow minister for women and equalities, now heading Owen Smith’s campaign for leadership of the Labour Party, accuses Jeremy Corbyn of not “listening” before supporting the decriminalisation of prostitution, which in her […]

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]]> The Guardian: Letter – supporting Jeremy Corbyn on decriminalisation https://prostitutescollective.net/ecp-letter-in-the-guardian-supporting-jeremy-corbyn-on-decriminalisation/ Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:17:04 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4789 Decriminalisation and sex workers Jeremy Corbyn’s stance on sex work (Report, 6 March) is in line with Amnesty International’s view that decriminalisation is “the best way to defend sex workers’ human rights and lessen the risk of abuse and violations they face”. We are currently fighting legal cases with women imprisoned for brothel-keeping for working […]

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]]> OpenDemocracy: We support Jeremy Corbyn on decriminalisation https://prostitutescollective.net/opendemocracy-we-support-jeremy-corbyn-on-decriminalisation/ Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:02:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=19570 Prostitution is rising along with poverty in Britain. To protect women both the criminalisation of sex work and austerity must be reversed.English Collective of Prostitutes We welcome Jeremy Corbyn’s public statement in support of the decriminalisation of sex work. He, more than many, will have in mind the austerity cuts, 75% of which have targeted […]

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