Solidarity 3/100, 20 October 2006

No sex workers please... we’re feminists

This year’s programme of events at the Women’s Library in London focuses on prostitution. But a series of events completely excludes sex workers, sex workers‚ organisations, as well as anyone speaking from a perspective that supports sex workers’ and migrants’ struggles in the UK and abroad!

This is a serious political choice that calls for socialist feminists to make visible our dissent.

Class struggle in the 12th century

Darren Bedford reviews Robin Hood (Saturday BBC1)

The traditional Robin Hood story goes like this. Young Saxon nobleman returns from King Richard’s crusade full of idealism and good-will towards his fellow man. He is outraged at the injustice that Richard’s brother, John, and his henchman like the Sheriff of Nottingham are perpetrating against the downtrodden Saxon peasantry.

John Rees justifies ditching working-class socialism

Paul Hampton reviews Imperialism and Resistance by John Rees

John Rees is the new pope of the SWP, establishing himself since Tony Cliff’s death as the main driver of its politics. Yet his new book is remarkably thin: light on the substance of imperialism today, poor on arguments between socialists with absolutely monstrous political conclusions.