human-rights

How Neoliberalism Transformed Sex Work in the United States

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Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale

A 16 minute read.

The sociologist Elizabeth Bernstein did fieldwork with sex workers in San Francisco between 1994 and 1998.[1] By her estimate, 20% of sex workers in the city in 1994 worked on the streets. Four years later, 2% of sex workers walked the streets and 98% worked indoors. The city had been ‘cleaned up’. But there were more sex workers, they were often well educated, they made more money, and they were providing an emotionally different kind of sex.   

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Nothing Began in October – Humanitarianism, the Election of Hamas and the Israeli Lockdown in 2006

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Gaza in 2021

TAKIS GEROS writes: From January 2006 to January 2007, I worked for a Greek NGO which provided aid to the health sector in the Palestinian territories. The following paper was delivered to an international conference at Panteion University in Athens in November 2008. The continuities between 2006 and Biden’s “humanitarian airdrops” today are important, sobering and have a series of serious implications for the Gazan survivors in the future.

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The Meaning of Ceasefire: Gaza, Genocide, Resistance and Climate Change

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Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: Sooner or later, there will be a ceasefire in Gaza. When it comes, it will be a defeat for Israel. After all, the main goal of Gazans, Palestinians and the global solidarity movement has been a ceasefire. And the ceasefire will come about because of solidarity, resistance and a global mass movement from below.

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