Capitalism loves to parade itself as the great liberator of women. No longer shackled to the kitchen sink, we’re told women are now “empowered”—free to work, free to divorce, free to chase careers, and free to sell their own flesh under the polished branding of “sex work.” But beneath the shiny liberal rhetoric lies the same old exploitation, repackaged to suit the market.

Alexandra Kollontai wrote nearly a century ago that prostitution was not the result of individual immorality, but a systemic outcome of women’s economic dependence under capitalism. She argued that as long as women lacked economic security, they would be forced, whether through direct coercion or the quiet violence of poverty, into commodifying themselves to survive. Her words echo louder than ever today as it does for all proletarians.

The capitalist system hasn’t eliminated prostitution; it has diversified it. The brothel has become the OnlyFans account. The pimp has been replaced by platform algorithms. Pornography, cam work, all are modern iterations of the same fundamental transaction: the sale of intimacy, affection, and sexual access in exchange for money. And it’s dressed up as “empowerment,” because the system now markets exploitation as a choice.

What Kollontai understood, and what liberal feminism fails to confront, is that real liberation isn’t the freedom to sell yourself. It’s the freedom not to have to. Until women are economically secure, until social reproduction is no longer a private burden shouldered disproportionately by working-class women, prostitution in all its forms will persist—not as empowerment, but as survival.

Class Consciousness Project

A Clear Signal – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/04/01/a-clear-signal/

Sharon Graham: The Illusion of Change at Unite the Union
http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/01/15/sharon-graham-the-illusion-of-change-at-unite-the-union/

The wretched stance of the trade union movement in relation to the war in Ukraine, which has been characterised by abject support for British imperialism up to and including vocal support for open Nazis, exposes once again the truth of Josef Stalin’s denoscription of social democracy as ‘the moderate wing of fascism’.

Today, as the imperialists seek to convince working people that they should be backing the continuation of Nato’s war and the provision of ever more arms and money to its fascist proxies, TUC leaders are not only not opposing this drive to war but are actually demanding it go further and faster.

https://thecommunists.org/2025/03/01/news/tuc-endorsing-ukraine-war-betrayal-british-ukrainian-workers/

Welcome to our new comrade Ian Foster.

Our comrade Rick high up in the heavens of Anfield, Annie road stand.

Video: Leadbeater says talking a loved one out of suicide is 'coercion'. Right-wing Labour MP's 'corporate-assisted dying' bill - backed by Starmer - is full of danger for ordinary people...
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/29/video-leadbeater-says-talking-a-loved-one-out-of-suicide-is-coercion/

It's Official: Ukraine Conflict is British 'Proxy War'
https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/its-official-ukraine-conflict-is

Rats are proliferating along with the rubbish heaps on Birmingham’s streets, as binmen refuse to accept the demand of the bankrupt council’s financial commissioners that refuse workers should take huge pay cuts in order to help fix finances they had nothing to do with breaking.

Indeed, the roots of this crisis in local authority funding go all the way back to the bank bailouts of 2008 – a fact about which media and politicians alike are keeping very quiet.

https://thecommunists.org/2025/04/03/news/birmingham-bin-workers-pay-council-bankruptcy/

I'm currently on with Noah from Midwestern Marx talking about the perils of Trotskyism.

https://x.com/MidwesternMarx/status/1907893500483612727

Mainstream media completely downplay the fact there are actual Nazi's in Ukraine. Even when their battalions turn up on the news with a Blacksun, or a Death head on their fatigues.

I wonder what excuse they'll use for this further glorification of war criminals.

https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/03/12/poland-and-israel-condemn-naming-of-ukraine-stadium-after-officer-linked-to-killing-of-poles-and-jews/

The slaughter of the Alawites is sponsored by western imperialism.