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Tag: grooming gangs
Long Read: Child Sexual Exploitation, ‘Asian Grooming Gangs’ and the Left
by an anonymous social worker
While the far right is shameless in making political hay out of young people's suffering, it is sometimes contended that the left does not have an adequate response to child sexual exploitation. What does CSE mean, how does is it perpetrated, and how the left can show solidarity with its victims?
The Far Right Don’t Care About Sexual Violence – They’re Just Trying to Gain Political Power
by Dalia Gebrial
Tommy Robinson’s appointment as Ukip’s ‘grooming gangs advisor’ is just the latest in the far right’s attempts to use our outrage at sexual violence in order to gain credibility and power. We mustn't let them get away with it, argues Dalia Gebrial.
How Anti-Sex Work Legislation Bolsters the Racist State
by Ava Caradonna
Sexual violence is not just a 'foreign' problem of traffickers and grooming gangs - and cracking down on sex worker rights doesn't protect anyone from exploitation.