"Jacqui Smith's proposals have very little to do with protecting women, men and transgendered people who work as prostitutes. What they're really about is controlling immigration, keeping prostitutes divided and incrasing state control over people's lives."
So opens our issue on sexuality and gender. We take a look at the sex industry and 'trafficking' and the forms of gender enslavement in the online community Second Life. We also feature articles on the state of the gay rights movement, neurosexism, and gendered language in Ursula Le Guin's Gethen stories.
Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez get a dressing-down as we take a look at a few of the 'messiahs' the left is putting its faith in today.
This issue we also publish an extract from our work in progress, a new volume in our Anarchism Communist Editions series devoted entirely to the relationship between anarchism and art. This major work, in collaboration with many contemporary artists, will explore what our modern 'culture of resistance' would look like. Watch this space for more information.
As always, if the contents of one of the articles in this issue provokes thought, makes you angry, compels a response then let us know. Write us a letter and we'll do our best to publish it in a future issue.