Pointing the finger at abolitionists, by Ana Bernal-Triviño

Last week there was a demonstration of abolitionist feminists of prostitution. Minutes later, Pablo Iglesias published in a tweet: “This is the mobilization against the trans law with buses from all over Spain. The Lesmes team from the CGPJ was missing & rdquor ;. Later, he deleted the tweet.

You can be critical of abolition, or discuss how to get there, but without missing the truth. Those who think like Churches know that there are abolitionist Podemos voters, others who have not expressed their opinion about the trans law, abolitionist trans women and that in that demonstration there were victims of the ‘prostitutional’ system and of this criminal business.

The tweet had repercussions because it was written by Iglesias, but the similar manipulations against abolitionism have increased these years. Also from a left that fills its mouth with historical memory but less so with feminist historical memory. Women whose abolitionist discourse is silenced. I will leave only these words of Free Women, in the middle of the Civil War: “The most urgent task to be carried out in the new social structure is to suppress prostitution. Rather than deal with the economy or education, in the midst of the anti-fascist struggle, we still we have to radically put an end to this social degradation. We cannot think of work, of any kind of justice, as long as the greatest of slaveries remains in place: the one that disables all to live with dignity.” I did not know that the ideas of Mujeres Libres or Clara Campoamor, ahead of her time, now they were equated with Lesmes. If they raised their heads and saw this left…

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Then I think that how are they not going to point the finger at us as abolitionists, if we are the first country in consumption of prostitution of Europe and the world. So we have whores and pimps for every square meter infecting that left with a discourse of false myths. The key is how much you are willing to betray your principles. Abolitionism is at the root of feminism. Because it has feminist historical memory. And voice. And I vote, I remember.

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