In the EU, thousands of women coming from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are forced to engage in prostitution. This phenomenon that became overwhelming after the fall of the Berlin Wall, is explained by the rapid impoverishment of the population. A report from Le Monde Diplomatique provides a close view.

1998 was the year of Monica Lewinsky in the United States. For those who had been familiar with Bill Clinton, this was not an unexpected development. The long story that went so far as the impeachment of the president demanded a deeper analysis of the relationship between U.S. politics and sexuality.

A U.K. minister became victim of a strange sex scandal recently. The social pheomenon in the background of the story is highlighted by the article from Socialist Outlook.

The major political tendencies of the pre-war period: bourgeois radicalism, social democracy, and Catholicism, manifested themselves in the women's movement as well. In their own way, they took a position on issues like intra-family relations or prostitution.

The Soviet censorship eliminated the figure of Inessa Armand from history, though the Swedish woman had a close relationship with the revolutionary leader. If we wanted to pursue a view on history without dogmas, we also have to have an accurate picture about the private life of the founder of party and state.