There is no or a very small impact of regulation on the number of exiled people coming in country. However, making more people illegal let bosses exploit them more. Those workers could not sue their boss because of those regulations, and most conservative unions rely unfortunately too much on legal solutions.

So if a country couldn’t limit immigrations, it could exploit more people and bybass human right with regulations against exiled people.

Yes, this is only positive for far-right bosses, and awful for others. But guess who decide in a capitalist economy ?

A Trade Union Sex Work section in activity in Strasbourg

In France, the CNT-F interprofessional union of Bas-Rhin (STP 67) has been in its ranks for several years, several sex workers grouped in an union section, but without field activity. It has changed since March 2024! Noting that the struggles for the rights of the Sew Workers are still as necessary in France in 2024 as 50 years ago (with the sex workers movement of Lyon in 1975, which is a reference to this day), we decided to re-act our union section through our union and from now on, actively struggle on the ground, in the anarcho-syndical and revolutionary spirit of the CNT-F.

Our section has been very active since this launch:

To begin with, we have written and printed a leaflet that presents all the things we fight against, and why we organize ourselves in a union to lead our struggles. Then we created accounts on the so-called social networks, where we publish regularly, highlighting the slogan “No Prohibitionism nor Abolitionism nor Regulationism – trade unionism! " On March 8, 2024, we participated in the cross-sectional feminist demonstration organized in Strasbourg by autonomous feminist collectives, where we spoke by emphasizing that “there is no feminism without the whores”, and displayed the main demands of the Sex Workers: “The complete decriminalization of sex work!”, “Common law for the workers of sex!”, “Full residence and work rights for migrant Sex Workers!”, “Abolitionism is a violence against women”. On May 1, 2024 we took part in the post-demo press table of our union in Molodoi (a punk self-managed place) and all day to the public who was passing through it, which produced a lot of interesting contacts and exchanges, including with sex worker colleagues.

On 21 May 2024, the independent local press (Rue89 Strasbourg) dedicated us an article-maintenance in solidarity and very noticed: https://www.rue89strasbourg.com/work-du-sexe-section-syndicale-strasbourg-301399

During the preparation of our meeting on June 2, 2024, one of us remembered a piece of the group from Nancy “Carmen Colère heard” in concert, a song called “Daughter of” and which supports the Sex Workers. We asked the band if this piece was online somewhere and if we could use it to create a video “teaser” for June 2. The band was delighted with our request, on purpose recorded the piece, which was not published, for us, and allowed us to use it in teaser video. We are delighted with all the active solidarity, and very warmly thanked the group. And so on June 1 and 2, 2024, we organized militant events on the occasion of the International Day of the Struggles of Sex Workers (day commemorating the movement of the Sex Workers of Lyon, begun by the occupation of the Church of St-Nizier on June 2, 1975): a screening-debate on this subject on June 1 and a public gathering on June 2. It was the first time that a public activist event of tds took place in Strasbourg on that crucial date, we were 30 people there. This gathering was well received by the public, and to our surprise even the local mainstream press interviewed us there and published a benevolent article. On June 4, 2024 we were in an internationalist approach, supporting our Germans Sex Worker colleagues in their struggle against the introduction of the penalization of their clients (penalization in force in France since 2016, with the disastrous effects we know). Upstream, two of us participated in a video interview on this subject carried out by a German social work organization that is active on the ground with our td colleagues in Germany and also in Strasbourg, cross-border. This video was projected and debated in Freiburg on June 4 with the participation of one of us. We have good militant contacts in Germany, although they are not unionists at the moment. In short, our union section is well active and publicly visible. But we are also working very hard: since mid-June we have launched an internal working group to the union on sex work, in which non-Sex Worker comrades are also involved to contribute their know-how, e.g. legal and technical. Because sex work is a much more complex subject than it looks, e.g., with the quite recent rise of virtual tds on the Internet that asks a lot of questions about the order of labour law and also of the technical field (disguised salariat, cybersecurity, right to image…). Group we are fully involved in. And of course we regularly tell and show to our colleagues in Strasbourg how a Sex Worker, self-managed and struggle union could be supporting for them. In summary, we are very happy to be finally launched on the ground, and we invite our sex workers to organize themselves as we do. We will gladly share the tools we have created, contact us. Our links and addresses: https://linktr.ee/cntstp67tds

What ? A corporation that earn money in selling personal data, that don’t want to share its code that run on a device with a microphone, actually use it ? I’m shocked

So what is a confederation of different industries ? Why many of those confederation accept every industries but not cops association ? Finally, people organized tend to have share some analyses and goals, and some of them appends to be left-wing. It’s not u surprise than people struggling for their rights meat the same issues, and share some common interests. Being smash by cops for no reasons when you just want to keep your job is an example why organized workers consider that cops have not the same interests

We used C++ based software. Who need sanity ? Clearly overrated

“Have your heard about our nor God nor Saviors, Anarcho-unionism” ?

There is many homeless women; unfortunately because of threat of rape and harassment (somehow underlined here), lots of them have to not look homeless. They have to buy fine clothes, and makeup. If you think that people “just have to prostitute lol”, you have to ask why you don’t. There is a fucking lot of violence against sex workers. Usually people that could prostitute have coworkers to rely on, or are forced to work for a boss (or a pimp, that the same thing). If the first case is the most common in most of countries, it’s not available for people with few social connections; which is usually the main reason of homelessness

I think we should not confuse the authority based on oppression, and those based on expertise. However the last one could be justified in front of the community (like the Union), so I would use the word “hierarchical”; the trust we gave in those people is freely agreed between equals.

A lot of website use so much ressources, I couldn’t visit its with my 5 years old laptop or my “smart” phone. The only way to access their services is with apps. Fortunately, I could choose FOSS apps on F-Droids

However, loading textual information shall not consume all my RAM and most of my CPU. There is an issue with today web

all managers are bastards

• Short term interest: Yearly benefits make the corporation value. Work to enhance stability, such as investment in other open source project, documentation, formation, or code quality enhancement are less likely to qet time
• Commercial focus: In a capitalist economy, we don’t have pure and perfect knowledge of product. Even if it’s supposed to work like this, commercials and adds are way more effective to sell products, than a top notch product
• Antagonist interests: even if workers tend to like making good stuff, they’d rather eat and get housed. Sending a warning because the products are bad or dangerous can threat someone that made a bad decision, which is likely to be someone in charge. Keeping a low profile is (unfortunately) a reasonable behavior

I think that an economy lead by financial interest, open market, and a hierarchy in the production is a good definition of capitalism.

And yes, definitely the way that people get food, housing, and not being exclude will define a lot of thing in society.

So in the end, they is an internal contradiction in capitalism. It just append to be collapse due to lack of ressources and dumb management

We couldn’t have non capitalist state with imperialism However, if we consider countries without state, we shall consider EZLN and the Democnatic Confederation in Rojava. Both have very interesting approach of eco-socialism.

Central Unions and big political organizations have cancelled the common meeting planned for this week, because “the far-right didn’t pass” This the 3rd time they almost did, I don’t know how many warning shot they need.

I’m sick of the blindness of the left management. We seriously need more people in grass roots organization.

The words of the machine are sacred, Only the impure need explanation

The old train will miss me … LITERALLY at last

In any demonstration, you have to make some unproven statement, taken as true. It could be “1+1 = 2” or “God exists”. So sciences are methodologies based on believes. Lot of religions use logic and reasons, based on science and philosophy, to deduce things from their core believes. This is theology.

So if both science and religions are based on believes, and could have the same methods, how to distinguish one of the other ? We could argue that science try to reduce believes as possible. Personally I’m not good enough in sciences to argue with religious people, and demonstrate that point. In trying to challenge my believes in scientific models, I have to stay tolerant with religious people (I’m not sure I would otherwise); which is a most productive approach. Furthermore, it helps to have a critical point on view on science (as you’ve said, and to taking it as a blind faith)

How do you know that science is not a believe like the other ? My answer is in challenge it with other believe systems to explain reality. Of course some things make a lot more sense with science methodology, but to be faire, te main point of religions is not to explain gravity.

I consider other believes as opportunities, no to explain to others, or to be taught by others, but making both and strengthen us all.

However, we shall to care do not confuse religions and believes. A lot of people took part in religions and do not believes, and others believes and do not took part in a dedicated community. This is a different topic. Communities are generally a good thing, but hierarchy lead to abuses. This true in every organization, religions include

The question is not where the moron are, but what place give them the power to harm