/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>491138
>anti-immigration/nationalists that "Italians aren't White and can FUCK OFF"
That's a good one. Pretty much anything sexual will trigger them: BLACKED threads on /pol/, implying that right wingers are all closeted gays or pedos or fap to trans porn categories.

They won't and can't read though so you will have to rely on pictograms.

If I think of more I'll let you know.

>>491146
>That's a good one. Pretty much anything sexual will trigger them: BLACKED threads on /pol/,
But /pol/ already puts those on /pol/. /Pol/ is like 99.99999% of the """blacked""" market.

>>491048
> ask members to uphold

that isn't what the text says, it says to defend and carry out party decisions

PSL's hardline rules about carrying out party orders have been shown to be over-zealously enforced even if written somewhat minimally. I

t means you’re never just a member of PSL, you’re being watched constantly by PSL as a member, and even your casual online habits get scrutinized.

Imagine trying to build a life, have friends, or participate in broader movements while knowing your own party is combing through your social media likes looking for “wrongthink.” For a tiny cadre org, maybe you can justify that level of paranoia. But for a party that claims to be mass-oriented? It’s radioactive. Normal people take one look at that and see cult vibes, not politics. That’s why PSL is capped below 3rd or 4th place in presidential elections: nobody wants to live under a microscope just to hand out papers and repeat talking points.

>>491053
How is that different?
I'm using "uphold" to mean literally the same thing. If you want to "uphold" democratically decided party decisions in some abstract, ethereal way which requires no personal compromise on your part, then what even are you offering to your party?

>Imagine trying to build a life, have friends, or participate in broader movements while knowing your own party is combing through your social media likes looking for “wrongthink.”
I have literally never heard about this until now. And I never got an answer for my
<No one denied it - out of what sample exactly?
question. I've seen a bunch of "scandalous" rumors thrown at this party specifically by twitterite dramaratis, and to date none of them have proven to hold any water. It comes across as the typical "Sanders supporters are misogynist" or "Labour has an anti-semitism problem" tier nonsense.

>Normal people take one look at that and see cult vibes, not politics.
I've been talking to folks in the PSL and about the PSL for over a year straight, and I've never even heard the specific stuff you're talking about. The idea that "normal people" are even seeing these rumors is laughable, although I'm sure that the drama people would like everyone to see the rumors.

>That’s why PSL is capped below 3rd or 4th place in presidential elections
The primary problem for the PSL has nothing to do with internal party policy, and everything to do with the way media institutions in the US deliberately ignore or slander parties outside of the two party system, and the way in which the electoral system is purposefully rigged to shut them out.

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>>491059
Last 5 paragraphs were for >>491054

>>491033
>Pretty much nothing else Sanders wanted has come to fruition
The only thing Bernito Lassalini wanted was to lead the retarded cattle all around so his employers would keep paying him money for his great job at keeping libtards of all hues and cries in check. And he's doing a spectacular job for decades, if I'm able to remind you mr. retard. Now kill yourself NutSuccDam subhuman.

>>491040
>The one good outcome, which was hardly material in nature, was it managed to reduce a considerable amount of stigma from the word "socialism"
So that leftards could be coopted even better? What a nice achievement for our bourgeoisie! Fucking uyghur.


Didn't know nazis were allowed in here but whatever.

>>491031
>IRV shouldn't be conflated with STV
I completely agree, in fact it is my tireless crusade to get people to stop using the braindead term "ranked choice voting" which easily conflates the two. An important poiint can be made which is reflected in the graph: Countries which use a combination of IRV and STV such as Ireland and Australia tend to have only a bit more overall party representation because their IRV bodies function to undermine the party-enriching aspects of their STV bodies.

>regional politics
Your observation is also true of Canada and UK, but the thing to understand is the trend actually still holds at a smaller geographic scope. While these countries have not yet degenerated to absolute two-party domination at a national level, if you look closer what actually occurs is there are typically still only two parties vying for power in a given discrete region.

>>491042
>there are typically still only two parties vying for power in a given discrete region

no, and that's why it's not a law

In India, politics usually doesn’t follow the “only two parties vying for power” models. Elections in discrete regions are frequently multi-party races where three or more parties compete seriously.

For example, in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP, Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, and Congress all contest elections, making it a four-cornered fight.

In West Bengal, the main battle is between Trinamool Congress, BJP, Congress, and the Left parties.

In Tamil Nadu, both DMK and AIADMK are strong, but Congress, BJP, and smaller regional parties also play key roles.

Because of these dynamics, India’s democracy is considered a multi-party system, directly contradicting the idea that only two parties dominate a given region and a very powerful argument against what is just some guy's theory.

>>491045
Duverger's has a number of theoretical flaws, one is assuming voters are strategic or that party similarities outweigh class divisions.

Indians aren't exactly known for their straregy either in developing infrastructure, building a proper loo, or getting into white girls panties

India's society is also way more class divided than the US'

>>491045
>>491046
>one is assuming voters are strategic or that party similarities outweigh class divisions
Neither of those are assumptions of Duverger's law, it's just an observational trend. Duverger himself never even called it a law, it just got upgraded to "law" by other political scientists as they continued to survey more political systems and realized what a strong tendency it was.

>>491047
Yes those are typical assumptions of Duverger's applied as a political science law

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/17/americas/evo-morales-bolivia-arrest-threats-intl-hnk
Blocked from Bolivia’s election, ex-leader Morales not sure how to respond to threats of arrest

Bolivia’s charismatic, long-serving ex-President Evo Morales told The Associated Press on Saturday that he didn’t know what to do about threats by the right-wing presidential candidates to arrest him if they came to power.

From his stronghold in Bolivia’s tropics of Chapare, where he has been holed up for months under the protection of die-hard supporters, he repeated his call for voters to deface their ballots in Sunday’s high-stakes elections in defiance of the race from which he is barred due to a contentious constitutional court ruling.

“What are we going to do? Not even I know,” he said in response to questions about how he would respond if either of the right-wing front-runners, multimillionaire businessman Samuel Doria Medina and former president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, wins the presidential election and fulfills their threats to arrest him. “I am in the crosshairs of of the right-wing empire.”

Morales, 65, was charged last year with human trafficking and accused of impregnating a 15-year-old girl when he was president.

While he has not outright denied having sexual relations with the underage girl, he has described the charges as politically motivated. A judge issued the arrest order as he and his former finance minister, President Luis Arce, bickered over the control of their long-dominant Movement Toward Socialism Party.

As a result of their bitter power struggle, the party splintered. With the Bolivian economy undergoing its worst crisis in around four decades, the implosion of the MAS party has given the right-wing opposition its best shot at winning at the ballot box since Morales first came to power in 2006.

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>>491004
>Morales, 65, was charged last year with human trafficking and accused of impregnating a 15-year-old girl when he was president.
I don't even remember hearing about this. I heard he was barred and assumed it was just on the same pretext they couped him with. They're using new shit, though! This is like the stuff they made up against Assange or Lula.

Also funny to think that Evo Morales is still younger than the last two guys to get elected president of the US (in 3 elections).

How come in these Western articles I'm reading, there's a negative focus on Bolivia's MAS party and Morales but they ignore Jeanine Áñez's rightwing era?

>>491013
Because the western media hates Evo.

The Kent State massacre was a regular crime. Had it been committed as part of, or under the auspices of, the "war effort," or had it been committed in or anywhere near the battlefield, or had it been committed by occupying soldiers in the place they were occupying, then it would have been a war crime.

Obviously Mai Lai and things like that were war crimes. Mai Lai is crazy - growing up I don't remember hearing as much about how the American soldiers were gang raping women and children during that.

The thing to remember about the My Lai massacre is that it wasn't even the most extreme example of shit US troops were doing in Vietnam, it's just the one that someone blew the whistle on.

I seems I have read war account books of these types of torture accounts more of interrogation room stuff.

Largest US socialist organisation passes resolution supporting Palestinian resistance
Sunday’s resolutions contained both political and practical commitments for DSA. Politically, the resolution supports al-Thawabit, or the Palestinian red lines, the unifying principles outlined by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in 1977. These principles include the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine, the Palestinian right to resist and the right to self-determination. The resolutions also make publicly and consistently opposing the BDS movement, taking money from pro-Israel lobbying groups, and supporting the transfer of funds or weapons to Israel an expellable offence. Elected officials are expected to be held to similar standards by DSA.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/largest-us-socialist-organisation-passes-resolution-supporting-palestinian-resistance

Trump to deploy National Guard to D.C. and federalize city police
The news comes on what Trump is calling the "Liberation Day" of D.C., which he has said is "one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the world," despite violent crime trending down in the District for the second straight year. 800 National Guard members are being called to D.C., Trump said at a Monday press conference, adding that he may bring in the military "if needed." The D.C. Guard is the country's only National Guard unit reporting exclusively to the president.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/08/11/trump-national-guard-dc-police

Waste from agricultural plant poisoned US town’s water with Pfas, lawsuits allege
Perdue Farms acknowledged that its 300-acre Salisbury, Maryland, operation is polluting local waters, but the chemicals’ sources have not been confirmed. It appears the Pfas is in part also coming from some combination of sludge used as fertilizer and pesticides, attorneys for plaintiffs say.
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Interview of Reem Hazan, Politburo member of the Communist Party of Israel, to Rizospastis: "Reactions within Israel are growing"
The weekend 9/10 August edition of “Rizospastis”, Organ of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), published an interview with Reema Hazan, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Israel (Maki) and head of its International Relations Section. Read below the interview translated into English: “Last night (Thursday) the Israeli cabinet approved the beginning of a full-scale occupation of the Gaza Strip. We warn of the continuation of ethnic cleansing, the war of extermination and the further destruction of Gaza,” Hazan says and continues: “This government, motivated by racial supremacy and messianic fanaticism, must stop. Even those in the Israeli leadership who hesitate to expand the war do so out of concern for their soldiers and their prisoners, not out of concern for committing war crimes against an entire people. Israelis must not accept the continuation of this war and this criminal government. The protests demanding an end to the war and the overthrow of this government must continue. Only with an agreement and a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces can the cessation of the extermination of the Palestinian people be ensured.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/08/interview-of-reem-hazan-politburo-member-of-communist-party-israel-to-rizospastis-reactions-within-israel-are-growing.html

Ballard Partners Is the Lobbyist King of the Trump Era
The Securities and Exchange Commission, overseen by crypto millionaire Paul Atkins, just agreed to drop its lawsuit against the cryptocurrency exchange Ripple after Biden-era regulators sued the firm for alleged securities fraud. Ripple, which will still have to pay a $125 million fine, gave $4.9 million to Trump’s inauguration in January and paid nearly $800,000 to lobby the federal government in the first half of fiscal 2025. That included $260,000 spent lobbying on issues related to crypto regulation paid to DC’s newly crowned lobbying king, Ballard Partners. Ballard Partners was founded in 1998 by wealthy conservative donor Brian Ballard — a major MAGA fundraiser since Trump’s first cPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>490945
>Elected officials are expected to be held to similar standards by DSA.
Spoiler: they won't be.

Biden and Trump come across as deliberately-picked senile, amoral stooges who specifically were picked in order to unquestioningly and unthinkingly serve unpopular Zionist/MIC policies. I mean they quite literally are puppets. You don't want an honest person or a deep or even competent thinker in that position, you want someone who will do what you say and go out and pretend to represent the country they're "leader" of.

The politicians in the US congress are the same - the vast, vast, vast majority of them (so vast that even adding the disclaimer that it's "merely" a vast majority and might not be all) are there because they have been put there by lobbyist backers. It's not about smarts or decision making, it's about performing the role decided for them. They're buffoons meant to pretend to represent demographics who their backers have no respect for while actually representing their backers; they're there for the spectacle of politics, to keep any real influence over any kind of meaningful politics out of reach for the masses.

At the top level, could a non-senile person perform the role? It's possible they could find no one who would. The desires of the state are deranged. Obama is the only American president of the past 20+ years who came across as particularly cunning at all; Bush, Trump, and Biden were all buffoons and 2/3 were actively losing their minds while in office.

I also have come to think that the real influence of Zionism over the US (and EU) agenda has come to play an increasing role in all of this; I don't say this under the (wrong) assumption that Zionism never aligned with the interests of the American militaristic Fascism. If it was a fully alien ideology, I do not believe we would have gotten to this point. However, what I assert is that the political and military elites of "Israel" have their own interests and their own alignments which seek to expand their influence beyond that of a colonial client state, and I think that they have broadly succeeded even though their influence in the US still depends on a considerable amount of alignment with the American Fascist MIC project. My point here, though, is this: take a look at Trump or Biden, or even Milei, and then take a look at Mileikowsky. There's a sharp contrast in terms of buffoonishness, although in some ways there is overlap - like Trump, Netanyahu is ultimately a servant of the agenda of his state, for whom there are threats of legal Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

It's interesting that the oligarchies of developing countries seem interested in selecting competent rulers–but only in developing countries that aren't under the thumb of the global hegemon. It's almost as if rule by gibbering idiots is a feature of financialized post-industrial oligarchies and their vassal states. What are the rulers of Singapore (a highly financialized post-industrial economy) like?

>>490759
Israeli politicians are not puppets because many of the settlers are still bourgeoisie being granted (stolen) private property from the Israeli state. There isn't the same class divide for Israeli citizens as there is amongst American citizens.

I do think the idiots, the rapists and the druggies are deliberately chosen because they're easier to control amongst more developed capitalist economies.

there are abput 600-800 top richpowerful guys control the western democracies. sad. they wouldnt want independent thinkers in office/

>>490757
Third worlders bare the brunt of imperialism so they know that politics is a facade which is why they tend towards dictatorships and if you even have the luxury to engage in political matters usually means they come from an elite background or underground nepotism

UAW Faction Seeks to Oust President Fain in Sign of Union Unrest
Workers at a Stellantis NV truck factory in suburban Detroit and an engine plant in southeast Michigan voted over the weekend to start the union’s process to remove its leader, said two UAW members involved with the effort. The votes join earlier ones by four other local UAW chapters, reaching the threshold needed for Fain’s opponents to bring allegations of financial mismanagement, workplace retaliation and other issues against him to the federal monitor overseeing the union for potential discipline.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-05/uaw-faction-seeks-to-oust-president-fain-in-sign-of-union-unrest
https://archive.ph/p3OBw

Portland, Oregon, to pay $3.75M to estate of unarmed man fatally shot by police
The city settled with Immanueal Clark’s estate, which had filed a wrongful-death lawsuit last year, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. An officer mistook the 30-year-old as someone involved in an armed robbery earlier in the evening and shot him in the back as he fled from a police stop in November 2022.
https://apnews.com/article/portland-oregon-police-shooting-settlement-immanueal-clark-eb8726fd3ba948469b704e123476a4a6

Georgia: suspected gunman and police officer dead after shooting near CDC and Emory University
A suspected gunman and a police officer are dead after law enforcement responded to reports of an active shooter near the adjoining campuses of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday, authorities said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/08/atlanta-police-emory-university-georgia

NYPD head count doesn't correlate to crime rates, data suggests, despite candidate rhetoric
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Episode 480: GI Go Home (TrueAnon)
We’re joined by Jake Romm of the Hind Rajab Foundation to discuss taking legal action against IDF soldiers, compiling war crimes reports from atrocity TikToks filmed by the soldiers themselves, and Israeli war criminals fleeing to Argentina.
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/episode-480-gi-go-home

Towards 2026: The Fight for Recognition
Both parties fear the DSA. The Republican Party screams of the specter of Democratic Socialism in all corners of their rival party, the Democratic Party. Republican pundits in Fox News write articles endlessly fretting about DSA, pairing us with communism, Beijing, seizing the means of production, and, when our pro-Palestine work is mentioned, even Islamism. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party wishes us dead. This is because, as KIND snacks founder Daniel Lubetzky vocalizes in his whinging op-ed, we are their Project 2025, an existential threat to their existence. We are stoking the fears of the capitalist class in concrete ways that the country has not seen in decades. Yet, we cast a shadow that is larger than our physical presence. Our organization is below 100,000 members. We have elected officials sporadically spread across the nation. We have made inroads in the labor movement, but have yet to reestablish fighting unions. We have won ballot initiatives and other popular vote struggles, but all of these have not been threaded together. We are a specter haunting the pundit class, but we go largely unnoticed among the checked-out masses. We should be proud of our success! We should be proud that the $2.2 billion CEO of a $5 billion company states that “the once marginal group [DSA] has become the most prominent ‘socialist’ organization in American politics.” We should be proud that we strike fear in the hearts of capitalists and their political class. But the fear and concerns of individuals among their class does not destroy the inequalities present in our society, much less move them to dismantle our undemocratic government structure. If the DSA wishes to realize the vision for democratic socialism outlined in the political program, we need more than fear to reach our base, who are either coerced to vote for one of two parties who do not have their interests at heart, or who do not vote because they are keenlPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

NPA Unit Successfully Fights Off Attack By AFP Troopers In Capiz Province
The New People’s Army (NPA)-Central Panay (Jose Percival Estocada Jr Command) repelled the 12th IB’s attack on one of its units at the boundary of Barangay Artuz and Barangay Apero in the town of Tapaz, Capiz Province, on July 19. The NPA actively defended against the military troops by swiftly preparing and launching a counterattack. “Taken by surprise, the military reacted like rabid dogs by indiscriminately firing shots,” the NPA-Central Panay said. To conceal their defeat, the 12th IB supported by the 3rd ID, fabricated myths of their so-called victory against the NPA.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20778/

India pauses plans to buy US arms after Trump's tariffs
New Delhi has put on hold its plans to procure new U.S. weapons and aircraft, according to three Indian officials familiar with the matter, in India's first concrete sign of discontent after tariffs imposed on its exports by President Donald Trump dragged ties to their lowest level in decades. India had been planning to send Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to Washington in the coming weeks for an announcement on some of the purchases, but that trip has been cancelled, two of the people said.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/india-pauses-plans-buy-us-arms-after-trumps-tariffs-2025-08-08/

Thai soldiers injured by landmine near Cambodia amid fragile truce
Thailand said the incident took place within its territory in an area recently cleared of landmines. It would lodge a complaint against Cambodia for violating a treaty that bans the use of landmines and for infringing Thai sovereignty, the Thai foreign ministry said in a statement. Both Thailand and Cambodia are signatories to the Ottawa Convention against landmines. It is the third incident in a few weeks in which Thai soldiers have been injured by mines while patrolling along the border.
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EPA axes contracts with unions
Bob Coomber, EPA’s senior labor adviser, said the reason for terminating the contracts was “to prevent irreparable harm to national security.” He referred not only to the contract with AFGE, but also to ones with the National Association of Government Employees, Engineers and Scientists of California, and the National Association of Independent Labor.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/08/epa-axes-contracts-with-unions-00501208
https://archive.ph/r741e

Unionized Berkeley REI workers get pay raises after Labor Board claimed they were shut out
The payout comes months after investigators from the National Labor Relations Board issued complaints that the Washington-based outdoor equipment retailer illegally excluded unionized workers at stores like the one in Berkeley from wage increases and other bonuses that were otherwise given to non-unionized employees. After NLRB issued its complaint in March, Berkeley workers said they felt REI’s alleged actions were “punishment” for unionizing. The complaint was at least one of four the Board had issued against the company at the time. And dozens of claims, alleging violations of labor laws like illegally terminating and intimidating workers, were under investigation at the time by the NLRB.
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/08/08/unionized-berkeley-rei-workers-get-pay-raises-after-labor-board-claimed-they-were-shut-out
https://archive.ph/tP2eS

As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act
It’s not clear that any state has a solution and the actual effect of data centers on electricity bills is difficult to pin down. Some critics question whether states have the spine to take a hard line against tech behemoths like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta. But more than a dozen states have begun taking steps as data centers drive a rapid build-out of power plants and tranPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

‘A Nation of Shopkeepers’: The egotism of the petty bourgeoisie
A Nation of Shopkeepers is a 2023 book by (ostensibly) Marxist academic Dan Evans. It is an attempt to develop our understanding of the ‘petty bourgeoisie’ or middle class, which the author perceives as an ignored part of society. Evans argues that the petty bourgeoisie – the intermediate class of small business owners and independent professionals, squeezed between the working class and the big capitalists, – has in fact grown to the point where it constitutes a third of the British population (23 million). This, he argues, nullifies the analysis of Marx and Engels, who wrote in the Communist Manifesto that: “[t]he lower strata of the middle class – the small tradespeople, shopkeepers, and retired tradesmen generally, the handicraftsmen and peasants – all these sink gradually into the proletariat, partly because their diminutive capital does not suffice for the scale on which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialised skill is rendered worthless by new methods of production. Thus the proletariat is recruited from all classes of the population.” Deindustrialisation, Evans argues, has changed the nature of work, and therefore has undermined the classical Marxist understanding of class. The mentioned claims of a swelling in the ranks of the petty bourgeoisie is explained by the creation of what Evans labels the ‘new petty bourgeoisie’. Within this ‘new petty bourgeois’ class is included “[d]eclassed graduates, call centre workers, teachers and teaching assistants, salesmen, estate agents, nurses, firemen, public sector workers and more”. In terms of their relations to work, this ‘new’ class is identical to the working class, in that they must sell their capacity to work in order to live, and in fact work side by side with workers. What separates the ‘new petty bourgeoisie’ from the working class, Evans tells us, is that they aspire to “social mobility”; they dream of better things for themselves – and so are therefore individualistic – whereas the working class is happy with its lot. By changing the definition of class to a set of cultural values, Evans has managed to perform a magic trick, by pulling a completely new class out of thin air! Rather than seeing things such as classes in their process of historical development, Evans takes them as a finished product, a checklist of cPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US: Massachusetts city divests from companies linked to human rights violations in Israel
Members of the Medford City Council voted to pass legislation that would divest city funds from weapons manufacturers, private pensions, fossil fuel companies, prisons and other organisations that contribute to human rights violations. Medford City Council president Isaac Bears sponsored the investments ordinance, which overwhelmingly passed with five council members voting in support, one member opposing, and another abstaining.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/massachusetts-city-divests-companies-linked-human-rights-violations-israel

'Disaster in the Making': Trump to Open 401(k)s to Crypto, Private Equity Vultures
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday that would allow private equity and cryptocurrencies into Americans' 401(k)s, appeasing corporate interests that lobbied for the change and disregarding warnings about the risks it poses to retirement accounts. Citing an unnamed senior White House official, CNN reported that "the order calls for the Labor Department and Securities and Exchange Commission to issue guidance to employers about providing access to those alternative investments in their retirement accounts."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-private-equity-401k

Neo-Nazi group leader sentenced to 20 years in prison for planned Maryland power grid attack
Bredar previously sentenced Clendaniel to 18 years behind bars after she pleaded guilty to her role in the plot. He said Russell should receive a longer sentence because he was more culpable and contributed the “intellectual horsepower” that propelled the plot closer to fruition.
https://apnews.com/article/brandon-russell-maryland-power-grid-attack-plot-neonazi-9e6d8ff8c7695e356f566cce8caa902b

VA terminates union contracts, as WH labor actions hit veterans again
The Trump EO enPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Swiss CP, Customs tariffs on Swiss products: Resist imperialist attacks with a class orientation
After months of negotiations, the United States has set a 39% customs tariff on Swiss products, a decision that came into effect on 7 August 2025. This situation explicitly confirms the subordinate nature of the so-called “national” bourgeoisie to imperialist interests, even if the Swiss government negotiates an agreement in the future to modify this tax in exchange for concessions. The globalised capitalist system, of which Switzerland is an integral part, is the fundamental cause of these developments, particularly through the concentration of capital and inter-imperialist competition.
http://www.solidnet.org/article/Swiss-CP-Customs-tariffs-on-Swiss-products-Resist-imperialist-attacks-with-a-class-orientation/

From Vinnytsia to Berlin: against 'anarcho'-militarists & their war propaganda
On August 2 2025, the soliparty Konvulsismo #2 took place in the city of Berlin in support of the Assembly collective in Kharkiv, Ukraine. As both a political group and media outlet, the collective denounces forced conscription. It also reports on social struggles taking place in the context of the Russian invasion and occupation and the increasing authoritarianism of the Ukrainian state in the name of ‘national unity’. Konvulsismo is a party collective dedicated to organising experimental/electronic music shows in support of anti-war groups around the world in the face of growing remilitarization in Europe. Its first event was a concert that raised money for New Profile, a support network for military objectors in Israel, recently defunded by the the German state. Months later, Konvulsismo #2 was the target of a disinformation campaign by the group “Good night imperial pride” (themselves linked to the so-called “Solidarity Collectives”). According to a text circulating on social media a few days before the party, Assembly is only apparently an anarchist and anti-war collective, hiding a political agenda of collaboration with the Russian occupying forces. This resulted in a series of cancellations, forcing Konvulsismo #2 to change its venue and much of its lineup in a matter of days. Fortunately, the party went off withoutPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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