/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>444873
my numby wumby

>>487934
>>487916
Yeah it happened.
Basically, Caballo was refusing to follow his own rules and constantly stepping out of line so there was an attempt to create some democratic methodology by Comatoast, Zero, and Watermelon with the supprt of some other users, but, they had a backdoor in Krates which had been inactive for like a year at that point.

Can't believe that's you, what a twist.

Another fertility clinic bombing, this time in Palm Springs.

Texas swelters as record-breaking heatwave sweeps across state
Record-high heat so early in the season means state has been hotter than Death Valley, the hottest place on Earth

Texas is in the grip of an extraordinary heatwave this week, with record-breaking temperatures sweeping across the central and southern regions of the state.

While 100F days are common in Texas summers, such early-season heat is unusual. The record-high heat means that Texas has been recently hotter than Death Valley, California, which is often cited as the hottest place on Earth.

Temperatures across the central and southern region of the state ranged from 100F to 111F, levels that experts warn can pose serious health risks for anyone without access to air conditioning or enough water.

The extreme temperatures are expected to continue well into next week.

On Wednesday, Austin recorded a sweltering 101F by 5pm, breaking its previous same-day record of 97F set in 2022. Forecasts earlier in the day said the city could reach as high as 105F, far above the average May high of 87F.

The National Weather Service described the temperatures as “unseasonably hot weather” and advised residents to “stay hydrated and take frequent breaks in the shade or A/C!”

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>>489582
DEMOLISHED
How will it ever recover?

>>489576
>>489582
This picture is so fuckin funny

https://twitter.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1923077289505374639
Graphic, two children brought to a hospital. They look dead or close.

Gaza death toll today crosses 100

Health officials have told Al Jazeera that at least 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks since dawn. At least 55 of them were killed in northern Gaza.

Dozens more remain missing under the rubble.

No progress in ceasefire talks

According to sources cited by Israeli media outlet Haaretz, there has been no progress on ceasefire and captives negotiations in Qatar.

The report said that despite Israel’s renewed military pressure on Gaza and an attempted assassination on Hamas senior figure Mohammed Sinwar, the Palestinian group has not compromised its position on a US-proposed plan.

“Israel’s position is rigid, Hamas hasn’t folded, the Americans have lost interest, Trump is on his way home, and Witkoff is no longer involved. He’s waiting to hear what we want, and since we don’t want anything, he has nothing left to do,” one source was quoted as saying.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/16/live-israeli-attacks-kill-more-than-100-palestinians-across-gaza
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https://x.com/SocialRightsIRL/status/1923724301473116290
Demonstration in Dublin today

What’s happened in Gaza since Israel abandoned truce deal?
March 2: Israel blocks the entry of all aid into Gaza after Hamas rejects its effort to change the terms of the ceasefire deal agreed to in January.
March 18: Israel abandons the ceasefire and bombards Gaza, killing more than 400 Palestinians, many of them children, in a single day.
April 25: The World Food Programme (WFP) says its food stocks in Gaza are completely depleted.
May 3: Authorities in Gaza say at least 57 Palestinians have starved to death since Israel imposed its total blockade.
May 5: Netanyahu announces the expansion of the Gaza war and says Palestinians in the enclave will be moved, as the military plans to call up tens of thousands of reservists.
May 9: The US says a new body – the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – is being established to distribute aid in the enclave, bypassing the system run by the UN and other agencies.
May 12: Hamas frees US-Israeli captive Edan Alexander after direct talks with the US, while the world’s leading hunger monitor warns that the entire population of Gaza is facing critical risk of famine.
May 16: Medics say Israeli forces have killed 250 Palestinians in Gaza in less than 48 hours as the Israeli military begins its expanded operation, dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots”.
May 17: A new round of ceasefire negotiations begins between Israel and Hamas.

https://aje.io/klape0?update=3717583

>>489572
>but I never saw any evidence that they had a Nazi element
They're NazBols. Dugin openly supported fascism even before he left NBP and his 90s' speeches were intermixed with anti-Semitism (look it up. In the original language ofc, don't want to look like I'm "spreading pro-NATO propaganda").

>>489573
Alexander Dugin is not a member of the Wagner Group, what the fuck are you even trying to imply?

>>489574
>Alexander Dugin is not a member of the Wagner Group,
Not the point I was making.
>what the fuck are you even trying to imply?
I'm saying there are NazBols in their ranks.

>>489571
>Well, certainly if they reference Mussolini or Franco instead it wouldn't sound as threatening, that's for sure.
Only if you don't know what these 2 did.

>Italians' improvized punching bag, lol.
is that some kind of reference ? I don't get it.

>I thought this is a leftist board.
Yes the politically incorrect left, not the imperialism compatible left.

>You should know that what the bourgeoisie are doing is NOT okay, no matter what kind of bourgeoisie. Class > nation, viewing it in reverse is a fascist (right-Hegellian) analysis. "Both-sideism," yadda-yadda-yadda.
I basically think that you are attempting to find leftist arguments to support imperial policy against Russia. The US started a proxy war when they regime changed Ukraine. You have to credit the Russians for trying diplomacy for a decade before going smashy smashy.
If we are talking class struggle, we're talking reducing military spending and increasing social spending, infrastructure spending and restoring the industrial base. The evil Russian narrative is not helping with that.

>Both countries use Nazitards as PMCs
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>>489575
>I'm saying there are NazBols
I think "Nazbols" are a spook in your head. There was indeed a national Bolshevik party in the 90s but it was super fringe and it only existed for a handful of years. Barely worth a footnote in a history book.

BREAKING | Michigan Judge Dismisses Felony Charges Against Pro-Palestine Student Protesters After AG Nessel’s Controversial Intervention

A Washtenaw County judge has dismissed all charges against seven University of Michigan students arrested during a pro-Palestinian encampment last spring—closing a months-long legal battle sparked by the state attorney general’s controversial decision to pursue felonies after local prosecutors declined.

➤ Arrested for protest: The students were charged with felony counts of resisting or obstructing police, which carried up to two years in prison. The charges stemmed from a May 21, 2024 police raid that dismantled an encampment demanding the university divest from Israeli genocide-linked weapons contractors.

➤ Defense: All seven pleaded not guilty and were represented by a team of Dearborn-based attorneys working for free, who cited deep concern over civil liberties and the state’s criminalization of student dissent.

➤ AG Nessel pushed charges: The felony charges were filed by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel—after the local Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office refused to bring them. Nessel reportedly intervened at the request of University of Michigan regents, sparking backlash from civil rights groups and elected officials who questioned the political motivations behind the prosecution.

➤ All charges dropped: On Monday, Nessel’s office moved to dismiss all remaining charges, both felony and misdemeanor, effectively closing the case.

Civil liberties groups say the case never should have been brought.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1919395866625908768

BREAKING: A U.S. appeals court has ruled in favor of Rümeysa Öztürk, ordering her transfer to Vermont ahead of a key hearing that will decide whether she must be released from ICE detention while her immigration case proceeds.

Öztürk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University, was arrested in March for co-authoring a pro-Palestinian op-ed. Her legal team argues her detention violates her constitutional rights, including free speech and due process. A Vermont federal judge had previously ordered her transfer, but the government appealed. The Second Circuit’s decision now allows her case to move forward in Vermont.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1920134538799325240

https://x.com/PeoplesForumNYC/status/1922737535543017623
VICTORY! Dr. Badar Khan Suri is FREE! After enduring unjust detention by ICE, Dr. Suri has been released thanks to the relentless efforts of thousands of people nationwide refusing to back down. His detention was a blatant act of political repression—a punishment for standing in solidarity with Palestine. As we celebrate Dr. Suri’s release, we remain committed to the fight for all those still targeted for bravely standing with the people of Palestine. Free Mahmoud! Free them all! Free Palestine!

>>489471
At first I thought it was a joke, but it actually did look a little like they were doing cocaine

Makes you wonder…
the hippies smoked weed and they want peace and love
Does cocaine make people want war ?

>>489515
There've been updates since and the 'baggy'-looking thing was actually a napkin.

>>489516
So they smoked the napkin ?
Sorry i couldn't resist.

Anyway maybe it says something that everybody found it plausible that these people were on drugs.

I'm more inclined to believe the Z-Man is doing coke and other drugs all the time. You know the first thing that guy does every day when he gets up is takes some amphetamines.

>>489538
TheLensky doing speed ? Yeah that's quite possible.

Railroad companies request Trump administration dismantle two-person crew regulations
Class I rail companies are requesting that the Trump administration end federal regulations requiring the use of two-person train crews, according to a report by Freight Waves. The request comes after a call from the Department of Transportation on April 3 for businesses to provide comments on deregulation, a central issue for the Trump administration which is dismantling whole departments and cutting hundreds of thousands of federal jobs.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/13/ojsy-m13.html

Microsoft to lay off 6,000 workers despite streak of profitable quarters
The tech giant didn’t disclose the total amount of lost jobs, but it will amount to about 6,000 people. Microsoft employed 228,000 full-time workers as of last June, the last time it reported its annual headcount. About 55% of those workers were in the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/13/microsoft-layoffs

60,000 people set to prematurely lose federal housing assistance
Congress has the authority to provide additional funding to maintain the emergency housing voucher program, Johnson said, and some Democratic lawmakers are lobbying for the cause. But she said it’s unlikely that the Republican-controlled Congress will approve more funds.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/13/covid-federal-housing-vouchers-end/
https://archive.ph/DTnB0

US farm agency restores some climate-related webpages after farmer lawsuit
The U.S. Department of Agriculture restored on Tuesday some climate change-related webpages that the agency had deleted since President Donald Trump's inauguration, after being sued by farm and environmental groups, one of the groups said.
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Here to fight, here to stay: The Red Scar Mill strike
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Britain’s first migrant-led strike: an inspiring yet relatively forgotten – but all the more inspiring – three-week event that took place at the Preston Courtauld’s Red Scar Mill in the North West of England. The Lancashire Evening Post expressed the sentiments of the ruling class at the time: “The news of the strike has travelled around the world…Preston has become infamous as the centre of futile struggle, which could inflame feelings where whites and coloured coincide.” Without precedent, the migrant workers independently and determinedly fought back against the attacks on their wages and conditions by factory owners Courtaulds – one of the four major monopolies in man-made fibre in Europe. In attempting to organise themselves, the migrant-worker strikers faced racism not only from the bosses, but also from within the union itself.
https://communist.red/here-to-fight-here-to-stay-the-red-scar-mill-strike/

“We are preparing for a scenario of greater crisis and class struggle”: Interview with a Revolutionary Socialist in Bolivia
In the world division of labor, there are no transnational “partners” or “good” imperialists, as many progressive governments claim. But the means of pressure applied to dependent countries, such as Bolivia, change according to the political turns in Washington. Trump made it clear in 2019 that his administration had no problem openly supporting military coups to ensure control over Bolivia’s resources; according to reports in The Intercept, the administration was willing to carry out a second coup in 2020 to avoid the transition to the Arce government after the October elections. This means that the next years will be marked by a growing regional tension between the United States, which seeks to retake control over what it considers its “backyard,” and the Latin American region, which is being jolted by interesting processes of mobilization and resistance.
https://www.leftvoice.org/we-are-preparing-for-a-scenario-of-greater-crisis-and-class-struggle-intPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Nice Grayzone interview with Mohammed Marandi in Iran yesterday.

Warrantless Spying Report Signals Expansion of Domestic Surveillance
The report, which discloses surveillance actions undertaken during the last year of the Biden administration, details a marked uptick in querying of terms associated with U.S. persons, a decrease in the number of persons queried by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and most notably, an expansion of the 702 authority to include the war on drugs.
https://prospect.org/civil-rights/2025-05-12-warrantless-spying-report-signals-expansion-of-domestic-surveillance/

Tlaib Backs Primary Challenger McKinney Over Democratic Incumbent Thanedar
Tlaib (D-Mich.) endorsed 32-year-old state Rep. Donavan McKinney (D-11), who last month announced he is seeking to oust pharmaceutical magnate-turned Congressman Shri Thanedar, who has represented Michigan's 13th Congressional District since 2023.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/donavan-mckinney

Trump signs executive order to bring down prescription drug prices
The US leader also seemed to say that US pharmaceutical companies were not ultimately to blame for the difference in prices. Trump instead framed those high prices in the familiar terms of a trade imbalance with partners such as the European Union and said the US has been “subsidising” lower drug prices in other nations.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/12/trump-signs-executive-order-to-bring-down-prescription-drug-prices
https://archive.ph/3xXvF

Trump administration welcomed white Afrikaans while ending Afghan protections
Over 9,000 Afghans could face deportation after the Department of Homeland Security announced the revocation of their temporary protected status on Monday. DHS said last month that it would not renew TPS status for Afghanistan refugees, but said Monday that termination is slated for July 12. Permitting Afghans to remain tempoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Germany’s New Chancellor Is a Man Without Qualities
There is a telling rumor in Berlin political circles. Upon his appointment as leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) in 2022, Friedrich Merz was gifted a copy of Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) by his conservative colleague Wolfgang Schäuble, the veteran former finance minister and then president of the German parliament. A dismayed Merz is said to have handed back the book shortly after, exclaiming: “But this is a novel — what am I supposed to do with this?” The novel in question, narrated by the last aristocratic ruler of a remote island principate in Sicily, revolves around the old social order’s attempt to contend with the threat of rapid political change, encapsulated by its most famous phrase: “If we want things to remain as they are, things will have to change.” On the surface, this isn’t too dissimilar from the situation in which Merz finds himself. The new German chancellor, sworn in on Tuesday after a shaky confirmation vote in parliament, was once dubbed “the prince of neoliberalism” and is very much an unreconstructed representative of a system whose time has come.
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/germany-merz-chancellor-cdu-neoliberalism

In May Immortals Week: The Main Thing On The Path Of Fhe Immortals is Organization And The Struggle! — DKP/BÖG
The struggle for revolution and socialism has always been carried to the present day by paying a great price in the lands we live in. It is not possible to be revolutionary without paying a price in the geography we live in. We are also representatives of a political tradition that has paid a great price for the freedom struggle of the working class and the oppressed based on the needs of the class struggle. Our Party Founding Leader, Commander and Teacher Ulaş Bayraktaroğlu, who played a great role in bringing us to this day, was immortalized on May 9, 2017. Our immortals will always continue to lead and guide us in our march to the future. On this occasion, we consider it our duty to state once again that we will walk with the most determination in the revolutionary march opened by our immortals in the person of our Commander, Leader and Teacher Comrade Ulaş Bayraktaroğlu (Mehmet Kurnaz), which is the beginning of the Immortals Week.
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>>483941
Why not?
Look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_East_Is_Red_(song)
>the melody was derived from a local peasant love song from the Loess Plateau entitled "Bai Ma Diao" (《白马调》, White Horse Tune), also known as "Zhima You" (《芝麻油》, Sesame Oil)

>>483943
>>489474
Mao said you should not slight or despise the politically backwards, but befriend them, unite with them, and encourage to go forward.

Furthermore, Sankara said we must never stop explaining, because we know when the people understand, they cannot help but follow us.

>>489491
There's a difference between having solidarity with the politically backwards, and building your entire party platform around appealing to them and only them, especially when, as I said in >>489474, they're in the minority in the US.

I am more than willing to work with someone who has social views that are vastly different from mine (which are socially "centrist"!, for what it's worth), no matter where they sit on the political spectrum. I am not, however, willing to work with people who constantly feel the need to remind me of those views, because it tells me that they value those views more than they do communism for its own sake, and will abandon the cause as soon as they get a better offer.

Beyond that, a lot of what the ACP does, at least to me, looks like people trying to emulate the revolutionary tactics of Lenin and to a lesser extent Mao without understanding the context in which they did what they did. Tsarist Russia was an underdeveloped, largely feudal society, so logically the values of the Russian public prior to the revolution were going to reflect that. The United States, on the other hand, is a highly-developed neoliberal capitalist society, with the social values that come with it instead. Trying to appeal to the hardcore Christian Conservative segment of the population isn't going to get you very far because they aren't the majority here anymore, and have become less and less the majority with each passing decade.

>>489493
>There's a difference between having solidarity with the politically backwards, and building your entire party platform around appealing to them and only them
It's weird then to dismiss the critiques of Marxism-Leninism when Stalin did basically the same exact thing. The history of Marxism-Leninism is the history of opportunist pandering to reactionaries and supporting every anti-American politician and movement ever.

>>489494
>It's weird then to dismiss the critiques of Marxism-Leninism
Where did I do that? I think there's a lot to criticize about Marxism-Leninism. It was, however, overall effective in the specific set of circumstances it was developed for.

>when Stalin did basically the same exact thing
Stalin and friends were, as I said before, working with a very different set of material conditions. Trying to apply the methods developed for what was, in many ways, an extremely backwards feudal nation to arguably the most developed capitalism country on the planet is, frankly, fucking retarded.

>looks it up
<Haz Al-Din
<MAGA communism
<homophobic Duginites
Wow, what a radical alternative to our capitalist order, truly revolutionary frfr.