/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

why you even have this picrel saved in your hard drive?
same difficult question
answer to both: porkie mindset is tough enough, and it needs to be broken with prolet. culture propaganda

>>489620
>picrel
>porkie mindset
Huh?
>prolet. culture
And that'll somehow convince people to work for a wage instead of starting a business? And what do you even mean by that term anyway?

>>489621
>prolet. culture
Learning to Be a Worker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xYNmm12KY&list=OLAK5uy_mdcymlPzfKVtb0QIcLWN3acw0dYQncN2g&index=17

Little Red Soldiers Learning to Work Song
Singer: Nanjing Little Red Soldiers Propaganda Team

The May 7th Directive shines with golden light
Shining and shining golden light
The school set up a small factory
Set up a small factory
Pick up the hammer and work happily
The worker uncle is a role model
The machine rumbles and sings
Praise my strong labor skills
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>>489622
Isn't this just communist propaganda?

>>489618
Marx noted that during the industrial revolution petite bourg capitalists were using much less productive production methods than big bourg capitalists. Therefore he considered petit bourgs as an obstacle to historic progress.

I'm not sure if that's still the case today, because big mega corps no longuer invest heavily in productive forces anymore. So that might be the reason small capitalists are still around.

>>486323
>We are demanding that BioLab be held accountable for its crime of poisoning tens of thousands of people at a minimum.
Basic demand but correct.
>The demand is simple: SHUT DOWN BIOLAB!
IMHO this is a bad play, the better play likely is demanding that the thing be converted into a worker cooperative.

The thing likely spewed toxic shit because it was mismanaged, not because it's a fundamentally bad design on a technical level.

The capitalist who owns this likely can't pay for all the damages, so converting it into a cooperative could be part of a deal for dropping some of the damage claims. The workers do not have an incentive to mismanage the plant because they live in the area that would get contaminated, and therefor it'll run smoothly.

A Status Coup video with recent developments, clips from a hearing where East Palestine residents also spoke. Scott Smith says the results of his chemical testing showed the "highest level of dioxins that he has seen."

>>486324
IMO setting goals high is the best approach… although when you consider that "shut down BioLab" is essentially a euphemism for "revoke BioLab's business license," it sounds like a pretty modest proposal. I kind of wonder how easy it will be to even clean the plant up at this point, too, with this many instances. Working with chlorine isn't very safe in general, is it easy to clean a contaminated plant enough to maintain even a baseline level of safety after repeated fires? Idk.

>>486325
>I kind of wonder how easy it will be to even clean the plant up at this point, too, with this many instances. Working with chlorine isn't very safe in general, is it easy to clean a contaminated plant enough to maintain even a baseline level of safety after repeated fires? Idk.
If the hole thing is a write-off, why are they pushing back against political pressure ?

Not directly related, but there was another explosion at a totally different plant in Camilla, Georgia on December 27th.

An explosion at a Tyson Foods poultry plant occurred in the early hours of December 27, sending shockwaves throughout the plant and affecting workers and their families. A scene of chaos followed the explosion as workers scrambled to find safety. About 1,600 people work in the plant.

Initial investigations suggest that the blast originated in a boiler room, although the exact cause is still under investigation by local authorities and occupational safety officials.

One person was killed, a 61-year-old woman whom the Miller County coroner’s office identified as Bajarma Batozhapov. The Las Vegas woman was sleeping in a truck when the explosion occurred, having traveled to the Camilla plant in search of work. Her husband, a truck driver, was not hurt.

Several other workers sustained injuries; some were treated on-site, while others required hospitalization. The Tyson Foods plant dominates the town’s economy, which has a population of only 5,000 people.

Katoria Peterson and her grandfather, Larry Thompson, live across from the plant, told WTXL they’d never seen anything like this before.

Peterson told the station, “It was a loud boom, and then you see the flames. It was about five to ten minutes of burning. And then the ambulance and everybody left, but it burned for a few minutes.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/03/cd54-j03.html

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJxgJI3t0YM/
THE PEOPLE HAVE SHUT DOWN BIOLAB!

After causing several disasters which poisoned at least tens of thousands of people in Black and working-class communities, igniting an unprecedented, grassroots movement involving people of all backgrounds, BioLab has announced that they will not be restarting their chemical production at the Rockdale County site.

As long as corporations have total, unchecked control over our natural resources, they will always prioritize their profits over the communities they operate in.

Only an organized force of working class communities can fight back.

That’s why we’re not stopping here. We need to keep organizing, keep building the movement, and keep bringing in more people to fight back against the corporate greed that is destroying our planet.

When we organize, and when we fight, we’re laying the groundwork to build a new system that puts the people and the planet over profit.

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

Blinken, Trump, and Rubio next?

>>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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>>488505
This says:
<Grand-wizard Trump's incantation of magic words made the economy disappear.
Makes you wonder whether it actually existed in the first place.

They're saying it's the worst day in the market since June 2020

>The 'Buy Now Pay Later' Trap, Explained
it's over for consumers..

I was gonna ask "so was this just an op to destroy Syria?" but that (presumably?) wouldn't make sense since they formed in 1984…

darn

now what

is this like ireland?

>>489487
Yeah makes you think, i mean it probably played some role.

>>489484
Not entirely. They tried to balance USA, Russia, Turkey and Syria. When Syria caved and the Russians scaled down their activities in that region, their scheme went out of whack and they got knocked over hard.

California State University students wage hunger strike against Gaza genocide
On May 5, 25 students from San Francisco State, Sacramento State, Long Beach State, and San Jose State universities in California launched a hunger strike under the banner of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), to oppose mass starvation as part of the genocide in Gaza. “We refuse to be complicit in the Israeli occupation’s siege on Gaza, which has left countless Palestinians suffering from malnourishment, disease, and death,” they declared in a statement.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/12/zbwd-m12.html

FEMA cuts emergency training under Trump as hurricane season looms
- The U.S. federal disaster agency FEMA has sharply reduced training for state and local emergency managers ahead of the start of the hurricane season on June 1, according to current and former officials, memos seen by Reuters, and three sources familiar with the situation.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/fema-cuts-emergency-training-hurricane-season-looms-2025-05-11/

US House tax committee unveils partial tax plan to achieve Trump agenda
The 28-page proposal by the House Ways and Means Committee would increase the child tax credit from $1,000 to $2,500 through 2028 and to $2,000 after, and adds a requirement for recipients to have a Social Security number and reduces some taxes for multinational companies and unincorporated businesses.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-tax-committee-unveils-partial-tax-plan-achieve-trump-agenda-2025-05-10/

Michigan father and green card holder spent nearly two months in ICE detention
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent pulled him aside at the Detroit Metro Airport and asked him about a 2018 charge for using marijuana. Unable to recall the specifics of the incident, the officer confiscated Oberoi’s green card and told him to come back with the police report.
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CP of Bangladesh, CPB expresses concern over India-Pakistan military tensions
CPB President Md. Shah Alam and General Secretary Ruhin Hossain Prince said in this statement that the reactionary bourgeois ruling classes of both India and Pakistan are responsible for this horrific rise in religious extremism and terrorism. They create or incite these terrorist incidents for their own narrow political interests. The brutal killings and terrorism in Pahelgam are no exception to this. CPB always upholds its strong position against religious extremism and terrorism.
http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Bangladesh-CPB-expresses-concern-over-India-Pakistan-military-tensions/

CPI(M) in the All Party Meeting
In the context of the government reporting that the ‘intended objectives of the Operation are achieved’, Brittas pointed out that given the past experience, it is doubtful, if such military action will be able to target and eliminate terrorist groups. He emphasized that the government should continue pursuing diplomatic actions and build international pressure to bring the terrorists to book. It should see that the situation does not escalate. He urged the government to ensure the protection of the people in the border areas and also to provide all required assistance to those who are affected by the situation. He asked the government to place all the facts before the people and counter the spread of all kinds of misinformation.
https://peoplesdemocracy.in/2025/0511_pd/cpim-all-party-meeting

The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin Chapter 5: Food
If the coming Revolution is to be a Social Revolution, it will be distinguished from all former uprisings not only by its aim, but also by its methods. To attain a new end, new means are required. The three great popular movements which we have seen in France during the last hundred years differ from each other in many ways, but they have one common feature. In each case the people strove to overturn the old regime, and spent their heart’s blood for the cause. Then, after having borne the brunt of the battle, they sank again into obscurPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>Thousands march against immigration in Warsaw
I thought this was about stopping people from leaving Poland and going to Western Europe

>>489428
Jesus Christ is the Communist Party of India actually cheering on an attack against a nuclear power? Good luck establishing communism when India is a radioactive wasteland, you stupid fucks.

>>489428
>>489435
There's many Communist parties in India

But why the dislike for Posadism?

>>489440
>Um, actually, the Japanese invasion of China was based because it accelerated the spread of class consciousness between the Chinese proles
Mao is just Stalinist Bordiga, change my mind.

>>489435
>is the Communist Party of India actually cheering on
Yeah that part did seem a bit odd.

However it does appear that the hole thing wasn't that big a deal afterall. Maybe the CPI knew this was just a medium whoop.

>>489444
>change my mind.
We have to call him a Staliga-ist. That's just weird.