/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

55,000 L.A. County workers have stopped working. Here’s what to expect
Until then, county residents are experiencing delays in an array of county services and departments, along with closures of parks, libraries and healthcare clinics. Law enforcement and first responder services will not be affected, according to county officials. Hospitals will remain open, The Times’ Rebecca Ellis reported Tuesday, though “wildfire beach debris cleanup may be paused [and] public service counters at the Hall of Administration could be shut down.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-04-30/55-000-l-a-county-workers-have-stopped-working-heres-what-to-expect
https://archive.ph/gbiuV

On May Day, UAW Members Launch Strike at Weapons Giant Lockheed Martin
Those striking include members of UAW Local 788 in Orlando and Local 766 in Denver, according to the union, which alleges that the company has committed "multiple unfair labor practices and refused to present a fair economic proposal that meets the membership's needs."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/united-auto-workers-lockheed-strike-may-day

Columbia student activist Mohsen Mahdawi freed from ICE detention
“To Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you,” Mahdawi said upon release. “If we have faith in our beliefs, unshakeable beliefs, which is the belief that justice is inevitable, we will not fear anyone, because our fight is a fight for love, is a fight for democracy, is a fight for humanity.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/30/columbia-student-activist-mohsen-mahdawi-freed-from-ice-detention/

US government expands grounds for canceling international students’ legal status
The new guidance allows for revoking students’ status if their names appear in a criminal or fingerprint database in a way that was not permitted in Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Against War, Exploitation and Fascism: Workers, Rise Up! Peoples, Resist! – TKP-ML May Day Statement
The imperialist-capitalist system is in the midst of one of the deepest crises in its history. The capitalist mode of production’s quest for continuity is leading, on the one hand, to growing social inequalities in imperialist countries and, on the other hand, to the deepening of brutal exploitation policies in colonial and semi-colonial countries. From the US to Germany, from Russia to China, the major imperialist powers are embroiled in a vortex of economic, political, and military hegemonic wars. The stagnation of capital accumulation, the shrinkage of markets and overproduction are sharpening the internal contradictions of the system. These contradictions are weaving the bloody ground for a new world order behind the facade of temporary “stability.”
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/18756/

May Day 2025: Against Capitalist Crisis, Against Imperialist War! No War but the Class War!
May Day 2025 finds capitalism, no matter who’s in charge, drenching the world with the working class’s blood. It’s now 50 years since the end of capitalism’s post-war boom. After decades of declining profit rates in the “real economy” the situation is becoming more and more dire as war becomes increasingly the only option for states to confront capitalism’s insoluble crisis. Imperialist wars are burning across the world from Ukraine, the Middle East, the African Sahel, the Congo and elsewhere, and a generalised world war looms on the horizon. The international working class has no interest in these wars caused by the capitalist system. They bring increased class repression, privation, displacement, death and genocide: all for a system far past its historical sell-by date. This crisis has no reformist solution: the solution of the working class can only be revolution.
https://libcom.org/article/may-day-2025-against-capitalist-crisis-against-imperialist-war-no-war-class-war

Nestor Makhno The First of May: Symbol of a New Era in the Life and Struggle of the Toilers
In the socialist world, the first of May is considered tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Massive power outage in Spain and Portugal leaves thousands stranded and millions without light

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — An unprecedented blackout brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill Monday, stranding thousands of train passengers and leaving millions of people without phone and internet coverage and access to cash from ATMs across the Iberian Peninsula.

The sudden crash of the power grid also left authorities searching for its cause. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez addressed the nation and said that almost 11 hours after the nation ground to a halt, government experts were still trying to determine what happened.

“We have never had a complete collapse of the system,” Sánchez said, before detailing that at 12:33 p.m. on Monday Spain’s power grid lost 15 gigawatts, the equivalent of 60% of its national demand, in a matter of five seconds.

Spanish power distributor Red Eléctrica’s head of operations Eduardo Prieto said the event was “exceptional and extraordinary.”

Spain had recovered more than 92% of its power by 5 a.m. on Tuesday, according to Red Eléctrica, and the prime minister pledged that the entire country of 48 million would have lights back on by the end of the day.

It was the second serious European power outage in less than six weeks after a March 20 fire shut down Heathrow Airport in the U.K., and it came as authorities across Europe gird against sabotage backed by Russia.

The Portuguese National Cybersecurity Center in a statement said there was no sign the outage was due to a cyber attack. Teresa Ribera, European Commission executive vice president in charge of promoting clean energy, indicated the same to journalists in Brussels and called the power outage “one of the most serious episodes recorded in Europe in recent times.”
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>>489118
Certain myopic analysts have been quick to blame this on renewable energy.

>>489118
>It was the second serious European power outage in less than six weeks after a March 20 fire shut down Heathrow Airport in the U.K., and it came as authorities across Europe gird against sabotage backed by Russia.
<It's Russian gremlins
Groan. Sigh. Not this again.

Most electrical grids only have fly-wheel momentum of large steam-turbines from large thermal power-plants as energy buffer. And that's not a lot. Many Solar and wind-power parks were installed without batteries, and that's not particularly helpful for grid stability either. So without knowing what Spain's energy grid looks like, i'm guessing this is most likely a case of too many unfavorable conditions happening all at once. The solution probably is to install more buffer capacity.

If this was foul play, i wonder who's got motivation to fuck with Spain. I don't have any real guesses, the Spanish show a lot of solidarity with Palestinians, maybe Israel ? IDK

There's simple explanation, maybe they just over-taxed the system, and they have to expand it.

>>489127
I'm for nuclear plus renewables too, but we have to be realistic, renewable energy sources cause grid instability if they lack sufficient battery buffer. There's a lot of smart-copium, where we pretend that we don't have to install buffer capacity if only all the stuff was smart. We're not doing our selves a favor trying to cheat.

>>489128
The article isn't blaming this on Russia.

This did coincidentally happen days after Spain canceled a major bullet purchase from an Israeli arms company though.

>>489130
>This did coincidentally happen days after Spain canceled a major bullet purchase from an Israeli arms company though.
Yeah the timing is kinda sus.
I wonder if we'd find out about it, if it was so, or whether Mossad agents would just get murked in the shadows as retaliation.

>>489051
A few days ago someone shot like 20 people in Kashmir, now Modi is cutting off water from the Indus river to Pakistan or threatening to or something.

Don't wanna make new thread but:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_kidnapping
How did 'bride kidnapping' come back so fast in the post-Soviet states? I think I read somewhere it was illegal in the Soviet years.

>>489077
I honestly think the Soviets fucked up real hard by going after religion. It's caused the post-Soviet reaction to swing back hard in the direction of traditional culture. When the state capitalism of China gets rolled back completely to full-blown private capitalism, you can probably expect foot binding to return as well.

>>489081
>I honestly think the Soviets fucked up real hard by going after religion.

I agree a little bit, but organized religion should have no power over the state.


>It's caused the post-Soviet reaction to swing back hard in the direction of traditional culture.
So conversely, not repressing religion would have meant there was LESS of it after a COLLAPSE? What are you smoking?

>When the state capitalism of China gets rolled back completely to full-blown private capitalism
>When thing gets reformed back to it's prior self
Pure wishful thinking.

3/10 post. Please do better.

>>489081
>I honestly think the Soviets fucked up real hard by going after religion.
During Tsarist rule the church was rather horrible, so the Soviet reaction of going full state atheism, should also be considered in context. But you're not entirely wrong the soviets over-corrected. But they did mostly fix it later, I think.

> It's caused the post-Soviet reaction to swing back hard in the direction of traditional culture.
No that's not the reason, the Soviet dissolution pulled the rug from under people, and religion was a crutch to cope with the catastrophe.

>When the state capitalism of China gets rolled back completely to full-blown private capitalism, you can probably expect foot binding to return as well.
20 years ago, this statement would have been understandable, but now ?
The Chinese went economically left when capitalist crisis hit their system, and that shit seems to have worked. So a roll back seems unlikely.

>>489057
/leftypol/ literally is an 8ch offshoot.

>>489036
>the NazBols.
the "national Bolsheviks" were a fringe political party in Russia that only existed for a few years in the 1990s.

I don't get it, how is that occupying a part of your headspace ?

>>489060
uygha are you new here?

>>489032
There's a formerly popular theory amongst some political Christian circles that Palestinians are actually the real Jews and that the Israeli Jews were fakes.

And I'm leaning more on that side.
I honestly believe that Palestine may be the real Israel and it's destruction will trigger the end times.

I mean. Look at how many people are protesting against Zionism.

>>489058
Yea I know. I used to browse there in the last two years of that boards existence. And people didn't change.

>>489062
>There's a formerly popular theory amongst some political Christian circles that Palestinians are actually the real Jews and that the Israeli Jews were fakes.
It's not really much disputed that Palestinian Christians & Muslims are mostly descended from Jews and Samaritans who converted to Christianity and Islam, which is true even without the "who are the real Israelites?" prophetic/religious speculation.

What about it?

Moved to >>>/777/1526.

I think single moms need money

wtf i like mutual aid now

>>488973
>US imperialism supported the Azov Battalion
>Go look up who funded Hitlers political party and mercenary gangs.
By the way, I really wish lefties would bring up more often the fact that the Azov Battalion was literally funded by a Ukrainian-Israeli billionaire. It brings to bear so many amazing points about the nature of fascism, Zionism, and ruling class interests.

>>488989
no dude, seriously? im literally just telling you about the dilemma that zizek is raising, i never gave an argument in favor of one conclusion or another, why are you just assuming what i believe
please god im begging you people to just engage with zizek here instead of treating this like some kind of breadtuber debate ffs

>>488990
Honestly, this was a really weird thing when I put two and two together about how it could be significant.

>>488976
When I'm general secretary of the United Socialist States of America we will have a secret program that is basically a staged repeat of covid. Creat a panic, rush out a vaccine, don't publish trial data, make up bullshit public health protocols, stage an illegal transfer of wealth.

Then question, strip of title, and re-educate anyone going along with this. Oh you're a doctor and you were okay giving this vaccine? Lose your license. Oh you agreed to give this vaccine to your kids? Maybe you need to take a class.

You're a community leader and you didn't organize against this? Step down.

In fact a socialst government should practice changing leadership by force: every so often people will be required to arm themselves and storm the parliament and depose of the previous government. If they're willing to step downw it will all be staged. If not the people will have practiced for this.

>>489012
>socialist government
>the parliament
Sorry anon we're going to try actual democracy this time.

>>488693
Don't start wars you can't finish.

>>489008
It's astonishing that even in a thread like this, you're still the most bad faith and hateful poster participating.

There is no "Jewish question" Only retards deal in personalities.

>>488994
all israelis are fascist freaks. killing them all is a standard leftist position.

>>489014
Um excuse me
it's ackshually somewhere from 90%-98% of Israelis sir

>>488929
>>488932
/lgbt/ was added in response to a passing vote created by a regular user. If you do not want the /lgbt/ board to be on the site you can use this exact same process to remove it

Leftychan reminds you that we have a democratic process for changes to the site and its moderation. You are encouraged to propose and vote on changes on our Matrix

>>488948
Don't think he really wants to vote since he knows nobody cares so he wants to scream very loud for people to pay attention.

>>488948
Where is the vote and how can I participate? Thank you kindly.

>>488944
You can literally use the same reasoning to say that all that shit is contained to /lgbt/ and to keep it off /leftypol/ and other boards.

I'm honestly not sure what gay people need a board for but I don't see the harm.

>>488796
I agree with you. I am already of the opinion that we should join liberals in those issues in which we all agree, such as being anti-Trump. But one could say that leftists should simply start their own demonstrations, and not participate in liberal protests while not opposing them either. I am asking a question of strategy, not of principle.

>>488795
I reject the basic premises.

Firstly, the implication of signs like in that image is foremost that Trump is "Russian," with the "Communist" imagery mostly being used as a dumb "gotcha!" and appeal to nationalism. That doesn't mean that no liberals believe it earnestly, but even of those it's not the majority. So basically you have a minority who hold up "Trump = Soviet Communist = bad!" signs and then a minority of those people who earnestly believe, on an intellectual level, that Trump is a Communist. It's a minority of a minority of liberals. I don't deny that that minority of a minority are stupid in that specific way and are holding stupid signs, but every time a guy on an image board is like "look at this one guy in a group of 10,000 people, is this everybody?" it seems odd.

secondly,
>What I ask is this: do you think it is fruitful for American leftists to join liberals in anti-Trump demonstrations? Or should we instead have demonstrations of our own? Could liberal protests become an opportunity for educating liberals, or would attending merely make them more secure in their current ideology?
I reject the premise of all three of these questions.
It is liberals, by which I mean the DNC specifically, who have sought to co-opt the existing protest movement. Under Biden there were massive protests, under Trump they continued. Even these recent "Hands Off!" protests, which have been something the liberal establishment have heavily aimed to direct and co-opt (to avoid the Palestinian genocide and crackdown on anti-Zionism which is a project of both the DNC & GOP) have seen participation, and in some cases continued local dominance, by the anti-genocide demonstrators who people like Pelosi seek to drown out or infiltrate. The left has not stopped protesting. The momentum is something the DNC has lost and is cynically moving to steal. It is not ours to reach out to liberals or to segregate ourselves from opposition to Zionist tyranny and repression by the American state, it is ours to continue to build the movement which the liberal voters, by increasing discomfort at their material conditions under a psychotic American failed state, are now compelled to meet on the streets.

Where protests are concerned, we literally only have to keep doing what we'Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>488798
Are you american though?

>>488805
Yeah.

MAGA's working class base is more class consciousness and Communist than 99% of ""leftists"" out there. They associate Trump with Communism for good reason (his working class base which wants popular sovereignty, not Trump himself).