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 No.490991[Reply]

BOLIVIA ELECTION THREAD
Menshevick implosion edition

This sunday is the election in the land that as Rome didn't called itself Romulus had to call itself Bolivia instead of Bolivar.
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 No.491004

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.
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 No.491006

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).
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 No.491013

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?
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 No.491025

>>491013
Because the western media hates Evo.


 No.489657[Reply]

More U.S. war crimes? 1971 or so murder of Kent Stae University students a war crime? Mai Lai Viet Nam massacres every other day or so, according to some U.S. officer?
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 No.489660

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.
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 No.489666

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.
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 No.490983

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


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 No.457563[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Last one is full and the worst thread on leftychan must be contained.

In recent news: Ukies done a successful counteroffensive in Izium, Z gang now in shambles. Biden promises even more money for Ukraine. Putin meets Xi, Erdogan, Modi and others at the SCO summit.


Pro-Russia sources:
https://nitter.net/RWApodcast
https://nitter.net/mdfzeh
https://nitter.net/AZmilitary1
https://nitter.net/wargonzoo
https://nitter.net/TheHumanFund5
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/vorposte

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 No.490882

Can't believe Putin is going to meet on US territory. I think that puts him in serious danger of being assassinated by a spook agency.
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>>490882
Why? Nothing happens.
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>>490882
Brian Berletic seems to share my worries here.
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 No.490968

Key takeaways from the Trump/Putin summit in Alaska?
Here are mine at a glance, having barely watched this story:

1. Fucking nothing happened.
2. Trump seems to be practically begging for a renewed "Russian interference" circus to distract from him being on the list and heavily involved in the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
He has a deep desire to have people discuss something other than him actually being a pedophile.
3. "Anti-imperialist" 5D chess by Russia.
4. The US will use the ICC against you and then invite you over and not even arrest you.
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 No.490969

>>490968
I have a suspicion that what's actually going on here is the US trying to use Ukraine as a bargaining chip to get Russia to backstab Iran.


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India’s opposition parties protest against a controversial electoral roll revision
India’s opposition accuses the Election Commission of India of rushing through a mammoth electoral roll revision in eastern Bihar state, saying the exercise could render vast numbers of citizens unable to vote. The revision of nearly 80 million voters involves strict documentation requirements from citizens, triggering concerns it could lead to the exclusion of vulnerable groups, especially those who are unable to produce the paperwork required to prove their citizenship.
https://apnews.com/article/india-opposition-protest-electoral-roll-6aa2366999fde2598bb0603c3d1a69db

Israeli Tourist Boom in Sri Lanka’s Arugam Bay Stirs Local Unease
The opposition political parties criticized the government’s alleged tilt toward Israel, pointing to visa-free entry for Israeli tourists as proof that the traditionally pro-Palestinian National People’s Power (NPP) has changed its stance. But the same opposition would likely hit the streets if firm action on Israeli tourists sparked a U.S. tariff snapback or a slump in arrivals. The government is squeezed between values (nonalignment, empathy for Palestinians) and vulnerabilities (dollars, debt, and jobs). In that gap, symbolism often beats substance and enforcement gets deferred.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/08/israeli-tourist-boom-in-sri-lankas-arugam-bay-stirs-local-unease/
https://archive.ph/iUOkT

Nearly 400 “voluntary redundancies” sought at Western Sydney University
Management is now working with faculty and school deans to hand-pick the staff whose applications will be accepted, while still threatening forced redundancies as well. This is another warning of the scale of the job cuts and sweeping restructuring being demanded throughout Australia’s 39 public universities. So far, more than 3,500 job losses have been unveiled across the country during the past 10 months.
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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.
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 No.490947

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


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 No.490757[Reply]

How would you analyze the Western world's more recent crop of imbeciles that oligarchic systems keep installing into power? Are these systems so universally broken now that they cannot even tolerate thinking figureheads? What would Michael Parenti's take on all this be?
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 No.490759

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.
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 No.490762

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?
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 No.490908

>>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.
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 No.490918

there are abput 600-800 top richpowerful guys control the western democracies. sad. they wouldnt want independent thinkers in office/
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 No.490941

>>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


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Israel kills senior PFLP official in Lebanon bombing
Mohammed Wishah was a member of the central committee of the PFLP, which is the second-largest faction in the Palestine Liberation Organisation — the internationally recognised representative of the Palestinians — after Fatah. His bodyguard was called Mufid Hussein. PFLP official Marwan Abdel-Al said: “We have lost two of the most loyal comrades who gave their precious souls to freedom.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israel-kills-senior-pflp-official-lebanon-bombing

Tunisian president’s supporters protest against UGTT union amid rising tensions
Hundreds of supporters of Tunisian President Kais Saied staged a rally outside the headquarters of the powerful UGTT union on Thursday and urged Saied to suspend the union following a transport strike last week that paralysed the country. The rally highlights growing fears among activists and opposition supporters of a possible move by Saied against one of the last major independent organisations in the North African country.
https://www.newarab.com/news/kais-saied-supporters-tunisia-protest-against-ugtt-union

MK Party expels Shivambu over alleged coup plan
The move comes after Shivambu was removed from his position, with party leaders accusing him of plotting to unseat MK Party president, Jacob Zuma. Shivambu, however, denied the allegations and claimed that the intelligence report used against him was fabricated. Despite the MK Party’s announcement of his membership termination, Shivambu insists he has not resigned and is consulting South Africans on whether to form a new political party.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/mk-party-expels-shivambu-over-alleged-coup-plan/

After Initial Arrests, As Many As 1,000 Ready to Defend Palestine Action in London Saturday
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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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 No.490927

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.
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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.
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‘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.


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 No.488376[Reply]

Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content & memes
Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made
which you want to share.
Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.

This is the place where you can find all leftypol memes n' shit:
https://lefty.booru.org/

Webm sister thread: >>361470
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Quick IOF edit.
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Did a tribute to fallen IOF soldiers.
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 No.490871[Reply]

Myanmar’s acting President Myint Swe dies after a long illness
Myint Swe, who became Myanmar’s acting president under controversial circumstances after the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi more than four years ago, died on Thursday, the military said. He was 74. Myint Swe’s death came more than a year after he stopped actively carrying out his presidential duties after he was publicly reported to be ailing.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-acting-president-myint-swe-obituary-dead-3e816743ec95a1ab4b543ab0846615a8

Modi ready to ‘pay a heavy price’ as India seeks to resist Trump tariffs
In a speech on Wednesday night which did not directly mention Trump or the new tariffs, Modi appeared defiant as he addressed one of the biggest sticking points in India’s ongoing trade negotiations with the US over tariffs. According to Indian officials, the US has been pushing India to allow for the import of American genetically modified (GM) crops into the country and for duty-free imports on US farm and dairy products.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/07/modi-ready-to-pay-a-heavy-price-as-india-seeks-to-resist-trump-tariffs

India bans 25 books in contested Kashmir for ‘secessionism’
Indian authorities in Kashmir have banned 25 books, including a piece of work by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, saying the titles “excite secessionism” in the contested Muslim-majority region. The government order accuses the writers of propagating “false narratives” about Kashmir, “while playing a critical role in misguiding the youth, glorifying terrorism and inciting violence” against the Indian state. It follows orders in February when the authorities seized Islamic literature from bookshops and homes.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-bans-25-books-in-contested-kashmir-for-secessionism
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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.
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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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 No.490875

tybna!!


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 No.490866[Reply]

‘Unprecedented’ wildfire burns area size of Paris in southern France
The fire, which started on Tuesday afternoon, had burned 16,000 hectares (39,537 acres) inland from the Mediterranean near the Spanish border. It began in the village of Ribaute in the Aude department, spreading across the rural, wooded area of the Corbières, famous for its vineyards and medieval villages.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/france-largest-wildfire-this-year-corbieres-hills

Hamburg dockworker demands union action against genocide in Gaza
Mohammed Alattar, who has lost 80 family members in the Gaza massacre, writes in a petition addressed to Verdi that he approached the union leadership with his story and asked what the union was doing in answer. He described the response with anger: “Nothing came back, no chance. Only complete ignorance and silence.” This disregard for the suffering and catastrophe in Gaza, Alattar writes, “reflects the same disregard and isolation that Jewish people in Germany experienced 80 years ago.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/06/fbfe-a06.html

About 300 migrants start walk north from southern Mexico
The group of migrants that left Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, was small in comparison to migrant caravans in years past. There has been very little movement of migrants in public since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January, though migration numbers had been falling even prior to that. Those walking Wednesday said their goal was not to reach the United States, but rather central Mexico. They complained that they had been waiting for months to legalize their status or receive asylum.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-migrants-us-trump-tapachula-a920fcba8752d1c6f3b1f3eb2c4579aa

Brazil: Opposition lawmakers stay the night in Congress
The opposition was demanding a general and unrestricted amnesty for those convicted of attempting a coup d'état, in addition to De MoraPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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Army sergeant shot 5 soldiers before he was tackled and arrested at Fort Stewart, officials say
A sergeant shot five soldiers Wednesday at one the country’s largest Army bases before he was quickly tackled by other Fort Stewart troops, forcing a brief lockdown, officials said. Few details were immediately available about what led to the gunfire, but officials said the shooter was Sgt. Quornelius Radford, 28, who used a personal handgun, not a military firearm.
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-army-post-lockdown-shooter-0b3b2cda384d1f33d107d988e6088d92

Democrats Rebuked for Backing GOP War on Public Schools, Trump Voucher Expansion
Evidence is mounting across the United States that school vouchers are harming public schools—and numerous studies have shown they largely do not benefit students academically as proponents have long claimed—leaving education advocates to wonder why the issue of so-called "school choice" is a fault line within the Democratic Party.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/public-school-vouchers

Trump administration makes it easier to join ICE
The change illustrates one of the challenges with Trump’s oft-promised goal of deporting 1 million people per year. The White House has enlisted the help of local law enforcement through cooperation agreements, and states such as Florida and Texas have volunteered to help, but any concerted effort will require hiring thousands more agents by an agency that has struggled with retention and retirements in recent years. In addition to lifting the age restrictions, DHS is also offering a signing bonus of up to $50,000, student loan repayment assistance and other benefits to attract recruits, the agency said in a news release.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/06/trump-ice-immigration-00496051
https://archive.ph/5Yrx2

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 No.490868

957 - Democracy Soon! feat. Osita Nwanevu (8/4/25) (Chapo Trap House)
Osita Nwanevu stops by to discuss his new book The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding. Osita leads us through his case that American “democracy” as it currently stands isn’t that democratic at all. We discuss the real intentions of the founders, the actual American revolution of the Civil War, and the stalled re-founding of reconstruction. We also look at the potential for economic democracy, the political reforms needed to re-found the country, the problem of the judiciary, and the challenges of a new media environment to democratizing movements. Yes, today the wacky morning DJ actually does say democracy’s a joke.
https://soundgasm.net/u/ClassWarAndPuppies/957-Democracy-Soon-feat-Osita-Nwanevu-08-04-2025

BRICS+: Anti-Imperialist Solidarity in the Global South?
At the 17th BRICS+ summit, held in Brazil on June 6-7, the assembled governments claimed to continue their shift away from the U.S.-dominated world order by “strengthening Global South Cooperation for a more inclusive and sustainable governance.” On the surface, these goals might seem to align with socialist and anti-imperialist positions. Western neoliberal institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank guarantee the rule of a few big capitalist powers. This leads some socialists, like the Party of Socialism and Liberation (PSL), to see BRICS+ as having “the potential to create openings for this [socialist] project by challenging imbalances among nations in the global economy and diplomacy.” However, BRICS+ is full of internal contradictions. Its aim of democratically reforming the United Nations does not go beyond giving a select few Global South nations a seat at the exploiters’ table. It is a reformist solution which does not address the root of global inequality. The New Development Bank, established by the BRICS states and headquartered in Shanghai, claims to offer “sustainable infrastructure development” in a multilateral spirit, yet its development projects still operate on foreign debt. Patrick Bond, Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, summarises this as “maintaining policies of economic liberalisation that lower national econPost too long. Click here to view the full text.


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 No.490789[Reply]

why aren't you using TOR? you know we live in a constantly evolving surveillance state, right?
>Download TOR
>Add it as main browser
>get OrBot on your phone and keep the vpn on at all times
>never post your face on the internet
>never leave a trace
>create a new circuit whenever you change sites
ultimate guide to staying untraceable
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 No.490796

Tor might be useful, but it also strengthens glowies, who need other users to use tor for plausible deniability. Our surveillance state is thankfully run by morons, so you can probably get away with any old vpn and just clearing cookies a bunch, but idk.
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 No.490807

>>490795
I know you lying because you had to use tor to access the SR back in the day. Tor is good but i2p is better. Freenet is even better than that, but, you need a bunch of cohorts eto maximize it's full potential.
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 No.490823

>>490789
Don't forget to use Tor *through the Tails OS* via burning it into a USB and changing to Tails OS before full startup of your PC by opening the BIOS menu with whatever key you PC has the menu designated to (I promise this iseasier said than done. Here's a recent video on how to do all this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHhclHkzS_c)
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 No.490824

>>490823
>I promise this iseasier said than done

Sorry, I meant to say this is easier than it sounds. Legit will take you 5 minutes max in all likelohood, assuming you have a USB stick on you
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 No.490864

>>490796
>so you can probably get away with any old vpn and just clearing cookies a bunch, but idk.
Glowpost

>>490789
>>never leave a trace
Your ISP will see that you are using Tor.

>>490795
Obvious glowbot

See https://nowhere.moe for a start.


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