/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Battleship Potemkin moment?

CP of Greece, What should be the perspective of the anti-war and anti-imperialist movement?
Some argue that the war can be stopped or prevented from escalating. For example, Israel may back down under pressure from international solidarity or from actions such as boycotting Israeli products and companies. The truth is that, however strong and massive it may be, a protest movement against war cannot prevent it. It is utopian to believe that “the powerful” can back down under popular pressure, or that the EU, for example, can be pressured into defending Palestine. This notion ignores and underestimates the true nature of imperialist war: it is a war backed by the enormous interests of capitalist enterprises and bourgeois states; behind it lies a life-or-death struggle for a foothold within the imperialist system, for the division of territories and spheres of influence. This notion harbours illusions and delusions about the ability of bourgeois institutions and trans-state imperialist alliances to become “pro-peace” under “popular pressure”. It causes the anti-war movement against war to pursue various temporary peace agreements mediated by imperialists, and turns it into a supporter of various temporary and fragile truces. In other words, while imperialist war is in full swing, is escalating and becoming more widespread, and the workers' and popular movements must prepare for this, positions such as the above lead to complacency. This leaves the people’s struggle vulnerable to propaganda calling for temporary compromises with a gun held to the peoples’ head. Although there is potential to broaden the confrontation and challenge the dominant policy, this notion essentially neutralizes radicalization and perpetuates the utopic idea that the hawks of war can become doves of peace.
http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-What-should-be-the-perspective-of-the-anti-war-and-anti-imperialist-movement/

Corbyn’s New Party and the Socialist Left
This new formation is part of an international trend: an upsurge in neo-reformist parties and figures. Ten years ago, when parties like Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain represented the hopes of a generation battered by the global economic crisis, Corbyn channeled that same yPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Curious why Corbyn won't just join Galloway's Workers Party of Great Britain.

>>490833
It's a pattern of bad decisions on Corbyn's part. I wish the workers of the UK the best, and I hope that Corbyn's party will be able to work with Galloway's.

>>490834
Corbyn seems to be a fan of shooting himself in the foot a lot.

>>490842
Corbyn's favorite things in order:
1. Being right
2. Fumbling it

FEMA to Deny Grants to States and Cities That Boycott Israeli Companies
The policy underscores how the Trump administration has linked its stance on Israel to unrelated federal funding, including billions of dollars in research grants for colleges and universities. But the move to restrict FEMA grants may be largely symbolic, because no states — and only a handful of cities — have enacted laws or policies that prohibit state agencies from doing business with Israeli firms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/fema-will-deny-disaster-funding-to-states-and-cities-that-boycott-israeli-firms-under-new-grant-rules.html
https://archive.ph/VXcYu

Raven Software gets its union contract with Microsoft three years after voting to organize
Workers voted unanimously to ratify the first contract between the company's Game Workers Alliance-CWA (GWA-CWA) members and Microsoft. This contract includes a guaranteed 10-percent wage increase over two years, along with additional raises through "merit and promotions." It also eliminates crunch time, with a requirement to give employees seven days' notice for mandatory overtime. There will be no excessive overtime on back-to-back weeks and "no mandatory overtime of any duration for the majority of weeks in a quarter."
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/raven-software-gets-its-union-contract-with-microsoft-three-years-after-voting-to-organize-150133353.html
https://archive.ph/QsFZn

State Department may require visa applicants to post bond of up to $15,000 to enter the US
The proposal comes as the Trump administration is tightening requirements for visa applicants. Last week, the State Department announced that many visa renewal applicants would have to submit to an additional in-person interview, something that was not required in the past. In addition, the department is propoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Misusing the Children: The UK Online Safety Act, Privacy and Censorship
The United Kingdom can always be relied upon to supply us with the eccentric, the admirably dotty, and the odd extreme bit of adventure in policy. Lately, those mad protectors and censors with their shields of false virtue and hollow intellect have decided to launch an assault on the users of the Internet. In this, they are joining the platoons of hysteria from such countries as Australia, where age verification restrictions on platforms are all the rage. It’s all about the children, and when adults start meddling with children, all sorts of trouble arise. Much in line with the foolish, and potentially dangerous efforts being made by the eCommissioner (not a misspelling) in Australia to impose “industry codes” of child safety, the UK Online Safety Act (OSA) is being used to blanket social media, search engines and virtually any other site of service with age verification restrictions. The OSA lists three categories that are said to be harmful to children: primary priority content, priority content and non-designated content. Primary priority content is a British favourite of the repressed classes: pornography, and content that supposedly encourages suicide, self-harm, or various behaviours and disorders with eating. (If only there was a form of pornography that might encourage good eating habits.) Priority harmful content covers abuse relevant to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability or gender reassignment and any content that incites hatred against such people. To this, among others, can be added bullying, the promotion of “serious violence, and depiction of serious violence” whether authentic or fictional. To make things even more expansively ludicrous, the regulations cover content that is non-designated (NDC), which might as well be the entire body of knowledge and existence on this planet and beyond seen by the regulators of the day as dangerous. Examples are skimpy, and do not mention the enriching apple in the Garden of Eden offered to Eve by the opportunistic serpent. Something, however, is “NDC if it presents a material risk of significant harm to an appreciable number of children in the UK”. What a triumph of insufferable vagueness.
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>>490542
Thata where you're wrong.
Rape gangs do exist in UK and US, they're not referred to as such though because they're white.

More white women are raped by their classmates, fathers, brothers, family friends than by ethnic minorities

>>490563
>We're talking about a culture that treats women as objects to be the literal property of their fathers and husbands. And you airdrop these deeply misogynistic men into a society they have no stake in.
You point out correctly that we do next to nothing to avoid conflict between incompatible cultural hierarchies. The result is disrupted social harmony. Immigrant women can opt out of the old ways, that's one half of the solution. Got any ideas how to do cultural assimilation ?

A lacking stake in society is economic, you are incorrectly attributing that to culture.

>>490570
>Got any ideas how to do cultural assimilation?
Yes, follow the Xinjiang method unironically. Only the Neoliberal West could take teaching people cultural norms and values of the country and nation as a requirement to be a part of it as a fucking bad thing.

Leftoids are shills. They're not revolutionary in any way. They need to be massacred in droves if there is to be any hope for a proletrain victory in the west

Is there a book that thoroughly critiques anarchism from a left perspective? It's interesting I never seem to hear of such a thing. Communists seem to have no problem with sectarian wars against one another but it seems like everyone would rather just ignore anarchists.

>>490766
As a bookslet, I just rec most people Engels' The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. I just think it's a great book. Not sure if it's particularly relevant to AnComs or not.

Senate confirms former Fox News host Pirro as top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital
In 2021, voting technology company Smartmatic USA sued Fox News, Pirro and others for spreading false claims that the company helped “steal” the 2020 presidential election from Trump. The company’s libel suit, filed in a New York state court, sought $2.7 billion from the defendants.
https://apnews.com/article/jeanine-pirro-attorney-trump-senate-confirmation-5a2c7c087e67fde1f8ac8ae4aa25d4e1

Senate Democrats call for probe into DOJ settlement over HPE-Juniper merger
In late June, the agency announced a settlement, allowing the acquisition to go forward as long as HPE divests its division for small and medium businesses and licenses Juniper’s software to independent competitors. Axios reported Wednesday that the U.S. intelligence community weighed in on the lawsuit, urging the DOJ to allow the merger to proceed to boost American companies competing with China’s Huawei.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5432686-senate-democrats-demand-doj-probe/
https://archive.ph/M84Q7

Dems are trying to stop a "nasty" internal battle in Texas
Texas' mid-decade redistricting has left members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus scrambling to fend off what some predict would be one of the most brutal battles in the group's history, Axios has learned. A new map would put the group's chair, Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), and one of its longest-serving members, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), in the same district. Lawmakers fear it would be a bloodbath if they both run. … The race would be yet another front in Democrats' bitter civil war over age: Casar is 36 and seen as one of the party's rising stars, while Doggett is 78 and was first elected in 1994.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/01/texas-redistricting-democrats-doggett-casar
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The BBC: An institution in crisis
Gary Lineker, Huw Edwards, Masterchef. Kneecap and Bob Vylan. Journalists in revolt. Commissioned documentaries cancelled. Cuts, declining TV license payers, declining viewership. From every angle, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) – one of the main pillars of the British establishment – is in perpetual crisis. This is no accident. The eroding legitimacy of the BBC is the product of countless totemic events that have rocked Britain over the past two decades. Supporting the Iraq war; providing propaganda for the Tory-Lib Dem coalition lies that “we’re all in it together”, as they launched a colossal wave of austerity; bias towards the No campaign in the Scottish referendum; overt hostility to Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party: all this has greatly weakened the public’s confidence in ‘Auntie Beeb’.
https://communist.red/the-bbc-an-institution-in-crisis/

Proletarian Report on the Burned Periphery: Mexico in the Global Management of the Surplus - Conatus Editorial (2025)
What Mexico reveals about the authoritarian reorganization of global capital In the manner of John Reed, from this side of the wall, we have constructed a summary and expository report that we consider urgent. It does not pretend to exhaust the complexity of the processes it analyzes nor to offer a definitive diagnosis, but to draw an initial map of coordinates that, for those of us who struggle from below, are necessary. It was elaborated by a group of communist militants concerned about the current course of the global crisis and the place that Mexico occupies and will suffer within this violent reconfiguration of capital. What is presented here is neither a technical inventory nor an exercise in erudition. It is a materialist reading of the devices that traverse the daily lives of millions: tariffs as a form of economic punishment, austerity as internal warfare, forced migration as structural policy, narco-capitalism as territorial management, exclusionary automation, profitable ecocide, and debt as an infrastructure of control. Each section of this report takes a visible phenomenon and inscribes it in the general framework of dispossession that defines our times. Mexico is not on the margins of this crisis: it is one of its active frontiers. And we are noPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Literally the only thing here which was actually a legitimate fuckup was the killing those rwo guys thing. The rest is either exaggerated or otherwise misleading. CHAZ was poorly run, but it didn't singlehandedly bring drugs & crime to a major American city, and that's a dumb claim.

And it's also worth noting that they took over part of a major American city, which means that they spent their existence as a "zone" effectively under siege by the state. It's odd that MLism is essentially based around the understanding that, under such conditions, harsh "authoritarian" actions and ruthlessness are necessary, but when anarchists do that suddenly it's, like, a problem.

I think it's dumb that, with all that's happening now, anyone is still taking the time to bitch about CHAZ. Thus far, taking over part of a major city is way more impressive than anything that factional American MLs have done in my lifetime, and I'm not saying that as a factionalist, I'm not an anarchist, all I am saying is get off your asses.

That was the moment I quit being an anarchkidde. I was living 6 hours from that shit.

>>490726
Cause you failed to realize anarchism is being astroturfed by liberalism and succdems? It's too bad you've already moved onto "marxism" which is just the same shit as the anarchism astroturfed by succdems and liberals. You've got false consciousness either way.

>>490792
I dunno where you live but in my parts liberals are always more ready to side with fascists than Marxism.

Here are the latest post translate to English

Is there a reason you're unable to keep all this in a single thread anon?

How long will MAGAtards keep defending this imbecile?

>>488700
Some people will do it forever.

US job cuts are reportedly at the highest for January-July since 2020.

Trump fires commissioner of preeminent nuclear safety institution

Critics warn that the United States may soon be taking on more nuclear safety risks after Donald Trump fired one of five members of an independent commission that monitors the country's nuclear reactors.

In a statement Monday, Christopher Hanson confirmed that Trump fired him from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Friday. He alleged that the firing was "without cause" and "contrary to existing law and longstanding precedent regarding removal of independent agency appointees." According to NPR, he received an email that simply said his firing was "effective immediately."

Hanson had enjoyed bipartisan support for his work for years. Trump initially appointed Hanson to the NRC in 2020, then he was renominated by Joe Biden in 2024. In his statement, he said it was an "honor" to serve, citing accomplishments over his long stint as chair, which ended in January 2025.

It's unclear why Trump fired Hanson. Among the committee chair's accomplishments, Hanson highlighted revisions to safety regulations, as well as efforts to ramp up recruitment by re-establishing the Minority Serving Institution Grant Program. Both may have put him in opposition to Trump, who wants to loosen regulations to boost the nuclear industry and eliminate diversity initiatives across government.

In a statement to NPR, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly suggested it was a political firing.

"All organizations are more effective when leaders are rowing in the same direction," Kelly said. "President Trump reserves the right to remove employees within his own Executive Branch who exert his executive authority."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/trump-fires-commissioner-of-preeminent-nuclear-safety-institution/

Is Iran even trying to get nukes?

>>490119
So far, no not really, they wanted nuclear power plants and the hole nuclear weapons stick was just meant as a bargaining chip for negotiations.

Although the message the US has send the world is this:
<Get nukes, or else we'll bomb your people and try to overthrow your government.

Whether Iran creates sufficient deterrent with conventional means or whether they go nuclear, i don't know, but I would be very surprised if this episode doesn't inspire a bunch of other countries to conclude that they need the nuclear stick because the neocon no-rules-based-order is scary as fuck. Unintended nuclear blow-back…

>>490137
right

Hopium status?
Trump says he wants to maintain nuclear limits with Russia
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/trump-says-he-wants-maintain-nuclear-limits-with-russia-2025-07-25/
>U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would like to maintain the limits on U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons deployments set in the 2010 New START agreement, which expires in February.

>"That's not an agreement you want expiring. We're starting to work on that," Trump told reporters as he exited the White House on a trip to Scotland.

>It was the first time since taking office that Trump has said he wants to maintain the treaty's limits on strategic nuclear weapons deployments when it expires on February 5.

>The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, is the last remaining nuclear arms reduction accord between the world's largest nuclear powers. It restricts Russia and the U.S. to deploying no more than 1,550 strategic warheads on 700 intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarines and bombers.