/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

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.

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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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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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.

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.

>>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.

>>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)

>>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

>>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.

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.

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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.