/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Striking Boeing Defense workers approve union's proposed contract that company rejected
The union proposal that members approved would cost Boeing an estimated $40 million per year on average, up from $30 million for the company's offer, according to the IAM. The company has said it would hire replacement workers to assemble munitions, fighters and other military aircraft in the St. Louis area. Boeing has used non-union workers to dampen the strike's effects on production, but company leadership has acknowledged that it has slowed work on several programs.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/striking-machinists-boeing-defense-approve-unions-proposed-contract-that-company-2025-09-19/

Judge blocks USDA from collecting data about SNAP applicants in 21 states
Chesney found that states were likely to succeed in their argument that the personal data can only be used for things like administering the food assistance program, and that it generally can’t be shared with other entities. The states said they feared that the data would be used to aid mass deportation efforts.
https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-stamps-privacy-data-deportations-trump-4d94ee017cfbad1d7e9834abe3edd8ff

TikTok deal signed soon, includes U.S. control of algorithm, White House says
"We are 100% confident that a deal is done, now that deal just needs to be signed and the president's team is working with their Chinese counterparts to do just that," Leavitt told Fox News, adding that the deal should be signed in "the coming days." The U.S. app will be "majority owned by Americans in the United States," Leavitt said, and under the control of a seven-member board that includes six Americans. "The algorithm will also be controlled by America," she added.
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/20/us-china-tiktok-deal
https://archive.ph/3DijP

Trump DOJ argues Michigan effort to shut down underwater pipeline interferes with US foreign policy
The pipeline, known as Line 5, has moved crude oil between Superior, Wisconsin, and Sarnia, Ontario, since 1953. A 4.5-mile (6.4-kilometer) segment of the line runs under the Straits of Mackinac, a channel that links Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Concerns about the line rupturing and causing a catastrophic spill in the environmentally sensitive area have been growing since 2017, when Enbridge revealed its engineers had known about gaps in its protective coating since 2014. A boat anchor damaged the segment a year later, further stoking fears of a spill.
https://apnews.com/article/enbridge-pipeline-straits-mackinac-trump-8f5642245d44fe646165f32a7f294a92

Four people arrested in Washington after alleged hate crime attack on trans woman
The Renton police department said the four suspects in the case first argued with the 39-year-old woman on Monday evening – then beat her after she saw them again later. Investigators say they hurled homophobic slurs at the victim, who was attacked on a street near a transit center in Renton and suffered serious injuries.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/20/four-arrested-washington-state-hate-crime-trans-woman

Official Press Release By CPI (Maoist) TSC Spokesperson Comrade Jagan: The temporary declaration of ceasefire in the armed struggle issued by Comrade Sonu in the name of Central Committee spokesperson Comrade Abhay is only Sonu’s personal opinion, not a party decision.
Although there have been protests across the country demanding an end to Operation Kagaar, the BJP—driven by an anti-people, violent agenda—continues this campaign of killings. On top of that, BJP leaders are publicly declaring that they will not negotiate with the Maoists and are demanding that they lay down arms and surrender. While on one hand they claim “we will not negotiate,” on the other they continue a spree of killings — and yet one of the central committee members, Comrade Sonu, has inexplicably asked us for a month’s time while announcing that he is suspending the armed struggle. He has said he needs a month to consult long-standing party leaders and activists in various places and has requested that party committee members send their opinions to the email address he gave. There is no sense in announcing something this important in that manner. If someone wants to leave the armed movement and work within the mainstream legally, that decision should be discussed and approved within the party committee. If he had submitted his views through party channels, he would have received responses to his questions. Instead, by publicly declaring such a major step, he has sown confusion within party ranks and in the revolutionary camp. His method of proceeding will not help the movement; it will harm it.
https://www.redspark.nu/peoples-war/india/official-press-release-by-cpi-maoist-tsc-spokesperson-comrade-jagan/

While Corbyn and Sultana bicker, the need for revolutionary politics grows greater
As wars and revolutions sweep the globe, and life in Britain gets worse, millions of people are looking for a radical political answer. Starmer’s government is hated, but the only people filling the vacuum are right-wing demagogues like Farage and Robinson. That’s why there was so much enthusiasm when independent MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana announced the formation of a new left-wing party earlier this year. Corbyn and Sultana promised a party that would fight for the working class and promote policies of nationalisation of major industries, etc. By the end of July, 800,000 people had signed up. Finally, after much foot-dragging, we seemed to be on the cusp of a major step forward. Since then, however, there has been no fleshing out of that political programme, which initially inspired so many. And yesterday, a breathtaking public exchange of manoeuvres and hostile statements between Corbyn and Sultana appears to have set things back, if not entirely scuppered them, before the new party has even got off the ground. Many people are shocked and demoralised by this. Even those who support the new party – but with a healthy scepticism about the quality of its leaders – have been astonished by the conduct of Corbyn and Sultana. What on earth is going on?
https://communist.red/while-corbyn-and-sultana-bicker-the-need-for-revolutionary-politics-grows-greater/

Vladimir Lenin: What Is To Be Done? Ch. IV The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization of the Revolutionaries
Rabocheye Dyelo’s assertions, which we have analyzed, that the economic struggle is the most widely applicable means of political agitation and that our task now is to lend the economic struggle itself a political character, etc., express a narrow view, not only of our political, but also of our organizational tasks. The “economic struggle against the employers and the government” does not at all require an all-Russia centralized organization, and hence this struggle can never give rise to such an organization as will combine, in one general assault, all the manifestations of political opposition, protest, and indignation, an organization that will consist of professional revolutionaries and be led by the real political leaders of the entire people. This stands to reason. The character of any organization is naturally and inevitably determined by the content of its activity. Consequently, Rabocheye Dyelo, by the assertions analyzed above, sanctifies and legitimizes not only narrowness of political activity, but also of organizational work. In this case, Rabocheye Dyelo, as always, proves itself an organ whose consciousness yields to spontaneity. Yet subservience to spontaneously developing forms of organisation, failure to realise the narrowness and primitiveness of our organisational work, of our “handicraft” methods in this most important sphere, failure to realise this, I say, is a veritable ailment from which our movement suffers. It is not an ailment that comes with decline, but one, of course, that comes with growth. It is however at the present time, when the wave of spontaneous indignation, as it were, is sweeping over us, leaders and organisers of the movement, that an irreconcilable struggle must be waged against all defence of backwardness, against any legitimation of narrowness in this matter. It is particularly necessary to arouse in all who participate in practical work, or are preparing to take up that work, discontent with the amateurism prevailing among us and an unshakable determination to rid ourselves of it.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/iv.htm