/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses
The department began looking into dozens of complaints against Starbucks locations in 2022, eventually expanding its investigation to the hundreds of stores throughout the city. Mayuga said investigators documented more than half a million alleged violations of the city’s Fair Workweek Law, which requires retail and fast-food companies to give employees predictable schedules and advance notice of changes.
https://gothamist.com/news/starbucks-to-pay-35m-to-nyc-workers-after-city-alleges-years-of-abuses
https://archive.ph/62sZo

Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales
In September last year, the online real estate marketplace introduced a tool showing the individual risk of wildfire, flood, extreme heat, wind and poor air quality for one million properties it lists, explaining that “climate risks are now a critical factor in home-buying decisions” for many Americans. But Zillow has now deleted this climate index in the wake of complaints from real estate agents and some homeowners that the rankings appeared arbitrary, could not be challenged and harmed house sales. The
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/01/zillow-removes-climate-risk-data-home-listings

‘Shamelessly Corrupt’: Trump Frees Private Equity Executive Convicted of Defrauding 10,000+ Investors
David Gentile, the founder and former CEO of GPB Capital, was convicted of securities and wire fraud last year and sentenced to prison in May, but he ended up serving just days behind bars. The New York Times reported over the weekend that the White House “argued that prosecutors had falsely characterized the business as a Ponzi scheme.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/donald-trump-david-gentile

Idaho prison system reopens sexual abuse case, reverses finding after InvesPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

CP of Greece, The KKE salutes the mass uprising of toiling farmers and condemns government repression
On Sunday 30 November, Greek farmers began blocking major highways with tractors and other agricultural machinery. The government responded with repression, using chemicals, riot police and arrests to suppress the farmers’ mobilization, but these efforts proved futile in the face of the toiling farmers’ mass participation, determination and organized disobedience. The farmers are fighting for their future, to prevent their eventual extermination and to secure the chance to earn a decent living from their work in their villages. They are demanding support for their shrinking income, which has been eroded by the policies pursued by all governments that have consistently served the interests of business groups and implemented the guidelines of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-The-KKE-salutes-the-mass-uprising-of-toiling-farmers-and-condemns-government-repression/

Inside Your Party Conference: Is This Farewell to Corbynism?
With the two-day founding conference for Your Party (and that is now the official name) concluded in Liverpool, Zarah Sultana has triumphed in a drawn out battle with former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. To rapturous applause from members, she’s staked out a new approach to leftwing politics in this country: socialist, democratic, decentralised and absolutely furious. But will it work? One of the more enjoyable features of attending Your Party’s founding conference in Liverpool was watching representatives of the mainstream press struggle to grasp the idea of a party under democratic control. One of the least enjoyable was watching them roll their eyes and sneer at the views of the 2,500 Your Party members sortitioned (selected by lottery) to attend. For many in the media and probably across the country too, democracy is framed by big figureheads whose pronouncements either do or do not attract voters. The relevance of the electorate lies not in voters’ opinions, but rather how they namelessly distribute across pie charts when the figureheads seek their endorsement once every few years. “What do you mean, what do you mean?” askePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>Dictatorship-era military officers rally in Argentina
what is the cure for such behavior?

>>2581021
>All this just to advocate gay ass social democracy
Ok then

>>2581361
>Your faggy little book club?
Yes.

I think it's inevitable that they will roll out a paltry universal basic income along with the incoming central bank digital currencies that will act as a control system for the poor that can debank and impoverish anyone at any time while allowing some freedom to select treats. I think there is no intention nor possibility to bring back productive jobs barring a massive debt crisis from dedollarization that makes labor in the west cheap again and available for future Chinese investment. That is decades away and the elites would probably prefer ww3 instead

>>2581361
>that 100 million members of the CPC are incapable of grasping?
This jewish nigger believes in the marketplace in ideas. This is a two-hundred and seventy-third type of liberalism.
What's the largest organization you've been part of?

>>2581361
its funny how mad american leftists get when you shatter their delusion of china as a hecking saviour of the international proletariat

>>2581951
Stand up join the to bullies union

Thanks News Anon

Puerto Rico holds hearings on proposed power bill increases as customers fume and outages persist
Residents are balking as private power company officials overseeing the generation, transmission and distribution of power in Puerto Rico insist that additional funding is needed to modernize a crumbling grid that Hurricane Maria razed in 2017. The hearings, which do not include public input, began in mid-November and are scheduled to continue through late December. They are being held by Puerto Rico’s Energy Bureau, which would decide whether to authorize the proposed increases.
https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-power-bill-hearings-increases-a9d129013ec9ba7859ffac6f6aad466b

Trump DOJ Sides With Roundup Manufacturer Over Cancer Victims in Supreme Court Case
On Monday, US Solicitor General D. John Sauer recommended that the high court agree to hear a challenge to a Missouri jury’s verdict in 2023 that awarded $1.25 million to a man named John Durnell, who claimed that the product caused him to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-backs-bayer-monsanto-roundup

Trump administration threatens to withhold SNAP management funds from states that don’t share data
President Donald Trump’s administration warned on Tuesday that it will withhold money for administering SNAP food aid in most Democratic-controlled states starting next week unless those states provide information about people receiving the assistance.
https://apnews.com/article/food-aid-snap-rollins-blue-states-edf7a10ab409fe471ae81a13823484ab

As Prices Soar, Trump Denounces ‘Affordability’ as ‘Democrat Scam’
At the start of a Cabinet meeting, Trump falsely claimed that electricity prices are coming down, despite the fact that Americans across the country are struggling with utility bills being driven higher in large part by energy-devouring artificial intelligence data centers.
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RS-YM (Bangladesh) Condemns The Police Crackdown Against Participants In Environmental Protest In Delhi, India
Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement strongly condemns and protests the sexual harassment, assault, and arrests carried out by the Delhi Police against students of Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM), Nazariya Magazine, and other organizations during the environmental protest at Delhi’s India Gate! For a long time, India’s capital, Delhi, has topped the Air Quality Index as the city with the most polluted air in the world. On November 23, 2025, the Delhi Coordination Committee for Clean Air organized a protest rally. The committee included Delhi-based Marxist-Leninist-Maoist student organization Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM) and Nazariya Magazine, among others. At the rally, the protesters rejected “garden-style” environmentalism. They pointed instead to the responsibility of the Hindutva fascist BJP, whose Chief Minister Rekha Gupta is an agent of imperialism, and to the so-called “development” projects of the corporate bureaucrat-bourgeoisie. They demanded the formation of people’s committees composed of slum workers, migrant laborers, residents of surrounding villages, and civil society rights activists to take the leading role in planning Delhi’s development for the protection of its environment.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/24682/

Like South Africa, the BRICS Suffer From Trump Appeasement Syndrome
The U.S. now assumes leadership of the G20 until the Miami summit ends on December 15, 2026 – but not without having lost some crucial soft power. In the wake of Donald Trump’s farcical attacks on the host of last week’s G20 summit in Johannesburg, might the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (plus Egypt-Ethiopia-Indonesia-Iran-United Arab Emirates) BRICS bloc – maybe alongside some annoyed Europeans – finally stand up straight, and boycott the Florida meeting? After all, a process of shifting power relations – symbolic and real – is supposedly underway. At the University of South Africa in Pretoria on November 20, two days before G20 leaders met, Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs gave a viral speech in which he castigated Trump – as the equivalent of a four-year old throwing tantrums – and proclaimed that U.S. power " is fading. It’s fading in part Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2581160
The don't want us to know this, but helium comes from the inside the earths mantel and naturally bubbles up along fault lines. We have infinite helium.

>>2581160
it comes from natural gas as a byproduct. not mines.

Good. I hope we run out. If it leads to societal collapse all the better.
Communism isn't ever happening if we don't shake society up somehow, and this seems preferable to nuclear war.

>>2581610
It will only lead to less scientific advances

>>2581822
Correct. We need to stop the capitalists from wasting any more, and preserve whats left for advancements.

>>2580917
This is unrelated to the content of his speech, but man he sucks at speaking. He pauses, he mumbles, he changes his distance from the microphone way too often. Sheesh.

>>2581227
>You think the Zionist would know better than to try and make this about them.
The narcissism is just too tempting

>>2581342
lmao

>>2581006
madur-go to the polls

>>2581327
The Iraqi government gets its every cent from the US federal bank, illiterate retard.

>>2581286
you cant invoke this rule after making such a shitty thread retard

IraKKKi mad at AES smh

So what if half your oil is owned by the US the other half is still owned by progressive Chinese capital this is what anti imperialism looks like

>>2581387
>the other half is still owned by progressive Chinese capital
I doubt they own even 25%, wtf are you on about you retard

>>2581329
how can it be siphoning the money if it gives it back to islamist iraqis

lol

Thread full.

Need baker.

>>2581106
Looks leniny

>>2581106
he, tsikhanouskaya, and guaido should all get killed.
>>2581070
two statements true:
Ukrainians didn't oppose. If that were the case, residents wouldn't be receiving the soldiers in the areas they are advancing.
the ukrainian army was really destroyed in 2022's early summer/end of spring. the point that:
-Ukraine was supplied with billions in military aid.
-Ran 15 conscription calls, until zelya decided to pass a law that automatically renews itself
it's proof that the uaf was largely decimated logistically and lost its main combat equipment in the first two months.

Based China jailing west-poisoned separatists. Hopefully they do it more.

>>2581035
>gets called out for believing what western media says about China
>immediately accuses other anons of this
Also why the fuck would you ever leave China if you've been there, even if it was tourism? The Hong Kong thing was such a contentious issue for you that you happily returned to your unwalkable suburb back in the US? You didn't have any urge to stay whatsoever?
>Assigned Party At Birth

>>2576260
This place and the left is not a good fit for you, may i suggest the church?

>>2581035
>fat american lardass
Gonna stop you right there. Considering you're aware of my other posts on this site, you should be aware that I'm Haitian.
>You are the most arrogant person on this entire forum
Kkkry about it some more kkkracker. I'm glad my contempt can be felt through the computer screen.
>If you had been born in a republican instead of democrat
Lmao people aren't fascists because they're born fascists. They're fascists because of concrete parasitic social and economic relations on a global scale. Relations like those that enable social fascists like you to afford that cute tourist trip to China unlike 99% of the workers of the world.

>>2549169
>was to the American Republicanist model in particular.
imho this is also the secret sauce to talking to burgers abt socialism, every critique they've been taught was also something absolute monarchs said about the american revolution(muh huemon nature, republics only work on a small scale, muh democracy equals mob violence,muh divine hierarchy,etc)

i was researching freemasonry, when i got to the "lansdowne MS" (1560) which is part of the "old charges" of the order (english masonry only officially beginning with the grand lodge in 1717). what struck me is the lexicon highlighted here:
<First, there is no reference of the word ‘Freemason’ or even ‘Free Mason’, only ‘Free born’.  This might suggest Free Mason was not yet in use in England.
https://www.thesquaremagazine.com/mag/article/202101lansdowne-ms/
this is interesting, since it reminds me of john lilburne's notion of an englishman's "freeborn" rights (1641-9). was liberalism a child of arcane masonry (such that later liberal revolutionaries openly adopted the doctrine)?

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interesting posts, thanks for the effort.

>>2524222
>Do you think it’s still opium of the masses take for example Donald Trump is a crypto fascist like what he did in Iran
What the fuck. Blumpf is just another liberal.

two interesting games that demonstrate jevons' notion of utility maximisation (1869) is "unfair flips" and "a game about digging a hole", where one must "spend money to make money", as it were. thus, buffing the stats of particular attributes increases aggregate productivity. as jevons says, this relates to the division of labour, since increasing the use of labour to different ends causes wealth in general to increase. smith highlights this also. the collaboration of different products into a higher order commodity is spoken of by menger too, as a mode of increasing value; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. so to say, marginal utility (e.g. exchange-value) decreases as total utility (e.g. use-value) increases. spending leads to lesser costs. bernie sanders has also discussed this "infrastructural" or public provision (what in lockean terms may refer to "trust", the element of liberty as a social contract), in terms of services like healthcare - it is also conceived of by fuller; "a stitch in time saves nine". we can certainly see the concept of a public, or "civil society" within the liberal idea, then.

jevons further stated his support not just for public services but also co-operative ownership of business by workers, which he saw as a form of self-government. another 19th century liberal, john stuart mill, wrote of his "socialist" ideals in his autobiography (sidenote: adam smith claimed that capitalists destroy society by their class interest and that if there was no need for their mastery, things would be better. smith later inspired early socialist thought, from the "ricardians" to proudhon, in a period from 1816-48, later inspiring engels and marx with an "enlightened" political economy, furthered by ricardo). other liberals like murray rothbard (via locke) and ronald reagan similarly expressed their support for public and co-operative ownership (see: "confiscation and the homestead principle", 1969 and "transcript of speech presented at the white house", august 3, 1987):
(i) https://panarchy.org/rothbard/confiscation.html
(ii) https://www.cesj.org/about-cesj-in-brief/history-accomplishments/pres-reagans-speech-on-project-economic-justice/

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