/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Judge rules the FTC can proceed with antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, tosses out few state claims
The order, issued last week by Judge John H. Chun and unsealed on Monday, is a major defeat for Amazon, which has tried for months to get the case tossed out in court. A trial in the case is slated to be held in October 2026.
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-antitrust-lawsuit-ftc-case-bbd55b3403978183360fe0bc7e3f08cc

Supreme Court denies Uber, Lyft appeal of California labor lawsuits
Uber and Lyft argued that lawsuits filed in 2020 by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower seeking back payments for withheld minimum wage, overtime and other benefits are invalid because the workers in question signed arbitration agreements with the companies.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/07/supreme-court-denies-uber-lyft-appeal-of-california-labor-lawsuits-00182715
https://archive.is/ZfEgA

Columbia Law School Told Professors to Call Campus Police on Student Protesters
Administrators at Columbia University braced themselves over the weekend for planned citywide walkouts marking the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks in Israel and the start of the war on Gaza. In an email Sunday evening, a Columbia Law school administrator told professors to call campus security officers on protesters who did not heed requests to stop any disruptions in classrooms.
https://theintercept.com/2024/10/07/columbia-law-professors-protests-israel-gaza/
https://archive.is/ib9hE

Home insurers argue for a 42% average rate hike in North Carolina
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On the First Anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle Which Marks a Strategic Turning Point in our Struggle: PFLP
On the first anniversary of the epic crossing of October 7th (the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle), we proudly and reverently recall this exceptional event in the history of our Palestinian people’s struggle. This moment embodied the steadfast will of the resistance in confronting the brutal occupation. This battle represented a strategic shift in the conflict, revealing the enemy’s weakness, fragility, and the cracks in its military security system, further deepening its internal crises. On this glorious day last year, hundreds of resistance fighters dealt a crushing defeat to the [IOF] Gaza Division, managing to control large parts of our occupied lands within hours and returning with hundreds of captured soldiers and officers. Over the past year of systemsatic zionist aggression, the resistance has executed high-level operations that paralyzed the enemy’s military capabilities and confused its leadership, which falsely assumed it could eradicate the resistance within weeks. During the ground maneuvers, the occupation suffered heavy losses in lives and equipment, despite employing scorched-earth tactics. The resistance continued to bombard “israeli” cities and settlements with rockets, striking deep into zionist territory.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/10/07/one-year-anniversary-al-aqsa-flood-pflp/

Gaza: one year of hell on Earth
One year since the 7 October attack by Hamas on southern Israel, the ensuing war has produced an unprecedented humanitarian disaster for the Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip. Now Lebanon is facing a similar scenario. Netanyahu warned Hezbollah that Israel could “turn Beirut and southern Lebanon… into Gaza”. What does it mean to turn southern Lebanon into a Gaza? After one year of relentless bombing, Netanyahu’s genocidal war on Gaza has led to unprecedented levels of death and destruction for the Palestinian people. Nearly 42,000 have been killed in direct hits since October last year, while a further 100,000 have been injured, a quarter of whom, it is estimated, will remain permanently disabled. These figures, however, do not tell the whole story of what has happened. The bombings have not only kPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thank you based news anon

not sure where else to post this but bjp is falling
Considering the general trend of right-wing underperformances in elections, it seems like the less right-wing democrats will probably win. Maybe.

lmao, Kamala Harris' teleprompter broke and she repeated the same words over and over

>>1976258
Post and discuss it in this thread: >>1947382

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>>1976040
he despises the west so much he gets paid by it to dump africans in the sahara to die so they don't cause more political upheaval in europe lmoa

>>1975900
>>1975976
>there is some debate around this. a lot of deaths were from diseases which don't really count as genocide. other events like the trail of tears clearly do
That's only because they didn't have F-16s and Merkava tanks to kill Natives with back then.

>>1976266
Yeah but if they took infrastructure loss seriously they could do more genocide. It feels like they're failing the marshmallow experiment.

>>1976280
>>1975976
> a lot of deaths were from diseases which don't really count as genocide.
Some of the deaths from disease weren't genocide, but a lot were. Settlers showing up carrying smallpox and coofing on indigenous people isn't genocide, but when they knowingly start giving them blankets or whatever that's contaminated by sick people, it is.

>>1976106
Krav Maga turned into a weird, culty thing for suburban strip-mall MA instructors marketing the Deadliest Israeli Fighting Techniques. But I read it's just basic "army combatives" stuff for conscripts that teaches "kick 'em in the balls" (congrats, you now have a black belt in krav maga) with the idea to maybe give a soldier and extra second or two for their friends to kill the guy (with guns). A lot of it is about how to overcome your "twitch reaction" and go into immediate fight mode. But if a lone Israeli cop or soldier is getting jumped by a guy (or several) armed with knives then there's good chance he's fucked anyways.

It's good enough for Israeli troops to cripple a journalist for asking too many questions at their checkpoint or get their ass kicked in a bar fight. Also, keep in mind, Israel runs a military occupation of the West Bank and their soldiers have stomped the shit out of a lot of people over the years.

>>1936613
Partition was necessary, East Bengal was Muslim and never could have remain unified with Hindu zamindar gentry owning industries and lands. Economic cooperation will never happen, BD hates india more than ever

attempting to resurrect this thread to ask what the latest is with the naxalites? apparently they've had some sort of resurgence, but can't find anything other than "x maoist cadres were killed" or "x maoist cadres surrendered citing the hollowness of their ideology"

>>1943687
it's going to be hard finding English language information on a clandestine rural guerilla movement in the Indian subcontinent tbh

What is going on with the BJP
Also it seems like you fags have a first past the post system right?

>>1976144
Theres already a thread anon, it just needs cycling.
>>1541067

One of the most important things to keep in mind when it comes to organizing as an anarchist is that you should be mindful that the Food Not Bombs would feed people in public. They feed people in public, they set up mealtimes, and they say, come to this public location, so that way the city is forced to deal with the fact that there's 8,000 homeless people here looking for a fucking meal, and it brings attention to the contradictions in the system, which is the most important fucking thing to do. So if you're just going out just feeding people, just doing those things without additionally highlighting the contradictions, then you missed a very important step.

>>1976189
Hurray to chinese capitalism with nationalist characteristics!

>>1975650
>Affirmation, negation, and, then, negation of negation.
Didn't Mao deny the negation of negation?

>>1975741
You eternal victim, you

>>1976193
>>1976189
Your butthurt is endless

>>1976225
Butthurt about what? You loving capitalism?

>>1972700
If anything it would be the cities that struggled with electricity if oil is cut, not the rural areas where you can easily get light and wind and rain
Besides the overwhelming percentage of oil consumption is from transportation, not oil. The energy industry already surpassed oil long ago

>>1972700
Caleb is too obsessed with the wrong folks.

>>1976202
Not true. Houston is a city that runs almost entirely on wind and solar while hilariously being car-dependent and having a ton of fossil fuel corpo HQ's. NYC also has some power imported via transmission lines from Canadian hydro power companies. The plurality of its electricity still comes from natural gas, though. The problem of land use can be solved by just building wind and solar farms in the hinterland then transmitting it into the city.

>>1976117
I've seen him a couple times mention how he's come to terms with that bad faith actors exist. Like imo I think Kyle would be a supporter and competent propagandists if a communist party gained real traction.

>>1976224
Also transportation can be moved over to being powered by batteries, with charging stations everywhere. Standardized battery disposal to minimize environmental damage from heavy metal waste would also be great.

EDIT BY MOD: This poster was responding to a comment on >>>/siberia/564893 that read as follows:
>ABC of Anarchism
Embarrasing
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>>565019
Not in my opinion. Marxism-Leninism is a failed ideology and alternatives must be studied.
https://libcom.org/article/abc-anarchism-alexander-berkman

>>1951263
Only picture in the book is the author on last pages.

Marxism-Leninism is a failed ideology with outdated theory. Source:

Bump.
Jannies please cycle.

What's Claudia going to do about the political assasination problem? Maybe make like a Mexican secret service?

>>1951861
Hijo de su basada madre.

Un post excelente y ma da mucho gusto leerlo pero también se me amarga el corazón por la lucha que les toca. Un abrazo cálido camarada. Hasta la victoria!

>>1976012
prolly nothing outside of some bukele-tier shit like anonymizing judges or whatever

Nosotros en /brg/ estamos discutiendo con la moderación de Leftypol la posible creación de una board exclusiva para América Latina. ¿Qué opinas de la idea?

>>1976015
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Why do "communist" countries always have to turn hard authoritarian just to pwn teh porkies? You can't just have a horizontal democratic structure while still defeating capitalism? You HAVE to have a brutal dictator and massive state control for some reason (which ends up retaining capitalist structures anyway, just look at china: socialism in 2 more weeks guise trust the plan!)
It's like supposedly communist countries don't really care about the working class at all since they always seem to do everything they possibly can to strip them of power. It's fine though because billionaires are just "proletarian managers" and bourgeois politicians are just "nomenklatura". The "People's Democratic Republic" is unironically worshipped here despite being one of the most ethnically homogenous countries on Earth and if you dare criticise it you're just accused of being CIA.

>>1976076
>Why do "communist" countries always have to turn hard authoritarian just to pwn teh porkies? You can't just have a horizontal democratic structure while still defeating capitalism? You HAVE to have a brutal dictator and massive state control for some reason (which ends up retaining capitalist structures anyway, just look at china: socialism in 2 more weeks guise trust the plan!)
All successful (i.e. lasting more than like six months) communist revolutions replaced undemocratic societies to begin with, so in a sense this begs the question. They didn't "turn authoritarian" so much as they didn't spontaneously create full-fledged democracy, and even then many of them took steps towards it.

>>1976076
>billionaires
>managers
buddy, under socialism managers are paid a wage, they aren't paid from the profits generated. The most paid in the USSR weren't managers, they were writers and such.