/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Senate Democrats reportedly reach deal to avert partial government shutdown
The deal, if confirmed, would avert a partial shutdown that would have affected many of the governments function. However, it would not stop a temporary lapse in funding for DHS, because any changes to the DHS funding bill would have to be approved by the House of Representatives, which is out of session until Monday. The impact of such a lapse was not immediately clear.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/senate-democrats-deal-dhs-funding-bill

Patel defends FBI raid as Georgia officials demand answers
Local officials vehemently objected to the search, saying it amounts to retaliation by President Trump's allies over his 2020 election loss and subsequent election interference case. The search came months after the five-year statute of limitations for federal crimes expired in late 2025. Patel dismissed the concern in comments a day after the search, saying it was conducted in a "timely fashion legally."
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/29/kash-patel-fbi-georgia-fulton-county-raid-ballots
https://archive.ph/BofJC

Layoffs are piling up, heightening worker anxiety. Here are the biggest recent cuts
On Tuesday, United Parcel Service said it plans to cut up to 30,000 operational jobs this year — notably as the package company continues to reduce the number of Amazon shipments it handles amid wider turnaround efforts. UPS said these cuts will be made through a voluntary buyout offer for full-time drivers and attrition. The reductions come on top of a combined 48,000 job cuts that the company disclosed in 2025. Late last year, Tyson Foods said it would be closing a plant that employed 3,200 people in Lexington, Nebraska — bringing job losses for nearly a third of the small town's population of 11,000.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/layoffs-piling-heightening-worker-Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tybna

If Cuba falls, the Global South is to blame, too
On Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump had a good laugh with members of the press in the US state of Iowa as he issued a rather serious decree regarding the short-term future of Cuba: “Cuba will be failing pretty soon. Cuba is really a nation that’s very close to failing.” To be sure, this is not the first time that Trump has predicted the downfall of the Caribbean island nation, which the US has effectively been trying to destroy for no fewer than 67 years – ever since the triumph in 1959 of Cuba’s communist revolution that overthrew the brutal right-wing dictator and US buddy Fulgencio Batista. This time around, however, the threat carries a bit more weight in light of the Trump administration’s abduction earlier this month of Nicolas Maduro, the leftist president of Venezuela. To date, the US has not been held accountable for this utterly illegal and patently batty act, which Trump on Tuesday invoked as alleged proof of Cuba’s impending demise: “You know, they got their money from Venezuela. They got the oil from Venezuela. They are not getting that any more.” One would hope, then, that other countries – particularly the self-declared allies of Cuba – might step up to defend the island against US predations or at least credibly register their opposition to imperial impunity. Instead, all Cuba has really gotten are some perfunctory professions of support – such as from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who, like her ostensibly leftist predecessor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has perfected the art of pretending to counter US machinations while doing exactly what the gringos want.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/29/if-cuba-falls-the-global-south-is-to-blame-too

Brutal austerity and unprecedented strike wave shatters Belgian social model
The bosses’ organisation, Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB), dubbed it the “€1 billion strike”. They were referring to the supposed financial loss caused by the three-day strike on 24, 25, and 26 November. This bosses’ propaganda, aimed at frightening workers, instead resulted in many people thinking: “Wow, is this the wealth that our work produces in just three days? And what would happen if the CEOs and shareholders stopped Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2671087
The dates you've raised are all very close, it's grasping at straws to suggest that quote from Trump is not representative of the US side in weeks or perhaps even months of negotiations with Russia.

>>2671145
it could be two days apart. it doesn't mean anything. you're just assuming trump offered them "energy ceasefire from ukraine + no useless sanctions" as opposed to just "energy ceasefire from ukraine." no useless sanctions is not enough to remove the abject cuckoldry of

https://www.rt.com/russia/614918-kiev-cannot-control-military-kremlin/
>The Kremlin then said that it intended to maintain the 30-day partial ceasefire as a gesture of goodwill [LOL!] to Washington, even if Kiev fails to honor it.

I'm so bored with your dumb sanctions argument that…… as a gesture of goodwill he he…… I'd like to make it stronger by proposing that instead of getting no toothless sanctions, russia got something like goodwill domestically or among the global south or some such…… this is why I miss intbrig… he would've gone for that instead of your lame pumping up of toothless sanctions

>>2671150
The fact you're continually trying to refocus this on how mid you think the actual deal was demonstrates you know how little water your coping about dates holds.

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New thread

>>2670453
i wish i was you tbh, i still want to go out with some weeb girl we met through tinder and at shopping, we seem both to like sociology and we like eachothee, althrough she works from monday to saturday for 8 hours each day, so she will never have a free time for us or me

>>2670520
>I can't date a girl because she has a full time job
Bro wat. So do most people. Just hang out after work.

>>2670523
nah she works at a shopping and i do not like much closed spaces
nevertheless we once meet at interval of her full time work once.

So future socialist society won't have cigs because they're bad for you, how about sugar, alcohol, plastic, TV, cars, should we become Amish.

>>2670653
>future socialist society won't have cigs
Correct.
>sugar
Sweeteners, they are more efficient and healthy.
>alcohol
Correct, there won't be alcohol, or will be heavily discouraged.
>plastics
Petroleum-based plastics probably will dissappear in favour of healthier and better materials. It might not dissappear from all places but at least it will from places that harm people.
>TV
It is already falling out of favour by itself among younger generations. It will probably be replaced by IPTV and streaming (or downloading) services.
>cars
Public transit (buses, trams, trains, airplanes) will be prefered and prioritized but people will be able to afford a car for travelling to remote areas or in emergency situations or call a taxi.
>should we become Amish
Wrong. The luddite Amish way of life will perish.

Indication That Alex Pretti Was Known to Federal Agents Raises New Questions Over Protester ‘Database’
CNN reported Tuesday that Pretti, the Minneapolis nurse who was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents while acting as a legal observer and trying to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed by one officer, was known to federal officers before his killing last weekend. About a week earlier, he had been tackled by a group of agents who broke his rib when he was protesting the detention of a community member.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/protest-database

Officers confront protesters at Texas facility as lawmaker visits father, son detained in Minnesota
As protesters moved closer to the facility in the small town of Dilley, Texas state police officers arrived on a school bus and shouted instructions for the crowd to move back. Some of the officers then deployed pepper balls, dispersing the crowd. Castro later posted a picture on social media of his visit with 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-crockett-ice-5yearold-minneapolis-27d8a75f2e51a18d97933b5ae99adf10

‘Do Your Job!’: Protesters Gather Outside Walz’s Office to Demand Criminal Charges for Trump’s Killer Agents
“We are demanding that they bring charges against the killer officers,” said Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for Minnesota, which organized the protest. “We want the identity of the officers. We know the federal government is not investigating. They are lying to the American people. They are denying us justice. It is time for the state to do their job.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/tim-walz-ice-protest

Alabama inmate activists from an Oscar-nominated film are moved to solitary, attorneys say
Sledd said she has been able to talk to Poole once since the transfer and he told her the men are being held in separate cells on an isolated and closely guardePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tybna

The ACLU Wants to Shrink Workers’ Speech Protections
Back in 2024, I wrote about a curious case at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in which the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was pursuing exotic legal theories that would, if adopted by the NLRB or courts, curtail the rights of workers across the country. This included the theory that the then–general counsel of the NLRB, Jennifer Abruzzo, was illegally appointed and the theory that the NLRB must defer to private arbitration proceedings even in the absence of a collective-bargaining agreement. The former theory would have invalidated a large amount of precedent established by General Counsel Abruzzo, while the latter theory would have allowed employers to limit the rights of workers to pursue unfair labor practice charges at the NLRB. The ACLU was pursuing these theories as part of a scorched-earth effort to not provide back pay and reinstatement to one of its former employees, Katherine Oh. Oh, along with her coworkers, had criticized the way certain managers treated employees and the ACLU fired her in response to those criticisms. In firing her, the ACLU claimed that Oh, who is herself nonwhite, was being racist by criticizing her likewise nonwhite bosses even though her statements contained no racial content at all. Both a private arbitrator and an NLRB administrative law judge (ALJ) have since ruled in favor of Oh and against the ACLU. The arbitrator ruled that, in firing Oh, the ACLU had violated its own just-cause termination policy, while the ALJ ruled that, in firing Oh, the ACLU had violated Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act. Despite losing in both forums, the ACLU still has not reinstated or compensated Oh. Instead, they have opted to keep litigating against their former employee by appealing decisions and contesting remedy calculations.
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/aclu-speech-protections-labor-nlrb

Anti-Communism in Iran: From the Pahlavi Dynasty to the Islamic Republic
In modern Iranian history, anti-communism has never been an accident or a mere ideological reflex. It has been a permanent weapon of bourgeois state power. Across regimes that appeared to stand at opposite ideological poles — the pro-Western, secular monarchy of the Pahlavi dynasty and the theocratic ordPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

tybna

>>2669201
Reminds me of this Adam Friedland Show bit

>>2669201
Will a future socialist USA deport Gusanos?

>>2669589
even if you don't like how it sounds, it is ostensibly true

>>2669201
>That vid
Please say sike

umm sweatie it's the people's stock market

>>2668757
i mean you do kinda have to make the infrastructure for foreign capitalists to invest or you dont have the foundation for them to give you their patents

>>2670043
> In China, workers use Communist Stock market to exploit foreign capitalists.
thats what i said lol

>>2668657
Wrong. In China, workers use Communist Stock market to exploit foreign capitalists. Communist Stock Market serves Communism without regard to law of surplus-value, as sanctified by Article 1 of Securities Law of the People's Republic of China, because the law of surplus-value is abolished in China.
>Article 1 This Law is enacted in order to standardize the issuance and transaction of securities, protect the legitimate rights and interests of investors, maintain the socioeconomic order and public interests of society and promote the development of the socialist market economy. 
Communist security law differentiates bourgeois investors from proletarian investors, upholding domination of proletarian investors over foreign bourgeois investors.
>Article 89 Investors may be divided into ordinary investors and professional investors on the basis of their asset status, financial assets, investment knowledge and experiences and professional capacity. The criteria for professional investors shall be specified by the securities regulatory authority under the State Council. Where an ordinary investor has a dispute with a securities company, the securities company shall prove that it has acted in compliance with the laws, administrative regulations and the regulations of securities regulatory authority under the State Council and has in no circumstances misled or cheated the investor. Where the securities company is unable to prove the above, it shall bear the corresponding compensatory liability. 

>>2666555
I see that Marxists are still pissed off that the steady state model was deboonked. Are you a Trot by chance?

>>2667431
>PHILOSOPHY IS A FAKE RELIGIOTARD SUPERSTITION LEARN SOYENCE
>Umm academic economics? Yeah that's actually fake spooky bourgeois myth listen to this 19th century German philosopher talking about dialectics instead.
You can't have it both ways man. You can't simultaneously attack Wittgeinstinian, lib approach to "'trust the data" as fake bourgeois science and then insist that is philosophy is fake and gay

>>2658664
>to replace what was before [UNKNOWN NAME CENSORED TODAY]
Steady state model of the universe? That just makes no sense under modern observations
>This is obvious christian propaganda to introduce god.
Christianity is beyond dead if you are not an African child or an American boomer with 5 million dollars in housing. That's why liberation theology is a thing. Religion is no longer important enough so it has to be spliced with something else, be it utopian leftism as in liberation theology, ultrareactionary bootlicking of capital and Israel as in protestantism today, vulgar anti-imperialism as in Iranian shiite islam, or nationalism as in hindutva. Religion used to be a real thing that determined every sphere of life from how you dressed to how banking operates. It isn't anymore. No one cares about god and everyone who says otherwise is a larper, they would actually care about god and not about retarded culture war causes otherwise

>>2667467
half the time they reject dialectics too

>>2667974
Trade union cannot do anything beyond trade unionism. They have content: trade union content.
I am talking about communism. That unfortunately does not exist in south africa.

>>2667985
Numsa is an explicitly Marxist Leninist trade union with a Marxist Leninist Party

Is the state going to finally succeed in burying malema?
>>2668014
just filter him by name.

>>2668014
He wants proles praying to the Russian flag

>>2667652
White Supremacist Dengism is the only Solution. Blacks are too stupid to understand macroeconomics and all general populases are too stupid for the 1 man 1 vote. 1 Party Authoritarian Market Socialist State.Let the Chinese and Whites Run the country Whilst giving gibs to the blacks, with indians and coloreds being middle management (already what's happening except everyone complains). Not Crazy separatism laws though, more like Rhodesia. Everyone will be happier in the end.

>>2669924
is this how like 'socialism' once meant modern, progress, roads, electrical power plants, for some post-colonial nationalists. Only now they belive modernity is capitalism. So they can have capitalism with mindfulness.

>>2669941
The “insurgent” MLMs are the Nepalis that got ethnically cleansed in the middle of the 20th century

If you meditate long enough you bend capital to your whim

>>2669949
Capital puts meditation into a pretty box and sells it to you.

>>2669961
As if the oriental mode of production didn’t also do this

>>2657820
trvke

>>2658036
>It was a pretty flimsy pretext
i guess it seem that way to someone whos biggest expenses are probably fast food video games and porn
>>2658040
hey remember when you stole a tweet and posted it here word for word and then deleted it f@ggot

Doug Lain and Chris Cutrone on Iran

>>2649299
truuuuuuu

>>2649299
Truke