/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Labor activist takes on Teamsters leader allying with Trump: ‘He doesn’t represent the workers’
His bid to lead Local 623 came up short in 2016. But in 2020, the married father of four became the first Black man to ever lead the union, which represents workers at companies including UPS and Greyhound. Now Hooker is running to replace O’Brien at the top of one of the most influential unions in the US, due to frustrations over his decision to align with Trump, the 2023 UPS contract as UPS recently reported cutting 48,000 jobs, and allegations of intimidation against criticizing O’Brien’s administration.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/teamsters-union-leadership-trump

Protesters rally in San Francisco over detention of British journalist Sami Hamdi
Hamdi, a reporter and political commentator, was detained on Sunday at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) as he was preparing to fly to Florida for a speaking engagement. He had been on a US speaking tour when authorities transferred him to a detention facility in southern California.
https://www.newarab.com/news/protesters-rally-san-francisco-over-detention-sami-hamdi

Poll shows Zohran Mamdani's lead in NYC mayoral race narrowing during final weekend of early voting
Meanwhile, a new poll shows the frontrunner's lead could be narrowing. The Atlas poll, which survey over 1,500 people through Oct. 30, shows Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani with 40% of the vote, independent candidate Andrew Cuomo at 34% and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa at 24%.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-mayors-race-latest-poll-early-voting/

Michigan lawyer says a Halloween terror plot that FBI Director Kash Patel described never existed
The group allegedly discussed carrying out an attack around Halloween, referring to “pumpkin day,” according to one of the people. The other person briefed on the investigation confirmed that there had been a “pumpkin” reference. HoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Liberal Capitalism’s Long Authoritarian Streak
We’re coming up, in two years, on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Albert Hirschman’s The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph. Some of you may know of Hirschman as one of the main characters in that not-so-good, pulpy Netflix series Transatlantic, which depicts the efforts of Hirschman and others to rescue European Jewish intellectuals from the Nazis in France. If you’re a political scientist or sociologist, you may know of Hirschman for his book Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. If you’re a theorist, you may know his Rhetoric of Reaction. If you’re an economist or a Latin Americanist, you might know of his work in development economics. But, for me, Hirschman will always be the author of The Passions and the Interests. Its main thesis is that early-modern writers, from Machiavelli to David Hume, saw in the idea of interests — initially understood as a reasoned form of passion, later as a strictly economic pursuit of money and material well-being — as a counter to dangerous forms of political passion: glory, heroism, virtue, excessive civic-mindedness. It’s a wonderful little book, which in many ways has inspired some of the counterarguments that I am making in my book King Capital. But there’s a little-noticed element in Hirschman’s book, which I only just stumbled upon in a recent rereading. Given when the book was written, in 1977, and given Hirschman’s extensive involvement in Latin American politics and economics and his many efforts to save Latin American Marxists and leftists who were being threatened by right-wing goons and governments in the 1970s, that subplot seems worth mentioning.
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/liberal-capitalism-authoritarianism-neoliberalism-hirschman

Amazon Web Services crash: who owns the internet?
In the early hours of 20 October, a simple error disrupted the operations of a data centre hub for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Northern Virginia. The ripple effect over the next few hours caused global outages to services as diverse as banking and real-time trading, tools for office management, social media, and even advanced manufacturing. In all, a total of 2,000 large companies were impacted, including a number of BrPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Everybody dies, none of this matters

>>2494784
It just gets funnier everytime.
Only way it could've been better was if it was Musk or something instead of some trash grifter podcast guy

>>2475609
With a head like that I’m surprised they missed

>>2496495
>I think most of the anger of the right comes more from like "hey if the "moderate" guy is getting shot at, they would def shoot our asses".
yeah every political influencer was shitting bricks because they really thought the american years of lead were upon them and nazi influencers would be the first thing on the menu. hell, even some LEFTWING influencers like Hasan were shitting themselves

>>2499154
I have another trauma and trigger now. You need to apologize for this. Seriously, don't post any more shock content.

>>2532842
I'm gonna be dogmatically anti-dogmatic.

>>2545079
Go cry about immigration like in that other thread, kek

>>2545136
Actually I was the person telling the nativist they deserve to die

>>2545079
the fact that china would constantly threaten to invade the USSR is insane. how do MLoids cope with this fact.

>>2545079
>“pragmatic” (opportunistic)
real gomunism haz never bean tired

>>2544763
What's the reason I wonder

>>2544809
It’s a framing that works great for the reactionaries and there’s not really a unified pushback.

>>2544797
rare Alunya. Ssaved.

>>2544549
lol true

>>2544319
Handed out some candy to kids.

Starbucks workers hold strike vote amid anger over pay and conditions
Butit has yet to obtain a contract. Starbucks Workers United claims company management started to “majorly stonewall” the union; Starbucks claims the union walked away from the bargaining table. A strike authorization vote called by Starbucks Workers United began last Friday, 24 October, and will continue until Sunday 2 November. About 70 pickets have been planned in 60 cities across the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/31/starbucks-workers-strike-vote

Trump administration ordered to fund SNAP benefits during government shutdown
Roughly 42 million Americans are set to lose their supplemental food benefits Saturday — and it's unclear if Friday's ruling will be enacted fast enough to guarantee recipients get their money in time. Judge John James McConnell Jr. ruled Friday that the administration must fund SNAP, and asked for progress report by Monday, according to news reports.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/snap-hearing-massachusetts-state-lawsuit-trump
https://archive.ph/8Kou7

Tennessee officials drop charges against man jailed over Charlie Kirk meme
Whereas many people across the US lost their jobs over social media comments about Kirk’s death, Larry Bushart’s case stood out as one of the few instances where such online speech has led to criminal prosecution. His arrest – on a charge of threatening mass violence at a school – alarmed free speech advocates, who said the Perry county sheriff, Nick Weems, had targeted Bushart because of his political views. Bushart was released on Wednesday after prosecutors sought to dismiss the charge.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/31/tennessee-man-jailed-charlie-kirk-meme

Senate report details dozens of cases of medical neglect in federal immigration detention centers
The report released by Sen. Jon OssoffPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Sudanese Communist Party: Statement on the Massacres by Rapid Support Forces in Bara and El Fasher
Our Party stands clearly and decisively against the horrifying massacres being committed against civilians in the cities of El Fasher and Bara, as well as in other areas of Kordofan and Darfur; a stance that does not accept ambiguity or justification. The Rapid Support Forces continue to perpetrate systematic violence against unarmed civilians: field executions, arbitrary arrests, looting and destruction of property, mass displacement, and forcing residents to flee… and more, as documented and confirmed by reports from the United Nations, human rights organizations, and the media. This hellish, systematic violence is the result of all the wars our country has endured, marked by barbarity and the failure to bring perpetrators to justice. Impunity has never been an exception; rather, it is a central reason for the recurrence of these crimes. The ongoing absence of accountability has recreated an environment that allows the return of war crimes and genocide against the populations of cities and villages as soon as the regime's forces retreat, as seen in Bara and El Fasher.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/10/sudanese-communist-party-statement-on-massacres-by-rapid-support-forces-in-bara-and-el-fasher.html

Jeffrey Epstein and the Mossad: How The Sex-Trafficker Helped Israel Build a Backchannel to Russia Amid Syrian Civil War
Despite securing a sit-down with Putin in the summer of 2013, they did not succeed in convincing Russia to support Assad’s ouster, but their negotiations set the stage for U.S.-Russia cooperation on disarmament of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal a few months later. Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., wrote in his memoir that Israel’s diplomatic leadership was told to “avoid being perceived as a player” in Syria. Clandestine actors sought to shape agendas in Moscow and Washington, while Israeli officials denied involvement and used the media to legitimize “red lines” for air strikes inside Syria. After their failed attempt to remove Assad, Barak and Epstein sought to leverage the Russian channel again in 2015, as Barak pushed for U.S. strikes on Iran and rejPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thanks News Anon

>>2540498
Sorry I don't speak tetris font, so I don't quite get the point even with the bit you translated. Average unemployment percentage higher than youth unemployment percentage? Or number of all unemployed higher than number of people within young age range in the population (regardless of their employment status) or what?

>>2540897
The percentage of the youth that are unemployed in the EU countries

get a load of this nonsense
>Anarchism is a revolutionary theory for the destruction of any power
>Authority/power is the ability to make decisions and to oblige others to follow them
>This goal is to be realized by Social revolution, undertaken by the oppressed classes
>A class is a relatively stable group of people of similar economic and social characteristics and interests
>Anarchism is liberation
>Anarchism means social order based on free and voluntary labor
>Property is a social relation between those who have and does don’t, backed by the armed force of the state and the laws. Proudhon calls it theft. It is different from the right of personal use of an object that society grants to its members and that can be terminated

Okay, so how does this last thing happen? How does society terminate your right to an object? Isn't anarchism 'the revolutionary theory for destruction of any power'? Isn't power the ability used to oblige others to do things? How does society have this power if not organized as a state?

It's this retarded nonsense that makes anarchists and anarchocommunists our greatest enemies. They muddle the water, repeat Proudhonian nonsense (theft? theft from whom?) and cling onto lofty liberatory phrases without actually doing anything. They can't even manage to define a class correctly. I think you should kill yourself, OP. And tell your anarchocommunist Bulgars to shower and shave. Jesus.

>>2541123
You still think a state just boils down to violence of "one class over another" lol, kill yourself retard.

>>2541106
I don't understand this. The rate of youth unemployment is almost always and everywhere higher than rate of unemployment for the working-age population as a whole. And he denies this?

>>2543597
>Later you find out that she’s actually working for some “Dark Druids”
Nibbuh! Spoilers! Games kinda over-rated but still.

>>2543602
Mushrimir Shroomin will awake from his slumber soon……
#MUSHBOLGANG

did anyone realize that xi absolutely killed trump in those negotiations. he just bought some soybeans and got tarrifs eased up on him

>>2542926
at 10% inflation, $2.20 the first year, $2 the second year, $1.80 the third year, and so on for a total of 18 1/3 years and you end up with a real price of $18.75 which isn't bad for deferring payment for more than 18 years.

>>2543623
We should appropriate soy and make it a symbol of leftist victory then. This trade victory China clearly marks the supremacy of China and therefore socialism on the world stage.

They relocated 200 tons from the UK to India.

This is probably leading to WWIII

Katamari-PRC will simply absorb it in due time

>>2543109
A takeover by means of economic pressure would be a much better option. At most, some grey area actions with coast guard ships to disrupt trade.

>>2531457
>Just because everything turns to shit will not make everyone magically turn to communism it is just as if not more likely they'll just turn to right-wing extremism instead.
Some anon here once said "It's socialism or barbarism not socialism after barbarism" and I think that's beautiful

>>2531449
>When will China invade and or annex Taiwan?
When China is ready to face USA military. I would say 2035.
>And if so are they justified in doing so?
Kinda because Taiwan has always been part of China and its ruled by Chinese nationalists. Its a separatist region. Its close to North Korea-South Korea situation where country is split up. Would USA invade Alaska if it became independent?

>>2531449
Not many people know, but "Two Systems, One Country" was first suggested in 1979 for Taiwan. If we assume that it would give Taiwan 50 years of autonomy before it becomes a regular province, then the time is supposed to run out in 2029.