/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Turkish Sikorsky army helicopter shot down at Girê Bahar
On 16 July at 1:35 a.m., the People's Defense Forces (HPG) shot down another Turkish Sikorsky army helicopter at Girê Bahar in the western Zap region of "Şehîd Delîl." The action was confirmed by the HPG Press Center that released a preliminary statement.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/turkish-sikorsky-army-helicopter-shot-down-at-gire-bahar-74327

Turkey 'threatens' Israel with legal action after army uses Gaza hospital as base
"The photo in the Palestinian press showing a group of Israeli soldiers in front of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza is further evidence of Israel's violation of international law and international humanitarian law," Turkey's foreign affairs ministry said in a statement.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-threatens-israel-after-army-uses-gaza-hospital-base

Far-right Israeli groups attacking Gaza aid received over $200,000 from donors
Donations to the groups have poured in on Givechack, an Israeli crowdfunding site, and JGive, a US and Israeli crowdfunding site, according to a report by the Associated Press and the Israeli investigative site, Shomrim, based on open source inspections of the websites and other public records.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-groups-attacking-gaza-aid-receive-tax-deductable-donations-us-and-israel-report

Colombia’s Supreme Court removes magistrates from corruption probe after leak
The video that was leaked to Caracol contained the testimony that former UNGRD director Olmedo Lopez gave to magistrate Hector Alarcon about the alleged involvement of House Representative Wadith Mazur (Conservative Party) in the corruption scandal.
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<The United Federated Forces of the Symbionese Liberation Army (commonly referred to simply as the SLA) was a small, American militant far-left organization active between 1973 and 1975; it claimed to be a vanguard movement. The FBI and wider American law enforcement considered the SLA to be the first terrorist organization to rise from the American left. Six members died in a May 1974 shootout with police in Los Angeles. The three surviving fugitives recruited new members, but nearly all of them were apprehended in 1975 and prosecuted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army
what is everyones opinions on the SLA? based, cringe, or neither?

Latest polling is picrel. Two communist parties at ~12% each. What are the implications of implications? Also: lol at the single white dude ("center" right, ofc).

Israel says Eilat Port ‘bankrupt’ after months Houthi naval blockade
“It must be acknowledged that the port is in a state of bankruptcy,” explained the CEO of Eilat Port, Gideon Golber. “Only one ship has come here in recent months. The Yemenis have effectively shut off access to the port.”
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240716-israel-says-eilat-port-bankrupt-after-months-houthi-naval-blockade/

Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators block key highway after IDF announces new draft plans
Under American pressure, Israel has pledged to deliver large quantities of humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. But at the same time, the U.S. and Israel have allowed tax-deductible donations to far-right groups that have blocked that aid from being delivered.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ultra-orthodox-demonstrators-block-key-highway-after-idf-announces-new-draft-plans/
https://archive.is/ukXmk

H*T*S disperses protests in Idlib | People go out on protests in 12 areas in solidarity with Binish
Protests took place in Idlib, Kafr Takharim, Armanaz, Qorqinya, Kafrouma Camps, Has Camps, Abin Sama’an, Al-Sahara, western Atma Camps, Al-Atareb, Deir Hassan and Al-Fawa’a in solidarity with Binish and the woman that was run over by a security member of HTS.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/338987/
https://archive.is/STxtR

Iraqi tribes support the PKK against Turkish occupation
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‘Doing something’ is such a stupid slogan, and one that could only arise on the internet. If you told a meeting of striking rail workers that you weren’t planning to help them but were at least doing ‘something’, you’d get laughed out of the room

Childhood is to think Christianity destroyed the World. Adulthood is to realize the dominant classses will always use religion as a tool regardless of their context, and that Christianity was actually progressive in his early context, since It was a "religion of women and slaves." I still dislike the homophobia and the exclusiveness of God but now i realized how silly i was when i thought Christianity was the reason of the World (and particularly my country and Latin America generally) to suck

So, been reading this for a while now, and gotta say this book really puts things into perspective. All those Bukharins, Kamenevs, Zinovievs, Trotskys, all of them started their treacherous ways as far back as 1917, or even earlier. In retrospect, those people are obvious. They were bosses who were outraged that workers and peasants ditched them for Lenin and Stalin

Like, there's a comparison in the book between two insurrections, one in Petrograd and one in Moscow. In Petrograd, Lenin and Party's center, including Stalin, got their way, and made a bloodless insurrection that saw all bridges taken, all government buildings seized, counter-revolutionaries (social-revolutionaries and mensheviks as well as cadets they were covering for) isolated, no armistices, no negotiations, no nothing, just pure overthrow of power and seizure of it in favor of Soviets. Whenever any trade union or organization objected, Bolsheviks sent delegates to their rank and file, and their bosses screeched in outrage that Bolshevik were so easily stealing their voters and supporters away

In Moscow, since Bolshevik organization there was infested with "future traitors", insurrection came to bloody street fights all over Moscow, with cadets managing to lie their way into seizing Kremlin with arms inside and disarming soldiers there - only for cadets and officers to shoot disarmed soldiers against the wall, without any fucking mercy, while socdems (SRs and mensheviks) were preaching for armistice, reconciliation and shit like that to Bolsheviks. Bolsheviks in Moscow themselves were buying into ALL AND EVERY negotiations bait; from the get go they organized a joint revolutionary military committee with Mensheviks, and even Bolshevik delegates were constantly trying to cheat rank and file of Bolshevik party and negotiate some nonsense. As a result, streets of Moscow ran red, and if Revolution wasn't successful elsewhere, Petrograd and all around, Moscow would have been lost to counter-revolutionaries

And it was fucking telling that "future traitors" were bundled in Moscow like this. Lenin called it vaccilations in the party, those people were described as defeatists, compromisers, cowards, whatever else, because they sabotaged under any possible pretext the victory of the Revolution.

Kamenev and Zinoviev, for example, under the pretext of "government is too strong, workers will all die if we do insurrection right now, we must instead wait and wait and Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

How do we keep the vitriolic losers out of leftism? It seems that leftism draws almost as much of these types as rightism.

These people will never accomplish anything and certainly will never gain mass support.

Hello, ask a Kashmiri leftist who lives in Kashmir anything from culture to politics and history of socialism in kashmir

It’s a problem. There is no evidence or information that’s come out in the past twenty years that the rapid accumulation of global debt by the rise of central and local banks isn’t a raging headache for literally all governments and workers to put up with. But why is debt such a problem? Well, currently most governments are introducing harsh austerity policies, privatization of essential services like healthcare and education, and free trade in markets that can’t handle the competition. What people are dealing with worldwide in response is a drastic increase in financial (and by extent societal) level instability, hyper competitiveness, mass inequality, and bleak job prospects. It doesn’t matter what part of the world you live in; you have seen at least two of these problems come up in your life. Additionally, as the global debt crisis worsens, these problems will pile up and exacerbate in response. But why has debt so bad?
The answer lies in neocolonialism. Too many economies (including the USA) rely heavily on exporting resources and importing most of their manufactured goods off either industrialized economies, or economies that don’t have the industrial capacity to provide reliable goods. These products are unsurprisingly expensive as shit, because of the transport and production costs associated with them. Additionally, the lack of domestic competiton encourages all industrial capitalists to charge unrealistic sums of money for each of their exports, because there is no working class level revolt or market competition present to stop this. As a result, governments today (that haven’t done what Nigeria just did) are pressured to spend massive sums of taxpayer money on subsidizing imports to reduce the costs of everything citizens need to prevent dissent, anger, and possible revolution. This inevitably for many developing economies requires a shitload of inflation and speculation to convince investors that pouring money into These unsustainable practices isn’t unsustainable. Putting all this shit together, most countries today now end up with a shitload of debt they’re struggling to pay for. Unfortunately, there isn’t much that can be done about this issue except forcing domestic industrialization, harsh austerity, raising interest rates, and cutting back on loans permanently until every country that was hit by these crises becomes a functional autarky in the industries that matter most to the inhabitants (agriculture, energy, and essential manuPost too long. Click here to view the full text.