/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Supreme court allows abortion pill mifepristone to continue to be available by mail
The decision came nearly a half hour after the court missed its own 5pm EST deadline. Louisiana has no standing to challenge mail-order abortion, the court found, sending the case back to the fifth circuit. The suit is expected to return to the court on an official appeal, instead of emergency requests from drug manufacturers, in another term.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/supreme-court-mifepristone-abortion-pill-upheld

==Muslim American groups say Republicans are weaponizing congressional hearings=
Muslim ​American groups said congressional hearings that Republican lawmakers cast as aimed at making the U.S. "sharia-free" ‌are being weaponized against Muslim minorities in the United States by stoking fear against them. Republicans, who hold a majority in both chambers of Congress, titled a Wednesday hearing by a House Judiciary Subcommittee as "Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam and ​Sharia Law are Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution." A similar hearing was also held in February.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/muslim-american-groups-say-republicans-are-weaponizing-congressional-hearings-2026-05-15/

Crypto industry scores win as Clarity Act regulation bill clears Senate hurdle
During the hearing, both Republicans and Democrats committed to continue working through areas of disagreement, including how best to ensure bad actors using digital assets can be caught and ethics language to address the issue of elected officials, such as Trump, profiting from crypto.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/clarity-act-congress-crypto-senate.html

DOJ Reportedly Set to Drop Fraud Charges Against Billionaire After He Hired Trump Attorney
The New York Times reported on Thursday that the DOJ—now headed by former Trump attorney Todd Blanche—is working on ending its case against Adani, who waPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Housing ourselves and others: 50 years of the Advisory Service for Squatters
Last October, the Advisory Service for Squatters celebrated its 50th anniversary, though squatting has been around much longer. In October 2024, we published the 15th edition of the famous Squatters Handbook, which had to be more detailed and complex than earlier editions. Squatting used to be a mass movement; a way for almost anyone in need to house themselves or make space for social use, against the domination of buildings by money and power. But after decades of attacks, sacred property values have been gradually restored, patrolled by the law and the increasingly bloated security industry. In 2012, a law was passed to criminalise squatting in empty residential buildings in England and Wales.
https://libcom.org/article/housing-ourselves-and-others-50-years-advisory-service-squatters

Indian communist parties suffer historic defeat: how did we get here?
The April-May state elections were an historic turning point in Indian politics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP conquered West Bengal, while the Left Democratic Front (LDF) lost control of Kerala. For the first time since 1977, not a single Indian state will be led by a communist party. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) – the largest and, in words, the most radical of the two main communist parties – described the results in Kerala as a “serious setback.” This is something of an understatement. The Indian National Congress – the main party of Indian capitalism – won 63 seats. Its allies in the United Democratic Front (UDF) won another 39, giving the UDF 102 of the 140 seats in Kerala’s state assembly. Meanwhile, the vote share for the CPI(M)-led coalition of four parties, including the Communist Party of India (CPI), fell by 12 percent. These results are nothing short of a catastrophe. However, this did not come out of the blue. It is the culmination of decades of decline for India’s communist parties, which have abandoned the ideas and methods of Marx and Lenin in favour of criminal class collaborationism. Let us look at the lessons for the working class and youth today.
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>>2812705
the sandinistas and the kenyan communist party. but you also have larpers like the workers party of britain.

I think collaboration between socialist parties is good but I don't trust the ACP personally, if it goes somewhere that'd be good.

>>2812775
Tbf that Kenyan party is a splinter from what was the more popular one. Sandinistas at least makes sense since the Nicaraguan government is pro-Russia.

>>2811960
I think it's important to have a venue like this to work out disagreements over the most important questions facing communists in the 21st century.

>>2812795
This question was solved years ago, I'm tired of revionists boss

>>2812711
You could have just made a post in USApol for this.

JDPON Don

>>2812711
I don't think so, man. He just fucked up his country in like a year, so the democrats will rule for the next like 8 years

>>2812711
>Is trump america’s hero?
No he's not.
He is America's curse.
>friends with Clinton’s in the 80s
Clinton is also bad you dumbass
>stated he liked Gadaffi
He supported the Invasion but changed his mind after it was unpopular and just so he could use it against Hillary Clinton, if he sincerely believed it was bad then he wouldn't be doing the same type of regime change now.
>democrat until recent times
Democrats also suck
>smart
no he's not he is a fucking dumbass
>suddenly RW and retarded
He always was but I know what you are trying to say
>cartoonishly evil to the point of US collapse
Yeah he is speeding up the collapse of the US empire but he does not have good intentions so you should not venerate him.

>>2808533
No more oligarch controlled than the West, actually. You don't get to claim to have less corruption by legalizing it as lobbying, lol

>>2808530
>25% of brits having less than 200 punds saved
>60% of russians have some sort of savings
still means 15% more of russians compared to bongs do not have any savings at all

mean savings in bongland is 19 000 gbp which is almost exactly 1 900 000 rub. feel free to gloat when half of russians have more money saved

or at least 807 500 rub by ppp (potato purchasing parity)

19000/1.2*51

>>2804242
>>2804246
yeah totally NATO expanded 14 times but definitely doesn't want ukraine, its rich soil, and its trillions of dollars of minerals that lindsey graham keeps drooling over

>>2809709
What is unc doing 💀💀💀

>>2809399
>China is more authoritarian than the US, but less authoritarian than Afghanistan.
ahahahahahahaha hit me up when the PRC does pics related and then I'll agree

Citing from the study:
<A total of 93,642 individuals (3.9 %) had at least one violent conviction. The distribution of convictions was highly skewed; 24,342 persistent violent offenders (1.0 % of the total population) accounted for 63.2 % of all convictions. Persistence in violence was associated with male sex (OR 2.5), personality disorder (OR 2.3), violent crime conviction before age 19 (OR 2.0), drug-related offenses (OR 1.9), nonviolent criminality (OR 1.9), substance use disorder (OR 1.9), and major mental disorder (OR 1.3). […] The majority of violent crimes are perpetrated by a small number of persistent violent offenders, typically males, characterized by early onset of violent criminality, substance abuse, personality disorders, and nonviolent criminality.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3969807/
So its not that 1% is responsible for ALL crime, but that repeat violent offenders make up around 63% of the prison population, whioe at least 4% of the public have one case of violent offense. So then, some people are petty criminals (~4%), while lifetime criminals are a completely destructive force and total minority (1%). As far as I know, this correlates with the number of sociopaths (4%) and psychopaths (1%).

>>2812323
Apparently that Henry Earl guy passed away and was actually well liked.
https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article288709755.html

>>2812344
According to the article, most of his crimes were misdemeanors related to his homelessness, such as alcohol intoxication. If he was a repeat violent offender, he would definitely serve more time than 16 years in total. So, he would be in the ~35% of prison populations.

Stay mad, So Sad!

Ay first I thought this was about Argentina. But this is amazing. Beautiful, really. 💯

>>2811691
What is the point of this thread?
go back to reddit.

>>2811975
>what Bordigists actually do
…post on reddit?

I cant speak Italian so I read only translations of his work, but I would consider his prose the best of all big marxist writers.

>>2811975
Can someone explain to me this fetish many communist splinter groups have with 100 year old technology of propaganda, like leaflets and newspapers?

>>2812021
Having presence in actually physical space is extremely important for socialist orgs. Couple dozens members concentrated in your local area gives organisation far more political push than thousands scattered across entire coutry. Also you shouldnt rely on social media presence too much, as it can be taken from you on a whim.

>>2812005
No they split over the working with a union that one group within the party didn't like

If Bolsheviks own me how come Stalin kill em all?

>>2807125
>This place has deteriorated
people are just tired of correcting the same repeat misconception hundreds of times from the same few trolls

>>2807870
the trolls outnumber the sincere anons and you know it. and being tired is no excuse to stoop to their level.

>>2808020
>being tired is no excuse to stoop to their level
thats why people just stop posting and leave

Senate fails to curb Trump’s war on Iran even as Republican opposition grows
The war powers resolution proposed by Jeff Merkley, a Democratic senator from Oregon, failed in a 49-50 vote. All Democrats with the exception of John Fetterman of Pennsylvania supported its advancement. Since the conflict began in February, Democrats have repeatedly offered such resolutions, without success. But for the first time on Wednesday, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski voted in favor, joining fellow Republicans Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine. All other Republicans in attendance voted against it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/trump-iran-senate-war-powers

Democrats bypass Mike Johnson on Ukraine aid with GOP help
This is the eighth time in the last three years that a discharge petition has been used by some combination of Democrats and Republicans to do an end-run around GOP leadership. Just in the 119th Congress, lawmakers have succeeded in garnering the necessary 218 signatures to force votes on a half dozen bills covering everything from proxy voting in the House to releasing the Epstein files to extending Affordable Care Act tax credits.
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/13/ukraine-aid-discharge-petition-mike-johnson-kiley
https://archive.ph/tb3IL

House Progressives Demand Pentagon Answer for Alleged Abuse in US-Ecuador Operation
Backed by anti-war and human rights organizations, 20 “deeply concerned” progressives in the US House of Representatives sent a letter to the Pentagon on Wednesday demanding answers about “reports of serious human rights violations and the bombing of what appear to have been civilian facilities during joint US-Ecuador military operations conducted in northern Ecuador.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ecuador-us-troops

REI union workers call for boycott of co-op’s biggest annual sale
The workers recently approved a decision to call for Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Wartime Iran’s Political Transformation
For seven weeks, American and Israeli air power dominated Iranian skies. High-altitude surveillance, precision strikes on military infrastructure and apartment buildings in Tehran, and near-uncontested flight paths defined the opening phase of the conflict. Iran absorbed the blows and responded not with the guerrilla tactics of Baghdad’s roads but with long-range missiles, mass-produced drones, and a defensive posture that held the line. In the final days before the ceasefire, an F-15 and an A10-warthog were downed by optical tracking systems. Whether this was a replicable technical achievement or a fortunate anomaly remains to be seen. What was not ambiguous, however, was the fact that Iran was able to close off the Strait of Hormuz to maritime traffic. In response, global energy markets convulsed. The war had become a world event. Politics also shifted in Iran. Just a few months ago, in January, the main question there was economic. Inflation. Housing. The price of food. The Masoud Pezeshkian government’s austerity package had hollowed out household budgets and sent tens of thousands into the streets. Today the question is imperial. The war has not erased material suffering — it has reframed it. The choice presented to every Iranian is no longer about fiscal policy or subsidy reform. It is about sovereignty versus incorporation into an imperial order that already governs much of the region. Donald Trump’s ill-advised war has revealed Iran as a unique formation in modern history: a neoliberal anti-imperialist state. Austerity at home, resistance abroad. On paper, a contradiction, in practice, the state’s operating logic. This is why Iran oscillates between protests against austerity and displays of national solidarity — sometimes within the same month.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/starmer-toast-stop-farage-now-britains-left-wing-forces-must-unite

Starmer is toast. To stop Farage now, Britain's left-wing forces must unite
The architects of New Labour have eviscerated the Labour Party twice, once when former Prime Minister Tony Blair took Britain into the Iraq War in 2003, and now under the leadership of Keir Starmer. Unlike other Labour crises - such as the short-lived rebellion ofPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Man its been like 9 years of news anon
Thank you for your service