/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Senate votes down resolution to prevent Trump from continuing war with Iran
The 47-53 vote on a war powers resolution introduced by Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine broke largely along party lines. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the sole Democrat to vote against the measure, while Rand Paul of Kentucky was the only member of the Republican majority to support the resolution.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/us-israeli-iran-war-senate-vote-congress-prevent-trump

Record Numbers of US Workers Are Raiding Their 401(k)s in Trump Economy
Even as President Donald Trump has declared that the US is in a “golden age” with the “greatest” economy on record, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that a record number of US workers are dipping into their retirement savings. The Journal cited recent data from Vanguard Group showing that 6% of the 401(k) plans it administers took a hardship withdrawal in 2025, up from 4.8% that took such a withdrawal in 2024.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/401k-hardship-withdrawals-record

Workers at top 20 US low-wage firms rely on public assistance, report says
Nearly a quarter of Walmart employees (29.3%) and half of Amazon workers (48.4%) in the Nevada – which collects Medicaid enrollment numbers among employees at large companies – were on Medicaid in 2024, according to the report. Among the four states that disclose Snap data related to large companies – Colorado, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Michigan – 10,920 Walmart workers and 9,633 Amazon workers were enrolled in Snap in 2024.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/04/workers-medicaid-snap-low-pay

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis backs a new bill targeting unions; those who support him won't be affected
After losing 209 union elections, the Freedom Foundation and DeSantis are pushing a new bill – Senate Bill 1296 – through the legislature this year. And this bill rewrites the rules for those union elections. UPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2720629
>Prominent Iraqi women's rights activist Yanar Mohammed killed by gunmen in suspected assassination
And yet we won't be hearing a peep from any bleeding heart liberal in the west about that. But I guess that's good, even if in a convoluted way: since Iraqi women are deserving of the west's attention - and therefore of a west-led liberation - than we won't probably see Iraqi female schools getting bombed in broad daylight.

Nikos Mottas : Mass Expulsion in Lebanon as Israel Expands War: “We Don’t Know Where to Go”
The recent alert in Cyprus following threats of Iranian drone and retaliatory missile strikes once again exposes a dangerous reality that governments in Athens and Nicosia persistently attempt to obscure: the presence of U.S., NATO and British military bases turns both Greece and Cyprus into potential targets in an expanding imperialist war. For days now, the wider region has been moving ever closer to the possibility of a generalized confrontation in the Middle East. The escalation triggered by the aggressive policies of the United States and Israel against Iran has already created a climate of extreme tension across the entire Eastern Mediterranean. Within this volatile context, the British sovereign bases in Cyprus—long used as operational hubs for military interventions in the Middle East—have been placed on heightened alert amid warnings that they could become targets of retaliation.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/03/shut-down-all-us-british-bases-in-greece-and-cyprus.html

Hundreds in Minneapolis Protest the War on Iran
“From Iran to Palestine, stop the U.S. war machine,” chanted the crowd of hundreds that showed up to Chicago Ave. and Lake St. in south Minneapolis on Feb. 28 for an emergency anti-war protest against the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran. Just hours earlier, at least 165 people — mostly schoolgirls — were killed when bombs struck an Iranian elementary school. “These shameful attacks happened right in the middle of U.S.-Iran negotiations,” said Sarah Martin, from Women Against Military Madness (WAMM), into a megaphone hooked to speakers sitting in the back of a truck in the lot of the building that formerly housed Roberts Shoes. “While the Iranian Foreign Minister and his Jordanian counterpart announced that the negotiations were going well, Trump ordered the military attack.” As of March 4, over 1,000 Iranians have been killed by U.S. and Israeli air bombings, including the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with many of his family members and several high-ranking officials. Speakers at the protest shared a main theme; they didn’t trust the government’s reasoning for the preemptive attack, while many noted how thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

=The First Strike in the Epstein War: Over 100 Killed at All Girls Elementary School=
Service Members Must Ask: Community or Carnage? // March 3rd, 2026

The argument for a socialist conservation (climate) corps, and the real cost of the bombs we drop in Iran.

https://john-henry.neocities.org/conservation-corps

>>2720551
I assure you it is imperative that namefags first make themselves look complete fools before they can get mad at someone clowning on them and leave

>>2720562
It might be CIA disinformation aimed at the Iranian authorities and meant to make them paranoid and distracted.

>>2720539
Epstein's Berserkers

>>2720411
>Reports of messiah-speek from NCOs
That part is just Hegseth's mental retardation trickling down the military command chain. Read a summary of his book American Crusade. The dude is a total lunatic and has 1000% been brainwashed by zionist christian eschatology.

>>2720003
Of course, there is the elephant in the room to be adressed here. People who are so gung ho about confrontational anti imperialism tends to not live in the state, or even in the region where the struggle is happening. Therefore they have no interest in choosing the least painful way forward, because they are not physically impacted by any of this, nor will they be held responsible in case the open confrontation ends up in a failure

Kinda vacuous since you can easily name America as the modern day Mongols too

>>2719597
>>2719612
Why did Iran, a Shia nation that waged a near decade long war against Iraq, lost more than a million men and also faced regular Afghan raids, support a conflict in which its two greatest enemies (Afghanistan and Iraq) would have been destroyed by the US?

>>2720059
I love when Islamists mask off for the CIA cumrags they are lol

>>2720059
Glad you have no reservations for gulf states support for US against Iran since they're taking out their geopolitical enemy ;)

>>2703458
your peaceful protest is completely meaningless, rioting and violence is the only thing that means anything

>>2704645
those sites are completely fake, it's impossible for them to tell really

>>2719068
>The people responsible for the decline of Leftypol isn't just the mods, it's (You)
but you are an anime transsexual who has self-castrated his own testicles and will soon die of infection

>>2719138
For posterity when you die from septic shock before the year is ouit

>>2719068
i just wanted to give my thoughts on him since i dont really think enough to warrant my own thread

>>2717138
Hes not a Jew hes Italian

>>2717260
They reclassified the farm bill to ban all forms of THC, most states now ban THCA and delta 8

>>2716282
Increasing contradictions

Ending usaid

>>2716282
Lowering unemployment. Not that any of you would benefit from it.

>>2719894
it's a scam, you're just a cash cow and they will be squeezing your tit until you turn 60, without much hope of actually repaying it.

charging interest on loans should be illegal

>>2719939
the loan itself is the crime
thats what must be emphasised

Reminder that Israel's chief spokesman David Mencer was born and raised in the UK, is a former member of the Labour Party, and a former director of the Labour Friends of Israel.

Attlee looks like the British Lenin

Clement Attlee's government (1945-51) nationalised around 20% of the British economy, including coal, railways, road transport, the Bank of England, civil aviation, electricity and gas, and steel. His government also brought in the NHS and other welfare state reforms. The subsequent Labour PM Harold Wilson (1964-70, 1974-6) seems to be best well-known for liberalising cultural regulations, including the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Here, the old left appears to become the new left. For the tory regimes of Thatcher and Major (1979-97), the privatisation of national industries appears to have un-done initial post-war social reforms, with Thatcher and her agenda laying the groundwork for momentous privatisaton schemes for the NHS, dismantling the welfare state:
https://www.yournhsneedsyou.com/timeline/

>>2718053
pure idealism, you're a moron

>>2718053
>Identifying with people or states over their ideas and actions creates a parasocial tendency to defend them uncritically, even when they fuck up
This is a particular instance of a far more general problem. Note how it applies to books too, as the religious and ideological fundamentalists have shown us. Whenever you can somehow present multiple ideas as a collection that's appealing overall, you invite uncritical defense of the weak ideas in the collection.

Marx was in a group called the Young HEGELalians.
Also should we drop Newtonian physics because he is the man that discovered them like Marx did with his theory?

Self proclaimed marxoids seething.

>>2718053
Fuck off fed

>>2719672
>You brought up Ukraine and Russia
which doesnt change what you brought up about them is completely irrelevant. Most drones used in the early war were literally jury rigged commercial drones made by independents helpers/charity who supported various frontline military units rather than something that came from the top

>Looks like you know everything then
pretending a country that can send satellites and have a nuclear program doesnt have the manufacturing capacity to build some suicide underwater drones is retarded yes

>This makes you upset for some reason.
stupidity upset me

>>2719695
>U-ur /pol/ because you don't know this supposed dogwhistle!
I have never fucking heard this shit about parentheses being a "dogwhistle" you retard, sorry if I'm not a terminally online spaz like you.

The US bombed the school twice the 2nd time to murder those that went to help the children

>>2717542
We already know Ukrainians exist

>>2718325
Stimulants r great and in the future there will be entire buildings dedicated to refining the safest and most useful stimulant (ala russian phentropyl but without the crazy tolerance rate)

>>2718507
But… Le Islam… Marx said Allah …

>>2717527
Germany is so cucked. Instead of doing anything to stop Trump they just go “I’m sorry daddy Trump we are trying to get Spain to comply but they won’t give up their healthcare, pwese don’t tawif me.” Why are all of these Eurocucks okay with getting Vassalized?!?!?!

Bill to establish statewide oversight of jails in Washington dies in Legislature
The effort reflects the extreme reluctance some hawkish Democrats have towards voting for the resolution introduced by anti-interventionist Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). Unlike the Khanna-Massie measure, the centrist Democrats' alternative resolution would give the administration 30 days to end hostilities with Iran. It would also allow them to maintain "a troop presence in the region for defensive purposes."
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/03/democrats-iran-war-powers-trump-vote-house
https://archive.ph/5Mfjt

DoJ renews fight against law firms that stood up to Trump in abrupt reversal
The US justice department abruptly reversed course on Tuesday and decided it would defend executive orders made by Donald Trump to try to penalize law firms that represented clients or causes the president did not like.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/03/doj-drop-law-firms-case-trump-executive-orders

Tech giant Google is behind controversial data center proposal in Hermantown
The tech giant behind a massive and controversial proposed data center in the northeast Minnesota community of Hermantown has been revealed to be Google, which just last week announced that it is also behind the development of another controversial data center near Rochester, in the small community of Pine Island.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/03/03/google-behind-controversial-data-center-proposal-in-hermantown

Mamdani, Hochul unveil first New York City neighborhoods to get free child care for 2-year-olds
The first four communities that will receive 2,000 2-K seats this fall are Washington Heights and Inwood, Fordham and Kingsbridge, East Brooklyn including Canarsie, Brownsville and Ocean Hill, and Ozone Park and the Rockaways.
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The Attack on Iran Is an Attack on All of Us
The US and Israeli attack on Iran is morally repugnant. It is calculated only to benefit an elite of racist, Islamophobic warmongers. It will not benefit Iranians or ordinary people anywhere on earth. There are genuine grassroots movements resisting the Iranian government, which is a blood-soaked authoritarian regime—as are the US and Israeli governments that are attacking it. But participants in Iranian social movements do not want Donald Trump to attack Iran. As some of them wrote last month, “Any military or imperial intervention can only weaken the struggle from below and strengthen the Islamic Republic’s hand to carry out repression.” Social movements in Iran have been resisting an oppressive government for decades. But the establishment of a puppet regime serving the US and Israel will not help them. In attacking Iran, Trump does not necessarily seek to overthrow the government, but simply to subordinate it to his will, unseating the top figures in order to put himself in place of them. He did precisely that in Venezuela in January 2026. The kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro did nothing to change the distribution of power in Venezuelan society; the chief result of Trump’s intervention has been that he has put the pieces in place to loot the country of its natural resources for the benefit of elements of the ruling class of the United States. Like other autocrats around the world, Trump aims to sideline ordinary people, reducing all politics to a matter of tyrants contending for power at the expense of those they rule. He will gladly sacrifice the lives of Iranians, Israelis, and US citizens for his own benefit.
https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/28/the-attack-on-iran-is-an-attack-on-all-of-us

The Left Could Learn Something From Trump’s Tariff Gambit
Trump’s presidency, for both better and worse, has been a real-world experiment in, and live demonstration of, the power of the presidency and its ability to affect change even when it doesn’t have Congress’s slow, grinding legislative work on its side. Tariffs are not the first time Trump has done this, acting quickly in total disregard for the legal niceties or future opinions of judges. Liberals, progressives, and socialists don’t like the purposes he’s put this strPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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