/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2581951
Stand up join the to bullies union

Thanks News Anon

Puerto Rico holds hearings on proposed power bill increases as customers fume and outages persist
Residents are balking as private power company officials overseeing the generation, transmission and distribution of power in Puerto Rico insist that additional funding is needed to modernize a crumbling grid that Hurricane Maria razed in 2017. The hearings, which do not include public input, began in mid-November and are scheduled to continue through late December. They are being held by Puerto Rico’s Energy Bureau, which would decide whether to authorize the proposed increases.
https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-power-bill-hearings-increases-a9d129013ec9ba7859ffac6f6aad466b

Trump DOJ Sides With Roundup Manufacturer Over Cancer Victims in Supreme Court Case
On Monday, US Solicitor General D. John Sauer recommended that the high court agree to hear a challenge to a Missouri jury’s verdict in 2023 that awarded $1.25 million to a man named John Durnell, who claimed that the product caused him to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-backs-bayer-monsanto-roundup

Trump administration threatens to withhold SNAP management funds from states that don’t share data
President Donald Trump’s administration warned on Tuesday that it will withhold money for administering SNAP food aid in most Democratic-controlled states starting next week unless those states provide information about people receiving the assistance.
https://apnews.com/article/food-aid-snap-rollins-blue-states-edf7a10ab409fe471ae81a13823484ab

As Prices Soar, Trump Denounces ‘Affordability’ as ‘Democrat Scam’
At the start of a Cabinet meeting, Trump falsely claimed that electricity prices are coming down, despite the fact that Americans across the country are struggling with utility bills being driven higher in large part by energy-devouring artificial intelligence data centers.
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RS-YM (Bangladesh) Condemns The Police Crackdown Against Participants In Environmental Protest In Delhi, India
Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement strongly condemns and protests the sexual harassment, assault, and arrests carried out by the Delhi Police against students of Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM), Nazariya Magazine, and other organizations during the environmental protest at Delhi’s India Gate! For a long time, India’s capital, Delhi, has topped the Air Quality Index as the city with the most polluted air in the world. On November 23, 2025, the Delhi Coordination Committee for Clean Air organized a protest rally. The committee included Delhi-based Marxist-Leninist-Maoist student organization Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM) and Nazariya Magazine, among others. At the rally, the protesters rejected “garden-style” environmentalism. They pointed instead to the responsibility of the Hindutva fascist BJP, whose Chief Minister Rekha Gupta is an agent of imperialism, and to the so-called “development” projects of the corporate bureaucrat-bourgeoisie. They demanded the formation of people’s committees composed of slum workers, migrant laborers, residents of surrounding villages, and civil society rights activists to take the leading role in planning Delhi’s development for the protection of its environment.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/24682/

Like South Africa, the BRICS Suffer From Trump Appeasement Syndrome
The U.S. now assumes leadership of the G20 until the Miami summit ends on December 15, 2026 – but not without having lost some crucial soft power. In the wake of Donald Trump’s farcical attacks on the host of last week’s G20 summit in Johannesburg, might the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (plus Egypt-Ethiopia-Indonesia-Iran-United Arab Emirates) BRICS bloc – maybe alongside some annoyed Europeans – finally stand up straight, and boycott the Florida meeting? After all, a process of shifting power relations – symbolic and real – is supposedly underway. At the University of South Africa in Pretoria on November 20, two days before G20 leaders met, Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs gave a viral speech in which he castigated Trump – as the equivalent of a four-year old throwing tantrums – and proclaimed that U.S. power " is fading. It’s fading in part Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2581160
The don't want us to know this, but helium comes from the inside the earths mantel and naturally bubbles up along fault lines. We have infinite helium.

>>2581160
it comes from natural gas as a byproduct. not mines.

Good. I hope we run out. If it leads to societal collapse all the better.
Communism isn't ever happening if we don't shake society up somehow, and this seems preferable to nuclear war.

>>2581610
It will only lead to less scientific advances

>>2581822
Correct. We need to stop the capitalists from wasting any more, and preserve whats left for advancements.

MLibs be posting this not knowing that the average age there is 60 and people tend to miss their youth

It only proves nationalist illusions about le glorious past they had under that socdem monarchy

>>2579947
>leftcom regurgitating unironic anticommunist counterarguments
no contradiction

>>2579947
>It's just nostalgia!! These things can only be explained by my essentialist pseudo psychoanalysis of boomers
Lol and you have the gall to call others libs

>>2579947
>Old who Lived under socialism:Its nostalgia
>young who has a positive view: you dont know your history
Also Ceaușescus popularity is in the youth as well to the point the Romanian government is clamping down on it. Look at this anti-commie burger get upset about some young university students saying positive things about the socialist period. These are supposed to be the most pro-EU

>>2580550

>If you are poor: You are envious.
>If you are rich: You are a hypocrite.
>If you don't have a don't have a degree: You are ignorant.
>If you do have a degree: You are disconnected/utopian.

Anyone care to add to the list? Maybe:

>If you are an incel: You are bitter.
>If you have big family: You had too many kids.
>If you are a worker in the public sector: You are entitled.
>If you are a worker in the private sector: You are resentful and/or lack entrepreneurship.

There was a big (peaceful) protest on the anniversary of the canopy collapse and there was generally a bit of revival of various activities in the protest movement around it. On the day of the anniversary, Dijana Hrka who is the mother of one of the canopy collapse victims announced that she would hold a hunger strike in front of the parliament (which also means it's in front of the Cacilend encampment) and that has been the focus lately. As a response, SNS has organized "parties" in Cacilend which were pretty obviously attempts to harass her, especially playing loud music and especially a song by Baja Mali Knindza whose title is something like "The mother came to look for her son" when translated. Also, there has been a pretty much all the time a mass of people who have come to support/guard her.
There was a potentially dangerous situation tonight because she gave the Cacilend people an ultimatum to stop playing music tonight or else she would call on people to forcefully enter Cacilend (Cacilend is surrounded by a fence) which would have very likely resulted in violent conflict. That would be pretty much the closest thing to an open to call of violence from the anti-SNS side of the protests since the beginning. I think the only other thing which could be a interpreted as a call of violence was the "you have the green light" thing for the Vidovdan protest.
Also, I think that it's pretty problematic that a single person (who is obviously not in the best state of mind) suddenly holds so much sway with the protests.

So nothing really happened regarding the stuff from my previous posts. The hunger strikers have up after two weeks and there was no big Cacilend conformation.
The student movement is still alive but probably the most dead it's been the past year. There is only one faculty which restarted its blockade, the others are operating normally in the new year except that the start of the year was late.
The NIS situation is still unresolved, I am not sure what the SNS government is planning, maybe they're just waiting for Russians to agree to a deal where NIS is sold to a third country. They floated the idea of nationalizing NIS but they have not done that yet. The oil refinery in Pancevo is stopping production because of a lack of oil, which means they're already losing money. If there is no solution in the coming months then the government will have to spend a lot of money on importing finished oil products and subsidizing the cost, or they can not subsidize it and cause an oil crisis in Serbia.

>>2578044

Also don't forget to mention the students had a split with the zbor's due to the more liberal opposition infiltrating them according to them.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DRnTjuzACP5/?img_index=1

I feel like you guys need to stop labelling everything as a color revolution

Even if its liberals its still class conflict in nature, and mass disconnect being organized on general strike scales is impressive

>>2579295
The zbors are very dead compared to their peak in early july during the dumpster barricade stuff.

>>2579297
There were 2 calls to general strike but there was no labor organizing behind them so they failed.

Two days ago there were some local elections for some rural areas (only a few tens of thousands of voters total) and SNS won but with much less votes compared to both the last local elections and the last parliamentary elections. Like usual, there were various kinds of election fraud spotted and there was even some fighting in Mionica in a tavern close to one of the poll stations (https://x.com/agrifblokira/status/1995150996067307853).

>>2580917
This is unrelated to the content of his speech, but man he sucks at speaking. He pauses, he mumbles, he changes his distance from the microphone way too often. Sheesh.

>>2581227
>You think the Zionist would know better than to try and make this about them.
The narcissism is just too tempting

>>2581342
lmao

>>2581006
madur-go to the polls

>>2581327
The Iraqi government gets its every cent from the US federal bank, illiterate retard.

>>2581286
you cant invoke this rule after making such a shitty thread retard

IraKKKi mad at AES smh

So what if half your oil is owned by the US the other half is still owned by progressive Chinese capital this is what anti imperialism looks like

>>2581387
>the other half is still owned by progressive Chinese capital
I doubt they own even 25%, wtf are you on about you retard

>>2581329
how can it be siphoning the money if it gives it back to islamist iraqis

>>2580663
Shut up retard, you are too dumb to do anything but circlejerk theories 200 years old. Unions and the workers party ain't gonna achieve shit. Have you actually engaged with the world today outside your computer? This nonsense will never gain any traction in the West again.
And also, id kill myself before I ever suggested anything to do with labour vouchers.

>>2580766
Revolutionary Spain was a mess though. The anarchists refused to seize state power and ended up propping up the liberal republicans. And the attempt at post-capitalist social relations was an incoherent hodgepodge of local systems which barely worked and had to be superseded by an abortive attempt at central planning.

>>2580651
They don't though. They propose many reforms but they fundamentally don't have a way to coordinate labor whilst simultaneously negating private property.

>>2580588
>What do you think of a social network as a sort of hub for direct voluntary organisation of labour
That's a bit like parecon. Imo it could work but it's highly idealistic if it aims to suppress the bulk of production.
I could see it however in a socialist or post-capitalist setting progressively supplanting small services

>>2581203
>Imo it could work but it's highly idealistic if it aims to suppress the bulk of production.
>I could see it however in a socialist or post-capitalist setting progressively supplanting small services
Yeah, of course, it would be impossible to supplant the bulk of production instantaneously. But it is something that could as you say progressively supplant services, and work in conjunction with state seizure. As an alternative economic model it does have possibilities, and could constitute the slow withering of state control of industry.
Something I haven't seen proposed from people purely interested in taking control of the political apparatus. Both are required.

>>2581119
This nonsense is playing out with ubi and job loss due soyence and technology

>>2580549
You are the most arrogant person on this entire forum and the worst part is is that you have no self awareness of it. You don't understand Chinese, you have no exposure to Chinese media, you have never been to any part of China, and from your previous posts have signaled that you think China is a imperalist capitalist country. If you had been born in a republican instead of democrat your fat american lardass would have easily bought into the WMDs in Iraq bullshit because all you know how to do is blindly trust what Westerners say over everyone else.

>>2581035
>gets called out for believing what western media says about China
>immediately accuses other anons of this
Also why the fuck would you ever leave China if you've been there, even if it was tourism? The Hong Kong thing was such a contentious issue for you that you happily returned to your unwalkable suburb back in the US? You didn't have any urge to stay whatsoever?
>Assigned Party At Birth

>>2576260
This place and the left is not a good fit for you, may i suggest the church?

>>2581035
>fat american lardass
Gonna stop you right there. Considering you're aware of my other posts on this site, you should be aware that I'm Haitian.
>You are the most arrogant person on this entire forum
Kkkry about it some more kkkracker. I'm glad my contempt can be felt through the computer screen.
>If you had been born in a republican instead of democrat
Lmao people aren't fascists because they're born fascists. They're fascists because of concrete parasitic social and economic relations on a global scale. Relations like those that enable social fascists like you to afford that cute tourist trip to China unlike 99% of the workers of the world.