/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2869655
How did China come under ownership of British steel manufacturing plants? What happened to the original owners?

>>2869674
I don't know if you just misspoke, but the Chinese bought the British plants, not the other way around. They also own Heathrow airport and the Hinkley nuclear reactor and a bunch of other things in Britain.

>>2869180
>autistic people hate change
Nah that's allistic people. Autists cause change that allistics can't understand.

>>2869439
Worked with autistic children before. Children with autism will often scream and throw tantrums when having to transition between activities, including activities they enjoy.

>>2868836
lemmygrad is a decentralised reddit-like which is growing but it's less of a free for all screaming match.

>>2868979
>>2869180
it's not just vanity: imageboards make it impossible to filter bots and trolls. associating users, accounts, and a verified email makes that so much easier and gives admins receipts for following up on serious abuses of the platform.

>>2868836
Imageboards aren't dying because of any intrinsic flaws in their design, but largely just because of the culture around them. 4chan is by far the biggest imageboard around and sucks all oxygen out of its competitors simply by proximity. The issue is that 4chan is actively repellent to most quality posters by virtue of the (largely deserved) reputation as "that website for retarded nazis" which it has fostered since the early '10s. As a result, the biggest influx of users they've had in the past fifteen years is to this day made up of 2016 election tourists, and the most active and culturally significant boards on the website like /pol/, /b/ and /r9k/, are all overran with them. All the while, the more benign interest-focussed boards like /a/, /v/, /lit/, /fa/, etc are running on fumes, fueled largely by the same group of oldfags which have been using the site for decades by this point. The slow trickle-in of comparatively newer users brings with it only further culture war baiting and low-effort trollposts, so the quality of posts on the site is in a continual noticeable decline. At the same time, all the biggest alternative chans cater towards people who manage to get themselves banned off of 4chan proper, and are accordingly unusable shitholes and/or glorified fed terrorist recruitment forums from the start. The only way you're even going to be aware of the existence of better imageboards is if you've been around to see this fiasco from the beginning or if you've found yourself attracted to 4chan-adjacent culture, which means that the target demographic is made up of a continuously shrinking cohort of oldfags and a larger group of low-quality post-2016 posters (obviously generalizing here). The only way you're meaningfully going to be bringing in new blood is by producing OC posts and memes that can be organically shared across other forums and social media, thus bringing in interest in the source board.

Frankly, the idea to pivot this website to a setup more like traditional forums or social media is a non-starter. You're never going to be able to out-reddit reddit or out-twitter twitter, those markets are already thoroughly captured and both already contain far-left ecospheres. It's also just undesirable to begin with. Imageboards, for all their flaws, have unique quirks which are worth preserving. The ability to post anonymously anPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2869568
>Imageboards aren't dying because of any intrinsic flaws in their design, but largely just because of the culture around them.
the culture is a byproduct of the design. antisocial chuds love taking advantage of anonymity

>>2868181
>The state is converted into the "administration of things", which means that it loses its political character (e.g. class struggle)
Man is a political animal.

>>2868328
Politics will purely be about personality and policies around the edges

Capitalist realist bs
just trust the plan bro

NEHAWU Reaffirms Support for SACP Ahead of LGE 2026, Cites ANC’s Deviation from Socialist Ideals
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) has officially reaffirmed its resolution to support the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the upcoming 2026 Local Government Elections (LGE 2026). This strategic political alignment was confirmed by the union’s newly elected national leadership, signaling a firm commitment to a progressive socialist program amid growing concerns over the country’s current economic trajectory
https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/western-cape/nehawu-reaffirms-support-for-sacp-ahead-of-lge-2026-cites-ancs-deviation-from-socialist-ideals/

Kashmir: Rising Heat Exposing a Blind Spot in Rural Healthcare
By the time the afternoon sun settles over Pampore's orchards, some workers head home early; others retreat into the shade before returning to the fields. The situation is new for everyone as Kashmir’s summers are turning increasingly intense. On June 19, 2025, Srinagar recorded 35.2°C, its hottest June day in 20 years and seven degrees above the seasonal average, according to the India Meteorological Department. Just over two weeks later, on July 5, the city touched 37.4°C — its highest July temperature in more than 70 years.
https://www.newsclick.in/kashmir-rising-heat-exposing-blind-spot-rural-healthcare

India’s Gen Z ‘cockroaches’ took protest to the streets. Now they rally around a hunger strike
The protest camp came to life as student demonstrators rolled up their bedding after another night under the open sky. At the heart of the camp, activist Sonam Wangchuk lay inside a tent, his weakened frame showing the toll of weeks on hunger strike.
https://apnews.com/article/india-cockroach-janta-party-sonam-wangchuk-688cd957d2db3b1206193df046140bb4

Philippines demands ‘racist’ ChinePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Critics Warn Bipartisan Bill to Abolish UNRWA Will Be ‘Death Sentence For Thousands of Palestinians’
Human rights advocates are raising alarm about a bipartisan bill in the US House of Representatives aimed at abolishing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which they say will help Israel in its efforts to starve Palestinians in the occupied territories of food and medical aid.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/abolish-unrwa-bill

Epstein survivors pan Blanche meeting as dismissive, "demoralizing"
She alleged in a statement that Blanche's explanations for his interview with Maxwell and her transfer to a minimum security prison camp were "wholly dissatisfactory and contrived." … "It had absolutely nothing to do with us," survivor Elizabeth Stein said, echoing her fellow survivors in an interview. "It had everything to do with Blanche checking a box so that he can get a promotion."
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/17/epstein-survivors-blanche-meeting-reaction
https://archive.ph/M8QKb

Mullin pushes states to comply with election demands, echoing Trump’s claims about midterm risks==
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday warned that state officials could lose funding or face investigations if they fail to go along with President Donald Trump’s election security demands, part of the Republican president’s longstanding attempt to undermine Americans’ confidence in the vote.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-mullin-dhs-voter-fraud-save-6871e13d3f0e2caadaf56f9b2bc1580d

GEO Group worker arrested in shooting of protester at Colorado ICE facility
Brandon Booth, 42, a GEO Group employee, was arrested on ⁠Thursday and booked into jail on suspicion of attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault, attempted first-degree assault, felony menacing and ​unlawful carrying of a concealed weapon, police said.
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Buenaventura Durruti: You don’t argue with fascism, you destroy it
Comrades: the worker militias aren’t slacking on the Aragón front. They attack and defeat the enemy and win ground for the revolutionary cause. And this is only a prelude to the great offensive that we will soon initiate across the entire Aragón front. You, workers of Spain, also have an important role to play, because we can’t win the revolution with guns alone; we also have to produce. There is no such thing as a frontline and a rearguard, because we all form one block that has to struggle in unity toward the same goal. And our objective can be none other than building a Spain that represents the working class. The workers fighting on the front and in the rearguard don’t fight to defend bourgeois privileges. They fight for the right to live with dignity. Spain’s strength is in the working class and its organizations. After victory, the CNT and the UGT will meet and come to an agreement about the country’s economic and political structures. Those of us on the battlefield aren’t fighting for medals. We don’t fight to be deputies or ministers. And when we’re victorious and return to the cities and villages, we’ll fulfill our responsibilities in the factories, workshops, fields, and mines that we left. Our great victory will be the one that we win in the workplaces.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/buenaventura-durruti-you-don-t-argue-with-fascism-you-destroy-it

Spain’s Social Revolution Against Fascism
The Spanish Civil War is often portrayed as a struggle between democracy and fascism. But such an approach clashes with the sociopolitical reality of Spain in the 1930s. Social, economic, and political polarization in Spain in the years leading up to the civil war, along with the resulting failure of a bourgeois-democratic republic (1931–36), led to the outbreak of both the war and the revolution. The Popular Front’s electoral triumph in February 1936, rather than ushering in a new era of social reform, laid bare the inability of Republican democracy to overcome a ruling class determined to prevent any challenge to its power. The Popular Front’s victory sparked a new wave of mobilizations by the working masses, both urban and rural, which the Republican gPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2869494
With respect to Libya:
>It depends primarily on revenues from the petroleum sector, which represents over 95% of export earnings and 60% of GDP.
Extraction economies are famously unstable lol. Econ 101 man

>>2869350
>Ethiopia was never colonized and it's poor, and much of the rest of the world was colonized and it's fine.

you fucking ignorant retard

>>2869350
poor institutions, arbitrary borders, instability and civil war, poor underlying economic structure, lack of urbanisation, attempting to develop too quickly leading to indebtedness, trade barriers by the west…
Rhodesia and South Africa weren't rich, they just had rich people. Rhodesia's GDP per capita in 1970 was $305 against $2305 for England and $390 in Malaysia. South Africa's was better at $935, while Australia had $3310.

this, i admit, is an inference but i would also say poor social structure. to illustrate this, i will compare China and India instead: one reason China got rich faster than India is that Mao smashed most traditional social structures, which are a major barrier to economic development. if you've got a bunch of traditional social ties that say you can't leave your village subsistence farming lifestyle and that women can't work and so on, then you can't move to the city and become an industrial worker, and moving people from rural to urban areas is basically the definition of civilisation. India, being a semi-democracy, never did this. (e.g. legislation was introduced to reform Indian marriage law in 1950 by outlawing polygamy, giving women the right to divorce and inherit property, and allow inter-caste marriage. as a semi-democracy, this was simply voted down in parliament leading the minister responsible to resign. In Maoist China similar reforms were simply pushed through by the party.)

postscript: a racial explanation of GDP really struggles with the Pacific. Why is Samoa poor (GDP pc: $5470) and American Samoa middle-income? (GDP pc: $18,100) Both are more than 90% Samoan by ethnicity! Meanwhile in New Zealand, Samoan adult income per-head is $36,100.

>>2869381
if you like GDP you'll love my numbers :)

>>2869387
this is slowly changing. look at someone like Richard Hanania, who started out as a racist for lQ reasons but then realised that some of the lowest lQ specimens of the human race are white nationalists.

Both the OP and the commenters are wrong. I'm not African, but I'm from South Asia, and many of the same underlying problems that affect Africa also affect South Asia. Imperialism certainly played a role, but I don't think there's some coordinated effort to keep Africa and South Asia poor or stupid.

In my view the biggest problem has been liberal democracy. What democracy often means in the third world is two entrenched, corrupt political parties and sometimes a military establishment that also protects its own interests. Neither side has much incentive to challenge the status quo, so the country stagnates while public services deteriorate and people live in filth. Because political leaders are focused on preserving their own networks of power, long-term development is just never an option. The democratic systems a has been a cancer for the third world.

By contrast even a highly corrupt but stable long-term single-party authoritarian government will be more effective at driving industrialization, building infrastructure, expanding education, maintaining stability and creating economic growth than a democratic system trapped in constant political gridlock.

>>2869421
It was colonized by Italians

Moscow status?

>>2869172
Russia isn't well documented by holocaust remembrance organizations for its rehabilitation of nazi collaborators

Part of the issue is Ukraine lacks statehood traditions so its non Soviet figures are a grab bag of bad people from political vacuums often propped up by European powers

The other issue is post Soviet Russia simply didn't degenerate as a state like Ukraine did and did not become politically divided. Putinism is a historically moderate position trying to straddle and suppress every side of Russian politics after 1990s polarization that simply never ended in Ukraine

Ukraine has unique conditions for fascism that pretty much reflect how it is one of the nations most squeezed by the globalizing world up to now yet has no revolutionary prospects. What filled the void of a struggle against international capital is a struggle against ethnic minorities on behalf of it, which is why color revolutions started combining neolibs and neonazis in a dire sign of an incoming European threat to Russia after the 2008 crisis impacted the EU and changed its politics

Factor in American decline since then and you get a lot of states coming after Russians due to regression and none of it has anything to do with Russian regression

Small smokey fire in Moscow oblast. All enemy drones successfully intercepted.

>>2869572
Mofo you got first :(


They're trying to cover it up but the small and smokey volcano called Ebanavrötblyat is currently erupting in Iceland. It's already caused a 2 Celsius degree drop in global average temperature.

>>2868857
>>2868864
>Please surpass me
based
If the younger gens execute me by firing squad for being a chud, that means I left the world a better place than I came into it. And that's all that matters.

>>2868865
of low quality because of microplastics

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>>2868868
when the neph gives u the microplastic stare because you used the aux cord to bump uncslop

>>2868674
Feel like I time travelled back to 2016

Where is the bit about the Bernie bros

>>2868044
MLMs may have better and more consistent politics on paper, but PPW is a failing strategy as of this moment, the one time MLMs did take power was in Nepal where they were forced at gunpoint by the CPC and INC to do liberal nonsense and that led directly to last year’s color revolution there

>>2868032
When the alternative is nothing I take the something

>>2867840
count yourself lucky. my dad is an autistic lib failson from a bourgeois family who got a woman (my mother) way younger than him pregnant because he really believed her when she said she couldn't get pregnant. neither of them bothered to raise me and my relationship with them is more one of distant and vague friendship than a typical child-parent relationship.

your daddy might make you worship stalin but at least you were raised with a value system of some sort. I had to discover socialism on my own.

>>2867840
Is your name Christian Parenti?

Trump tightens US visa rules, limits stay for foreign students and journalists
President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday finalized rules imposing stricter limits on how long foreign students and journalists may stay in the United States, tightening legal immigration. Student visas would be capped at four years, while journalists would be limited to 240-day stays. Chinese journalists would face 90-day limits.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260716-trump-tightens-us-visa-rules-foreign-students-journalists
https://archive.ph/O8ErH

Puerto Rico announces emergency water rationing as drought worsens
Thousands of people in the island’s northeast region face 48-hour rationing periods from Friday, said Luis González, executive president of the island’s water and sewer authority. The rationing program will affect several communities in the cities of Canovanas and Rio Grande as temperatures keep rising. “There’s just not enough water,” he said, adding that rationing will likely be extended to other areas.
https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-water-shortage-drought-aaa-ae9a7bf10b04266984d033756c010ed7

Another federal agency wants in on student loans
Administration officials, who have been discussing the idea in small industry groups, are trying to attract the private sector, according to two people who participated in one of the meetings. The plan, they said, involves having the Small Business Administration spearhead the program, even though the agency was passed over as the new home of the nation’s student loan portfolio. Experts and former agency officials see two compounding problems: A similar program failed spectacularly not that long ago, and SBA, a small agency that typically works with businesses rather than individuals, has a history of failing to combatfraud andconduct oversight.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/0Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

David Sirota's Lever Time: We’re Still Living In The 2016 Election
Ten years ago this week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ended his first presidential run and endorsed Hillary Clinton. Now, his chief strategist says the primary process was rigged. Today on Lever Time, David Sirota sits down with Tad Devine, longtime political consultant and chief strategist for Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign. Devine reveals why he believes the Democratic National Committee tilted the scales against Sanders, why his populist message has staying power, and why the biggest obstacle in future elections is the Democratic Party itself.
https://www.levernews.com/were-still-living-in-the-2016-election/
https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-h4ie2-2f7552d6

Richard Wolff on the Left’s New Openings in 2026
In the second half of the nineteenth century, as Russia’s feudalism ended and its empire tottered, the great Russian novelist, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, reflected the deepening concerns and anxieties of his time in his 1863 novel, What Is to Be Done? It offered a socialist answer. Forty years later, a crude and rapacious capitalism had rushed in to replace Russian feudalism. The ex-serfs then began to understand that they had not escaped from exploitation as they had hoped and dreamed. Rather, they suffered a new form of it as industrial workers. Vladimir Lenin reflected the concerns and anxieties of that form in his pamphlet, with its deliberately repeated title, “What Is to Be Done?” It too offered a socialist answer. Today a declining US empire upsets and undermines US capitalism as it rattles and shakes the world economy. International laws are increasingly ignored, and crude authoritarianisms increasingly haunt domestic politics. Many around the world are asking that old question yet again — as well they should. Here is yet another socialist answer.
https://jacobin.com/2026/07/american-empire-capitalism-crisis-socialism

“Yanks to the Rescue”: 30 years since the U.S. helped re-elect Boris Yeltsin
The 3rd of July marked the 30th anniversary of BPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>The government argued that the law — the first new federal police law in Germany since 1994 — is essential to keep up with technological developments

Ah yes the technological development of the cops not wanting to ask those annoying judges with their law and stuff when they feel like spying on and arresting people

>>2868506
being edgy is also a spook

Most obvious cia plant movement ever award

>>2868513
I’m not being edgy, im just tired. I’m going to buy a gun this weekend and do my part.

>>2868545
well at least you're putting your money where your mouth is LITERALLY

Moved to >>>/dead/6446.