/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2621664
it was the empty parts wasnt it?

What did he mean by this?

>>2621987
soviets by that point were a dickrider occupied goverment anyways

Robespierre if he didn't know how to read and was even more autistic

>>2633680
sounds kinda based

China's response? A strongly worded message?

US will control Venezuela oil sales 'indefinitely', official says
While White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the two sides had struck a deal, Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA said in a statement that negotiations over oil sales were ongoing within the framework that exists between the two countries. "This process is based on similar rules to those in force with international companies," it said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgn7p7g79wo

Trump proposes massive increase in 2027 defense spending to $1.5T, citing ‘dangerous times’
The 2026 military budget is set at $901 billion. Trump in recent days has also called for taking over the Danish territory of Greenland for national security reasons and has suggested he’s open to carrying out military operations in Colombia. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ominously warned that longtime adversary Cuba “is in trouble.”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-defense-spending-3bbea1ccc679ee8a388386d60e651fd7

What we know so far about the fatal ICE shooting of a Minneapolis woman
The footage shows multiple officers near an SUV stopped in the middle of the road. One officer demands the driver exit the vehicle and grabs the car handle. The SUV reverses, then begins to drive forward, which is when a different officer near the front of the car pulls his weapon and fires into the vehicle. Three gunshots are heard, as the firing officer backs away from the SUV. Moments later, the vehicle crashes.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/nx-s1-5670289/ice-minneapolis-shooting-immigration-crackdown

Inside the Senate's last-gasp effort to solve the health care crisis
The bipartisan plan would reinstate the ACA enhanced subsides for two years and extend open enrollment into March, Moreno said, walking through policies that he says have "decent consensus." It will likely include income caps at 700% of the poverty line, replace $0 premium plans with $5 premiums and allow individuals to choose whethePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Venezuela – Class struggle against imperialism and the myth of national independence
The attacks of the US army in Venezuela are an expression of imperialism, but how can we respond to them? Understandably, the reaction of many people is to rally for ‘national independence’. From a working class perspective and the perspective of international emancipation, the battle cry for ‘sovereignty’ is a dangerous myth. The situation in Venezuela is part of a global panorama of block confrontation and as international workers we have to find ways not to get crushed in the middle.
https://www.angryworkers.org/2026/01/04/venezuela-class-struggle-against-imperialism-and-the-myth-of-national-independence/

Iran: An Uprising Besieged from Within and Without
Starting on December 28, 2025, a new wave of protest broke out across Iran, triggered by economic distress and escalating to call for the toppling of the government. This is at least the fifth such movement in a decade, drawing on previous waves of labor unrest and feminist resistance. Yet within this uprising, the grassroots movement contends with reactionary monarchists, largely based outside Iran, who seek to win the backing of the United States and Israel to seize power. This comes in the midst of a tumultuous geopolitical situation. The Israeli government has intensified the bombing of Gaza and Lebanon and the seizure of land in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria; it is preparing to construct a settlement that will cut the West Bank in half in order to make a Palestinian state impossible. The United States has just kidnapped the president of Venezuela and his wife in order to seize Venezuelan oil, signaling a readiness to go to great lengths to dominate people both inside and outside its borders. In the fall of 2024, protesters in Nepal and elsewhere demonstrated that it is still possible for social movements to overthrow governments. A successful revolution in Iran could set off a wave of change around the world. But if such a revolution were hijacked by reactionary forces, it could set movements for liberation back another generation or more. The stakes are high. We owe it to grassroots movements in Iran to learn about them and support them, both because they are confrontPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>replacing it
hahhhahaha the USA left everybody

I know it wasn't cops this time, but Minneapolis related.

>>2633045
It's not racism, it's foreign policy.

>>2633012
I love telling anti-communist diaspora members their family didn't escape shit and we're everywhere and inevitable

>2 major events happen in like 3 days
>instead of discussing it coming up with a strategy
>more of this amerikkkans must die
>you benefit from invasion of Venezuela, (lies)
>you benedit from ice shootings (lies)

Glowintellpro

Good, the northern passage is finally real

is this good :D

>>2633061
I've said it before but current AmeriKKKan foreign policy really is just a bunch of piggers panic hoarding as much land and resources as they can before climate change inevitable causes human civilization to collapse.

>>2633098
Looking at it, the annexation of Greenland and especially Canada is inevitable. US is definitely planning to have extra land and navigation in the Artic and Canada is a free country to take

>>2633061
War in the arctic sooner or later.

>>2631254
since a lot of aristocrats in the 1800s were already (relatively) impoverished compared to the haute bourgeoisie it is arguable that the petty bourgeoisie was already the middle class back then and if I recall they are sometimes called such even back then.

>>2631247
Socialism with American characteristics

>>2631173
Voluntarism

>>2631173
OP is an opportunist

>>2632520
Where is the opportunism?

>>2621715
just get a high paying office job with connections bro it's not that hard

up

>>2621776
Do you have to do sex things to get that?

>>2625267
Probably

>>2632217
yeah, another significant factor i didn't mention in that post (since i wanted to be brief and explain the basic reason these coups happen) is also because the militaries themselves are significantly older and also more respected by the local populace, the reason why military coups are very rare in the americas since the cold war isn't because the US made them happen, that's a misconception i think people should correct, rather it's because for the most part, the militaries in these nations became far more subservient to the civilian governments as they reached a certain level of economic and societal development that made military rule unpopular, in a country in which pretty much every institution (the bureaucracy, other types of public servants, city governments, etc) is civilian controlled and supportive of a civilian government, it's a massive depressor for any military government, since a military government needs the consent of at least a plurality of each of those to efficiently run the state, whereas in the west african states but also other states prone to military coups, public servants don't really have a favored outcome, civilian or military, as long as it's a stable government, and so don't really care enough to actually oppose a coup since the civilian government is just not well established nor supported by a majority of its respective population

>>2632007
> So what exactly causes military coups in thirdie countries?
Well there are many different types of military coups, some of which are aligned with NATO hegemony (Suharto, Blaise Compaore, Augusto Pinochet), some of which are not (Gaddafi, Sankara, Chavez). The former are brought about by meddling of more powerful countries, bribery, blackmail, etc. The prospect of becoming a comprador bourgeoisie is particularly enticing. The latter are a reassertion of national sovereignty by the national bourgeoisie or perhaps the peasantry and the proletariat in more revolutionary circumstances.

>What causes the army to betray the government and country?

You must be asking about the former case. To accuse the army of betrayal implies that their primary duty is to be loyal to the "whole" people. This is wrong headed. The army's duty is to be loyal to the ruling class, just like the police. Only in revolutionary situations do the army betray the ruling class, and side with the workers. Betraying the working class masses is the rule, not the exception, for the army.

> I mean even in firstie countries there's technically nothing stopping the military from taking over and overthrowing the government and they could do it if they wanted to, but they don't. Why?
There's plenty stopping them. Militaries are very large, and labor is very divided between specialists, not to mention the division between branches. And there is a mixture of different class/ethnic/racial/religious backgrounds, with different material interests. And the hierarchy subdivides the military even further, breaking up opportunities for the different divisions and branches to communicate and coordinate without the (mostly bourgeois) upper ranks knowing. You need bourgeois class traitors for a true revolutionary situation to kick off in the military. Which is why I said earlier that most military coups in the third world take the form of a conflict between the national bourgeoisie and the comrpador bourgeoisie. This division within the bourgeoisie has long been noted. Some place less weight upon it than others. As long as imperialism yields a huge difference between standard of living and wages between the "core" and "periphery" countriesPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2632007
Money, funding, and narcissism

When the force of law has lost its head, the law of force is what you get. Violence begets violence, strong men eat weak men. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Put yourself in the shoes of a middle officer in one of these countries that’s intensely poor and has civilian leadership that’s sold out to western corporations and drinking champagne with western leaders as al-Qaeda is literally at the door. You don’t need to be a marxist to understand this.

>>2631790
>commanders to Turkey
that's demonstrably untrue. first, there's no list of commanders published by ukraine. because ukraine can play dumb with who was captured, in fact, pravda published this article last year arguing exactly that:
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/05/29/7514554/
>Commenting on public statements about the absence of Azov fighters in the latest exchange lists, Yusov emphasised that excessive media attention to specific names or units could be used by Russian intelligence services for their own purposes
so there's no reason or whatsoever to believe all of the commanders were released.
that article also stated, in the lastest exchange:
<Colonel Denys Prokopenko, alias Redis, Commander of the Azov National Guard Brigade, stated that not a single Azov fighter had been included in the three-day prisoner exchange with Russia. He said he does not believe the Ukrainian authorities are interested in bringing them back.

you are a moron. and for that champsoc is right: >>2631793

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>>2634057
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/8/ukraines-zelenskyy-returns-azov-commanders-released-to-turkey

Russia denounces the soldiers’ return, accusing Kyiv and Ankara of violating a prisoner exchange deal under which the men were to remain in Turkey until the end of the war.

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>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday that Ankara had promised under the exchange agreement to keep the men in Turkey and complained that Moscow had not been informed of the move.

>>2630985
We did, it's called /itg/

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>>2630649
Willing to work on a project for this, but how do we do it

>>2630649
Mods, ban this one

>>2632079
For what possible reason would this be bannable? You are so afraid of actual productive organization, you want to silence any talk of anything beyond mindless slop scrolling and discussion?

>>2631129
>/itg/
Can you tell me more?

>>2630437
Is Australia actually getting closer to China? Thought they were locking into the Sinophobia and insisting on being outside Asia

You know what to do.

>>2630952
Yeah there’s no industrialist left in the U.S. every porky wants do usury, renting, and land speculation. Especially now with the tariffs and free money being pumped into the stock market. The trump regime would have to at bare minimum turn off the free money spigot before chevron or Exxon considered investing in new refineries instead of making a stupid app or sitting on real estate.

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>>2629238
how neat we have our own pet glowie spamming our threads with US propaganda

>>2631155
"only israeli intervention"
kek what this would be like? israel annexes iran over a 3000 year old book?