/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Newroz in Damascus. Interesting.

protest against the new anti-alcohol laws

Intense activity on the Damascus-Rojava front: Integration, job offers, and returns are on the table.
During meetings held in Damascus on April 16, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander Mazlum Abdi, Autonomous Administration Foreign Relations Officer Ilham Ahmed, Interim Government Head Ahmed Shara, Foreign Minister Asad Sheibani, and Presidential Advisor Ziyad al-Aish came together.
The meeting addressed key political and security issues in Syria, the advancement of the integration process, and the timeline for the implementation of necessary measures. It was noted that the parties conducted a comprehensive and detailed assessment, particularly regarding the implementation of the military, administrative, and political arrangements defined within the framework of the January 29th Agreement.
The main focus of the meeting was on the topics discussed in Damascus, the stage of the integration process, the steps that need to be taken along the Rojava-Damascus line, and how the situation on the ground is developing.

According to information we received from local sources, the question Ahmed Shara posed to Mazlum Abdi during their meeting – "When are you coming to Damascus?" – is noteworthy. In the past, it was known that Mazlum Abdi had stated, "Instead of a presidential election, I will be among my people and involved in national unity efforts." However, as this meeting indicates, Ahmed Shara considers Mazlum Abdi's involvement in Damascus a vital and unavoidable step. Abdi's move to Damascus, whether as vice president or in another capacity, is seen as critical for the implementation of the January 29th Agreement and for the resolution of political issues in Syria through coordination between the SDF and Damascus.

<THE GOVERNANCE OF A SHARED SYRIAN INTEGRITY IS BEING DISCUSSED.
There is a topic that came up between the SDF and Damascus even before the April 16 meeting. According to local sources, Damascus had conveyed to SDF-Autonomous Administration officials in previous meetings a request for an individual who could serve in the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Although there has been no official statement from the Syrian Interim Government on this matter, it is clear that this is a topic related to the integration process.

<INTERIM FORMULA FOR YPJ
During the visit of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) delPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

May Day statement in Kobanê.
The Democratic Society Movement (TEV-DEM) and the Kobanê Workers' Union held a joint press conference on the occasion of May 1st, International Workers' Day. The statement, delivered by Kobanê Workers' Union Co-Chair Mihemed Derwîş and Democratic Union Party (PYD) Women's Council Member Bedîa Miho, celebrated the holiday of the entire working class, especially the workers of Kobanê who contribute to the construction of a developed society, and who never shy away from fulfilling their duties with loyalty and selflessness and facing challenges under all circumstances.

The statement, which commemorated those who have fought for social justice, freedom, and dignity throughout history, said: “The workers' struggle in Syria, and especially in Rojava, is also a complex process due to Türkiye's attacks on infrastructure, ISIS's attack on Kobanê, and the sieges. In such processes, workers have faced harsh conditions such as attacks targeting their rights to life and work, murders, sieges, hunger, displacement policies, economic restrictions, widespread unemployment, injustice, and exploitation.”

In a statement expressing continued support for workers on the occasion of Labor Day, it was stated that the struggle would ensure the protection of workers and their families and strengthen the principles of social justice, and the following statements were included: “Organization and struggle are the only way to eliminate betrayal, exploitation, and social injustice. The only weapon of all workers is solidarity. We salute the resistance of the working class and emphasize that workers' rights are not a right granted by fate, but indisputable legal and ethical rights.”

The statement, which expressed wishes for security, stability, and a dignified life for all peoples throughout Syria and Rojava, included the following call: “We call on all the children of the Syrian people to see this day as an opportunity for unity and solidarity, to reject hate and hostility, and to thwart the conspiracies of those who seek to use the blood of the Syrian people for their own interests. Let us work together to build a democratic, pluralistic, and decentralized Syria where a dignified and free life is possible for all, and to strengthen the collaborative roles of Syrian and Kurdish women in production and resistance.”

The statement concluded by announcing that due to the current conditions in tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2748047
That wasn't in Damascus.

>>2797893
Changing the way things are calculated won't will industries into existance, buddy. And we don't even talk about how GDP is a false metric nobody's in charge of anything is using in practice

>>2797893
>>2798487
Also, GDP PPP is just a modifier on GDP, so it's shit as well.

I found out recently that the Chinese have been converting old J-6 airframes into kamikaze drones. https://theaviationist.com/2025/09/17/china-j-6-drone-conversion/

>>2798575
Big bada boom

Thousands expected to protest, march across WA on May Day
Calls for better pay and working conditions typically shape the annual protests. This year’s priority, Rubio said, will be sending government officials a “real clear message” to stop supporting or investing in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and the federal administration’s “massive deportation machine.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/thousands-expected-to-protest-march-across-wa-on-may-day/
https://archive.ph/ISzXD

May Day 2026 actions planned in Detroit
In metro Detroit, several gatherings are scheduled to take place on overpasses. In the city itself, the Metro Detroit AFL-CIO is expected to host a rally, and protest groups previously indicated a plan to march and some of those involved seek to flex the average citizen’s economic power by withholding spending and labor.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2026/04/30/may-day-2026-rally-detroit-no-work-strike-shopping-unions/89872052007/
https://archive.ph/RJGeK

Indivisible Charlottesville plans May Day protest, calls for work and shopping boycott
Indivisible Charlottesville and Cville DSA are calling on residents to break from their normal routines on May 1 and take part in a day of protest. The groups are asking people to avoid work, school and shopping for the day as a show of solidarity and economic pressure. “We are asking people to engage in no work, no school, and no shopping on May 1,” said Kathryn Laughon, who is on the board and Executive Committee of Indivisible Charlottesville.
https://www.29news.com/2026/04/27/indivisible-charlottesville-plans-may-day-protest-calls-work-shopping-boycott/

Chicago May Day protPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

It Used to Really Matter When People Fired Guns at Presidents
It’s an odd thing to wake up on a Monday after a weekend in which someone tried to assassinate the president of the USA, and feel absolutely nothing about it. As far as I know, the Washington Hilton doesn’t specialise in mogadon-laced mojitos. So, odder still to spend your Sunday reading reports of the gunfire at the hotel’s ballroom on Saturday night, only to find the press – many of whom were present at the White House Correspondents Dinner taking place at the time – going through the motions of reporting with all the passion of an ambien-zombie on a 2am fridge-raid. Meanwhile, online, people went berserk, pumping out oceans of theory on the basis of camera angles, slow-motion presidential micro-expressions and the alleged shooter’s slim LinkedIn profile. And maybe that’s what’s behind the detachment with which we encounter what ought to be a pretty big deal. We’re not dead inside (yay). But we’re drowning in meaning, smothered in significance, much of it deliberate, and from every angle. A glance across a coffee shop from a stranger? A gunshot across a ballroom from a danger? Bro, everything is romantic.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/04/27/it-used-to-really-matter-when-people-fired-guns-at-presidents/

Art, alienation, and revolution
In day-to-day life under capitalism and class society, the vast majority of people feel alienated from society, including from its greatest art and culture. In a revolution, all of this changes and is upended, as the masses move to change society. Consequently, in every revolution, there is almost always a corresponding artistic expression of ordinary people’s desire for freedom and a life worth living. The French Revolution, as Russian Marxist Georgi Plekhanov remarked, made art a matter for the masses, and not just the ruling class. The numerous holidays, processions, and celebrations based on the ideas of the revolution stand testament to that. The Russian Revolution did the same thing, by throwing open the doors to art and culture for the masses who had never before experienced it. The entire country, including the peasantry, was swept up in an “epidemic” of theatre, and agitprop trains brought sight and sound to people who had no experiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2795574
I can see violent or drug criminals being culled, if hes neither probably not other than from other inmates/guards or overcrowding.

>>2793570
TRVKE

>>2795602
what

>>2795672
those are the most likely types of criminals that will be an easy sell to the centrists for a mass execution campaign.

bump

>>2795484
>J. Sakai didn't spring up from nowhere
hmmmmmm

>>2795484
>What I meant to say is if Settlers was published in 1983 and J. Sakai didn't spring up from nowhere then saying Third Worldism is a "90s art project" seems historically inaccurate.
Sakai would most accurately probably be put as a partial result of the eclectic direction developed by post- Black Panther Party developments, after all intercommunalism already became a thing by the 70s.
American MZT/Maoist milieu is very insular and peculiar though, from an international perspective, so it's not really that odd that it often gets overlooked when people write about "Maoism" from an international basis (outlining things it has in common across terrains). For example from a personal perspective, as a non-american, I know I'm under-read on the Black Panthers post-repression in US history (the dense glowopping of it all doesn't make it easier either) and I've been reading about ML/Maoist stuff for multiple years at this point. It's way easier to get a picture of MLM from doing the reading on Philippines, India, etc.
But anyway that's why I think the OP also overlooks that national particularity that would probably have fleshed out the section on american MZT/MLM leading to contextual clarification on an environment. Black Panther Party, Black Liberation Army, 'intercommunalism' turn, Sakaiism, RCPUSA, ThirdWorldism, Avakianist deviationism. There's a lot of stuff there for sure. But very different from what was taking shape internationally as the international Maoist movement. Sakai and ThirdWorldism rejects the proletariat. Intercommunalism rejects hismat. RCPUSA/Avakianism rejects the ML and MZT on opposing Great Man worship.

>>2796372
Well yes, it's ironic that TWism seemingly never took root outside America itself. One could say with a tinfoil hat on that it is an ideology that conveniently absolves Americans of doing anything. This functional passivation is interestingly a characteristic it shares with the various strains of "critical theory" in the West. How unfortunate it is that it is precisely Americans doing something that would shake up the world the most. No, we must leave the responsibility of leading the world revolution to malnourished Somali pirates with AK-47s. Suggesting otherwise is fascism.

>>2794590
what bothers me in addition to them conflating ml and third worldism is that what they think is third worldism is not and what they think is anti-campism also is not and what they think is left communism also is not. its very obviously clueless liberal tourists not serious or orthodox or even trot but just illiterate retards

>>2797226
It's not the 90s anymore. Class politics are back on the menu. Fuck off lifestyles.

Veganism is irrelevant.

>>2797588
Only corpse eaters die of malnutrition. Ead da fuggin' salad, bloodmouf.

>>2797521
Farming is subsidized because there is a semblance of democracy left, subsidizing local industry is popular policy. Vegans products need to be labeled as what they because of laws against lying about what you're selling, shame you get fucked by consumer protection laws.

Blackrock lost millions on artificial meat, and Blackrock is just a "private" arm of the deep state

>>2797233
This.

Libertarian have no serious representation and constituency in real life so it can only live by sticking itself to conservatism or progressism. All left-libertarians support the dems, all right-libertarians support GOP.

>what happened?
Power. Any constituency once in power loses its revolutionary edge. The left now peddle conspiracy theories, but will call the plebs schizos in 4 years. Power makes people extremely dishonest.

>>2797158
There is only one ideological tenet to MAGA and it's Trump worship.
I'm not going to tell you that as a Libertarian you should do a 180 and become a communist, but you should understand that we're currently in a position where MAGA (and its adjacent rightoid sympathizers in every country) are perhaps the biggest threat to civilization today, a movement of dumb people who want to break things in dumb ways for dumb reasons. Richard Hanania is the only rightist I've seen who really, openly wants to grapple with this problem. When smart people become MAGA-adjacent, instead of lifting the average autism score of the MAGA movement, they drop their own intelligence down towards the MAGA level. (See Elon Musk for example. Always a redditor, now a retard to boot.)
The left, even the worst radlibs, aren't like this. My biggest pipe-dream is that leftists, liberals, and libertarians could find a short term truce while figuring out how to deal with them.

But it'll be tough because the average libertarian is really only in it for tax cuts, which is the dumbest part of the package. Deregulation and reduction of state interference in general are laudable goals on the whole. Overregulation is way more costly than "excessive" taxation, but of course, nobody's getting rich from the theoretical boons of deregulation while plenty of people are getting rich off gaming regulations, so material incentives to demand tax cuts are far greater…

trump stated out appearing to be anti establishment, 2016 trump was running against the neocons, on the pat Bucannon and ross Perot playbook

he accomplished nothing in his first term except eating hamberders and watching cnn

in his second term he went mask off, started a new stupid middle eastern war, ultra pro israel, might as well be a neocon

and no, voting democrat out of spite wont save you

>>2798354
>Brazil
It's always these fucking uyghurs, I have noticed brazilian posters are by far the worst.

The average proletarian in these countries will morally condemn their compatriots, but will fight tooth and nail to maintain the inequalities that allow this state of affairs.
>>2799041
>>2799042
>uygha this, uygha that, and Epsteinian fantasies
This tantrum stems from your lack of confidence in your own worldview.

>>2799164
You are an imbecile

>>2799377
>b…baka! (,,>﹏<,,)
Anything else?

>>2799042
Brazilian posters are the best because they instantly go on the offensive against racist western honkies like yourself who defend NATO imperialism. Long live the Brazilian working class. Long live the Brazilian proletariat!

>>2796865
even pre-marxist political economy knew the difference between wages, profit, interest, and rent… why are you playing dumb like this
>>2796875
what mental gymnastics led you to bring Deng into this

>>2796875
you WILL be rich

>>2796856
You only need wages if you want to buy commodities. If you say you don't want to be a hobo or live in the woods then you admit you want to be part of society (some might say the the nation) or have a family.

>>2796856
yes, that's correct, bravo

>>2797380
Voluntarism.

>>2797386
>Voluntarism
Involuntarism

>>2797388
>i uh i h-have free will, chud
No you dont

>>2797390
Who gives a shit about something as meaningless of a concept as free will?