/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2558769
The locals here told me, we dont care if the US bombs the muslims, in fact they should bomb them but we dont want the US invading.

R8

Kenyan Workers Get Abused Abroad. The President’s Family and Allies Profit.

The reports were piling in, one worse than the next. Kenyan maids working in Saudi Arabia had their passports confiscated, wages denied and food withheld. Some were beaten by their bosses for offenses as minor as not knowing how to operate a washing machine. Others were killed.

Instead of demanding that the Saudi government protect these women, President William Ruto of Kenya pledged to send even more workers to Saudi Arabia, more quickly and less prepared than before. And he instituted policies that made it more profitable for employment companies to do just that.

But today in Kenya, a New York Times investigation found, Mr. Ruto’s government functions as an arm of a staffing industry that sends poor workers abroad in droves. Politicians started their own employment companies to capitalize on the boom, and the government rolled back worker protections, maximizing industry profits.

Even Mr. Ruto’s family makes money. His wife and daughter are the largest shareholders of the staffing industry’s major insurance company, records show.

Lots of developing nations send workers to the Persian Gulf. Mr. Ruto’s government has built an entire economic policy around it. He proudly notes that remittances are now a bigger share of Kenya’s economy than tea and coffee, historically its most important exports.

Other nations have successfully pressed Saudi Arabia for stronger worker protections and increased wages. Kenya has not. Mr. Ruto’s government has positioned Kenyans as among the cheapest, least-protected workers in the marketplace.

Top officials play down clear evidence of abuse and blame Kenyan women for bringing violence upon themselves. Leading politicians treat any questions about mistreatment as obstacles to Mr. Ruto’s economic ambitions.
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Scusate, ma come al solito ho bighellonato troppo per altri cazzi e sono stato piuttosto assente - ogni tanto smerdo /ISG/ e 'sti stronzi ieri m'hanno pure bannato, ma ho fatto ricorso e ho vinto in appello, tiè! - ma l'USB ha proclamato lo sciopero generale il 28 novembre e un'altra manifestazione nazionale il 29.
Di questi tempi l'anno scorso Re Maurizio e i suoi paladini di Corso D'Italia avevano già proclamato il loro di sciopericchio autunnale. Ora non guardo più telegiornali e al massimo scorro qualche notizia su internet, ma se so' più fatti sentì oppure quest'anno passano proprio? Già hanno tentato di mettere il cappello all'ultimo minuto sul secondo sciopero generale di settembre, tecnicamente proclamato da uno dei vari Cobas e comunque promosso da loro, USB, CUB, SGB, ADL, CALP e varie altre sigle. Forse per quest'anno avranno pensato di aver già esagerato. Poi non parliamo degli amichetti della uil, che là dentro in molti sono risentiti col Bomba, il loro segretario generale, perché da almeno un paio d'anni va solo a rimorchio della cgil, ma poi ci rosicano perché rimangono comunque un'ombra di sindacato, un terzo incomodo fra la cgil che a questo giro fa finta di fare "rivolta sociale" contro il governo di destra e la cisl che s'è accreditata come sindacato anche ufficialmente allineato e ubbidiente alla Melonara - col loro ex segretario generale che ritiratosi dopo una travolgente carriera sindacale a febbraio, a giugno rimedia pure un simpatico incarico da sottosegretario alla presidenza del consiglio…

Is Italy tired of fascists again for a few more years, or is Meloni still seen as the zionist queen who will make the country great again?

>>2547558
Everything is going to shit even quicker and worst than usual. Just to give some perspective. In 2024 the PPP per capita average income was 95% of what it was in 2008, the year of the whole Lehman Brothers world financial clusterfuck and then the turbo-austerity on the 2010s. Aside from Greece, which is in even deeper shit, it's the worse result compared to every other euro-poor country. And things are crap everywhere, but they are just atrocious here.
I guess I have to come up with one of my ebin efforposts, but I guess I have to send a letter tonight. I'll try to come up with something for our beloved international anons anyway. If it's not tonight, it's gonna be tomorrow.
Btw, Georgia Malhoney is usually high on coke when she goes out in public.

What happening with this https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/italy-braces-two-national-strikes-union-rivalry-heats-up-2025-11-11/

>>2563442
CGIL is the biggest and oldest union, but they're one of the main causes of the current salary stagnation in Italy.
It's also stuffed with boomers and retirees, they don't give a fuck.

Nah

>>2564921
Terminally online slave.

>>2564467
Someone with ffmpeg help this man

>>2564143
>>2564470
I managed to upload it

>>2563266
coal

>>2564817
lmao i loved this game. super simple and open source too so you can add your own things. very fun.
Hope you sent Erik out at the beginning to pan-handle you some funds!

>>2546842
lol @ including Missouri in the Confederacy, when they not only weren't, but were where the biggest Communist uprising in the US happened.

Meds

no lmao

>>2564841
yes kek

What’s the solution?

honestly not being allowed to translate hebrew but still being allowed to translate every other language is going to make people ask MORE questions, not fewer

xitter is a shithole with 90% bot traffic, there is absolutely no reason to go there and every reason not to

>>2564447
and yet it is shilled as important still and TV media will now discuss tweet screenshots

>>2564452
We shouldn't listen to the media eitehr

>Looking at the "what is Communism" thread
Shit thread, clearly anticommunist bait
>looking for a country where a Trotskyite revolution CAN succeed, and dedicating efforts to decisively win elections there.
wtf

Are you retarded and/or glowing

basically, all you want is LARP socialism / Marxism. Marxism demands praxis, not being bitches of social Dems and fascists.

You have three choices: rear-guardism in the core, or being social Democrat whores. Revolutionary death in some insurgency somewhere, I think only the Naxalites are still active and prominent. Or, moving to an ML country and conducting normal praxis there, by paying your taxes and accelerating socialist development.

I'm suggesting a fourth: find a core country vulnerable enough to the periphery and semi-periphery that has the conditions necessary for electoral victory, and then do it. Then build up counter hegemony from state backing, while under effective semi-periphery protection and support.

>>2564410
Y'know I've heard this point echoed a bunch of times before, sometimes accompanied by that "I can't believe we lost gamers to the right!" tweet but here's the thing: There's a less than zero requirement to "like" lootboxes or "games as a service" on "the right". You've got shit like Asmongold mocking the sheer greed of Activision-Blizzard's Bobby Kotick into a meme. Like at no point was there some understanding "Humm, yes, because of the class composition and the material forces at play I shall support lootboxes to own the feminists" or whatever. It was a battle that, as >>2564736 said, people lost.

I remember when it was controversial to release a game unfinished then patch it later, now we've got early access. Horse Armor DLC was mocked but now every AAA game with multiplayer makes a killing selling skins. Like, no offense, it seems like you're implying "you're only allowed to dislike one thing."

Like let me use another example: the music industry. You had shit like Tipper Gore going after bands who hit the mainstream but had "inappropriate" lyrics. Now the record industry as a whole is shit, it often completely fleeces artists, its extremely litigious and obsessed with copyright. Are people suddenly not supposed to be upset that a couple of dumbass politicians were trying to act as moral arbiters over the whole genre? What do you personally think gets talked about more and gets more people outraged: corporations being money-grubbing assholes, which is a constant, or the local moral police howling "Won't somebody please THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!"

Ditto for comicbooks: everyone talks about the bad old days of the Comic Code Authority, you've got Garth Ennis whose made it his whole fucking career to express the resentment he feels for the CCA turning Superheroes into the primary genre of western comics. How many people talk about comic book publishers choosing to move away from the old model of selling comic books in super markets and towards specialty retailers? Even people who aren't into comics broadly know about the CCA, they don't often know how, for example, Bill Finger was fucked over by Bob Kane who took sole credit for Batman for years.

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>>2555895
>why did college students drop the communist facade once they became working professionals
Truly a mystery.

>>2564761
dudebros were never communist, they were basically always right wing or lolbert

>>2564762
>were never communist
i mean neither are left-liberals yet here we are pretending ideology is a spectrum of ideas that can be pushed to either "side"

Dudebro culture now is working a trade and coming home to have a couple beers. Same as it's always been, difference is now there's now wife and kids to come home to. The reason it's "right wing" now is a result of feminism being a part of popular culture. The guys married or at the very least getting laid aren't the guys complaining. It's just another excuse to blame the liberals or at the other end the jews. So take it with a grain of salt, it isn't that serious. It's easier for normies to see the cultural reasons for them not getting a GF than the the material ones. Same as always

At Least 12 Somali Civilians—Including 8 Children—Killed in Suspected US Airstrikes
The Somali Guardian reported that the strikes occurred near the southern Somali town of Jamame in the Lower Juba region. In addition to the 12 civilians killed, nine others were reportedly wounded in the attack.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-airstrikes-somalia-civilians

EPA moves to limit scope of clean water law to reduce amount of wetlands it covers
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it is redefining the scope of the nation’s bedrock clean water law to significantly limit the wetlands it covers, building on a Supreme Court decision two years ago that removed federal protections for vast areas.
https://apnews.com/article/epa-clean-water-act-wetlands-protection-farmers-0b2447e3bfd86f4766d4ef74edcd6dbd

Democrats seek to halt Trump’s reported plan to sell off student loan portfolio
The Democrats argue it is illegal to strip borrowers of certain protections and the Trump administration in the sale of the portfolio could go after income-driven repayment programs, death and disability discharges and relief for those defrauded by their schools. It could also cause losses to the taxpayer, according to Democrats. The law states the student loan portfolio cannot be sold at the expense of the taxpayer.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5608859-trump-student-loan-portfolio-debt-relief-warren/
https://archive.ph/S819S

Ted Cruz sets stage for 2028 run with Tucker jabs
Cruz, the runner-up to Trump in the 2016 GOP primary, has been taking steps toward a presidential run. He's been hitting the speaker's circuit, including with recent appearances before the Miami-Dade Republican Party and the Maverick PAC, an organization geared toward young conservatives.
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Interview With the PFLP Political Relations Abdullah Al-Danan — “Resistance Lives in the Hearts of the Palestinian People”
After all the dramatic events from October 7, 2023, up to the ceasefire, how do you assess the situation in Gaza? Do you believe Israel will abide by the ceasefire and the other agreed-upon terms?
The situation in Gaza is, of course, dire. There are more than 70,000 martyrs, over 10,000 missing persons, and more than 100,000 wounded — many of them amputees. As for adherence to the ceasefire, we do not trust this Zionist entity or this enemy. We have no faith in its promises, nor in those who have guaranteed this agreement. (Israel, editors note) has already violated the deal. Today, three martyrs were killed in Gaza. This morning, the ceasefire was breached in the eastern part of the Strip — just as it has been in Lebanon, where the number of violations has now exceeded 6,000. We have no confidence in this agreement. As some officials noted today, even the American president declared that he would give the green light for renewed bombings if Hamas failed to return the bodies of dead Zionist captives. This agreement is not guaranteed — unfortunately. But there are also factors preventing this entity from continuing the war in Gaza as before. Israel has not achieved any of the goals it set out at the beginning of its aggression. Not a single one. As Netanyahu himself admitted in the Knesset, he paid a heavy price in Gaza for attempting to free the Zionist captives. At first, the aggression began with the occupation of Gaza. Then came economic projects aimed at turning Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” followed by divisions between Arab and international forces.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/22978/

The BBC ‘coup’: A ruling class at war with itself
In the 1940s, the BBC lied about the extent of anti-colonial sentiment in India to justify British rule. And then, in the 1950s, it whitewashed British atrocities in Kenya. In the 1970s, the BBC explicitly ramped up its pro-Tory bias in the face of industrial unrest, reaching a pinnacle in the 1980s, when it doctored footage of the Miners’ Strike to cover up police violence. In the 2000s, the BBC was weaponised by the ruling class to whip up support for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And in the 2010s, it repeatedlPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thanks News Anon

>>2563408
there's a lot of 'definitions' of what 'communism' is as a mode of governance or a state of affairs, but one that I personally find useful is that Communists understand politics as essentially class warfare, as a fundamentally adversarial relationship between 'Capitalists' - those who 'own' the 'means of production', things like factories, housing, equipment, land, resources, but do not need to perform labor to survive - and the 'Proletariat' or 'Workers' - those that do not own property, but must sell their labor to the capitalist class to survive.

the power dynamics at play mean that the Capitalist class will always pay the Proletariat less than the actual value of their labor, keeping the majority of the value that the laborers created for the Capitalist class as Profit. If they did not do this, they would by definition not have any profit whatsoever. but since they do, the capitalist class has more resources with which to control and direct society.

so Communists, using this analytical framework, seek to engage equally in this class warfare on behalf of the Proletariat rather than the Capitalists. Communists seek a 'class dictatorship of the proletariat', or a state of government that serves the needs and interests of the Proletariat rather than those of the Capitalist class. This often looks something like a representative democracy in function, the difference is in the domination of the capitalist class by the proletariat class, rather than vice versa under capitalism. where a capitalist democracy is ruled by those with the most money (and therefore power/influence over media/social life/the material conditions that reproduce society), a proletarian democracy is ruled by a Communist Party which is constituted such as to reduce the influence of the Capitalist class, with strict ideological requirements and vetting of prospective members, and maintaining democratic rather than private control over the means of production.

>>2564309
historically illiterate, ignoring the massive, massive amounts of capitalist repression of emerging socialist governments. your argument is basically 'Well the nazis are so good at fighting i guess its a bad idea to fight them', pure cowardice, self-serving nihilism, imperialist apologia at worst.

>>2564330
I will be honest, I would not fight the nazis if I had no chance of winning. Would I sacrifice myself if life under nazism was dogshit? Maybe. But you cannot ignore that most communist faults are self-inflicted. Infighting and forcing everything to be under one umbrella creates so many unsolvable problems. Imagine trying to regulate every facet of your body, the breathing, the sweating, the digestion, your brain would be exhausted if not dead from overwork. And yet AES countries did exactly that. Notice how the socialist countries that had higher standards of living allowed for more independence.

Ukrtankanon, champsoc, you wanna get in on this? The dog pile looks like the Pentagon's new target and I can't be arsed to config DeepSeek to generate counter Claude content.

>>2563786
Flat out lies, given that the Soviet Union industrialized, that China went from a war torn shithole, to a nuclear power shit hole, then to a technological juggernaut approximating Western demsocs without electoralism.

Honestly, at this point, thank you for convincing me that Trotskyites should succeed somewhere in the West, just to break the Western propaganda line and give strength to socialist movements, as much as the Russian and Chinese revolutions broke the capitalist cordon in semi periphery and periphery countries.