/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Due to recent events in the news cycle putting a spotlight on Somalia, I'd like to remind people that Somalia has a socialist past that is completely unknown to most people. It was called the Somali Democratic Republic and its history with the USSR was mixed mostly due to the controversial figure Siad barre (picrel).

The most notable thing about the state was its literacy campaign. On August 1st, 1974, Somalia embarked on a revolutionary literacy campaign that defied global expectations. Against all advice, the government sent newly graduated students, armed only with whiteboards, chalk, and books, to teach nomadic populations across vast semi-desert landscapes. These young educators, who had just learned a brand new Somali script themselves, took on the monumental task of teaching reading and writing to unlettered communities. In less than a year, Somalia's literacy rate skyrocketed from a mere 15% to over 80%, earning the country a UNESCO award.

The republic eventually collapsed in 1991 due to rebel groups backed by Ethiopia which in turn was backed by the United States and lead to Somalia's civil war that is ongoing to this day.

French opposition parties seek to topple government over Mercosur
The far-left France Unbowed (LFI) party put forward a motion on Friday morning, while the far-right National Rally (RN) said it would also launch one against the European Commission chief in Brussels.
https://www.reuters.com/world/french-opposition-parties-seek-topple-government-over-mercosur-2026-01-09/

Thousands of Irish farmers protest against EU-Mercosur trade deal
Tractors streamed into the roads of Athlone, in central Ireland, for the demonstration, displaying signs bearing the slogan “Stop EU-Mercosur” and the EU flag emblazoned with the words “sell out”. The protests followed similar actions on Friday in Poland, France and Belgium as the EU gave the green light to the trade deal, which has been welcomed by business groups but heavily criticised by European farmers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/10/thousands-of-irish-farmers-protest-against-eu-mercosur-trade-deal

Reform accused of ‘total betrayal’ after raising council tax by nearly 4%
In real terms, an average Band D household will see council tax increase by an estimated £67.47 per year. KCC Liberal Democrat opposition leader Antony Hook said: “Reform stood for election promising to make savings and lower the burden on taxpayers. “Today, that promise has been utterly broken.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/reform-accused-total-betrayal-after-raising-council-tax-nearly-4

Quebec imposes pro-landlord rent “reform” amid unprecedented housing crisis
Adopted in the face of widespread popular opposition, the new framework, which came into force on January 1, 2026, radically shifts power in favour of landlords and real estate investors, allowing them to impose bigger rent hikes at the expense of tenants, who are overwhelmingly working-class.
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NEVER FORGET THAT BEAUTIFUL DAY!

🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
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• Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion

• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories

• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)
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Hello!

I am a teaching assistant who provides emotional and academic support to students with special needs at a public (government) school. I joined this job in part for its capacity to provide me access to the American labor movement such that I can assess its shortcomings. In what felt almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy, I would soon discover one almost immediately after becoming a union representative at my school.

Essentially, myself and my co-workers were duped into voting for a union leadership and city council that had put forward a bill offering a $10,000 bonus (with provided funding sources through the legislation. Union leadership insisted it was a no-brainer and 47/50 city council members were outright sponsors on the bill.

Tl;Dr: in spite of what was OSTENSIBLY overwhelming support to the powers that be, the political will of both the politicians and leadership dissipated as soon as election day had come and past. Like a fool, I said as much to my co-workers and have let them down tremendously. I have to make this up.

As an American public sector employee, it is illegal for our union to hold strikes and Americans do not have the political will for a wildcat. After some analysis, I have concluded that the most productive avenue I can take is to begin a hunger strike on the last day of school for students demanding that the bill be brought to a vote. I am fairly sure at this point that it is the only course of action viable to affect change for my co-workers, who are in desperate need of this additional income due to cost of living increases in spite of their living in the epicenter of the imperial core.

Do you, anon, think this is the right course of action for myself at this time? If so, do you have any tips for how I can execute this without literally killing myself? Can answer any clarifying questions you might have.

The 2010s marked the effective end of most remaining communist insurgencies. Although many had been in decline for years, it was during that decade that they finally collapsed. The Naxal movement, communist insurgencies in Africa and Southeast Asia, and the last remnants of the IRA either fizzled out or ended with arrests after failed attacks and raids. In 2023, the Zapatistas dissolved their Autonomous Municipalities. The conflicts that leftist magazines and academics once wrote papers about and sometimes even traveled to for the occasional photoshoot are now over, so what is to done?

THE IDEAL WINNING 2028 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM

As a supporter of the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, I obviously realize that the Democrats are a Controlled Opposition Party who exist to keep the Workers and Oppressed Nations/Internal Colonies of Naw Afrika, Aztlan, the First Nations, inside the U$ corralled and controlled, while the dominant ruling Crypto-Fascist Christian Zionist Nationalist MAGAtard Republicans transform the U$ into a Full-Blown Fascist Police State, which combined with the fact that the U$ is a Prison house of Nations, which treats the Black/New Afrikan, Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo, and First Nations/Native American population like they are not U$ citizens (Trump ending birthright citizenship will probably transform this from a De facto to a De jure reality by officially stripping citizenship from most of these populations), with them essentially acting as a permanent domestic underclass with essentially no rights that are exploited for cheap labor and disproportionately suffer from Mass incarceration and police brutality, with their neighborhoods essentially under De facto occupation by militarized police, as New Afrika, Aztlan, and the First Nations, are Internal Colonies/Oppressed Nations inside of the U$, and their National Liberation should be the number one goal of U$ Communists as stipulated by Lenin’s principle of Self-Determination for all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR, which will happen once World War III escalates into a Global Nuclear War that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global USSR (all of the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are pictured in the map I posted, with the former U$ Balkanized into a New African SSR that includes the Black/New Afrikan majority counties of the Black Belt, a Hispano-American SFSR that includes the Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo majority counties in the U$ Southwest, along with the rest of the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas, while the White Settler majority regions in the rest of the former U$ becomes part of the Anglo-American SFSR, which also includes the English-speaking provinces of Canada, as Quebec will become its own SSR, with all the Native American reservations becoming ASSRs) to Place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

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Communism is neither related to "Leftism" nor "Socialism", in fact these reformist movements are antithetical to Communism.

Before some illiterate dumbass takes this as lazy "sectarianism", this was the key issue the Communist International meant to settle. In fact the entire Comintern was born out of the contradiction between the revolutionary content of Marxism and reformist nature of leftism, the murder of German communists at the hands of their left-socialist "comrades" cemented this seemingly forever (clearly not)

>In this connection all those parties that wish to belong to the Communist International must change their names. Every party that wishes to belong to the Communist International must bear the name Communist Party of this or that country (Section of the Communist International). The question of the name is not formal, but a highly political question of great importance. The Communist International has declared war on the whole bourgeois world and on all yellow social-democratic parties. The difference between the communist parties and the old official 'social-democratic' or 'socialist' parties that have betrayed the banner of the working class must be clear to every simple toiler.
<Twenty-one Conditions, Comintern 1919

Going further back to Marx, this distinction was evident (hence the "communist" manifesto)

>in 1847, socialism was a middle-class movement, communism a working-class movement. Socialism was, on the Continent at least, “respectable”; communism was the very opposite. And as our notion, from the very beginning, was that “the emancipation of the workers must be the act of the working class itself,” there could be no doubt as to which of the two names we must take. Moreover, we have, ever since, been far from repudiating it.
<Preface to the 1872 German Edition

>But why were the terms later used exchangeably by the early days of Lenin?
Simply, they were not. By "social democrats" Lenin was strictly referring to the membership of the SPD and its analogous party in Russia who upheld the doctrine of Marx at the time until the German SPD broke away from it.

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What is leftypol's opinion on Valery Sablin, the Marxist-Leninist naval officer who staged a mutiny against Brezhnev's government, and was executed for it, in 1975?

Feel free to dump any resources you have relating to the topic aswell.

who here has /seen the light/?

understood the necessity of reform and opening up in the west

by reform of course i mean revolution

by opening up of course i mean abolishing the state

Do you guys see the left capturing any meaningful gains in the next twenty years? What countries do you guys believe are most primed for revolution? Do you believe communism will die in this century?