/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>"Prostitution is the outlet of too many bourgeois. One turns the son of the poor man into a slave and his daughter into a courtesan. The exploiter class asks for your sons to degrade them, Your daughters to rape them, you and your wives to exploit you. Watch out Parisians. Long Live Anarchy! Long live the commune!"

Albert Libertad, 1898

https://gowans.blog/2026/03/01/what-might-lenin-have-thought-about-the-us-israeli-war-on-iran-and-the-war-in-ukraine/
Interesting article from a Marxist foreign policy analyst who's written a few books, notably on Syria and Korea.

Lebanese government orders army to avoid fighting Israel's ground assault
There was a previous order for the army to resist any ground incursion, but political authorities decided the situation could not sustain confrontation and instructed no engagement with the Israeli army. Yesterday, the Israeli army announced the launch of forward defence operations in northern towns.
https://www.newarab.com/news/lebanese-government-orders-army-avoid-fighting-israel

Iranian officials say Israel carried out some of the drone strikes on Gulf energy sites
Two other Iranian sources told MEE that Israel's foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, had carried out some of the drone attacks, adding that the Islamic Republic had detected their activity on Iranian soil. They said that authorities were in the process of locating the warehouses used by the Mossad to store their drones and that Iran was committed to "taking them all out". "We would not be surprised if there are such warehouses and operational rooms in other countries in the region that Israel would use to target our Gulf neighbours from," one of the sources said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-officials-say-israel-carried-out-some-drone-strikes-gulf-energy-sites

US submarine sinks Iranian warship as conflict spreads beyond Middle East
At least 87 Iranian sailors were killed in the attack on the Iris Dena on Wednesday. The frigate was sailing in international waters as it returned from a naval exercise organised by India in the Bay of Bengal. The torpedo strike prompted questions from former US officials about whether Washington’s aim of eliminating all of Iran’s military breached international law.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/04/us-submarine-torpedo-iran-warship-sri-lanka-coast-pete-hegseth

Prominent Iraqi women's rights activist Yanar Mohammed killed by gunmen in suspected assassination
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The Communist Party, which has loyally supported the war in Ukraine, has become a target of the Kremlin.

In Russia, even supporting President Vladimir Putin's war policy is not necessarily enough as the security apparatus seeks to eradicate all opposition activity from the country.

This has been experienced firsthand by the Putin-loyal Communist Party, which has now found itself in the authorities' crosshairs, reports the Moscow Times.

The Communist Party is the second-largest party in Russia after Putin's United Russia, holding 57 seats in the 450-seat State Duma.
The party is part of the so-called systemic opposition that nominally opposes the regime but in practice supports Putin on all major issues.

In addition to the Communists, the systemic opposition is represented by the conservative and nationalistic Liberal Democratic Party (despite its name), the nominally social democratic A Just Russia party, and the self-proclaimed liberal New People party.

Before the war in Ukraine, the systemic opposition parties were allowed minor deviations from the official line, but nowadays they are expected to support Putin's line ever more unanimously.

"For those opposing the military actions, it may seem like there is no opposition at all, as all parties represented in parliament officially support the 'special military operation,'" summarized Stanislav Andreychuk of the Russian election monitoring organization Golos to the Moscow Times in April.

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So give the fact US invasion of Greenland went from provocative joke to a realistic possibility, what are the chances of European governments getting their shit together?

COMRADES OF LEFTYPOL, ERIK HOUDINI NEEDS YOUR SOLIDARITY
Houdini has been arrested.
https://gofund.me/826555a5f

He is in deep Florida country. Anons in Florida, please do what you can for him. Those who can make online payments, please help him.

Pasting the message from his comrades:
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TL;DR Our friend Erik is in jail for allegedly trolling a right wing influencer, Kaitlin Bennet, and we’re putting together a bail fund for him. If we don't get him out in 10 days or locate a foster the local animal shelter may put down his dog.

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Hey everyone. We do not come here lightly and it is with a heavy heart that we come to you and ask for monetary assistance. Not for ourselves but for a dear friend of ours who was arrested Tuesday February 24th 2026 by the police.

Sometime in November of 2025, not long after the Kirk assassination, our friend allegedly got into a conflict on Instagram with a right wing influencer, Kaitlin Bennet, when she visited their city. In this conflict he allegedly referenced Kirk's assassination and that was enough for her to take these as threats on her life and call the police on him and an investigation was conducted where they allegedly found evidence of plans to harass Bennet next time she visits their City.
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ITALIANS DO IT BETTER

Manica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.

When it first emerged, Muscovy, more known today as Moscow, is hardly the world metropolis we know it is today. In fact, it was hardly a city, as much as it was a neighbourhood of mudhuts created as an outpost for the much wealthier slavic states of Rostov and Vladimir.

Everything changed when the Mongol Empire came. You see, the princes of Moscow responded to the invaders with a very unique ideology called pragmatism. Instead of raising noise about defying the Great Satan (of Mongol imperialism), or declaring a military Flood against the Tatar settler colonialism in Crimea, or even God forbid trying to forment some sort of Slavic Axis of Resistance against the invaders, Moscow took the opposite approach. They flattered the Tatars, they gave their daughters to the Mongol khans, and they even plundered other fellow Slavs on behalf of their Mongol overlords. What despicable comprador behaviour!

But see, this pragmatism not only spare them the destruction that was inflicted on rebellious slavic states like Tver (who suffer the fate of a violent regime change engineered by the Mongols), it also allowed them to grow rapidly; so rapid, in fact, that they eventually gained enough strength to topple the Tatar opressors.
That is the key, my friend. Pragmatism, knowing your limits, and long term view of things. Not ideologically charged rhetorics about defying imperialism, not waging suicidal wars simply because you have the moral high ground. Pragmatism is what will defeat imperialism.

Now, this is just a quirky historical post, and certainly has no bearing on the current geopolitical situation in the Middle East and Iran and Palestine specifically. Whatever lessons you want to infer from this post exist solely in your mind.

I've noticed a lot of concerning patterns in regards to the direct parallels between the Fascist movements of Europe and that of Burma that are in conjunction with the Tatmadaw. The reason first and foremost being that of ideological similarity between the two movements, typically when you look at specifically European fascist they often center on race and a complete unassailable focus on the state sidelining things like religion, the true form of culture inherited from respective nation but it has never, and I mean never focused on religion.

This is until the rise of the 969 movement which although fully formed as a cultural and political movement in the 2010s[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/969_Movement]. With said movement going back to the main leader joining the 969 movement in 2001[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/969_Movement]. Their main emphasis and messaging being on the protection of Burmese/Buddhist culture and the majority race of Myanmar from Muslims. Which sounds scathingly similar to the messaging utilized by the European far-right as of current which is a complete branching out compared to older and less contemporary far-right European movements which often, as I've stated have a total or near focus on race.

The 969 movement also happens to utilize the same methods of transmission utilized by the European far-right, being through social media in the form of Facebook, symbolism through flags or esoteric symbols or dog whistles such as "969". But none of these tactics were seen in the 21st century European far-right until they were utilized by the Burmese far-right which shows greater support for the potentiality of collaboration or at least implicit admiration occuring from the European far-right towards the Burmese far-right as the 969 movement had been the ones who pioneered this much earlier. This is then also supported by how European far-right activity even in the 2010s were relatively limited with the only center of these exact methods/tactics being solely from Burma. These said propaganda tactics firstly started with the propagation of Wirathu's messaging the the 2000s form of propaganda in the form of CDs [Post too long. Click here to view the full text.