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House votes to nullify Trump order and restore bargaining rights for federal workers
Nearly two dozen House Republicans joined Democrats Thursday to pass a bill that would restore collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees, an attempt to overturn an executive order that President Donald Trump issued earlier this year.
https://apnews.com/article/democrats-trump-federal-worker-union-rights-republicans-1bbd71bb6236aa2ff2c3b816e54327a1

Drivers at Amazon warehouse in Woodside seek to unionize with Teamsters
Drivers at Amazon’s DBK1 warehouse in Woodside marched to the facility Dec. 9 to deliver the news to management, joining almost 10,000 Amazon workers across five states who have outlined plans to join the union, according to Teamsters.
https://qns.com/2025/12/drivers-amazon-warehouse-unionize-teamsters/

Noem accused of misleading Congress about early hearing departure to canceled meeting
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) moved to subpoena Noem to reappear before the panel, saying she shirked her duties and may have even lied about needing to attend a meeting of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Council convened to determine the future of the disaster agency.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5644770-noem-dhs-thompson-fema/

==Federal judge orders FEMA to restore billions in canceled disaster mitigation funding
The program’s disruption upended projects across hundreds of communities in both Republican- and Democratic-led states, thwarting plans to improve stormwater drainage, harden electrical lines and even help relocate households living in areas most vulnerable to disasters.
https://apnews.com/article/fema-bric-funding-disasters-trump-restore-50def95a599645b4fa3062c6547c6a3d
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60,000 multimillionaires own 3 times more wealth than half the world’s population
A new report from the World Inequality Lab, the product of four years of comprehensive research, finds that economic inequality on a world scale continues to increase by leaps and bounds, with vast wealth concentrated in a tiny handful of billionaires and centi-millionaires. As the report’s foreword declares: "The data presented here are striking. The richest 10% of the global population own close to three-quarters of all wealth, while the poorest half hold barely 2%. Fewer than 60,000 multi-millionaires now control three times more wealth than half of humanity combined. Within most countries, the bottom 50% rarely possess more than 5% of national wealth. "
The World Inequality Lab was established through efforts to investigate global inequality initially spearheaded by economists Thomas Piketty, Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, co-authors of a series of studies on the concentration of wealth and income. According to the report, the wealthiest 0.001 percent have seen their share of the world’s wealth grow from 4 percent to 6 percent since 1995, while the bottom half of the world’s population controls only 2 percent. Multimillionaires have increased their wealth by approximately 8 percent each year over the past three decades, nearly twice the rate of the bottom half of the population.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/11/rzdx-d11.html

An AI-Powered Stock Market
The stock market is, plainly, no longer simply a concern of the elite. “We like to joke that the markets are not the economy,” Peter Atwater of Financial Insyghts recently told Bloomberg, “but we’ve reached a point now where the economy is the markets.” In past articles, I’ve covered the rise and risks of retail investing for everyday Americans. To recap: a majority of Americans now own stocks; young women are the fastest growing demographic of investors; and the onset of “commission free” trading has lured millions of us into high-risk trading in speculative stocks and the derivatives market. All of this has taken place under the guise of words like access, equality, and democratization. Yet recent weeks has seen a spread of predictions of a bubble — and cracks beginning to show in the consumer economy as well as private crePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>2579375
Material conditions.
If you come from a wealthy background, you have better access to education, food, living conditions, etc. It's simple reality.

>Sure, but how doesn‘t that make THEM the historic subject?
It doesn't work that way. The material conditions of society shapes the man, not the other way around.
<Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.

>>2593345
To expand on this, what do you think would happen if you transported Napoleon to today's world? Do you think he would've had the same impact? Of course not. He would no longer be relevant, his actions would be meaningless.
The material conditions of society are the ones that determine history.

>>2593412
Uhhh guess who's the driving force of society…

>>2593518
It’s not the proletariat or the bourgeois

Fidels dad was literally a slave owner

Ángel Castro once had 500 Haitians working for him, and at the time of his death 400 Haitians on the estate.[1]: 28  Castro prospered and was eventually able to buy 1800 hectares and lease a further 10,000 hectares of land which yielded pine wood, livestock, and sugarcane. It is said that this prosperity was due in part to harsh treatment of his mostly Haitian workers, and various illegal exploits. Although perhaps slightly inaccurate in detail, there is a vivid description of late 1920s life, especially in reference to the plight of Haitian contract labour at Antilla and Banes in Bancroft in the northern part of what was then Oriente province.[7] Later in life Fidel recalled his father's corruption, buying votes from the existing political classes, but by the standards of the day he was probably less harsh than many proprietors. During the winter he would hire redundant workers from neighbouring plantations to weed the ground. He was an obeisant man, kind to his children, spoiled them even, and rarely lost his temper, except at dominoes. By the 1950s Ángel was worth about $500,000 (equivalent to $5,900,000 in 2024).

>>2553352
Yeah it's funny that you literally can not refute a single thing I said. Go run to the mods, little cuck

He had 19 cats. He's based 🐈

>>2548176
posts that aged like milk

>>2591280
>>Wants the Party to lead the revolution
Bureaucrat.
>>Wants to establish councils/re-establish multiparty elections within the scope of socialism once the revolution abolishes capitalism
It'd be contradictory to have one party leading the working class and to then have multiparty elections, that would defeat the party's purpose. Also political parties are bourgeois.
>>Wants to be worldwide so that the bourgeoisie can't establish itself somewhere else
Yeah but how does that actually happen?
>The ML actions don't seem to have been this excellent too
Which proves that they're both impotent.

I can't speak to historical divisions as I've never found Trotsky that worthwhile as a theorist. I still don't understand what permanent revolution would mean in a practical sense had Trotsky taken power in the 20s, and Stalin ended up siding with the left of the party by the end of the 20s anyway.

As an organiser in Britain, I have frequent contact with Trots. They vary depending on the party.

> Socialist Party
Honestly, these guys are fine. They're a key part of TUSC which is a worthwhile project. They tend to have good links with local councils and, in my limited experience, will engage with MLs in good faith. They're not very radical so this probably helps avoid pointless sectarian bickering, or maybe I've only spoken with the good ones.

> SWP
They're sort of okay, I guess. Some of the work they do, like the People's Assembly and Stop the War, is important and MLs work alongside them. Individually they're often fairly based older ladies who genuinely give a fuck and will work with you in good faith. As an org they're hopelessly committed to entryism and we've all heard the horror stories of how they lie and cheat and subvert collective movements to their organisational goals. The classic symbol of this is how they show up to broad left events with protest signs with their name plastered on it - just so lame and bad faith lol. They get a lot of work done but for little use - quite impressive how busy they are without their work going anywhere meaningful.

>RCP (formally Socialist Appeal)
Yeah, these guys suck really, really bad. Their political project is based on having the most radical and correct opinions, and then educating everyone to agree with these opinions. This is why they only sell newspapers and run internal educationals, because they think revolution entails convincing the working class to agree with their very limited and idealist interpretation of Marxism. They don't need to base their movement on the working class and their experiences because they already have the Correct Opinions TM. Any meaningful organisation within the working class is a waste of time and there's always an excuse to not do it - bureaucratic unions and such like.

Individually, they're almost always objectionable in their interactions with MLs. Just looking to pick a fight and bicker away. Actually, this is how they behaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trotsky is OK but trotskyists are not.
In my country, trotskyists just repeat the liberal's geopolitical positions. They're all "free ukraini", "down with Maduro!", "Cuba's a dictatorship", and on and on. All they care about is "being right" and selling newspapers. They don't have the slightest interest in taking power.

>>2592540
I agree, he still did damage to the international movement, but it was inevitable imo.

>>2593356
Sure, Deng made retarded choices. But was Mao any better after the Sino-Soviet Split and the "le hegemon" nonsense?

>>2570436
>genz
>mostly elderly
Huh

It looks like the Nepal thread is gone, so I'm posting this here. I hope everyone that said this "gen z" shit wasn't a color revolution is ready to apologize.

US regime change front funded Nepalese youth revolutionaries, leaks reveal

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/12/10/cia-front-funded-nepal-revolutionaries/

>Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone show the US gov’t covertly funded Nepalese youth groups in the run-up to a violent coup. The “Gen Z” shadow army mobilized as the US sought to neutralize Chinese and Indian influence over Kathmandu – now controlled by a leader chosen by an informal social media poll.

>The US government’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) spent hundreds of thousands of dollars tutoring dozens of Nepalese youth on “strategies and skills in organizing protests and demonstrations” prior to a violent coup which overthrew the government of Nepal in September 2025, leaked documents show.

>The documents reveal a clandestine campaign organized by an NED division known as the International Republican Institute (IRI) that sought to cultivate a Nepalese “network” of young political activists explicitly designed to “become an important force to support US interests.” The leaked documents note that the IRI’s program “connects vibrant youth… and political leaders” and “provides comprehensive trainings on how to launch advocacy campaigns and protests.”

>The demonstrations organized under the NED’s umbrella would relate to “issues selected” by the Institute and its local collaborators, thereby “ensuring the U.S. concerns with Nepal’s democracy [would] be resolved,” an IRI report stated. As The Grayzone reported, a similar effort by the IRI in Bangladesh helped generate a coup in August 2024.

>>2592415
glad to know even that close to the border,China just let the governements be couped for the lulz.
The CIA really is the only secret service allowed to do actual work to further their country interests once again.

>>2592415
Unbelievable how correct we always turn out to be man. Literally NED funded and managed lmfao. All those people screeching mad because we were skeptical and called it a color revolution, where are they now? I will accept their apology in the form of Japanese ritual suicide harakiri >>2592485
>This is China's fault somehow
Lol

Video shows just how retarded lawmakers prohibiting THC are.

Total 420chan refugee death

>>2592839
American WODigger

>>2589757
awwww hell naw the #PolPotPosting was deleted❗❗

>>2592419
Really appreciate your work on KR, this is probably the most informative thread on /leftypol/ right now.
For now I have a question that's probably a bit funny, but I'm curious. There are a few pictures on the internet of alleged Pol Pot statues that are now stored in the Tuol Sleng Museum. Yet at the same time we are told that Angkar was 100% secretive and no one was allowed to know the identity of "Comrade One".
Do you know of any sources confirming that these statues were displayed in public?

>>2592432
thank you anon („• ֊ •„) i wouldn't consider this to be much work though, mostly copy-pasting random material i find somewhat interesting due to various reasons. thank you for paying attention♡
>There are a few pictures on the internet of alleged Pol Pot statues that are now stored in the Tuol Sleng Museum.
yes honestly i was also rather surprised by these (genuine) statues at S-21/Tuol Sleng, especially with the vietnamese Kampuchea Dossier 3: The Dark Years pamphlet stating this in particular:
<In the two workshops [at Tuol Sleng presumably just after the Vietnamese discovery], busts and portraits of Pol Pot are seen everywhere. One can imagine under what constraint painters and sculptors were made to do this work. (published by Vietnam Courier, Hanoi - 1979)
https://archive.org/details/kampuchea-dossier-3

>Yet at the same time we are told that Angkar was 100% secretive and no one was allowed to know the identity of "Comrade One".
the secrecy (including initially) applied not only to the high leadership, but to all levels of the CPK organization, following stated by Nuon Chea (Brother No.2) in a speech to the visiting Communist Workers' Party of Denmark in July 1978:
<The Communist Party of Kampuchea has never before been legal. This is also true of other progressive organizations we created. We developed the tactic of secrecy, firstly, to defend ourselves, secondly, to mobilize more forces, and finally to serve our struggle, for example, in mobilizing intellectuals. We found they would not join us if we used semi-illegal forms, but with legal forms such as celebrations and visiting temples, they joined in. Thus, we made them join us step-by-step. Many semi-secret and semi-illegal and secret activities were organized so as to protect the wholly illegal and secret activities of the party centre. Thus, when the enemy attacked from outside, he struck semi-illegal and semi-secret activities only and we were able to defend our party and its leadership. In the neo-colonial, semi-feudal society [regimes of Sihanouk and Lon Nol which both actively persecuted Cambodian communists, or thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2592482
Fascinating, thanks. So they were probably looking forward to a more or less stable socialist society like in China where such depictions could be displayed?

>>2592506
yes; they did plan on the regime lasting a lot longer than it turned out to be and made plans spanning over multiple years, the first one and the only one that they could put to action before the invasion was a four-year plan (instead of the more "typical" five-year plans) presumably to have it finished by a "round date" of 1980
tables in picrel 3-4 from Pol Pot Plans the Future: Confidential Leadership Documents from Democratic Kampuchea, 1976-1977 1988, Yale University Southeast Asia Studies - useful only for the translations/tables, authors' prefaces are rather biased
<mfw ben kiernan

>>2592112
why would uae-controlled stc destroy saudi's economy?

>>2592112
UAE-Saudi inter-imperialist war incoming !

Fucking good. Any stupid war involving Saudi Arabia will cause potential fiscal crisis.

booooorrrring

>>2592112
I think thats just diplomatic stuff, they'll threaten war, STC is probably going to give in a few things, Saudis won't do anything, STC gets propaganda boost of seeming like reasonable and rational side, whilst Saudis get to save face because this is already a fairly humilating situation. They won't attack because they'll know that STC defeat will just mean Houthis victory and they'd rather have to deal with UAE puppet on their border rather then an Iranian one.

>>2592061
source?

>>2592059
>uhh uhh you support democrats

Shut the fuck up. Tailing the more reactionary of the bourgeoisie parties doesn’t make you a communist or an anti-imperialist. All you do is jizz your pants over rightiods that stumble into a somewhat correct opinion.

>>2592134
>Tailing the more reactionary of the bourgeoisie parties doesn’t make you a communist
Nobody was saying that schizo

New thread

https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2592193.html

>>2592059
>he's good at lying
ok nobody cares

>>2591600
You can just say poor people. They aren't out there beating and killing the OJ Simpsons of the world. Reminder that idpol minded Americans celebrated his acquittal at the time. I spoke to an old black guy about it once, he said he and his friends were ecstatic that a rich black guy could get away with the same shit as a rich white man. He said even back then he thought he did it though.

>>2577824
If there's one thing AES countries are known for, it's lax policing

>>2592085
They don't kill people like here. Most of them are unarmed.

>>2577848
>The cops, especially in America, are armed with military surplus
This needs to be emphasized a lot more when we're discussing police.
The police didn't become hyper-militarized by accident. They are getting surplus directly FROM the military, and of course they're going to find every excuse to use it. It's directly tied into the military industrial complex.

>>2578875
This is such a dumb and reductive way of looking at things.
Obviously the police exist as they are, not in a hypothetical communist future, and the police exist the way they are because of capitalism, and the police are one of the major barriers protecting capitalism. The idea that you could just keep them as-is even under a DotP is fantasy.