/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Federal judge blocks Trump order dismantling public-sector unions
U.S. district judge Paul Friedman, a Clinton appointee, also ruled that the guidance from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) directing agencies to stop automatically deducting union fees from worker paychecks was unlawful.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/25/trump-unions-federal-workforce

Michigan Attorney General announces FBI raids targeted pro-Palestinian protesters over “vandalism and property damage”
Following FBI raids that took place on Wednesday across Michigan targeting pro-Palestinian protesters, Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who directed the raids, announced they were part of a probe into “coordinated criminal acts of vandalism and property damage occurring in multiple counties in southeastern Michigan” totaling $100,000 in damages.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/26/nnfb-a26.html

Hundreds Rally in Milwaukee Against Trump Admin's 'Unprecedented' Arrest of Judge
Hundreds of people rallied in Wisconsin's largest city on Saturday to protest the Trump administration's arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan on what critics called "baseless" charges of felony obstruction after she allegedly helped an undocumented immigrant evade arrest during an appearance in her courtroom.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/hannah-dugan-protest

California proposes to allow testing of driverless heavy-duty trucks
The state’s department of motor vehicles announced proposed regulations on Friday to allow the testing of driverless trucks over 10,001lbs, opening the door for companies to test self-driving technology on vehicles roughly the size of a Ram or Ford super duty pickup truck.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/california-self-driving-truck-testing-proposal

As Israel Openly Declares Starvation as a Weapon, Media Still Hesitate to Blame It for Famine
A full year ago, in April 2024, even Samantha Power—then the administrator of the US Agency for International Development—conceded that it was “credible” that famine was already well underway in parts of the Gaza Strip. And the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs now warns that Gaza is “likely facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the 18 months since the escalation of hostilities in October 2023”—its population being “starved, bombed, strangled” and subjected to “deprivation by design.” None of these details have escaped the pages and websites of corporate media outlets, although the media’s frequent reliance on ambiguous wordiness tends to distract readers from what is actually going on—and who is responsible for it. Take, for instance, the New York Times headline “Gaza Famine Warning Spurs Calls to Remove Restrictions on Food Shipments” (6/25/24), or the CBS video “Hunger Spreads Virtually Everywhere in Gaza Amid Israel/Hamas War” (12/5/24). Even news outlets that intermittently undertake to spotlight the human plight of, inter alia, individual parents in Gaza losing their children to starvation remain susceptible to long-winded efforts to disperse blame. (As of April of last year, Save the Children confirmed that 27 children in northern Gaza had already died of starvation and disease.)
https://fair.org/home/as-israel-openly-declares-starvation-as-a-weapon-media-still-hesitate-to-blame-it-for-famine/

Remembering the dead and fighting for the living: There are only two things that stand between workers and the musket’s volley today - the ballot and the union, asserts MATT KERR
I WOBBLED at the top of a 5m ladder with a tin of white paint dangling alongside me, paint brush in hand and an elderly woman pulling faces through the window. “How did I get here?” Jimmy held on to the foot of the ladder. I had known him for all of a week since we moved into the “upper cottage” of the four-in-a-block next door. Within hours of arriving, we’d noticed Lily waving from her kitchen window opposite ours, pulling faces and laughing. They had lived there for decades, with an immaculate patch of garden wired with a bell to call Jimmy in for his tea. It was curiosity about this that got us talking, and me roped into painting the frames of the windows he had made in a shipyard that no longer existed. Jimmy had grown up in Elder Street in Govan, around the corner from where we had just moved from, where the horn calling for breaks at Fairfields — now BAE — still punctuates the day. He had worked in Alexander Stephens along the road in Linthouse though, a carpenter — “not a joiner!” — all his days. We sat down on his bench in the garden and he told me all about it, effortlessly pausing and restarting in time with the trains passing a few yards away. He had taken retirement just after the work-in at UCS. “You’ve been retired 30 years?!” A hard thing for a 28 year-old me to comprehend.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/remembering-dead-and-fighting-living

The Conquest of Bread: Peter Kropotkin Chapter 3: Anarchist communism
Every society, on abolishing private property will be forced, we maintain, to organize itself on the lines of Communistic Anarchy. Anarchy leads to Communism, and Communism to Anarchy, both alike being expressions of the predominant tendency in modern societies, the pursuit of equality. Time was when a peasant family could consider the corn it sowed and reaped, or the woolen garments woven in the cottage, as the products of its own soil. But even then this way of looking at things was not quite correct. There were the roads and the bridges made in common, the swamps drained by common toil, the communal pastures enclosed by hedges which were kept in repair by each and all. If the looms for weaving or the dyes for colouring fabrics were improved by somebody, all profited; and even in those days a peasant family could not live alone, but was dependent in a thousand ways on the village or the commune.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1892/bread.htm#chapter03

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>NGO head sues military general for defamation
>India and Pakistan trade gunfire across Kashmir border after deadly attack
>Federal judge blocks Trump order dismantling public-sector unions
Fascist infighting lmao
>Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says
What's the son of a major CIA official doing in Ukraine, on the side of Russia no less? The cope from multipolarity bros is gonna be legendary.
>PA leader Mahmoud Abbas to appoint Hussein al-Sheikh as vice president
Neo-colonial misleader further cementing Israel's control over the Palestinian people.

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>What's the son of a major CIA official doing in Ukraine, on the side of Russia no less?
He rebelled against his family retard he explicitly said that he hated the US military industrial complex and decided to fight for Russia to bring the West down faster. He's braver than anyone else on this board.