/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2267475
>US spent $1bn bombing Yemen but failed to gain air superiority, says report
one million One BILLLION! Dollars!

Railroad companies request Trump administration dismantle two-person crew regulations
Class I rail companies are requesting that the Trump administration end federal regulations requiring the use of two-person train crews, according to a report by Freight Waves. The request comes after a call from the Department of Transportation on April 3 for businesses to provide comments on deregulation, a central issue for the Trump administration which is dismantling whole departments and cutting hundreds of thousands of federal jobs.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/13/ojsy-m13.html

Microsoft to lay off 6,000 workers despite streak of profitable quarters
The tech giant didn’t disclose the total amount of lost jobs, but it will amount to about 6,000 people. Microsoft employed 228,000 full-time workers as of last June, the last time it reported its annual headcount. About 55% of those workers were in the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/13/microsoft-layoffs

60,000 people set to prematurely lose federal housing assistance
Congress has the authority to provide additional funding to maintain the emergency housing voucher program, Johnson said, and some Democratic lawmakers are lobbying for the cause. But she said it’s unlikely that the Republican-controlled Congress will approve more funds.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/13/covid-federal-housing-vouchers-end/
https://archive.ph/DTnB0

US farm agency restores some climate-related webpages after farmer lawsuit
The U.S. Department of Agriculture restored on Tuesday some climate change-related webpages that the agency had deleted since President Donald Trump's inauguration, after being sued by farm and environmental groups, one of the groups said.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/us-farm-agency-restores-some-climate-related-webpages-after-farmer-lawsuit-2025-05-13/

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project
A Transportation Department spokesman, Nathaniel Sizemore, confirmed that the Boring Company was one of several firms being consulted for the purposes of awarding a new engineering contract. He declined to name the other companies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/technology/elon-musk-boring-company-amtrak.html
https://archive.ph/BNpYy

As Coastline Erodes, One California City Considers ‘Retreat Now’
Right now, the city is on track to choose the path of “retreat now,” before an emergency situation, rather than “retreat later,” the default option for many communities — especially those facing harder decisions to move homes and businesses rather than just infrastructure.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-13/carlsbad-california-devises-plan-to-move-highway-away-from-eroding-coast
https://archive.ph/whnQJ

Two more Fetterman aides leave embattled senator’s office
Fetterman aides Madeleine Marr and Caroline Shaffer parted ways with his team, according to two people familiar with their departures and granted anonymity to speak freely. They left shortly before New York magazine reported that current and former Fetterman staff are increasingly concerned about the Democratic senator’s mental and physical health, one of the people said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/13/fetterman-staff-00344618
https://archive.ph/0EJar

>A year after deadly riots, New Caledonia’s president vows to address push for independence
How socialist are the independents

Here to fight, here to stay: The Red Scar Mill strike
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Britain’s first migrant-led strike: an inspiring yet relatively forgotten – but all the more inspiring – three-week event that took place at the Preston Courtauld’s Red Scar Mill in the North West of England. The Lancashire Evening Post expressed the sentiments of the ruling class at the time: “The news of the strike has travelled around the world…Preston has become infamous as the centre of futile struggle, which could inflame feelings where whites and coloured coincide.” Without precedent, the migrant workers independently and determinedly fought back against the attacks on their wages and conditions by factory owners Courtaulds – one of the four major monopolies in man-made fibre in Europe. In attempting to organise themselves, the migrant-worker strikers faced racism not only from the bosses, but also from within the union itself.
https://communist.red/here-to-fight-here-to-stay-the-red-scar-mill-strike/

“We are preparing for a scenario of greater crisis and class struggle”: Interview with a Revolutionary Socialist in Bolivia
In the world division of labor, there are no transnational “partners” or “good” imperialists, as many progressive governments claim. But the means of pressure applied to dependent countries, such as Bolivia, change according to the political turns in Washington. Trump made it clear in 2019 that his administration had no problem openly supporting military coups to ensure control over Bolivia’s resources; according to reports in The Intercept, the administration was willing to carry out a second coup in 2020 to avoid the transition to the Arce government after the October elections. This means that the next years will be marked by a growing regional tension between the United States, which seeks to retake control over what it considers its “backyard,” and the Latin American region, which is being jolted by interesting processes of mobilization and resistance.
https://www.leftvoice.org/we-are-preparing-for-a-scenario-of-greater-crisis-and-class-struggle-interview-with-a-revolutionary-socialist-in-bolivia/

Israel’s and Its Backers’ Abuse of Victimhood, the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism
With competing narratives of victimization, one narrative is abused. One man looks up to the sky crying at the top of his lungs as their wife and two young daughters have become crushed under rubble after being hit by American missiles. The other looks far afield to a distant, white-clothed table where great-grandparents talk of living in Polish ghettoes and being placed into concentration camps for being Jews. The more extreme among the latter, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, speaks of the necessity of bombing food and aid depots and the American GOP’s support of this. In late April, in response to the International Court of Justice’s hearing on Israel’s international law obligations to allow humanitarian assistance into Gaza, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar claimed that the ICJ was an antisemitic body. Perhaps the most outlandish claim supporting unmitigated violence against the Palestinians is Netanyahu’s assertion that the Palestinian Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini of Jerusalem persuaded Hitler to kill 6 million Jews. One party sits on the floor, grieving over lost family members, asking how any people could bring complete devastation to another and not allow food, water or medicine into Gaza in two months. Meanwhile, the other’s eyes fixate on 80 years ago, to a horrible crime committed in the first half of the 20th century; they don a phony survivalist mask and set out to destroy another population. To any criticism of Israel’s abusive behavior, it excuses antisemitism, invoking the Holocaust.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/13/israels-and-its-backers-abuse-of-victimhood-the-holocaust-and-anti-semitism/

>>2267506
Imagine if that went into Amtrak or something.