/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

More than 40 arrested at protest against Gaza war at Trump hotel in New York
The protest, organized by IfNotNow, a Jewish-American anti-occupation group, had begun earlier in the evening at Columbus Circle. Hundreds gathered under the banner “Trump: Jews Say No More” to demand an end to the war in Gaza and that the Trump administration pressure Israel to allow greater humanitarian aid to enter into territory, as health officials there continue to report deaths from starvation and malnutrition.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/gaza-protest-trump-hotel-new-york

Prosecutor who negotiated Epstein's sweetheart deal left off subpoena list
House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) announced Tuesday that he had issued subpoenas to a number of prominent figures to appear for depositions in the following weeks and months. Those individuals included former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former FBI directors James Comey and Robert Mueller. A House panel last month approved a motion by Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) to direct Comer to subpoena those individuals. Acosta wasn't among those subpoenaed, which raised eyebrows from reporters and followers of the Epstein probe, given Acosta's role in negotiating the deal at the heart of the scandal.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/jeffrey-epstein-files-alex-acosta-subpoena
https://archive.ph/Q91JD

New York Post to launch a version of the rightwing tabloid in California in 2026
According to New York Post Media Group – a News Corp subsidiary and home of New York’s biggest tabloid, as well as Page Six and Decider – the California Post will look and feel similar to its New York counterpart, delivering reporting, sports coverage and celebrity gossip from a California perspective.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/aug/04/new-york-post-california-murdoch

GOP congressman faces heated town hall where hundreds boo him for supporting Trump’s big bill
Flood, a second-term Republican who represents the GOP-leaning district that includes the University of Nebraska, on Monday braved the ire of a college town audience dominated by hundreds of people intent on expressing their displeasure chiefly with cuts to Medicaid benefits and tax reductions tilted toward the wealthy. He described the law as less than perfect but stood firm on its Medicaid and tax provisions, fueling a 90-minute barrage of jeers and chants in a scenario House Republican leaders have advised GOP members to avoid.
https://apnews.com/article/mike-flood-nebraska-town-hall-trump-tax-bill-e2311524de575b01b9c087944c8efd8b

Thousands of formerly secret files on police misconduct in California made public through searchable database=
The records open a window into nearly 12,000 cases involving alleged police misconduct or the use of serious force, ranging from dishonesty through brutality complaints to repeated sexual harassment by officers. The database will allow researchers, journalists, members of the public, and victims of police misconduct to dig into how California cops have handled such cases, while helping defense lawyers identify officers who may have skeletons in their closets.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/california-police-misconduct-database-b2801901.html
https://archive.ph/XwCUR

CP of Greece, What should be the perspective of the anti-war and anti-imperialist movement?
Some argue that the war can be stopped or prevented from escalating. For example, Israel may back down under pressure from international solidarity or from actions such as boycotting Israeli products and companies. The truth is that, however strong and massive it may be, a protest movement against war cannot prevent it. It is utopian to believe that “the powerful” can back down under popular pressure, or that the EU, for example, can be pressured into defending Palestine. This notion ignores and underestimates the true nature of imperialist war: it is a war backed by the enormous interests of capitalist enterprises and bourgeois states; behind it lies a life-or-death struggle for a foothold within the imperialist system, for the division of territories and spheres of influence. This notion harbours illusions and delusions about the ability of bourgeois institutions and trans-state imperialist alliances to become “pro-peace” under “popular pressure”. It causes the anti-war movement against war to pursue various temporary peace agreements mediated by imperialists, and turns it into a supporter of various temporary and fragile truces. In other words, while imperialist war is in full swing, is escalating and becoming more widespread, and the workers' and popular movements must prepare for this, positions such as the above lead to complacency. This leaves the people’s struggle vulnerable to propaganda calling for temporary compromises with a gun held to the peoples’ head. Although there is potential to broaden the confrontation and challenge the dominant policy, this notion essentially neutralizes radicalization and perpetuates the utopic idea that the hawks of war can become doves of peace.
http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-What-should-be-the-perspective-of-the-anti-war-and-anti-imperialist-movement/

Corbyn’s New Party and the Socialist Left
This new formation is part of an international trend: an upsurge in neo-reformist parties and figures. Ten years ago, when parties like Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain represented the hopes of a generation battered by the global economic crisis, Corbyn channeled that same youthful energy into the Labour Party (just like Bernie Sanders channeled it into the Democratic Party). After Corbyn won the leadership contest in 2015, hundreds of thousands of people joined the Labour Party, briefly making it the largest in Europe. Despite his unmatched popularity, Corbyn was defenestrated by the Labour bureaucracy in 2020, after an intense smear campaign by the conservative and liberal press. Labour’s new leader Keir Starmer helped the party win an election in 2024 — but with three million fewer votes than Corbyn. After 14 years of absolutely brutal conservative rule, people had expected that a Labour government would be a “lesser evil.” Yet Starmer has continued the Tories’ policies. Like many representatives of what Tariq Ali calls the “extreme center,” he has taken up anti-immigrant talking points from the Far Right, calculating that he can hold back Nigel Farange’s Reform UK party by implementing its main policies. The results have been the opposite: Reform’s racism appears more reasonable, and the right-wing party’s support is growing. Starmer has also carried out unprecedented attacks on democratic rights, declaring the peaceful protest group Palestine Action to be a terrorist group. For more than a year, hundreds of thousands of people have regularly demonstrated through the streets of London to protest against the genocide in Gaza. Yet Starmer has given steadfast support to Israel: militarily, politically, and diplomatically. It reflects Britain’s colonial past that Palestine would be at the very center of national politics — the solidarity movement in London is larger than in any other imperialist capital.
https://www.leftvoice.org/corbyns-new-party-and-the-socialist-left/

Nestor Makhno: The ABC of the Revolutionary Anarchist
Anarchism means man living free and working constructively. It means the destruction of everything that is directed against man's natural, healthy aspirations. Anarchism is not exclusively a theoretical teaching emanating from programs artificially conceived with an eye to the regulation of life: it is a teaching derived from life across all its wholesome manifestations, skipping over all artificial criteria. The social and political visage of anarchism is a free, anti-authoritarian society, one that enshrines freedom, equality and solidarity between all its members. In anarchism, Right means the responsibility of the individual, the sort of responsibility that brings with it an authentic guarantee of freedom and social justice for each and for all, in all places and at all times. It is out of this that communism springs. Anarchism is naturally innate in man: communism is the logical extrapolation from it. These assertions require theoretical support in the shape of assistance from scientific analysis and concrete facts, so that they may become fundamental postulates of anarchism. However, the great libertarian theorists, like Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Johann Most, Kropotkin, Malatesta, Sébastien Faure and lots of others were, I suppose at any rate, loathe to confine their doctrine within rigid, definitive parameters. Quite the opposite. It might be said that anarchism's scientific dogma is the aspiration to demonstrate that it is inherent in human nature never to rest on its laurels. The only thing that is unchanging in scientific anarchism is its natural tendency to reject all fetters and any attempt by man to exploit his fellow men. In place of the fetters of the slavery currently extant in human society which, by the way, socialism has not done away with, nor can it - anarchism plants freedom and man's inalienable right to make use of that freedom.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/makhno-nestor/works/1932/02/abc.htm

>Turkish parliamentary commission holds first meeting over Ankara-PKK talks
Reformism or complete utter defeat?
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