/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

US military brass brace for firings as Pentagon chief orders top-level meeting
Hegseth’s team reportedly plans to record and publicly release the address later, according to CNN, which cited three of its sources. … According to the Times, the Pentagon informed congressional committees overseeing the military on Friday that Hegseth intends to use the gathering to share with “most senior service members his intent for the department”, including new guidance on “military fitness standards and several other areas of interest”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/27/us-military-leaders-meeting-pete-hegseth

ICE arrests leader of Iowa’s largest school district, saying he was living and working in the US illegally
Roeder told The Associated Press that the district has seen “nothing that would suggest that he’s not a citizen.” The district said Friday afternoon that a third party was hired to conduct a comprehensive background check on Roberts and that Roberts completed an I-9, which requires workers to present documents showing that they were authorized to work. District officials also stated they had no knowledge of an order of removal issued in 2024.
https://apnews.com/article/iowa-des-moines-superintendent-ian-roberts-b52a9ea28d002d27832c67513403368e

Trump orders deployment of troops to Portland, ICE facilities
U.S. PresidentDonald Trump on Saturday said he was directing the U.S. military to deploy to Portland, Oregon and to protect federal immigration facilities against "domestic terrorists", saying he was authorizing them to use "full force, if necessary." Ordering the latest crackdown on a Democrat-led city, Trump said in a social media post that he was directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists."
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-orders-deployment-troops-portland-ice-facilities-2025-09-27/

Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training
“The training is not just about silencing speech, but achieving consent so that we are complicit,” said Salma Moustafa, a PhD student in sociology. “Northwestern wants its student and faculty body to pretend it is not happening and instead consume propaganda that justifies the Israeli Zionist occupation project.” Students were required to complete the training by mid-September to be able to register.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/27/northwestern-university-classes

In ‘Crucial Victory for the First Amendment,’ Charges Against Journalist Timothy Burke Dismissed
US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle—appointed to the Middle District of Florida by Trump during his first term—dismissed seven of the 14 charges against Tampa-based media consultant and journalist Timothy Burke on Thursday. Burke was arrested and charged last year after obtaining and disseminating unaired 2022 footage from Tucker Carlson’s former show on Fox News, including antisemitic remarks by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/tim-burke

Ukraine’s voiceless army: Ukrainian deserters speak out
While the mass desertion of personnel from the Ukrainian Armed Forces has already become one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in the country's history since 1991, there is almost complete silence about it in the foreign media. Since the end of last year, the number of criminal cases under Article 407 (unauthorized leaving of a military unit, or SZCh) and Article 408 (desertion) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine has remained stable at approximately 17,000 per month. In the first eight months of 2025, 142,711 criminal proceedings under these articles were registered, and a total of 265,843 cases have been registered in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion as of September 1, 2025. To at least somewhat reduce this flow, the Ukrainian parliament on September 4 supported in the first reading Bill No. 13260, which reinstates criminal liability for SZCh, in the first reading. Previously, it was possible to avoid prosecution by voluntarily returning to military service. This provision was extended several times until it expired on August 30. Now, the bill proposes removing the court's ability to apply mitigating measures. In his September interview with Sky News, the supreme butcher stated that Ukraine no longer sends its military personnel for training abroad, where so many soldiers disappeared from training grounds and received protection.
https://libcom.org/article/ukraines-voiceless-army-ukrainian-deserters-speak-out

Brazil: “Anti-Terrorism” Bill Targets People’s Struggle
This week, the Brazilian lower house of Congress urgently approved Bill No. 1,283/2025, which amends the Anti-Terrorism Law to classify “factions” and “militias” as terrorists. A Nova Democracia (AND) explains that the real goal is to criminalize people’s struggle and especially aims to attack the Agrarian Revolution in the country, which has been growing for years. This bill amends the existing “Anti-Terrorism Law” from 2016, which was enacted at the time by Dilma Rousseff of the PT. AND spoke out about this law when it was enacted, explaining that all actions labeled as terrorism were “the ways in which just rebellion expressed itself in the youth protests of 2013-2014.”, and added that this law actually was “an anti-protest law.” As evidence of this, the text defines as “terrorism” as acts “motivated by political reasons or to impose dominance or control over territories.” This would legitimize the old Brazilian State to unleash a much more brutal offensive against the peasant occupations that typically occur in the country. Currently, the latifundium along with the old State, is attacking the Valdiro Chagas Revolutionary Area in Rondônia. The bourgeois press has been criminalizing the struggle for land for a long time, along with the repressive forces led by the criminal commander of the Military Police of Rondônia, Régis Braguin, who demands that the League of Poor Peasants (LCP) should be classified as terrorist. Meanwhile, the Special Operations Battalion (BOPE) of the Brazilian repressive forces is murdering peasants in Rondônia with impunity and without judicial justification.
https://redherald.org/2025/09/27/brazil-anti-terrorism-bill-targets-peoples-struggle/

Vladimir Lenin: What Is To Be Done? Ch.V The “Plan” For an All-Russia Political Newspaper
“The most serious blunder Iskra committed in this connection” writes B. Krichevsky (Rabocheye Dyelo, No. 10, p. 30), charging us with a tendency to “convert theory into a lifeless doctrine by isolating it from practice”, “was its ’plan’ for a general party organisation” (viz., the article entitled “Where To Begin”[1]). Martynov echoes this idea in declaring that “Iskra’s tendency to belittle the significance of the forward march of the drab everyday struggle in comparison with the propaganda of brilliant and completed ideas … was crowned with the plan for the organisation of a party which it sets forth in the article entitled ’Where To Begin’ in issue No. 4” (ibid., p. 61). Finally, L. Nadezhdin has of late joined in the chorus of indignation against this “plan” (the quotation marks were meant to express sarcasm). In his pamphlet, which we have just received, entitled The Eve of the Revolution (published by the “Revolutionary-Socialist Group” Svoboda, whose acquaintance we have made), he declares (p. 126): “To speak now of an organisation held together by an all-Russia newspaper means propagating armchair ideas and armchair work” and represents a manifestation of “bookishness”, etc. That our terrorist turns out to be in agreement with the champions of the “forward march of the drab everyday struggle” is not surprising, since we have traced the roots of this intimacy between them in the chapters on politics and organisation. But must draw attention here to the fact that Nadezhdin is the only one who has conscientiously tried to grasp the train of thought in an article he disliked and has made an attempt to reply to the point, whereas Rabocheye Dyelo, has said nothing that is material to the subject, but has tried merely to confuse the question by a series of unseemly, demagogic sallies. Unpleasant though the task may be, we must first spend some time in cleansing this Augean stable.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/v.htm