/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states
Originally, O’Neill and Adams’s message was interpreted as an announcement that HHS would stop childcare funding in Minnesota, not all 50 states. However, the Associated Press reported late on Wednesday that the freeze would apply to every state, and that all states would need to provide more documentation about their childcare programs before receiving federal money. The department did not immediately reply to a Guardian request for comment to clarify the nature of the freeze, but HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told ABC News: “It’s the onus of the state to make sure that these funds, these federal dollars, taxpayer dollars, are being used for legitimate purposes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/trump-administration-childcare-funding-freeze

Trump ally Boebert decries Colorado water bill veto
Trump cited cost concerns in a statement on his veto of the bill on the decades-long plan to ensure safe drinking water is provided to communities in Colorado's eastern plains, where the groundwater is high in salt and where radioactivity has been detected in wells. "My Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies," Trump said. "Ending the massive cost of taxpayer handouts and restoring fiscal sanity is vital to economic growth and the fiscal health of the Nation."
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/01/trump-colorado-water-lauren-boebert
https://archive.ph/K4kxs

US federal employees file complaint against ban on gender-affirming care
The complaint, filed Thursday on the employees’ behalf by the Human Rights Campaign, is in response to an August announcement from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that it would no longer cover “chemical and surgical modification of an individual’s sex traits through medical interventions” in health insurance programs for federal employees and US Postal Service workers.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/01/us-federal-employees-complaint-gender-affirming-care-ban

New York Mayor Mamdani vows to enact democratic socialist agenda
Many of New York's 8 million residents - some with hope, some with trepidation - expect him to be a disruptive political force. In a speech following his public swearing-in, Mamdani promoted core campaign promises of universal childcare, affordable rents and free bus service. "We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy," he said. "I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist."
https://www.reuters.com/world/mamdanis-inauguration-new-york-new-year-new-mayor-2025-12-31/

(Granma )Six days that shook the nation
That cold morning, when some 2,000 delegates representing all sectors of society filled the Karl Marx Theater, marked a turning point in the history of the Revolution. It is said that many of them were wearing suits and ties for the first time, and that, for this reason, there were those who made jokes before the curtains rose and the First Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) began. Sixteen years after the triumph over tyranny, and ten years after the formation of the first Central Committee, the grand party event began with an extensive report presented by Fidel, with a historical analysis of the Revolution, in which it was clear that the generation that had finally realized the dream of a free homeland was the heir and continuator of a legacy of more than a century of struggle. "Cuba was Spain's last colony in Latin America, and today it is the first socialist country in this hemisphere," the Commander-in-Chief began proudly, and after a thorough recounting of the wars for independence and the long road traveled, he commented that "when the United States realized that the Revolution would not retreat or bow to its pressure, it began a series of economic aggressions, while recruiting mercenaries and training them for acts of sabotage and military actions."
https://en.granma.cu/cuba/2025-12-17/six-days-that-shook-the-nation

Labour must not reverse Brexit
A DANGEROUS tendency is emerging in the labour movement to reopen the Brexit question. Several government figures have started to criticise the impact on the economy of Britain leaving the European Union. Health Secretary Wes Streeting, the government’s leading Blairite, has raised the possibility of Britain re-entering the EU’s customs union, a move which would subordinate trade policy to Brussels and subject much economic activity to EU regulations. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak spoke in similar terms shortly before Christmas. So far, Keir Starmer has not embraced the customs union proposal. However, the arguments he advances are purely pragmatic – that rejoining would mean Britain having to renounce the trade deals signed in its own right, most notably with the USA. However, that is a thin argument since the Trump administration has either not ratified, not implemented or not even really agreed the much-trumpeted headline deals.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-must-not-reverse-brexit

V. I. Lenin: The Position of the Bund in the Party
Under this title the Bund has published a translation of an article from No. 34 of the Arbeiterstimme.[3] This article, accompanying the decisions of the Fifth Bund Congress, represents as it were an official commentary on those decisions. It attempts to give a systematic exposition of all the arguments which lead to the conclusion that the Bund “must be a federated component of the Party”. It will be interesting to examine these arguments.
The author begins by stating that the most burning question facing the Russian Social-Democratic movement is the question of unity. On what basis can it be effected? The Manifesto of 1898[4] took the principle of autonomy as the basis. The author examines this principle and finds it to be logically false and inherently contradictory. If by questions which specifically concern the Jewish proletariat are meant only such as relate to methods of agitation (with reference to the specific language, mentality and culture of the Jews), that will be technical (?) autonomy. But such autonomy will mean the destruction of all independence, for it is an autonomy enjoyed by every Party committee, and to put the Bund on a par with the committees will be a denial of autonomy. If, on the other hand, autonomy is understood to mean autonomy in some questions of the programme, it is unreasonable to deprive the Bund of all independence in the other questions of the programme; and independence in questions of programme necessarily involves representation of the Bund, as such, on the central bodies of the Party—that is, not autonomy, but federation. A sound basis for the position of the Bund in the Party must be sought in the history of the Jewish revolutionary movement in Russia, and what that history shows is that all organisations active among the Jewish workers joined to form a single union—the Bund—and that its activities spread from Lithuania to Poland and then to the South of Russia. Consequently, history broke down all regional barriers and brought forward the Bund as the sole representative of the Jewish proletariat. And there you have a principle which is not the fruit of an idle brain (?) but follows from the whole history of the Jewish working-class movement: the Bund is the sole representative of the interests of the Jewish proletariat. And, naturally, the organisation of the proletariat of a whole nationality can enter the Party only if the latter has a federal structure: the Jewish proletariat is not only part of the world family of proletarians, but also part of the Jewish nation, which occupies a special position among-the nations. Lastly, it is federation that denotes close unity between the component elements of the Party, for its chief feature is direct participation by each of them in Party affairs, and they all feel they have equal rights. Under autonomy, on the other hand, the components of the Party have no rights, and there is indifference to its common affairs, and mutual distrust, friction and conflict.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1903/oct/22a.htm

>>2620771
>the Israeli army is accelerating preparations for the possibility of a sudden war on three fronts: Iran, Lebanon and the occupied West Bank.
>"I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist."

What will Zohran say when the Zionist entity escalates?

TYBNA

>>2621004
He is a Zionist honey

tybna