/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>“Denmark has always stood side by side with the USA — and we have showed up in the world’s crisis zones when the USA has asked us to. We feel let down and ridiculed by the Trump Administration, which is deliberately disregarding Denmark’s combat side by side with the USA,” Danish Veterans & Veteran Support, the organizers of the protest said in a statement.

There are very few institutions that are as effective at punishing supporters of imperialism than the US itself.

Minnesota ICE surge upheld as judge finds 'balance of harms' lacking
Menendez noted that plaintiffs "made a strong showing" that Operation Metro Surge "will likely continue to have, profound and even heartbreaking, consequences." She said, "Additionally, there is evidence that ICE and CBP (border patrol) agents have engaged in racial profiling, excessive use of force, and other harmful actions." "However, those are not the only harms to be considered," the judge later added.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/31/ice-trump-alex-pretti-minneapolis-shooting
https://archive.ph/URjTs

St. Peter police chief intervened and got federal agents to release resident, sources say
The woman, who did not want to be identified because she fears for her safety, is a U.S. citizen and a resident of St. Peter. She told MPR News in an interview that she was out in the community in her car, tracking the movements of federal agents, and recording them on a dash cam. She shared that video with MPR News. Agents in three vehicles began chasing her and trying to force her to pull over. Eventually they box her in, three agents get out of the car in front of her, with their guns drawn and they try to force her out of her vehicle.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/30/st-peter-police-chief-intervenes-prevents-federal-agents-from-arresting-resident

Chicago Orders Police to Document Potentially Illegal Federal Immigration Tactics
Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago ordered city police on Saturday to begin formally documenting instances of aggressive and potentially illegal federal immigration enforcement actions, looking to build cases for prosecution against the most egregious actions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/us/chicago-police-federal-immigration.html
https://archive.ph/blce1

January layoffs shake Seattle tech sector
The company had not filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) with the state Employment Security Department as of Thursday morning, but more than 2,000 Seattle-area employees were laid off when Amazon cut 14,000 positions globally in October.
https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2026/01/30/seattle-january-2026-tech-layoffs-terminations-amazon-meta-expedia-zillow
https://archive.ph/kWIHr

Coupang, South Korea’s Amazon, Is Copying Its Worst Habits
Coupang, an e-commerce platform that is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has been stirring public outrage over the past few months in South Korea, home to most of its colossal operations, amid revelations of massive data breaches and unsafe workplace practices. What is happening to the South Korean multinational should reverberate beyond the country’s borders. The ways in which it has been shirking accountability and regulatory oversight, and resisting unionization efforts, speaks volumes about the future trajectory of global e-commerce platforms and their workers. Coupang is South Korea’s answer to Amazon and Uber Eats combined. Its labor malpractices were already clear back in 2021, when the company went public on the NYSE. The past two months have validated the concerns expressed at the time. In December, Coupang disclosed a massive data breach that exposed almost thirty-four million customer accounts. The national ID numbers and financial details of about three-quarters of South Korea’s population above the age of twenty are likely to have been compromised. Public anger has brought the platform’s mistreatment of its workforce into focus. In 2025 alone, eight Coupang workers died of overwork-related conditions such as cerebral hemorrhages, with six of them working on a nighttime or predawn shift.
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/coupang-amazon-korea-financialization-precarity

Canada’s elite media wants you to serve in the military
When Canada ended conscription after the Second World War, Canadians breathed a sigh of relief. Now, the elite media want it back. With Prime Minister Mark Carney embarking on a massive, unprecedented expansion of Canada’s military, the media has been publishing articles calling for a mandatory national service, fawning over conscription in Nordic countries, and uncritically interviewing military leaders who are hand-wringing about falling enlistment. These articles make the case that a military build-up is necessary to ward off a U.S. invasion. The reality is that Carney has boosted military spending to kowtow to Trump, and major military spending hikes have long been on the wish-list of the corporate elite and defence lobby. Instead of acting as critics or investigators of this shift, Canadian media is manufacturing consent for it.
https://breachmedia.ca/canadian-media-manufacturing-demand-for-citizen-soldiers/

John Reed: Ten Days that Shook the World Chapter III: On the Eve
IN the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. The proposal to abandon Petrograd raised a hurricane; Kerensky’s public denial that the Government had any such intention was met with hoots of derision. Pinned to the wall by the pressure of the Revolution (cried Rabotchi Put), the Government of “provisional” bourgeois tries to get free by giving out lying assurances that it never thought of fleeing from Petrograd, and that it didn’t wish to surrender the capital.
In Kharkov thirty thousand coal miners organised, adopting the preamble of the I.W.W. constitution: “The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.” Dispersed by Cossacks, some were locked out by the mine-owners, and the rest declared a general strike. Minister of Commerce and Industry Konovalov appointed his assistant, Orlov, with plenary powers, to settle the trouble. Orlov was hated by the miners. But the Tsay-ee-kah not only supported his appointment, but refused to demand that the Cossacks be recalled from the Don Basin. This was followed by the dispersal of the Soviet at Kaluga. The Bolsheviki, having secured a majority in the Soviet, set free some political prisoners. With the sanction of the Government Commissar the Municipal Duma called in troops from Minsk, and bombarded the Soviet headquarters with artillery. The Bolsheviki yielded, but as they left the building Cossacks attacked them, crying, “This is what we’ll do to all the other Bolshevik Soviets, including those of Moscow and Petrograd!” This incident sent a wave of panic rage throughout Russia. In Petrograd was ending a regional Congress of Soviets of the North, presided over by the Bolshevik Krylenko. By an immense majority it resolved that all power should be assumed by the All-Russian Congress; and concluded by greeting the Bolsheviki in prison, bidding them rejoice, for the hour of their liberation was at hand. At the same time the first All-Russian Conference of Factory-Shop Committees[1] declared emphatically for the Soviets, and continued significantly, After liberating themselves politically from Tsardom, the working-class wants to see the democratic régime triumphant in the sphere of its productive activity. This is best expressed by Workers’ Control over industrial production, which naturally arose in the atmosphere of economic decomposition created by the criminal policy of the dominating classes.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/reed/1919/10days/10days/ch3.htm