/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2825096
>Klette was the last female member of the far-left terrorist network still on the run before her arrest at her home in Berlin in February 2024
BITCH THEY'RE LOOKING FOR YOU AND YOU STUCK AROUND?!

US has the troops in place to attack Cuba
The armada in the region is slightly smaller than it was in January when the U.S. captured Maduro. But the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group entered the Caribbean in May, along with several guided missile destroyers and cruisers that can launch precision missiles at targets onshore. An array of advanced American drones and surveillance aircraft have also circled Cuba for months, according to flight tracking sites. The USS Kearsarge amphibious ships and escorts, which carry 2,500 Marines, are off the coast of Virginia preparing for a new deployment, and could replace some ships heading home.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/27/cuba-us-military-attack-00938740
https://archive.ph/ovkFv

After protests outside synagogues, New York makes it a crime to block entry to a house of worship
The governor signed the law after a series of protests outside synagogues hosting real estate events promoting emigration to Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Pro-Palestinian groups have argued that the events are part of a yearslong campaign to drive Arabs out of Israel and the land it controls. They also maintain that the events facilitate the growth of illegal Jewish settlements in occupied territories. … The new law creates a misdemeanor criminal charge for people who interfere with access to houses of worship.
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-protest-buffer-zones-worship-houses-496d550e0c97aa2b250e7e36d445239d

US draws up plans to halt immigration, customs processing at 'sanctuary city' airports
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the Trump administration is drawing up plans to stop processing international travelers and cargo at ​major U.S. airports in "sanctuary cities" that have declined to cooperate with an immigration crackdown. The ‌move could effectively halt international air travel and commerce at major airports in Democratic states, with millions of foreign tourists expected to stream in for next month's start of the FIFA World Cup.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-drawing-up-plans-halt-immigration-customs-processing-sanctuary-city-airports-2026-05-27/

Minneapolis police chief resigns after scandal over sexual misconduct investigation
O’Hara stepped down after a meeting with the Minnesota city’s mayor, Jacob Frey, who earlier this month nominated him to serve a second term after his appointment in 2022 to steady a police department still in turmoil after the murder of George Floyd two years earlier.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/27/minneapolis-police-chief-resigns

In one of his final acts, DeSantis calls for vote on sweeping Florida property tax cut
The plan pitched by DeSantis would also call for placing a 5 percent limit on how much the value of commercial and non-residential property can increase each year. He additionally wants to require anyone who relocates to Florida after Jan. 1, 2027, to wait five years before getting the larger tax break. The proposed amendment, which the governor called “historic,” will likely draw swift and fierce opposition from those fearful that the tax overhaul will take away billions now spent on schools, cities and counties including money spent on core government functions such as police and first responders.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/27/florida-desantis-property-tax-cut-00938035
https://archive.ph/pDcR1

Why kids' Medicaid enrollment keeps falling
About 1.75 million fewer kids were enrolled in Medicaid this January than at the start of the Trump administration, according to the most recent federal data. More recent state data tracked by the Georgetown Center for Children and Families shows that figure continuing to grow, said the center's executive director, Joan Alker.
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/27/medicaid-children-enrollment-falling
https://archive.ph/KgzFv

Jill Biden worried husband Joe was ‘having a stroke’ during 2024 US debate
Former US First Lady Jill Biden has weighed in on her husband’s disastrous performance at the first 2024 presidential debate, a moment that ultimately marked the beginning of the end for his re-election campaign. In an interview preview published online on Wednesday, the television programme CBS Sunday Morning pressed the former first lady for her response to that moment.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/27/jill-biden-worried-husband-joe-was-having-a-stroke-during-2024-us-debate
https://archive.ph/9Hp9U

The DCCC's unusual new target: Democratic candidates
They have teamed up with the candidates they see as the "strongest" in key battleground districts, launching joint ad buys to squeeze out their Democratic primary opponents. This practice has infuriated parts of the party, particularly the progressive wing. "If DCCC were a good judge of electability, then we wouldn't be in the mess we're in," said Ravi Mangla, a spokesperson for the progressive Working Families Party, in a statement to Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/26/democrats-house-races-2026-galindo-villegas-bains
https://archive.ph/a9NzR

>>2825098
German prison is better than sweating it out in Algeria lol.

1039 - Novel Gustatory Experiences feat. Bryan Quinby & Chris James (5/25/26) (Chapo Trap House)
Bryan Quinby and Chris James from Guys are here for an analysis of the newest “assassination attempt” on President Trump. We also talk about lunch, early Chapo touring memories, and cap things off with a discussion of Tyler Austin Harper’s ode to Miller Lite in The Atlantic.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/1039-novel-gustatory

The Democrats Are Determined Not to Learn From Their Failure
Beyond vague calls for “addressing cost-of-living concerns” and pabulum about proving to Americans that the Democrats “think like them, with similar passions and priorities, and politics,” there is no real introspection about what exactly it was about Harris’s campaign that led Americans to reject her. There’s an early point about the fact that policies usually associated with Democrats — like Medicaid expansion, a higher minimum wage, and sick leave — have been voted for directly even by conservative voters, but there is no discussion of the fact that these policies were more or less absent from the actual Harris campaign. The report opens with a pocket history of the party’s seesawing fortunes over the past decades, but it’s remarkably devoid of even the barest material political content. Barack Obama’s failure wasn’t related to his austerity push or letting bankers off the hook after the 2008 financial crisis; it was just a vague failure by Democrats at “cementing a relationship with working Americans.”
The 2016 loss was a result of an unspecified “series of dramatic events, massive election interference, and poor strategy,” not Hillary Clinton’s closeness to corporate interests and awful foreign policy record. Shadowy outside interference is likewise cast as the reason for the party’s ongoing failures today, a “conscious effort by foreign and domestic actors to shape electoral choices” through a “barrage of extremist misinformation,” apparently via X. The authors extol the Democrats’ rightward lurch under Bill Clinton, for “turning the tide of defeat and ushering in a new era of political achievement” by working to “reclaim the vital center of American discourse,” which “is where most people live.” But there’s little consideration of how the “achievements” of that era fed into the party’s long-term decline, by alienating the exact voting constituencies that didn’t turn out for Clinton or flipped to Donald Trump in 2016, or how the Harris campaign failed to fundamentally break from this model. But maybe the most glaring absence, with the party adrift and trying to figure out how to reconnect with voting groups it used to do well with, is the report’s silence on the left-populist upsurge happening within the party.
https://jacobin.com/2026/05/democrats-2024-report-left-populism

Authority and Democracy in the United States: Paul Mattick
Reflecting on the New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt once said that his government "has done everything that Hitler has done, but by other means". These other means, however, were not able to overcome the Great Depression which occasioned the large-scale governmental interventions in the American economy. It was finally only the resort to Hitlerian means — that is, participation in the imperialist war — which overcame the unrelenting crisis. Still, the internal situation in America differed greatly from those prevailing in the fascist nations. The United States remained democratic, not only ideologically, but also practically, with an absence of terroristic measures. A social consensus and an efficient prosecution of the war could be assured without much interference in the customary social and political institutions. To be sure, there were some violations of civil liberties such as the incarceration in concentration camps of Americans of Japanese extraction. But by and large the arbitrary discriminatory actions on the part of government were not comparable to the dictatorial policies of the totalitarian regimes. The manufactured mass hysteria of World War I reappeared, of course, but in a more subdued fashion. The actual outbreak of the war united interventionists and isolationists behind their war-happy government. The acquiescence of the population was obvious and in part based, no doubt, on the intuitive recognition that the war would bring the depression to an end. Emerging out of economic crisis, fascism was an attempt to secure the threatened capitalist system by political and organizational means. These means were necessarily directed against the interests of the working class, in order to create the preconditions for new imperialistic adventures. This involved the destruction of the relative independence of the existing labor organizations, so as to establish that degree of class collaboration and national unity required for a political solution of the crisis at the expense of other nations. A repetition of the voluntary acceptance of the imperialist imperative by the labor movement, as during World War I, could not be expected under the prevailing crisis conditions, characterized as they were by an intensification of the class struggle. A new ideology, apparently directed against both the warring classes, had to be brought forth to transform class interests once again into national interests. This ideology could only be given practical form by way of political struggles, through the creation and growth of new organizations, which issued in the establishment of fascist dictatorships. In this sense, fascism expressed the capitalistic need for a total control of the working population, which seemingly could no longer be achieved within the confines of bourgeois democracy.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1979/authority-democracy.htm

How to keep your smile and optimism into old age.
>>2825096
>Sympathisers booed the judges and chanted “freedom for Daniela”. A group of supporters gathered outside the courtroom earlier in the day holding signs reading “solidarity with Daniela”.
Based. Seeing Berlin become what it is today is already punishment enough.
>At the start of the proceedings in March 2025, the now silver-haired Klette broke her silence to rail against what she said was a politically motivated trial, and vowed to stay true to the fight against “capitalism and the patriarchy”.
Megabased.
>>2825098
Probably had a strong support network in the city, i'd imagine.

What does the CPI have ever achieved beside writing books sayin china is not socialist ? Not much

>>2825343
CPI and CPIM have greatly improved the areas they control(ed); they have some of the highest literacy and life expectancy rates in the country

>>2825345

Good for them, still far from the revolution they keep jerking off themselves

>>2825347
There will never be a revolution until we have an international body that can coordinate a clear anti-capitalist opposition to the current world order. "Socialism in one country" is a meme and we need to unite across borders before we can move beyond reformist left-wing nationalism/populism. Still, it's better than letting the BJP rape the country unopposed.

>>2825098
>The police force has responded with a plan to establish an Armed Response Command, equipped with semiautomatic rifles, and by reviving a priority-resourced operation that focused on antisemitic crimes and retaliations against Muslim targets, Hudson said.
so they're just going to start killing muslims?

>>2825348
>international body
So huh is it supposed to be formed in the ISS or in one country on earth at some point ? You probably need some physical place to organize no?