/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Trump taps ally Bill Pulte to serve as top intelligence chief
Pulte – who has no known experience in national security – has used his role at the powerful housing agency, which oversees regulations of the federal housing lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to publicly level a string of extraordinary allegations at Trump’s political opponents and enemies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/trump-bill-pulte-director-national-intelligence

Amazon's Ring sued over facial recognition feature, latest privacy concern for doorbell maker
Familiar Faces, which is optional, uses artificial intelligence to identify ​and remember people so that when they return to a home or a ⁠business, notifications can include specific names. Those affected “did not consent to have their privacy rights ​violated at the entrance way,” according to the suit. “Millions of other Americans passed by a Ring ​security camera and unknowingly had their facial recognition information collected.”
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/amazons-ring-sued-over-facial-recognition-feature-latest-privacy-concern-2026-06-02/

Super PAC Network Backing Connie Chan Received Hundreds of Thousands from AIPAC
San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan has pledged not to accept support from “AIPAC or its lobbyists and representatives” in her bid for California’s 11th congressional district, but federal campaign records show that the pro-Israel organization is working behind the scenes to funnel money to support her candidacy.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/aipac-connie-chan-san-francisco-primary

Landlord endangers tenants in condemned 292-unit apartment complex in Kalamazoo, Michigan
The inspections that triggered the condemnation were prompted by tenant complaints to Kalamazoo Township on April 28, according to records obtained by Fox17. According to News WWMT, several tenants had complained to management for months before contacting the township. The Kalamazoo Area Building Authority contacted the property owner on May 5 before resorting to condemnation.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/02/bpnh-j02.html

New Jersey sues Geo Group, private operator of Delaney Hall ICE facility
Tuesday’s lawsuit, filed by Jennifer Davenport, the state’s attorney general, asks the state superior court in Newark to order the private operator, the Geo Group, to grant the New Jersey department of health full access to the facility to conduct inspections. … Last Thursday, New Jersey department of health inspectors were allowed a limited inspection of the detention center but, Davenport’s office said, were barred from inspecting crucial areas such as the medical unit, sleeping, bathing and toilet areas.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/new-jersey-lawsuit-geo-group-delaney-hall-ice

Claim of Responsibility for Arson Attack on “Israeli” Business in Exarchia
Palestine still continues to struggle. Against such an attack, which aims to annihilate every human presence, to eliminate every trace of the cultural element of the Palestinian people. A continuous crime against humanity, by the Zionists who expand their occupation of the territory of Palestine every day. In a parallel universe, the Greek state pretends not to hear, not to see, not to know anything and makes sure to support the crimes of the Zionists in every way for the sake of the “strategy of the alliance”. It gives free rein to kidnap, illegally detain, humiliate and torture even European activists, while Greek shipowners unmolested conclude agreements with the Zionists. The big businessmen of tourism rub their hands in front of the bloody money left by the thousands of IDF soldiers who come to the country for vacation. The same goes for the big real estate owners and brokers who enrich themselves with the “Israeli” capital invested in the country.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/33305/

Conspiracy Theories, Recriminations and Insults Fly As the Far Right Melts Down Over Makerfield
In the far right’s warped and exaggerated fantasy world, one of two brave men stand between Britain and Andy Burnham’s Muslamic socialist hordes sweeping the country on a fleet of publicly owned buses. It’s time to choose your fighter. In one corner, we have Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader who casually accepted a £5m gift from a Thailand based crypto-billionaire because he thought he was a special boy. In the other is Rupert Lowe, leader of even-further-right Restore Britain, who recently told Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News he would be “a true Tory if I were anything”. These are the last great hopes of the British working class, if you believe people with names like MarmiteReverieBrit with 500,000 followers on X. Restore Britain was the result of a messy split between Lowe and Farage that made the shenanigans in Your Party look like gentle banter. Lowe’s party has since attracted the support of the world’s richest man Elon Musk and some of Britain’s most openly racist influencers and activists, and has cornered the market for saying uncompromisingly rightwing things that bait social media algorithms. The deep personal animus between Farage and Lowe is now playing out with potentially national significance.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/02/conspiracy-theories-recriminations-and-insults-fly-as-the-far-right-melts-down-over-makerfield/

US murder spree in Latin American waters moves beyond 200 killed
The death toll from US military strikes on alleged drug vessels off the coast of Latin America has now surpassed 200 people. In the latest attack, the fourth in a single week, the US military released video on Saturday of a small boat erupting in flames in the Eastern Pacific. The three men reportedly killed bring the estimated total to 205 since the mass murder campaign began in the Caribbean on September 2, 2025. The campaign expanded to the Eastern Pacific in October and has destroyed approximately 60 vessels. Mass murder has been turned into a daily, bureaucratic operation, with extrajudicial killing a part of imperialist policy. This unfolds alongside the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran and Lebanon—in which the Lebanese health ministry counts 3,371 dead since March 2, while the human rights group HRANA puts the death toll in Iran at 3,636—and is built on top of the genocide in Gaza that has killed over 70,000 people. This campaign of mass murder carries a direct warning for workers in the United States: The methods being tested in the Caribbean are being imported home.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/01/etyc-j01.html

The Problem of Independent Trade Unions in Iraq and the Prospects for Mass Action
The article presented by the well-known left-wing writer and activist Rezgar Akrawi on the problem of trade unions and mass organizations in Iraq and the Global South touches upon one of the most complex and sensitive issues in the experience of the contemporary left, for what it contains of a serious attempt to rethink the relationship between party work and trade union and mass work in light of the profound political, social, and economic transformations that Iraq and the region have witnessed over recent decades. The importance of this contribution lies in the fact that it does not merely describe the state of dispersal and weakness afflicting the trade union and mass movement, but seeks to open an intellectual and practical discussion about its structural causes and the prospects for overcoming them, drawing benefit from diverse global experiences and experiments. Credit must also be given to the author for addressing the subject with a calm critical spirit, far removed from accusations of treason or direct partisan polemics, attempting to raise genuine questions concerning trade union independence, the relationship with political parties, and the crisis of mass organization under the rentier state and the dominance of traditional political structures. From this standpoint, the following observations and ideas may be viewed as an attempt to contribute to the development of this discussion and to answer some of the practical questions raised specifically by the Iraqi reality. In the Iraqi case in particular, the question of building independent trade unions and mass organizations cannot be addressed by replicating ready-made models or formulas imported from other experiences, because the Iraqi reality is governed by deep structural complexities manifested in the rentier nature of the state, the weakness of the private sector, the dominance of political parties over the public sphere, the infiltration of most existing trade unions, and the dependence of broad sectors of workers and employees on the state as the primary source of livelihood. For this reason, any talk of trade union independence cannot rest on idealistic conceptions or sudden organizational leaps, but must proceed from a realistic and gradual understanding of the nature of society, the state, and the actual conditions of mass work.
https://libcom.org/article/problem-independent-trade-unions-iraq-and-prospects-mass-action