/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

House Dems' pro-Israel wing gains power on key panel
In addition to Moskowitz leading Democrats on the MENA subcommittee, pro-Israel Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Wesley Bell (D-Mo.) were appointed to the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/25/democrats-israel-moskowitz-house-foreign-affairs
https://archive.ph/zK1im

FBI raided Spanish vacation rental of wealthy leftwing funder James ‘Fergie’ Cox after his arrest
Baltasar Garzón, a human rights lawyer representing Chambers, revealed the details in an exclusive interview. Chambers is wanted for extradition by the Trump administration for alleged financial support of Hamas, as well as other charges. Garzón, one of Europe’s most famous human rights lawyers, characterized the case as “very strange, one of the most remarkable I’ve worked on”. He told the Guardian the indictment against Chambers was “pretty weak and diffuse”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/25/fbi-raid-james-fergie-cox-vacation-rental

Billionaire-Backed Groups Launch Ad Blitz Against California Wealth Tax
The two most prominent groups fighting the tax, which will appear on California’s November ballot as Proposition 40, are Building a Better California and Californians Against Wasteful Spending and Higher Taxes. The former group, funded in large part by Brin, debuted its first television ad on Tuesday, just the start of what’s expected to be a massive propaganda push against the proposed tax.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/billionaire-ads-wealth-tax

El-Sayed pushes to keep affordability message focus amid scrutiny from both sides
In each instance, El-Sayed tried relentlessly to stay on message. On Fox, he called opponent Mike Rogers a “beta” and took a jab at Pete Hegseth in a response to a question about the federal deficit, saying Watters didn’t seem concerned that the defense secretary, “the guy who used to work on your channel”, wanted to increase the military budget to $1.5tn.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/25/abdul-el-sayed-criticism-affordability-message

Democrat Heath Howard suspends campaign, backs Beriont in 1st Congressional District
Howard, who served two terms as a state representative from Strafford, was running as a progressive in the crowded primary race. He had the backing of a local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, and centered his pitch to voters on support for universal health care and economic justice. … In his statement, Howard encouraged other progressive candidates in the field to also drop out to avoid vote splitting. He labeled Maura Sullivan, a Marine Corps veteran, and Stefany Shaheen, a former Portsmouth city counselor, as “establishment” candidates in the primary.
https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-08-24/heath-howard-suspends-campaign-1st-congressional-district-nh-newhampshire-2026-midterms

Ken Paxton unveils 4-point plan to curb data center growth in Texas
Called the Texas First Data Center Plan, which includes four points: Introduce legislation prohibiting the "use of Chinese technology to power American data centers" or be used in infrastructure …. Co-sponsor the currently proposed DATA Act — Senate Bill 3585 authored by U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas — that aims to eliminate outdated red tape and federal regulations and create new power systems that ensure data centers do not raise electricity costs for Texans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/state/texas/2026/08/24/ken-paxton-proposes-data-center-crackdown-amid-texas-senate-campaign/91443617007/
https://archive.ph/dOidj

Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to overturn conviction rejected
A federal judge rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to overturn her conviction, finding her claims — including arguments based on newly released Epstein files — were frivolous.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/25/ghislaine-maxwells-bid-to-overturn-conviction-rejected
https://archive.ph/gR3du

South African CP, Council of the Left constituted: Now we must organise
The inaugural meeting of the Council of the Left took place on Friday, 21 August 2026, at Birchwood Hotel, bringing together representatives of political organisations, trade unions, social movements, community organisations and other progressive formations that participated in the Conference of the Left held in May this year. The meeting formally constituted the Council of the Left and began the important task of translating the Declaration and Programme of Action of the Conference of the Left into organisation, campaigning and collective action. This inaugural Council meeting committed to unity in action, working-class organisation and an immediate programme of struggle focused on: Joining the ongoing mass campaign to reject and defeat the anti-poor Prevention of Illegal Evictions Act Amendment Bill, Defending the Expropriation Act against attacks from the DA, Afriforum, Die Vaderland Stigting and the Free Market Foundation through a combination of court action and mass mobilisation. Mobilising for the Equitable Access to Land Bill to become an effective law for land redistribution and the security of tenure. Using the coming Budget days to campaign for fiscal resources to meet basic needs and address the cost of living. Mobilisation for Parliament to debate and adopt a Cuba Solidarity Bill, together with continued material support for the people of Cuba.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/South-African-CP-Council-of-the-Left-constituted-Now-we-must-organise/

Centrists Despise Hasan Piker More Than They Want to Win
El-Sayed’s primary win was a shock to the system for Democratic centrists, involving not just the victory of a pro-Palestine, Medicare for All–supporting progressive in a key battleground state but also one in which the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) didn’t endorse yet played a key role. This put establishment Democrats in a bit of an awkward position: they have long claimed the Left habitually refuses to “vote blue no matter who” come the general election and so pave the way for GOP victories. This wasn’t actually true, but it’s been one of the Democratic center’s most reliable go-to attack lines against their left flank. With the tables now turned and party centrists needing to “vote blue no matter who” and swing their support behind a progressive candidate to stop the Trump-backed Republican, a number of establishment Democrats — including El-Sayed’s centrist opponent in the primary — have backed the Democrat. But not all. One, Michigan Rep. Hillary Scholten, had preemptively refused to back El-Sayed against his Republican opponent before he’d even won the primary, and she now continues to do so, despite being called out for it by one of El-Sayed’s own former rivals. Days after his win, Third Way — a Wall Street–funded organization that advocates for Democrats to adopt Republican economic policies like cutting Medicare and Social Security — announced a $15 million campaign to attack both DSA and candidates who worked with the group, even if it meant costing the Democrats swing seats. They specifically name-checked El-Sayed as one of their targets.
https://jacobin.com/2026/08/el-sayed-piker-centrists-democrats

What Does A. Öcalan’s “Social Sociology” Mean? A Marxist Critique of the Subjectivist and Utopian Left
Criticisms directed at Marxism are also made from this front, frontly by approaches that place the place the "subject" the "individual", the "event"at the centre of their ontological theses. The proponents of this approach, which we may generalise as the "subjectivist and utopian left", may be counted in the nineteenth century as the utopian socialists, Proudhon and Duohring; in the twentieth century, as thoses that exist current "Western Marxism", in certain beginning respects with Gramsci and including Luk'cs, Korsch, the Frankfurt School and J. P. Sartre; and in the last half-century as Laclau-Mouffe, M. Bookchin, I. Wallerstein, Habermas and F. Braudel The list of these names, among whom there are theoretical differences, may be extended, and their being brought together for various reasons may be criticized. Yet, from the standpoint taken in this article, even if they do not all possess an "individualist" ontology, the common features of their critiques of Marxism in just generalify discussing them together. The Marxism critiques of those approaches that may be called the "subjectivist and utopian" left concern "class" and "the dictatorship of the proletariat". In Marxist theory these are central concepts produced on the basis of "surplus value," which Engels called a "key" concept. In their place are put such concepts as the "individual", "the rights struggles of workers and various sections," "moral principle", "democracy", "pluralism" and so on. Thus an activity is that embraces the whole of society without class distinction and is carried out within cultural-ideological fields. This is not, as is sometimes claimed, the "development" or "advancement" of Marxism; it is the abolition of the science of history in the favor of bourgeoisie.
https://www.tkpml.com/what-does-a-ocalans-social-sociology-mean-a-marxist-critique-of-the-subjectivist-and-utopian-left/

Californians should start building guillotines and label them "tax alternatives"

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>Nablus
If Hamas had a brain or will of its own it should've focused on terror attacks against isolated enclaves in the west bank to make it uninhabitable to israelis instead of October 7.

It's insane how comfortable settlers are in the west bank when one mortar shell ends their existence.