/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

GOP uses 9/11 anniversary to bash left-wing Dems
Rogers aims to contrast El-Sayed's relationship with left-wing streamer Hasan Piker — who said in 2019 that "America deserved 9/11" (a comment Piker now disavows) — with Rogers' own background as an FBI agent, according to a person familiar with his prepared remarks.
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/10/gop-sept11-midterms-democrats
https://archive.ph/GGZ0c

Trump promised $5,000 checks if Republicans win the midterms
President Donald Trump promised on Wednesday to send every American adult a $5,000 check if Republicans keep control of the U.S. House and Senate after the midterm elections. "If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000," Trump told the crowd at the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas. "It will be called the Trump dividend."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-promised-5000-checks-if-republicans-win-the-midterms-how-would-that-work

Trump lost 23 legal battles over voter data. Now DOJ is demanding election officials hand it over
After 23 straight losses in court, the Justice Department is now sending threatening letters to election officials, warning states that they are “currently under investigation” and subject to “ongoing litigation” for access to records related to the 2024 election.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-doj-voter-data-letter-election-lawsuits-b3048223.html

Bernie Sanders-endorsed challenger defeats Providence mayor in a Democratic primary
Morales tapped into the progressive energy that has fueled a slew of challenges to incumbents this election cycle up and down the ballot. His platform included proposals to cap rent hikes, expand affordable housing and increase taxes on polluters and corporate landlords. Morales cast Smiley as not being up to the task of meeting present-day challenges, asking voters the time-honored campaign question of whether they believe they are better off now than they were when Smiley took office.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/david-morales-winner-providence-mayor-primary-democrat-smiley-rcna596606

S.F. Mayor Lurie unveils plan to protect renters amid AI-fueled housing ‘emergency’
Median rents in San Francisco last month were up nearly 26% from the year before, according to the rental platform Apartment List, which described the Bay Area’s rent growth as “truly staggering” and “far outpacing all other markets in the country.” Additionally, eviction notices increased 44% in the latest yearlong period tracked by the city, though they remained below the levels seen in the last two tech booms.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-mayor-lure-rent-emergency-housing-crisis-22424912.php
https://archive.ph/YSVsR

Mayor Karen Bass stepping down from LA Homeless Service Authority commission
The Mayor's Office said in a statement Tuesday that Bass will be appointing a new appointee to fill her spot. In an interview last week, Bass told KFI's Gary and Shannon she would be leaving the LAHSA Commission due to scheduling conflicts and other time constraints.
https://abc7.com/story/la-mayor-karen-bass-stepping-down-homeless-service-authority-commission/19811154/

Letters: AI ‘lawyers’, broadband blackspots, cultural hubs under threat, and more
After many hard fought class battles, the workers of Britain are – on paper – supposedly owed many benefits and protections against their employers. But the class struggle never ends. By constructing an intentionally Byzantine bureaucracy, the ruling class has prevented exhausted, confused British workers from claiming up to £20 billion in benefits they are owed each year. But now the British state is facing a deluge of claims and appeals which are successfully navigating this obtuse and hostile system – and they are being written using AI! Artificial intelligence can do what workers have for years lacked the time, energy, and resources for: to claim the benefits they are owed, and to file against their employers for unlawful sackings. In front of every hard-won right is a swathe of near-insurmountable bureaucratic barriers to ensure they are never claimed. Supposedly, we all have the same rights under capitalism – the right to hire the best lawyers for tens of thousands of pounds!
https://communist.red/letters-ai-lawyers-broadband-blackspots-cultural-hubs-under-threat-and-more/

Chile – Anti-Imperialist Front: 53 Years Since the CIA-directed Coup d’État
This September 11th marks 53 years since the CIA-directed coup d’État—that is, the coup orchestrated by Yankee imperialism through the fascist military junta. It may seem like a long time, but even today, in numerous towns and cities across Chile, young people and large groups gather year after year to protest on September 11. Chile is a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country. Imperialist oppression, mainly Yankee, grips our nation, allowing only formal independence and fostering a backward form of capitalism tied to the interests of the great powers, known as Bureaucratic Capitalism, typical of semi-feudal countries. The imperialists are the ventriloquists or puppeteers and the “presidents” are their puppets who, as such, decide very little, acting according to the commands of their masters. Allende’s administration sought to ride two horses at once. On the one hand, it sought to “nationalize” the mining industry by paying millions in compensation to Yankee imperialism, thereby consolidating its position to serve Russian social-imperialism.
https://redherald.org/2026/09/10/chile-anti-imperialist-front-53-years-since-the-cia-directed-coup-detat/

Ralph Miliband: The Coup in Chile
Perhaps the most important such message or warning or “lesson” is also the most obvious, and therefore the most easily overlooked. It concerns the notion of class struggle. Assuming one may ignore the view that class struggle is the result of “extremist” propaganda and agitation, there remains the fact that the Left is rather prone to a perspective according to which the class struggle is something waged by the workers and the subordinate classes against the dominant ones. It is of course that. But class struggle also means, and often means first of all, the struggle waged by the dominant class, and the state acting on its behalf, against the workers and the subordinate classes. By definition, struggle is not a one way process; but it is just as well to emphasize that it is actively waged by the dominant class or classes, and in many ways much more effectively waged by them than the struggle waged by the subordinate classes. Secondly, but in the same context, there is a vast difference to be made – sufficiently vast as to require a difference of name – between on the one hand “ordinary” class struggle, of the kind which goes on day in day out in capitalist societies, at economic, political, ideological, micro- and macro-, levels, and which is known to constitute no threat to the capitalist framework within which it occurs; and, on the other hand, class struggle which either does, or which is thought likely to, affect the social order in really fundamental ways. The first form of class struggle constitutes the stuff, or much of the stuff, of the politics of capitalist society. It is not unimportant, or a mere sham; but neither does it stretch the political system unduly. The latter form of struggle requires to be described not simply as class struggle, but as class war. Where men of power and privilege (and it is not necessarily those with most power and privilege who are the most uncompromising) do believe that they confront a real threat from below, that the world they know and like and want to preserve seems undermined or in the grip of evil and subversive forces, then an altogether different form of struggle comes into operation, whose acuity, dimensions and universality warrants the label “class war”. Chile had known class struggle within a bourgeois democratic framework for many decades: that was its tradition. With the coming to the Presidency of Allende, the conservative forces progressively turned class struggle into class war – and here too, it is worth stressing that it was the conservative forces which turned the one into the other.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/miliband/1973/10/chile.htm