/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Israeli spy chief in D.C. as Netanyahu presses Trump to resume war
Trump has so far rejected pressure from Netanyahu to return to combat. The two discussed the Iran war during a Nov. 5 call, per a U.S. official. Instead, the president has sided with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE to continue the naval blockade and economic pressure campaign against Iran, while seeing if a deal is possible.
https://www.axios.com/2026/11/13/mossad-israel-iran-war-netanyahu-pressures-trump
https://archive.ph/Cw4li

‘It’s frustrating’: chaos at US airports as stoppage grinds travel plans to a halt
The FAA issued the nationwide ground stop on Friday afternoon, citing a communications problems at regional air traffic control centers, according to an FAA notice. Four hours later, FAA sent out an advisory lifting the stop.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/13/us-airports-flight-stoppage

==Incoming House Speaker Jeffries heckled at Democratic conference=
"We need new leadership," one of them shouted. "I am scared for my future." Jeffries ignored the hecklers, and the moderator commented how calm he remained, especially after one protester started swearing at him. "Remember, y'all, I grew up in Brooklyn," Jeffries ​replied.
https://www.reuters.com/world/incoming-house-speaker-jeffries-heckled-democratic-conference-2026-11-13/

Brooklyn building collapse raises questions about city oversight and safety precautions
Though it remains unclear how often the excavation site had been inspected, some city officials said Friday that more help is needed. The Department of Buildings has a vacancy rate of around 9% — 168 of its 1,855 authorized positions — according to the city’s comptroller dashboard. “We must, and we will, ensure that every single one of those positions is immediately filled,” said New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, a Democrat. “This is an unspeakable, horrendous tragedy, and we must meet this moment.”
https://apnews.com/article/brooklyn-building-collapse-safety-inspections-09cb5dd2c89e12243c43212eb1887453

Activists demand end to transfer of military materials to Israel through New York's JFK Airport
The protest, organised under the “Break the Chain” campaign led by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), comes amid reporting from The Intercept that Challenge Airlines cargo flights have transported materials including nitrocellulose, bomb casings and guidance kits from JFK to Israel. Open-source data documented in the report reveals weapons flown out of JFK are tied to mass casualty attacks in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. Challenge Airlines is an Israel-based cargo airline and logistics company founded in 1976.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/activists-demand-end-transfer-military-materials-israel-through-new-yorks-jfk-airport

Four new lawsuits in three months allege pattern of discrimination and retaliation inside Texas DPS
In nearly three months, four lawsuits have been filed in federal court against the Texas Department of Public Safety alleging similar themes of discrimination and/or retaliation within the state law enforcement agency, with officers describing unequal disciplinary practices, questionable promotion decisions and professional consequences after making complaints about their treatment.
https://www.kxan.com/investigations/four-lawsuits-allege-pattern-of-discrimination-and-retaliation-texas-dps/

Indonesia: 100 years since the communist-led uprising against Dutch colonialism
One hundred years ago, on November 12, 1926, Indonesian communists rose against Dutch colonial domination, opening one of the most significant early revolutionary confrontations with imperialism in Southeast Asia. At the forefront stood the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), which sought to transform the struggle for national independence into a mass movement of workers and peasants against colonial exploitation. For decades, Dutch imperialism had subjected the Indonesian people to foreign domination, economic exploitation and political repression. Colonial rule protected the interests of European capital and the plantation economy, while the working masses endured poverty, inequality and the denial of fundamental political rights. Founded in 1920, the PKI emerged as a revolutionary force within the growing anti-colonial movement. Through its activity among workers, peasants and radicalized sections of the population, it challenged not only Dutch colonial authority but also the limitations of bourgeois nationalism. While sections of the indigenous bourgeoisie and traditional elites sought accommodation or limited reforms within the existing order, the communists advanced the perspective of a more fundamental social and political transformation.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/11/indonesia-100-years-since-communist-led-uprising-against-dutch-colonialism.html

Eugene Debs’s Life Speaks to Today’s Socialist Movement(Review of American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs by Shawn Gude (Simon & Schuster, 2026))
Shawn Gude’s splendid new biography of Gilded Age Socialist Eugene V. Debs could hardly have arrived at a more propitious moment. Perhaps as many as half of all young people tell pollsters they prefer socialism to capitalism. Gude, a member of the 130,000-strong Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), calls that organization, whose activism and endorsements have put eight self-professed socialists in the new Congress, the “institutional descendant” of Debs’s Socialist Party of America. In his victory speech right after winning the New York city mayoral election in 2025, Zohran Mamdani, an unapologetic DSAer, quoted Debs: “I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.” And when Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour in the months after Donald Trump’s 2026 election, their critique of the billionaire class echoed Debs’s blistering denunciations of Gilded Age wealth when the barnstorming five-time presidential candidate denounced the Rockefellers, Morgans, and Carnegies of his day. Gude has written a Debs biography for our time. He emphasizes the rootedness of the Indiana railroad fireman in middle-American culture and Christianity, downplays more than other historians the ideological divisions endemic to the early twentieth century Socialist Party, and emphasizes the degree to which Debs, like Bernie Sanders and some of his contemporary comrades, could appeal to such a remarkably wide variety of constituencies. Gude’s biography also offers a full-bodied sense of Debs as a fragile and contradictory personality in which his constant travel, the crowd’s applause, and the opportunities thereby created for liaisons with the opposite sex, may well have compensated for a childless and increasingly distant marriage, as well as a distaste for the conflicts, political and personal, attendant upon leadership in any mass organization.
https://jacobin.com/2026/11/gude-debs-biography-american-socialism

Tell the truth about Cuba… and Venezuela – A reply to the comrades of the RCG
Over the years I have come across comrades from the RCG, particularly in Venezuela solidarity work. I have found them to be dedicated and hardworking, committed to the revolutionary cause. Despite our political differences, we have on occasion worked together to denounce imperialism and defend the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions. However, there are serious problems with their political line and general approach. The comrades adopt a policy of uncritical cheerleading. This is particularly jarring in relation to Venezuela. As we have explained over a period of time, after the death of Hugo Chávez, the Maduro government progressively dismantled the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution. Where Chávez had promoted workers’ control and management, Maduro destroyed it. Where Chávez nationalised key sectors of the economy, Maduro moved to privatise state assets. Where Chávez promoted mass revolutionary grassroots participation, Maduro exerted bureaucratic control and moved against parties to the left of the ruling PSUV party (including the Communist Party of Venezuela). In 2018, Maduro’s government introduced a package of monetary economic measures which destroyed collective bargaining, pulverised the purchasing power of wages and then proceeded to take repressive measures against trade union leaders who attempted to organise the defence of workers’ rights. Revolutionary Bolivarian activists who denounced corruption in PDVSA, the state-owned oil company, were falsely accused of being CIA agents and thrown into jail. None of this was explained by the RCG, which maintained its uncritical support for the Venezuelan government, and explained that it was, in fact, “building socialism”.
https://communist.red/tell-the-truth-about-cuba-and-venezuela-a-reply-to-the-comrades-of-the-rcg/