/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>488910
>could you define your terms
Neoprogressivism is 21st century progressivism, third- and fourth-wave feminism is mainstream feminist theory from the 90s onward (radfems, radlibs).

>>488914
Third/fourth wave feminism actually started in the 1980s

>>488916
>Third/fourth wave feminism actually started in the 1980s
Yeah, my bad ig.

>>488914
i think it would be more accurate to talk it about a degenerated reprisal of the american left in the form of the millenial left, haunted by the failure and collapse of the left at the turn of the century
we saw the same militant identitarianism and youth fetishization of the new left plus its battles with old labour (think eugene debs) reemerging in sanders, but in a weirdly detached hipster way
its a cheap borrowing from history (a.k.a. a LARP) that doesnt match the same conditions which is probably why it comes off as so hysterical

Third wave feminism is way better than the abomination that was second wave.

Oh no I, OP, have been infected with the Reddit also. You see, I am gay, which made me vulnerable to the Leddit moleSTD. Now I am le gay AND le Reddit! LE CRINGE!

This is a VERY SERIOUS discussion everybody!

>>488929
>>488932
/lgbt/ was added in response to a passing vote created by a regular user. If you do not want the /lgbt/ board to be on the site you can use this exact same process to remove it

Leftychan reminds you that we have a democratic process for changes to the site and its moderation. You are encouraged to propose and vote on changes on our Matrix

>>488948
Don't think he really wants to vote since he knows nobody cares so he wants to scream very loud for people to pay attention.

>>488948
Where is the vote and how can I participate? Thank you kindly.

Judge rules Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported

The decision was made based on the federal government’s argument that Khalil poses “a national security risk”.

Immigration Judge Jamee Comans made the determination at the end of a nearly two-hour hearing. Khalil can appeal the ruling.

Khalil, who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the school, was detained by federal immigration agents on March 8 in New York and transferred to an immigration detention centre in Jena, Louisiana.

Khalil’s lawyers have challenged the legality of his detention, saying the Trump administration is trying to crack down on free speech. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said he can deport Khalil because his presence in the US threatens the country’s foreign policy.

https://aje.io/g7odxp?update=3638180

White House has accused Mahmoud Khalil of ‘siding with terrorists’
Here are some fast facts on the arrest and planned deportation of US permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil:

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Harvard University first to defy Trump’s crackdown after pro-Palestinian campus protests
Patty Culhane
Reporting from Washington, DC, United States

So, Harvard is the first university to really sound defiant, saying this violates the Constitution and our First Amendment rights and we will not allow the government to try and tell us, basically, how to run our campus. Indicating that they might be willing to fight it in court.

So, a very big shift from what we have seen from other universities. But if anyone can do it, it is Harvard. They are a very, very wealthy school with an endowment that is believed to be north of $50bn.

I think it’s pretty obvious that if Harvard had not stood up to the Trump administration, that a lot more universities would be willing to capitulate.

We saw that with Columbia University. They are trying to get back $400m in grant money, so not the $9bn that Harvard’s talking about. Columbia, they took steps to appease the Trump administration when their grants got cut, such as basically bringing in a new administration for the management of the Middle Eastern, South Asian and African studies departments. They said that they would comply with a long list of demands.

Other universities are trying to appease the Trump administration without basically capitulating. So, because Harvard is standing up, most experts in the field think that this is really the game changer, because Harvard is Harvard, and if it didn’t stand up, likely most colleges wouldn’t.

We’ve never seen a president go after universities like this, and the courts are going to be the ones to decide who wins.
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US judge orders pro-Palestine student be moved to Vermont

A US court has ordered immigration authorities to transfer Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont, where her legal petition to be released from detention could be reviewed while she is present in person.

Ozturk – a graduate student at Tufts University – was arrested by plain-clothed, masked immigration agents last month over her support for Palestinian rights.

A federal judge found that Ozturk has constitutional grounds to challenge her detention, dismissing the Trump administration’s argument that federal district courts cannot review its actions on immigration.

Ozturk was moved to Louisiana after her detention in what critics say is part of a government effort to keep detainees away from their supporters and lawyers – and in conservative-leaning legal districts.

“For the foregoing reasons, the Court concludes that this case will continue in this Court with Ms Ozturk physically present for the remainder of the proceedings,” US District Judge William Sessions said.

https://aje.io/1u60tw?update=3653314

US revokes nearly 1,500 student visas: Who are the targets?
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Mahmoud Khalil denied release for birth of son, says wife

Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestinian activist who has been detained in the US pending his deportation, has missed the birth of his son after being refused temporary release to attend the birth, his wife has said.

Noor Abdalla said on Monday that she gave birth to the couple’s first child in New York without Khalil present, after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made the “purposeful decision” to make her family suffer.

“My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud,” Abdalla, a US citizen, said in a statement.

“ICE and the Trump administration have stolen these precious moments from our family in an attempt to silence Mahmoud’s support for Palestinian freedom.

“I will continue to fight every day for Mahmoud to come home to us,” Abdalla added. “I know when Mahmoud is freed, he will show our son how to be brave, thoughtful, and compassionate, just like his dad.”

Read more here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/22/palestinian-activist-khalil-denied-release-for-sons-birth-wife-says

>America is turning into Russia
Welcome to the club, motherfuckers.

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen went to El Salvador to look into CECOT and was denied entry.
https://x.com/ChrisVanHollen/status/1912911703823483150

A building is destroyed in an explosion at Northrop Grumman’s rocket test site

PROMONTORY, Utah (AP) — An explosion at Northrop Grumman’s remote rocket testing site in northern Utah destroyed a building Wednesday.

Officers found no injuries or fatalities in their initial investigation of the wreckage, according to the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office.

Emergency crews had responded to reports of a loud blast and a dark plume of smoke rising over the rangelands at 7:38 a.m.

It was not immediately clear which building was destroyed and what its purpose was. The aerospace and defense company maintains a large presence in Utah, where it manufactures and tests solid rocket motors.

Northrop Grumman did not immediately release a statement.

The public is advised to avoid the area as officials continue to investigate.

https://apnews.com/article/northrop-grumman-explosion-utah-2ce8296f9220e3ed2046dc177b218771

>>488812
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released.
https://x.com/LlanosJackie/status/1913010074047623459

Sen. Chris Van Hollen meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia as Trump fights to keep him in El Salvador
The Trump administration has said Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported. El Salvador’s president said he will remain in custody “now that he’s been confirmed healthy.”

Sen. Chris Van Hollen confirmed Thursday night that he has met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man whom the Trump administration said it mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March.

"I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return," Van Hollen, D-Md., wrote on X.

Images of Van Hollen’s meeting with Abrego Garcia were first posted online by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who has rebuffed calls to return Abrego Garcia to the United States.

Bukele said on X after the meeting that Abrego Garcia will remain in El Salvador’s custody “now that he’s been confirmed healthy.”

President Donald Trump lashed out at Van Hollen Friday morning in a post on Truth Social, saying the Democratic senator "looked like a fool yesterday standing in El Salvador begging for attention."

At an Oval Office meeting with Trump on Monday, Bukele argued that he didn't "have the power to return him to the United States."

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>>488796
I agree with you. I am already of the opinion that we should join liberals in those issues in which we all agree, such as being anti-Trump. But one could say that leftists should simply start their own demonstrations, and not participate in liberal protests while not opposing them either. I am asking a question of strategy, not of principle.

>>488795
I reject the basic premises.

Firstly, the implication of signs like in that image is foremost that Trump is "Russian," with the "Communist" imagery mostly being used as a dumb "gotcha!" and appeal to nationalism. That doesn't mean that no liberals believe it earnestly, but even of those it's not the majority. So basically you have a minority who hold up "Trump = Soviet Communist = bad!" signs and then a minority of those people who earnestly believe, on an intellectual level, that Trump is a Communist. It's a minority of a minority of liberals. I don't deny that that minority of a minority are stupid in that specific way and are holding stupid signs, but every time a guy on an image board is like "look at this one guy in a group of 10,000 people, is this everybody?" it seems odd.

secondly,
>What I ask is this: do you think it is fruitful for American leftists to join liberals in anti-Trump demonstrations? Or should we instead have demonstrations of our own? Could liberal protests become an opportunity for educating liberals, or would attending merely make them more secure in their current ideology?
I reject the premise of all three of these questions.
It is liberals, by which I mean the DNC specifically, who have sought to co-opt the existing protest movement. Under Biden there were massive protests, under Trump they continued. Even these recent "Hands Off!" protests, which have been something the liberal establishment have heavily aimed to direct and co-opt (to avoid the Palestinian genocide and crackdown on anti-Zionism which is a project of both the DNC & GOP) have seen participation, and in some cases continued local dominance, by the anti-genocide demonstrators who people like Pelosi seek to drown out or infiltrate. The left has not stopped protesting. The momentum is something the DNC has lost and is cynically moving to steal. It is not ours to reach out to liberals or to segregate ourselves from opposition to Zionist tyranny and repression by the American state, it is ours to continue to build the movement which the liberal voters, by increasing discomfort at their material conditions under a psychotic American failed state, are now compelled to meet on the streets.

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>>488798
Are you american though?

>>488805
Yeah.

MAGA's working class base is more class consciousness and Communist than 99% of ""leftists"" out there. They associate Trump with Communism for good reason (his working class base which wants popular sovereignty, not Trump himself).

>>488860
>this feels like astro-turf
Anon, it doesn't matter what you think. I know I'm 100% correct but I do not expect stupid gaijins to understand me since this is practically impossible because of the infowar going on. Cassandra truth and so on.

>>488861
>the current Russian president made his initial political career unfucking the Russian economy by switching it from neo-liberal shock-doctrine capitalism to state capitalism
No, he switched it into paternalistic conservatism with a corrupt welfare state that is quickly getting replaced by insurance companies and private business.

>>488863
I dunno anon, the Russian war economy is really looking an awful lot like state capitalism again. Just like the state capitalism of the German Empire.

>>488864
>I dunno anon, the Russian war economy is really looking an awful lot like state capitalism again.
Mixed economy is not "state capitalism." Russia has a very strong private sector. Sure, there are welfare and the public sector but they're so fucked and underfunded that many people would rather pay money to private businesses. Many public buildings that aren't in major cities like Moscow or Saint-Petersburg or whatever weren't renovated in decades, their paint literally wears off. But living in a major city is expensive as fuck so not that different from the US. People are forced to go into a giant dept just to own an apartment (again, not that different from the US).

>>488865 (me)
I mean, I'm not saying it's Mordor or whatever. It's not LDPR. But still, Russia has paternalistic conservatism, poor public sector and expensive housing. It is what it is.

Trump exempts smartphones, computers from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs
The US CBP on Friday listed 20 product categories, including the very broad 8471 code for all computers, laptops, disc drives and automatic data processing. It also included semiconductor devices, equipment, memory chips and flat panel displays.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/12/trump-exempts-smartphones-computers-from-reciprocal-tariffs
https://archive.ph/jJCdj#selection-704.0-704.1

Trump Assault on Federal Contractor Wages Could Mean 25% Pay Cuts for Hundreds of Thousands
After U.S. President Donald Trump last month undid a Biden-era regulation that required businesses that contract with the federal government to pay their workers a $17.75 an hour minimum wage, the Center for American Progress released an analysis Friday which found that some workers impacted by the change could see a 25% pay cut.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/federal-contractor-wage-trump

Florida universities partnering with ICE on immigration enforcement
It was not immediately clear who at the University of Florida would act as immigration officers under this agreement and the school's spokesperson did not provide additional comment. They did, however, confirm that eight students have had their visas revoked.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-universities-partnering-ice-immigration-enforcement/

Cuomo spent $452 million on equipment to fight COVID. NY only distributed 3 items.
“Yes, we were going to spend a lot of money on medical equipment, but that was OK if we save lives because of it,” Azzopardi said. He added that hospitals in the state didn’t end up needing all of the equipment that was purchased with the guidance of consulting firm McKinsey & Co.
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Official NDFP Statement: We Are Not Preparing For War, We Are Waging War
The national democratic revolutionary movement is not only preparing for war, we are waging a revolutionary war in the interest of the Filipino people. We have been waging this for democracy and national liberation since 1969, and the reactionary government has been using all its military might against the people’s war these past decades. When Lt. General Brawner called for the AFP to prepare for war in case of an invasion of Taiwan, he is only declaring his puppetry to the US, to fight a war not for the Filipino people but for his imperialist masters. The US imperialist regime, through neo-colonial agreements, continues to establish military bases and installations all over our country, to stockpile attack weapons including missiles, and provoke nearby China to war, while wallowing in plundered wealth in the safety of its own far-away mainland. With the coming “biggest ever” Balikatan which the puppet Marcos regime so proudly and willingly hosts, the Philippines is being prepped to absorb a war the US regime is so eager to wage. It is extreme folly to believe in the US’s “iron-clad commitment” to the Philippines, because even iron is eroded by the rust of imperialist greed.
https://www.redspark.nu/en/peoples-war/philippines/official-ndfp-statement-we-are-not-preparing-for-war-we-are-waging-war/

Reflections on the US Communist Movement: Foster’s History of the CPUSA
Our current situation is one where the old party has long since renounced the organizational and ideological principles of Marxism-Leninism. Its leadership hypocritically invokes democratic centralism, a core Leninist principle, while crushing internal party democracy whenever it conflicts with their policy of serving as the left-flank of the Democratic Party. Proletarian internationalism, once a pillar of the communist ideology of the party, has been hollowed out, with the party backing anti-communist social democrats abroad, even in places like Venezuela, where such forces violently repress the workers’ communist movement. The result? A working class stripped of its revolutionary leadership, disarmed in the class struggle, and left to the mercy of bourgeois parties that offer noPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>488749
>China vows support to help graduates find jobs as US trade war weighs on the economy
>Chinese authorities said on Tuesday that over the next three to five years, the country would establish a system to support employment of new graduates. It will cover skills training, career guidance, job search and recruitment help, support for the disadvantaged, and monitoring and evaluation of the employment market, according to the general offices of the Communist Party and State Council.
So the SOE (state owned enterprises) are going to absorb all the highly educated people and the result will be even faster technological advances. The economic squeeze means they're going to tell these people to just pass the time by working on passion projects, which is the source of many innovations nobody expects.

‘Cop City’ legal case could cast spotlight on US police foundations’ activities
In the Atlanta case, a judge is considering 12 hours of testimony, related case law and evidence in a lawsuit that concerns whether records such as board meeting minutes from the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) are subject to the state’s open records law. If they are, they must be released to plaintiffs: a local digital non-profit news outlet and a Chicago-based research organization.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/copy-city-legal-case-police-foundations

Jewish students at Georgetown protest detention of professor Badar Khan Suri
Suri, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown and an Indian national, was arrested by masked federal agents following a Ramadan iftar in March. He is being accused by Department of Homeland Security officials of spreading Hamas propaganda.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/g-s1-59580/jewish-students-at-georgetown-protest-detention-of-professor-badar-khan-suri

The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
“We are no longer planning to issue press releases or those dear colleague letters to inform the media and public about programmatic and service changes,” said SSA regional commissioner Linda Kerr-Davis in a meeting with managers earlier this week. “Instead, the agency will be using X to communicate to the press and the public … so this will become our communication mechanism.”
https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-administration-regional-office-elon-musk-x/
https://archive.ph/sr8pu

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
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Rev Left Radio: m[BEST OF] What Is To Be Done? - V.I. Lenin
ORIGINALLY RELEASED Apr 20, 2019
What is to be Done? is a classic work on the role and organisation of the revolutionary party in the communist movement. Lenin criticises economism, revisionism and spontaneity, and argues persuasively for a centralised and professional vanguard of the proletariat. On this episode of Red Menace Alyson and Breht explain and reflect on the text, and then extract the core lessons for revolutionaries today.
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/best-of-what-is-to-be-done-vi-lenin-1

(HOUDINI) Update on Malhoud Khalil: They Bet We'll Choose Fear. Let’s Prove Them Wrong.
This man is a permanent resident. Green card holder. His wife's a US citizen. By every measure, he's American. Doesn't matter if he wasn't born here—he's as American as I am, as American as anyone whose family's been here five generations. And they're deporting him. Not for crime, not for violence—for protesting. The US government's excuse? That letting him stay would "weaken efforts to combat antisemitism worldwide." Translation: The regime's ability to do imperialism depends on silencing criticism of Israel. They’re using "antisemitism" as a shield for genocide, for propping up a colonial outpost. And if saying that out loud puts me in legal danger, if it means I could get black-vanned next—then we’ve already lost. Let's be crystal fucking clear: Criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism. Jewish Voices for Peace—actual Jewish anti-Zionists—are defending Khalil. If they’re "antisemitic," then the word means nothing. (Side note: HOUDINI Magazine is named after a Jewish person, so miss me with that shit from the jump.) This is about ideas. Khalil's being deported for his beliefs, same as Italian anarchists during the 1st Red Scare. They’re making up excuses to disappear him because he spoke out. And if they can do it to him, they can do it to you. To me. To anyone.
https://erikhoudini.com/#post?id=776101&title=update-on-malhoud-khalil-they-bet-we-ll-choose-fear-let-s-prove-them-wrong

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>>488739
>UN says 36 Israeli attacks killed only Palestinian women, children in Gaza
Wait what ?

Everybody got mad they killed women and children, and they decided lets do only that ?
How did they even manage it ?

>>488746
>How did they even manage it ?
They didn't that shit is statistically impossible.

>>488676
>Cyber defense bill allows collection and use of private information without consent
>The bill under discussion states that the government may enter into agreements with private businesses, including key infrastructure providers and home appliance makers, to have them provide correspondence information.
The Chinese are known to "cyber-pown" countries with foolish governments forcing such gaping security holes into their technology, they should be calling this "cyber-breach bill" instead. The US forced a backdoor into infrastructure providers too and the Chinese managed rummaging around for 2 hole years before they got detected.

Obviously the war on privacy is an egregious crime, and this should be viewed as a conspiracy not a legislative proposal. I think tho that as a means of repression it could backfire because these kinds of systems are inherently vulnerable to saturation attacks, basically people can use this to ddos the police.

Lastly if a mafia manages to use corruption to get access to this, they'll get the cyber-yakuza

>>488690
>The Chinese are known to "cyber-pown" countries with foolish governments forcing such gaping security holes into their technology
Known by whom? You shouldn't trust a fucking thing anyone says about state cyberwarfare after the Vault7 leaks. Here's why.

>>488698
Fair point, this pretty much negates attribution.

However the other point that backdooring technology is foolish remains true.

>>488678
>Breaking the Silence on Palestinian Armed Struggle
>On February 22, 2024, China’s Ambassador to The Hague, Zhang Jun, uttered the unexpected. His testimony, like that of a number of others, was meant to help the International Court of Justice (ICJ) formulate a critical and long-overdue legal opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Zhang articulated the Chinese position, which, unlike the American envoy’s testimony, was entirely aligned with international and humanitarian laws. But he delved into a tabooed subject—one that even Palestine’s closest allies in the Middle East and Global South dared not touch: the right to use armed struggle. “Palestinian people’s use of force to resist foreign oppression and complete the establishment of an independent state is an inalienable right,” the Chinese Ambassador said, insisting that “the struggle waged by peoples for their liberation, right to self-determination, including armed struggle against colonialism, occupation, aggression, domination against foreign forces should not be considered terror acts”. Expectedly, Zhang’s comments didn’t reverberate much further: neither governments nor intellectuals, including many on the left, used his remarks as an opportunity to explore the matter further. It’s far more convenient to assign Palestinians the role of the victim or the villain. A resisting Palestinian—one with agency and control over his own fate—is always a dangerous territory.
I almost overlooked this.

Wow that is unusually clear words for a Chinese diplomat.
I'm not well versed in assigning meaning to diplomatic tone. Anybody care to speculate ?

>>488728
>I'm not well versed in assigning meaning to diplomatic tone. Anybody care to speculate ?
What? There's not a whole lot of ambiguity here. This was said at the ICJ, it's a legal argument, and it's simply accurate.

Another day opening in red

>>488687
Such a pretty color

How long will MAGAtards keep defending this imbecile?

>>488700
Some people will do it forever.