/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation case must continue in New Jersey
The ruling does not guarantee that Khalil will be moved out of a detention facility in Louisiana, where he is being held as the government seeks his deportation for his role in campus protests against Israel. But it will allow his attorneys to make their arguments for his release before a judge in New Jersey.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/mahmoud-khalil-case-new-jersey

Major union launches ad campaign featuring detained Tufts student
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents nearly 2 million members in the United States and Canada, is launching digital ads and projections on buildings in Washington, D.C., and other cities, according to details of the campaign shared first with The Hill.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5225863-tufts-student-detained-union-ad-campaign/
https://archive.ph/EFsfi

Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison
Abrego Garcia, who attorneys say fled gang violence in El Salvador more than a decade ago, had been identified by his wife in a photo of detainees entering intake at El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison CECOT.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/politics/maryland-father-mistakenly-deported-el-salvador-prison/index.html
https://archive.ph/2ROL5

US Supreme Court weighs law on suing Palestinian authorities over attacks
Many of the questions posed by the justices seemed to suggest they would rule in favor of the plaintiffs. Some of the questions explored the authority of Congress and the president to empower U.S. federal courts to hear civil suits over allegedly wrongful conduct experienced by Americans overseas, and what type of connection defendants must have to the United States before they must face such legal proceedings.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-weighs-law-suing-palestinian-authorities-over-attacks-2025-04-01/

This State Is For Sale
If you own a Fortune 500 business, you probably incorporated it in Delaware. The state has long been favored by corporate America, offering tax-benefits and a bespoke, pre-Revolutionary War court system tailored to business needs. But now Delaware’s standing as the country’s top corporate haven is under attack. This week on Lever Time, senior podcast producer Arjun Singh sits down with The Lever’s Katya Schwenk and Luke Goldstein to learn why the tiny East Coast state has been corporate America's haven for decades. But there’s more to the story. Why are other states now battling to seize its title — and how does it impact the rest of us? And how is the involvement of Elon Musk making everything worse? The Lever's reporting explains why Delaware is ground zero in the national oligarch takeover and why what happens in Delaware doesn’t stay in Delaware. It means corporate deregulation from coast to coast.
https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_9069_31bafb1a-dd4a-46d9-90ec-92f9beda0df0&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F9069%2Ffeed-rss.xml

Get out of the state of shock! – On the automobile crisis
On the 20th of December 2024, VW’s works council and management agreed on an austerity programme that, among other things, would result in the elimination of 35,000 jobs by 2030 – most of the jobs will be cut in ‘too expensive’ factories in Germany. The production of the VW Golf is to be moved entirely to Mexico. Job cuts are also intensifying among suppliers, and are reaching machine and plant manufacturers (Kuka Augsburg). Mercedes wants to double the share of production in low-wage countries from 15 to 30 per cent – in Kecskemét, Hungary, costs are claimed to be 70 per cent lower than in Germany. In 2023, an hour’s work in Hungary cost 12.80 Euros, compared to 41.80 in Germany. At nine per cent, corporate tax is lower than anywhere else in the EU. In addition, Orbán subsidises Audi, BMW and Volkswagen with hundreds of millions of Euros. The country is attracting people from Kazakhstan and Mongolia to counteract the shortage of labour and rising wages.
https://www.angryworkers.org/2025/03/28/get-out-of-the-state-of-shock-on-the-automobile-crisis/

The tragedy of Syria: ‘multipolarity’ fails to substitute for anti-imperialism
The post-Soviet era has emboldened a ruthless, cruel imperialism. Without the threat of Soviet power to present a counterforce, the US, Nato, and other powers are free to impose their will on other states, including taking their own rivalries to the brink of world war. Few remember that the then-real threat of Soviet intervention stopped the Israelis from passing beyond the Golan Heights and marching to Damascus during the Six Day War — a principled act of international solidarity. As a corollary, it is impossible to fail to note that there are no similar counterbalancing forces today. There have been no political, economic, or military powers demonstrably committed to a principled defence of weaker states threatened by imperialist aggression since the Cuban and Soviet defence of Angola and the defeat of South African apartheid aggression in the 1980s. That reality is not only a tribute to the socialist internationalism of the past, but a sobering message to those on the left who interpret the realignment of great powers — the so-called tendency to multipolarity — as a new kind of anti-imperialism. The experience of Syria — left on its own to defend its integrity and sovereignty against the agents of backwardness and great-power interests — speaks to the impotence of the so-called Brics bloc. Issuing protests, resolutions, and condemnations is no substitute for action or material aid. Russian support, once so vital to Assad’s defence, failed to rise against HTS and is now offered shamelessly to its former foe.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tragedy-syria-%E2%80%98multipolarity%E2%80%99-fails-substitute-anti-imperialism

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>The tragedy of Syria: ‘multipolarity’ fails to substitute for anti-imperialism
While this is true, i'm not entirely sure the Soviets would have protected Syria either if they had been busy with a war in Ukraine.

Also during the last 20 to 30 years, Arab nationalism was less effective at counter hegemonic activities than para-state groups like Hezbollah or the Houties. The only exception is Iran where it's gone the other way. Maybe it being such a large country is the reason.