/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Millions March Against Trump-Musk in Nationwide 'Hands Off' Protests
In communities across the United States and also overseas, coordinated "Hands Off" protests are taking place far and wide Saturday in the largest public rebuke yet to President Donald Trump and top henchman Elon Musk's assault on the workings of the federal government and their program of economic sabotage that is sacrificing the needs of working families to authoritarianism and the greed of right-wing oligarchs.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/hands-off-protests-april-5

Senate approves Republican plan for trillions in tax breaks and spending cuts
One crucial challenge ahead will be for the House to accept the way the Senate’s budget plan allows for extending the tax cuts under a scoring method that treats them as not adding to future deficits, something many House Republicans reject. A new estimate from the joint committee on taxation projects the tax breaks will add $5.5tn in debt over the next decade when including interest, and $4.6tn not including interest.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/senate-republicans-trillions-tax-breaks-spending-cuts

Microsoft employees disrupt 50th anniversary party over Israel contract
"You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide," Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad shouted while AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman delivered a speech to an audience that included Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. "Mustafa, shame on you," Aboussad said as she walked toward the stage. "50,000 people have died and Microsoft powers this genocide in our region."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/microsoft-employees-disrupt-50th-anniversary-party-over-israel-contract

Jaguar and Land Rover maker pauses shipments to US as it develops post-tariff plans
The maker of Jaguar and Land Rover cars is pausing shipments to the U.S. as Britain’s struggling auto industry begins to respond to the 25% tax on vehicle imports imposed by President Donald Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/britain-carmakers-jlr-pause-ad5d4cfdca70975ab357e2cb5a8d698c

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Lockdowns and Blockades
A complete guide to assembling and employing lockboxes and other means of blockading. There is a broad spectrum of tactics to choose from between simply holding up a protest sign and setting things on fire. If you are looking to intensify a pressure campaign or to stand your ground more effectively when challenged, consider the following options. From the vantage point of 2025, more than two decades after the original version of this guide was published in the book Recipes for Disaster, civil disobedience has become somewhat more dangerous as far-right politicians have put more laws on the books and police and other fascists have become less concerned with preserving human life. Civil disobedience presumes that your adversary is constrained from inflicting permanent harm upon you. In some cases, if you are prepared to get arrested, you may be able to accomplish a great deal more by remaining mobile and risk-tolerant rather than engaging in an activity that is scripted to end in arrest. Nonetheless, there are still many regions and contexts in which the following information will be applicable.
https://crimethinc.com/2025/04/03/a-demonstrators-guide-to-lockdowns-and-blockades

KM On The NTF-ELCAC Threats Against Underground Organizations’ Protests: Philippines
Yesterday, the NTF-ELCAC (National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict) chided the revolutionary organizations for holding mobilizations for the occasion of the New People’s Army’s 56th anniversary. The fascist, anti-people, and faux-patriotic Task Force impotently wails at the actions held in UP and PUP on March 29. Not surprisingly, the NTF-ELCAC claimed as a sign of weakness the fact that the protests were held in-campus instead of more public venues. The NTF further states that they will elicit the support of the PNP in investigating the mobilizations. In doing so, they assert that they will root out “recruitment” and “radicalization” while respecting academic freedom The NTF pretends to care about academic freedom out of fear of incurring further political setbacks. But it must be clear that academic freedom is fundamental, it cannot have half-stops especially so in the name of the preservation of a corrupt social order and state.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/18133/

Frederick Engels: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific CH. III [Historical Materialism]
The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure; that in every society that has appeared in history, the manner in which wealth is distributed and society divided into classes or orders is dependent upon what is produced, how it is produced, and how the products are exchanged. From this point of view, the final causes of all social changes and political revolutions are to be sought, not in men's brains, not in men's better insights into eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange. They are to be sought, not in the philosophy, but in the economics of each particular epoch. The growing perception that existing social institutions are unreasonable and unjust, that reason has become unreason, and right wrong [1], is only proof that in the modes of production and exchange changes have silently taken place with which the social order, adapted to earlier economic conditions, is no longer in keeping. From this it also follows that the means of getting rid of the incongruities that have been brought to light must also be present, in a more or less developed condition, within the changed modes of production themselves. These means are not to be invented by deduction from fundamental principles, but are to be discovered in the stubborn facts of the existing system of production.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch03.htm