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'You Are an Inspiration,' Sanders Tells LA Hotel Workers Fighting for Just Contracts
"You are an inspiration, because of your courage, to millions of working people throughout this country," Sanders (I-Vt.) told the crowd of workers gathered outside Hotel Figueroa. "You are working hard, you are what keeps these hotels going. You deserve decent wages, you deserve decent benefits, you deserve decent healthcare, you deserve decent schedules, you deserve decent pensions."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-hotel-workers-unite-here

Progressive Candidate Could Upend the San Francisco Mayor’s Race
Mr. Peskin said this week that he agrees with the other candidates that the San Francisco Police Department needs more officers, and he would try to create a program to seek recruits from local colleges. He said he also agrees that fentanyl dealers must be arrested and jailed.
Mr. Peskin sees that goal as unrealistic and believes San Francisco should retain local control over its housing development rather than have the state intervene.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/us/san-francisco-mayor-peskin.html
https://archive.is/6UqqA

US court rejects transfer of credit card fees rule case amid focus on 'judge shopping'
The ruling was a jurisdictional victory for business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and American Bankers Association amid a broader debate over how and whether to rein in "judge shopping" by litigants who sue over government policies in courts with one or two sympathetic judges.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-court-rejects-transfer-credit-card-fees-rule-case-amid-focus-judge-shopping-2024-04-06/

Arrests Expose Rift Between N.Y.P.D. and ‘Violence Interrupters
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Is the Golden Age of American Jews Ending? No, but Liberal Zionism Is Breaking Down.
Foer’s pained attempts at “both-sidesism” rest on a simple premise: He identifies with a version of “liberal” Zionism that supports U.S. imperialist hegemony, including its Zionist proxy that helps it to control the Middle East. This ideology, which was once very popular, claimed to defend human rights and democracy, while at the same time cheering for imperialist wars and ethnic cleansing. Foer incorrectly assumes that all Jews feel the same way, or at least they really should. So any criticism of U.S. imperialism is, in his view, anti-Jewish. The author recounts numerous anecdotes of Jewish students feeling threatened by pro-Palestine protests at their school. He does not delve into any of these stories — it is not clear why a protest against an ongoing genocide would be threatening to any individual not committing said genocide. Many young Jewish people in the U.S. are raised to identify with the Israeli state. But they don’t have to — and increasingly, this identity is breaking down. Many of the pro-Palestine protesters, who are supposedly threatening Jews, are themselves Jewish.
https://www.leftvoice.org/is-the-golden-age-of-american-jews-ending-no-but-liberal-zionism-is-breaking-down/

Sahra Wagenknecht Keeps Punching Down
Without a doubt, Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party fills a gap in Germany’s party-political spectrum. Her credo: yes, the rich should pay more taxes and working people should earn more, but socially everything should remain more or less the same, or return to the way it used to be. Her Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht party (literally, Sahra Wagenknecht Union, BSW) is a mixture of the traditional left and the working-class wing of Christian democracy. Does it have a raison d’être? Yes. You could even argue that the BSW strengthens democracy, if nonvoters or frustrated voters feel represented by it. However, the current political landscape means that Wagenknecht not only has to try to win over frustrated former social democrats, but also potential voters for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). After all, she wants her BSW to usurp AfD as a protest party — and from there go on to establish itself as a mainstream party Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1814990
Leave the socdems alone, discuss with articles and logic, history and data. Not this

You are not even a anarchist, my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ending

>waaaah why doesn't a country literally on the border of the empire have a communist revolution
I thought was a scientific materialist board

>>1814993
>He's still a capitalist
>He is one of the best leaders of the left
wew
>>1814999
>Leave the socdems alone
No.
>>1815003
Who are you quoting?

>>1814996
Not realistic until China becomes the strongest superpower. Thanks to BRICS, they can't bully us though. If they try and harass us we just casually suggest we might consider joining BRICS.

Both Biden and Trump were trash talking about our country. The next day president did this:

>>1815038
Forgot the pic.

He's talking with China's ambassador

It helps me agitate for socialism.

>>1814481
Sorry that you're unaware of the contents of your new based communist online friends' broadcasts. I guess they were just a way for you to signal how based you are. :^) Politsturm has explicitly said: Hamas is an imperial proxy. The Gaza genocide is an "inter-imperialist conflict" warranting rev. defeatism on both sides. It's just like WWI colonial infighting. The Deprogram has repeatedly hosted a Russian liberal academic, Konstantin Syomin, who says the same things. You didn't think it would be that easy to escape your habit of mindlessly wolfing down propaganda, did you?

It hurts NATO

i hate the usa

>>1814620
>The Deprogram has repeatedly hosted a Russian liberal academic, Konstantin Syomin, who says the same things.

So what

Being an honest person in America is a death sentence

>>1814780
Being honest is a euphemism for being stupid and naive

>>1814445
Mogged in being infantile

>>1814782
being stupid and naive person in America is a death sentence

>>1814434
>Which organization took in its programme the demands of the Commune?
Most socialist organizations have the demands of the Commune.
>Which organization took Iskra's organizatory plan and applied it to its own circumstances?
A handful of socialist in their own countries material conditions yet there seems to be no success. This was tried in the 20th century with the IWW and the CPUSA's Bill of Rights socialism. Those two are just the icing on the cake.Thats what I mean when I say your strategy isn't unique because they already were tried and not successful. There are multiple reasons why there is no success but communist "worshipping" previous revolutions are not the reason.
>Where's the autocracy in the West?
Do you believe that the West has no authoritarian tendencies
>Do you even realize how ridiculous you sound? Nothing in the west has been tried sans a lowly combination of narodnaya-volya-ist terrorism + the worship of intellectual individualism.
I can say that you sound ridiculous by saying that communism will make a comeback if they:
>actually stopped worshipping revolutions that had to adapt to concrete historical reality
That is not why communism is not successful in the west. You are literally one step away from saying "not real socialism" which already makes people skeptical of you when you say "My socialism will work unlike the red tsarists". Now bringing a photo of Lenin in Chicago is larpy but it's another level if you condemn that revolution.
>By revolutionary worship I mean exactly what you just did - Marxism-Leninism is the religious dogma rigid stalinists love to push around thinking that there's a one-size-fits-all approach to revolution.
Reread the post.Where did I say that Marxism-Leninism is a one size fits all? I am simply saying that those socialist revolutions will be brought up and you should talk about the overwhelming positive that came from the experience. There were mistakes but they were minor compared to the positives it gave. There is an anarchist in these threads that defends Marxist Leninist states and can say that the US won't have an ML revolution which is solid and understandable. SocPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1814469
We could also acknowledge that it's more for entertainment than a serious source

The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living it seems.

>>1814486
Just give them a party hat when they post, that makes it less bleak

We already have duginists on this board, we don't need no more robots

>>1814496
lol true

>>1771633
He was never a real communist, he was a social democrat. He betrayed his followers and got ousted in favor of another right winger

/leftypol/ discovers the failings of electoralism.

Wow, I remember the hype back then here on leftypol about the pencil guy. I remember when some peruvian anon said: "I'm going to fight for my president!"

Not like I should bump this one (or post it too on the latamhisp thread) but the VP now president Boluarte (the one that was a card carriying member of ML Pencil party) is on fire for her extravagant gifts of various rolexs and jewelry. Now it is seen that it was a gift from Ayacucho's governor
(the region where more than 2 dozens died in the aftermath of Castillo's fall)
Good to see that corruption has become something so stupid since the times of Alan Garcia & APRA.

Not like something is going to happen soon. The opposition in congress has no votes to impeach her, and two tries by them to do it already failed. She has the blessing of the right and those who handle the pan.

>>1812438
>The entirety of the East German officer corps until the 70s was ex-Wehrmacht and like half of the functionaries of the SED
Bullshit

>>1814436
>The Soviet army committed atrocities
Sure, but not on a mass-scale, or by government decree or approval. Despite ideological enemity, the Polish officers were more useful alive to the USSR, than dead, and while yes, the Nazi and anti-communist push for the narrative on its own is not a great argument, it is very much a good reason to question their narrative and check its validity, and certainly provides motive to falsify evidence and manufacture a narrative, as has been done before about the USSR with things like the Holodomor meme (pdf rel)

Why do these threads always devolve into Katyn discussions? Who gives a fuck about retarded dead Polish officers? The only purges any communist should give a shit about are the Moscow Trials. Im not interested in getting into a debate about who was right or wrong there but im pointing out that if you care about anything other than those you have the wrong priorities on talking about purges under Stalin.

>>1811962
AMAB

>>1814386
>I'm sorry, but I don't see any references to Katyn anywhere in that judgement

It literally talks about the indictment, which contains Katyn. Even if you go the retard road and start claiming that Goring wasn't responsible, here's the fucking fact that rulings and proceedings of the Nuremberg Trials were carried against ORGANIZATIONS with one PRIMARY defendant defending in each case. Even in this case, Katyn is still Nazis' doing, because it's in THERE

>Did Goering admit to doing the Katyn? I don't think so.

Whose defendant was Stahmer, you idiot? How do you fucking explain why Goering's defendant was the defendant at Katyn case?

>>1814184
The 4chinlets actually did shill effectively. They even got the pope to denounce pizzagate.

consensus reality lmao

>The Antisocial Network
simpsons did it

i can't find the other parody poster but i somehow found pic2 when image-searching all the slurs written on it

>>1814078
9000 penises and they're all raping children

decent doc, but didn’t really contain anything I didn’t already know about the lore surrounding the chans, Q, etc. that HBO docuseries about Q Anon from 2021 was much better, IMHO.

thanks for the link, OP, it worked perfectly.

>>1814180
I tried watching this but it was such a bummer I had to stop. Might try it again tho.

That documentary about Pepe and his creator is amazing, I think it’s just called Feels Good, Man; highly recommend.

==Israeli fire ‘most likely’ killed woman taken captive on October 7: Army=
Indeed

'Time for Justice in Alabama': Supermajority of Mercedes-Benz Workers File for UAW Vote
The union announced Friday that more than 5,000 workers at the company's nonunion plant have filed a petition with the NLRB in favor of an election, with the workers aiming for a vote by early May.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mercedes-alabama-uaw

L.A. tests program to send unarmed civilians instead of cops to people in crisis
Modeled after a heralded program out of Oregon, city officials said the so-called Unarmed Model of Crisis Response has two teams of mental health practitioners available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for situations that would typically fall to police, such as conducting welfare checks and responding to calls for public intoxication and indecent exposure.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-05/l-a-launches-new-cahoots-style-mental-health-pilot-program
https://archive.is/GD73P

Kristi Noem, South Dakota governor, banned from second reservation in state
“This person has made a lot of accusations about the tribes, about the cartel, council representatives being in bed with the cartel, stuff like that,” Robert Walters, a Cheyenne River Sioux representative, told a tribal council meeting this week, presenting a motion to ban Noem from tribal lands over allegations about crime linked to Mexican drugs gangs.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/05/kristi-noem-south-dakota-governor-banned-reservation

At least 11 Minneapolis officers disciplined amid unrest after George Floyd’s murder, reports show
At least 11 Minneapolis police officers were disciplined for alleged policy violations amid the unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd, with penalties ranging from firings to reprimands, newly released documents show.
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Turkey local elections: How Erdogan's Israel policy backfired
When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was campaigning earlier this year for local elections in the conservative stronghold of Sakarya, addressing thousands of people at a rally, the mood was cheerful. But then a banner appeared in the crowd, and the mood shifted: “End the shame of trade with Israel.” As cameras focused on the banner, officers at the event quickly had it removed, escorting out the demonstrators who held it. Erdogan didn’t comment on the banner, and it isn’t clear whether he even saw it. A month later, Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) won the mayoral race in Sakarya, but its vote share dropped by 18 percentage points compared with the 2019 municipal elections. It lost three districts to a new Islamist party that campaigned heavily on cutting ties with Israel over its war on Gaza: the New Welfare Party (YRP).
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/turkey-local-elections-erdogan-israel-policy-backfired-how

The New War Over Generic Drugs
As the price of prescription medications rises, generic drugs offer a way for consumers to save money. Although generics have the same active ingredients as brand-name drugs and result in the same clinical effect, they typically cost up to 85 percent less. But now, the generic drug industry is pushing back against a government effort to lower the cost of lifesaving medications, even though the plan is built around letting them make more generic drugs. In government filings reviewed by The Lever, generic drugmakers insist the initiative threatens their own monopoly rights — which allow them to inflate their profits and keep even generic drug prices artificially high.
https://www.levernews.com/the-new-war-over-generic-drugs/

War against war is starting? The grapes of wrath in Ukraine
A little more than a month that has passed since the release of the “Assembly” winter interview fully confirms its thesis about the approaching revolutionary situation in the country. The Ukrainian parliament is on the verge of a crisis: few deputies want to take political responPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

tybna

come to think of it, why isn't corea del norte reaching out more on the Internet

>>1813359
I don't think lefty Paul is a good, DPRK news source news on mostly reposts, reliable stories, but still from the western press, or from Al Jazeera.

>>1814232
*newsanon sry for the dictation meme again lel

Their own news, dog.
http://www.pyongyangtimes.com.kp/
Anyway what news are you expecting? You can only say "the United States is still harassing us for no reason" so many times.

>>1813277
I usually watch North Korea Now
>https://www.youtube.com/@northkoreanow6042
For news articles
>https://kcnawatch.org/

I can't seem to access the actual Korean sites. My guess it has to do with sanctions or DPRK blocking most connections from out of DPRK for security reasons.