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The German Left won Big in Berlin, but will it Govern?
Oliola (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– Her name is Elif Eralp; she is the daughter of Turkish…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Democracy #Elections #Farright #Featured #leftpolitics #politics #politics&culture
https://www.europesays.com/germany/100021/
https://www.europesays.com/dk/175890/ The German Left won Big in Berlin, but will it Govern? #berlin #democracy #elections #FarRight #Featured #Germany #LeftPolitics #politics #politics&culture
https://www.europesays.com/3278479/ The German Left won Big in Berlin, but will it Govern? #democracy #elections #FarRight #Featured #germany #LeftPolitics #Politics #politics&culture
CW: Occasional Foul Language. Always Political.
@huffpost.com, this is embarrassing.
Will Lawrence (for MI-7) interviewed Khury Petersen-Smith, a black leftist, & deferred to him on how the left can handle arguments w/ black centrist politicians.
Twisting that out of context to help elect a white, pro-Data Center centrist is a bad look.
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#Coup #Activism #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump #NoKings #elections #50501Movement #WeAreTheResistance #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere #FDT #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #StopICE #protest #organize
#KhuryPetersenSmith #LeftPolitics #MI7 #HuffPost #BlackLeftist #PoliticalDebate #CentristPoliticians #ElectionIntegrity #DataCenterPolitics #MediaNarrative
"The stereotype of a leftist person as an over-intellectual, upper middle class, white person with an oat cappuccino doesn’t come from nowhere. Often our communications achieve little more than virtue signalling to our allies."
"I cannot picture a ‘post-neoliberal society rooted in fairness.’ But tell me that I could wake up each day and hear birds outside my window again, and that I can cycle safely to work on clearly-marked bike lanes. Tell me about a world where the rise of job-shares and redistributed wealth means that I only have to work 20 hours a week and finally have the time to make doctor’s appointments, check up on my friends and neighbours, read books and get involved in local issues. Tell me that I won’t worry about who made my clothes or prepared my food".
Cass Hebron: https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-left-needs-to-cut-jargon-to-build
#advocacy #leftPolitics #policy #climateJustice #pollution #work #taxTheRich #bienVivir #activists #activism #comStodon #communication #culture #intersectionality
📰 The Uses and Abuses of the “Worst of the Worst”
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/worst-of-the-worst-trump-ice-immigration-deportation/
📰 Know Your Enemy: Lincoln at Gettysburg
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/know-your-enemy-lincoln-at-gettysburg/
📰 Know Your Enemy: Lincoln at Gettysburg
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/know-your-enemy-lincoln-at-gettysburg/
📰 Know Your Enemy: Lincoln at Gettysburg
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/know-your-enemy-lincoln-at-gettysburg/
📰 Analysis: NYT’s bizarre coverage and omissions of Bolsonaro’s murderous coup plot
📰 Generals Convicted: Inside Brazil’s Historic Bolsonaro Coup Trial Verdict
📰 BolsoMaster: Bolsonaro Ties to Brazil’s Biggest Banking Fraud in History Exposed
📰 Analysis: NYT’s bizarre coverage and omissions of Bolsonaro’s murderous coup plot
📰 Generals Convicted: Inside Brazil’s Historic Bolsonaro Coup Trial Verdict
📰 BolsoMaster: Bolsonaro Ties to Brazil’s Biggest Banking Fraud in History Exposed
📰 What to Eugene Debs Was the Fourth of July?
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/eugene-debs-fourth-of-july/
📰 What to Eugene Debs Was the Fourth of July?
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/eugene-debs-fourth-of-july/
📰 Inside Brazil’s X Ban: How Elon Musk Started–and lost–a Fight With Brazil’s Judiciary
📰 Analysis: NYT’s bizarre coverage and omissions of Bolsonaro’s murderous coup plot
📰 The Struggle for the Soul of Argentine Football
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-struggle-for-the-soul-of-argentine-football/
📰 The Struggle for the Soul of Argentine Football
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-struggle-for-the-soul-of-argentine-football/
📰 The Struggle for the Soul of Argentine Football
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-struggle-for-the-soul-of-argentine-football/
Labour lost 1,300 council seats in one night. Reform took 25%. The center-left is not losing on message — it is losing because it forgot who it was built for. https://twp.ai/4hqfWo #UKPolitics #Labour #Politics #Reform #Election #Democracy #LeftPolitics
Labour lost 1,300 council seats in one night. Reform took 25%. The center-left is not losing on message — it is losing because it forgot who it was built for. https://twp.ai/4hqfWo #UKPolitics #Labour #Politics #Reform #Election #Democracy #LeftPolitics
LDF is set to lose Kerala, leaving Left parties without a state government for the first time since 1977, marking a historic political decline https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/left-ldf-kerala-udf-election-results-2026-historic-decline-snwpxuws?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #KeralaElections #LDF #UDF #LeftPolitics #CPI
নারীর সম্মান নিয়ে বড় বড় কথা বলা সহজ, কিন্তু বাস্তবে সেই সম্মান কতটা রক্ষা করা হচ্ছে—সেটাই আসল প্রশ্ন। রাজনীতি ও সমাজে নারীদের সংরক্ষণের নামে জনপ্রতিনিধির সংখ্যা বাড়িয়ে শেষ পর্যন্ত জনগণের ট্যাক্সের টাকাই অপচয় হচ্ছে—এটা কি সত্যিকারের উন্নয়ন?
মিথ্যা প্রতিশ্রুতি ও ভাঁওতা দিয়ে কিছুদিন মানুষকে বিভ্রান্ত করা যায়, কিন্তু চিরকাল নয়। অন্যদিকে, রাতে মহিলাদের বাইরে কাজ না করার উপদেশ দেওয়া হচ্ছে—যেখানে ডাক্তার, নার্স, আয়া, আশা কর্মী, এয়ার হোস্টেস, মহিলা পুলিশসহ অসংখ্য পেশায় নারীদের রাতেও কাজ করা বাধ্যতামূলক। তাদের নিরাপত্তা ও অধিকার নিয়ে বাস্তবসম্মত পরিকল্পনা কোথায়?
নারীর নিরাপত্তা ও সম্মান শুধুমাত্র স্লোগানে নয়, কার্যকর নীতিতে প্রতিফলিত হওয়া উচিত।
❌ No Vote to BJP
❌ No Vote to Trinamool
#AntiRSS #AntiBJP #Communist #LeftPolitics #Seculer
In the U.S., meaningful centre and left alternatives to right-wing politics do exist — and they matter. This thread series highlights viable progressive parties and movements, their strengths, weaknesses, and how they could work together through coalitions, endorsements, and shared platforms to strengthen democracy and social justice. 🧵
🗳️🌍#USPolitics #ProgressivePolitics #CenterLeft #LeftPolitics #Democracy #PoliticalParties #CoalitionPolitics #AntiAuthoritarian #RuleOfLaw
Join us, Left Book Club and the Industrial Workers of the World @iww for an online conversation with Interregnum member Panos Theodoropoulos about precarity, organising and how capitalism socialises us into participating in our own exploitation.
#iww #union #Organize #tradeunion #labour #labor #politics #migration #left #leftpolitics #lefty #book #bookstodon #capitalism #anticapitalism #anticapitalist
With tensions between the US and Venezuela at a high, Johann de Haas analyses Maduro's iron grip on power. Opposition to imperialism doesn't forgive autocracy.
https://interregnum.ghost.io/nicolas-maduro-is-no-ally-of-the-left-heres-why/
#Venezuala #Maduro #politics #Trump #indigenous #socialism #USPolitics #left #leftpolitics
A lazy Bill Maher using capitalist talking points slamming Democratic Socialism was embarrassing.
Bill Maher is using his platform to promote billionaires’ Democratic Socialism fearing message because of Zohran Mamdani’s effective deconstruction of a failed economic system in digestible form.
#BillMaher #BillionaireInfluence #CapitalismCritique #DemocraticPartyFuture #DemocraticSocialism #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica #DSA #economic #Justice #LeftPolitics #MediaCritique #MediaMisinformation #MedicareForAll #PoliticalCommentary #PoliticalEstablishment #progressiveMovement #ProgressivePolitics #singlePayerHealthcare #SocialDemocracy #USEconomy #VermontHealthcare #wealthInequality #ZohranMamdani https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-odf
Fast eine Million New Yorker*innen packen angeblich ihre Koffer, wenn Zohran Mamdani Bürgermeister wird, weil soziale Gerechtigkeit ja bekanntermaßen eine schreckliche Zumutung ist. 🤣⬇️
#Mamdani #ZohranMamdani #NYC #NewYorkCity #NewYorkPolitics #SocialJustice #Democracy #ProgressiveCities #RightWingMeltdown #NewYorkPost #SatireOderErnst #Wirtschaftspolitik #Demokratie #USPolitics #ProgressiveMovement #LeftPolitics #SozialeGerechtigkeit #Menschenrechte #Wirtschaft #Fairness
Yes, given the chaos, Your Party supporters should now cut their losses and join the Green Party (E&W).
"This [poll] makes the Green Party the primary opposition party to the neo-fascist Reform UK – and is gaining ground on the static Farage outfit."
Green Party leapfrogs Labour, Tories — the old order is crumbling
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/10/30/greens-overtake-labour-tories-in-latest-poll-to-become-leading-opposition-party/
I agree with the general sentiment that antifascists needs to be more united and not fall for every issue fascists throw at them to distract them from facism. However, I can't help but hear many calls for this as "marginalized group A and B, wait your turn". Because there are no turns, fighting fascism is a task that can never stop - as we're seeing right now because way too few people have been fighting it in the past. We wouldn't be where we are right now if more people would have worked against it early on.
Like, yeah, don't scare away people from fighting Nazis because they aren't vegans or drive a big family car. People of all sorts need to understand fighting fascists is not a "leftist" issue, it's a thing all of society needs to be a part of, including the people who might not agree on some things or are unsure on the details.
However, for many the main reason for being on the left side of the political spectrum is the desire to create a better tomorrow with more than the bare minimum of human rights and basic decency and respect for everyone. A planet worth living on, a society everyone can thrive in. We can't do this if we tell various marginalized groups to wait their turn and not stand up for themselves, nor for lecturing allies about supporting their causes instead of leaving them alone.
We might have different opinions about how a better tomorrow might look like and figuring this out sometimes needs debates and prioritization in how we do things, yes. But let's not opt out of this alltogether and throw a lot of people's wish for being respected under the bus. (And considering it's Halloween month and "culture as a costume" is likely going to be on the table again, I have an inkling who is going to be lectured the most soon...)
In case you missed it:
As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
"Neither the embryonic Your Party, nor even the Green Party, provide evidence that their approach, extant or emerging, at this point in time, is adequate to the scale of the existential crisis facing humanity. This could change, and it should be a focus of the small degrowth movement in these islands "
https://htsf.substack.com/p/corbynsultana-the-fiasco-party
I don't agree with Paul Mason's approach to immigration politics here, nor do I think he pays sufficient attention to Starmer's shift to the right since being elected leader, but his analysis and criticism of the Corbyn-Sultana party is compelling.
#UKPolitics #YourParty #JeremyCorbyn
#JamesSchneider #ZarahSultana #LeftPolitics #Socialism #SocialDemocracy #JohnRees #PaulMason
Three interviews with leading voices from the UK's new party of the left:
James Schneider
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/building-the-party
Andrew Murray
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/force-of-opposition
Zarah Sultana
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-alternative
Although I am sceptical about the prospects of this endeavour, repelled by the politics of Andrew Murray, and doubtful about the coherence of the whole project, I do understand how frustrated many feel by the current hegemony of the Labour right.
#UKPolitics #YourParty #JeremyCorbyn #JamesSchneider #AndrewMurray #ZarahSultana #LeftPolitics #Socialism
”The center-left created Trump”
-Yanis Varoufakis
Nice zeitgeist film: The Leviathan
https://beiner.substack.com/p/leviathan-full-documentary
#trump #maga #centerleft #failure #leftpolitics #trust #institutions #socialism #capitalism #economy
I like the concept of Acid Communism.
In these times it is important to focus not so much on being anti-capitalist, but to the emancipatory possibilities that lie in breaking free from it.
Similarly important is to recognise that the prevailing narrative of capitalism as good completely dominates all discourse.
One's chances at winning are greatly improved if one keeps focus on emancipatory potentials being lost & showing oneself how.
https://medium.com/swlh/what-is-acid-communism-e5c65ecf6188
#acidcommunism #leftpolitics
Zohran Can Happen Anywhere (But Having an Opponent Like Cuomo Helps)
Mamdani’s mayoral campaign shows a successful playbook for the left — but years of history united NYC progressives against Andrew Cuomo.
https://theintercept.com/2025/06/26/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-cuomo/
#news #USnews #politics #elections #Mamdani #Cuomo #socialism #leftpolitics
The Times They Are-a-Changin: Labour is no longer the default left option | Morning Star https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/times-they-are-changin-labour-no-longer-default-left-option
#Labour #UKLabour #LeftPolitics
>>The question is therefore not merely: what are good policies? It is: how can we achieve sufficient influence to get these policies implemented?<<
