/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

'My Child Is Human': Palestinian American Mother Disrupts Austin Testimony
A week after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers that the U.S. has no "evidence of genocide being created" in Gaza, peace activists disrupted the Pentagon chief's testimony on the Biden administration's 2025 budget request and demanded he acknowledge the humanity of Palestinian children. "My child is human!" said Nasbeebah Hajjaj, a Palestinian-American woman who held up her 16-month-old son, Hamza. "Stop killing Palestinian children!"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestinian-mother-austin

Columbia University students stage Vietnam-style anti-war encampment for Gaza
Hundreds of Columbia students have staged a Vietnam-style encampment inside the main campus of the university in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in defiance of what they say is repression of pro-Palestinian protests at the Ivy League school in New York City. The action on Wednesday morning organised by several groups including Columbia University Apartheid Divest, Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voice for Peace, began hours before Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s testimony was expected before the US House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/columbia-university-students-stage-vietnam-style-anti-war-encampment-gaza

California water regulators put major farming area on ‘probation’
Citing multiple deficiencies in the Tulare Lake basin’s groundwater sustainability plans, the State Water Resources Control Board made the decision to toughen usage restrictions and reporting requirements in this southern portion of the San Joaquin Valley.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4600684-california-water-major-farming-area-tulare-lake-basin-probation-regulators/
https://archive.is/gwnPM

NYC Congestion Tax Plan Adds Money to Offset NJ Harm, MTA Says
The allocation may help resolve New Jersey’s legal challenge against the tolling program. Governor Phil Murphy is seeking a longer environmental review of congestion pricing to better analyze the potential impacts to New Jersey. “The presentation that we’ve made to the feds does call for some allocation of mitigation dollars to New Jersey,” Janno Lieber, Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s chief executive officer, said at an event hosted by Crain’s in New York.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/nyc-congestion-pricing-to-give-new-jersey-funding-mta-says
https://archive.is/gyLa7

Judges orders Pennsylvania agency to produce inspection records related to chocolate plant blast
The powerful natural gas explosion leveled one building, heavily damaged another and killed seven people. Investigators have previously said they are looking at a pair of gas leaks as a possible cause of or contributor to the blast. State utility regulators had spurned the federal agency’s request for five years’ worth of UGI inspection records, citing a state law that protects “confidential security information” about key utility infrastructure from public disclosure, even to other government agencies.
https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-chocolate-factory-explosion-ntsb-e79e9e1be77977c89c4a4d35c17bf752

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>Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood
gee, ya think? anyways tybna

The CPUSA and the "Lesser Evil" by Marxist-Leninist Today Editors
Recently the CPUSA published a document Forward Together (now posted at cpusa.org) which was approved by the CPUSA National Committee on January 27 to frame the discussion leading up to the Party’s June 2024 convention in Chicago. The national convention of a Communist Party is important. A convention is the leading body of the Party, and its decisions govern the political direction of the Party in the four years ahead. In recent decades the CPUSA, like many Communist parties, has passed through challenging times. It is striving to recover from the years when a right opportunist leadership wreaked havoc on the Party, threw it into crisis and weakened its influence in the people’s movements. Those movements would be stronger today if there had been a well-functioning, healthy Communist Party providing class struggle perspective and strategic direction. While there are signs that a rectification is in progress, certain ideas from the crisis period still seem to have a stubborn hold. Hence the comments below.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2024/04/the-cpusa-and-lesser-evil.html

Erdoğan seeks salvation in war
It is clear that the fascist Erdoğan regime is deepening Turkey's deadlock. Since 2015, the AKP has been in a state of continuous attack against the Kurdish people. They wanted to enter the second century of the Republic with the victory of the "One Nation, One State" genocide plan without the Kurds. From this point of view, Turkey as a whole was taken as a field of operation. Erdoğan lost the election on 31 March. On the night of the election, he said that he would evaluate the messages given by the people in the election. But in the same speech he also emphasised that he would "deal a fatal blow to the Kurds". How will a mentality and an administration that aims for death and annihilation against the Kurds draw conclusions from the elections? Obviously, there are no conclusions for them to draw. The mindset is the same. This means that war and attacks will continue, billions of dollars and the lives of thousands of people will be wasted. In this case, there is no possibility for the economy and the legal system to recover.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/erdogan-seeks-salvation-in-war-72751

Lenin’s ‘April Theses’: Rearming the Bolsheviks for power
Lenin’s famous April Theses represented his fight to politically re-arm the Bolshevik Party, who had been swept off course by the February Revolution in 1917. These theses were read out by Lenin at two meetings of the All-Russia Conference of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, on 4 April 1917 (in the old Russian calendar), and were published on 7 April in issue 26 of the Bolshevik paper Pravda. They were nothing short of a political bombshell. At a time when the overwhelming public mood was of jubilation at the overthrow of Tsarism, Lenin soberly and systematically analysed the stage that the Russian Revolution was passing through, and declared the necessary steps to carry out a genuine and complete socialist revolution. The April Theses called for revolutionaries to decisively break with the bourgeois Provisional Government, installed following the February Revolution, and to instead demand ‘all power to the soviets’ – the councils of workers and peasants that represented the embryo of workers’ power. The response of the other Bolsheviks towards this declaration was utter shock. Lenin found himself in a minority of one amongst the Bolshevik Central Committee. But such was Lenin’s political authority and genius, that he single-handedly managed to win over the Bolshevik Party to his political line. In doing so, he prepared the party to lead the working class to power in October of that year. Were it not for Lenin’s intervention, the October Revolution would never have taken place. The entire course of history would have been altered. It was at this historical juncture where a great individual like Lenin could play a decisive role in history.
https://communist.red/lenins-april-theses-rearming-the-bolsheviks-for-power/

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> Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood
>Ahead of the United Nations Security Council action to consider the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the international body, the United States is lobbying nations to reject such membership, hoping to avoid an overt “veto” by Washington. The lobbying effort, revealed in copies of unclassified State Department cables obtained by The Intercept, is at odds with the Biden administration’s pledge to fully support a two-state solution.
>https://theintercept.com/2024/04/17/united-nations-biden-palestine-statehood/
>https://archive.is/wqaue

Holy shit, the """rationale""" the US is using gives me the same nauseous when someone lies to my face.
>“It remains the U.S. view that the most expeditious path toward a political horizon for the Palestinian people is in the context of a normalization agreement between Israel and its neighbors,” the cable reads. “We believe this approach can tangibly advance Palestinian goals in a meaningful and enduring way.”
How is literally doing the single one thing for their alleged "support" of a "two-state solution" be somehow an advancement of Palestinian goals?

>“Premature actions at the UNSC, even with the best intentions, will achieve neither statehood nor self-determination for the Palestinian people. Such initiatives will instead endanger normalization efforts and drive the parties further apart, heighten the risk of violence on the ground that could claim innocent lives on both sides, and risk support for the new, reform government announced by President Abbas,” the cable says.
Fuck this shit. Why can't they be honest for once and say they want a de facto Zionist annexation instead of trying to manipulate and fear monger?!

>“It is important that all Security Council members hear at this stage of the process that a number of members have questions that require further study about the Palestinian Authority’s formal request for UN membership through the Council, and that if a vote is forced on the issue, you will join the United States and not support approval of the application,” the [second] cable reads [sent from the U.S. Embassy in Quito to Ecuador, relays Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld’s agreement with the United States that Palestine should not be recognized for statehood.].
Dismantle the US empire.