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Left-wing candidate Andrea Egan beats Starmer ally to lead Unison - BBC News
#UKPol

Left-wing candidate Andrea Egan beats Starmer ally to lead Unison
Andrea Egan, who was expelled from Labour three years ago, replaces Unison's current general secretary Christina McAnea.

I’ve moved my “Entry to Left Wing Anarchist Reading” to my personal website.
It’s styled to look a lot like Google Docs, that was intentional, regardless, it’s hosted in a more private, self-controlled space.
⭐ Read more here: https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/resources.html ⭐<…

🤦🏽 The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
#politics

The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
The Dutch elections were a victory for liberal centrists and a defeat for the anti-immigration Geert Wilders. Yet with the overall right-wing vote stronger than ever, there’s little reason for celebration.

„How right-wing, Maxine wonders, does a person have to be to think of the New York Times as a left-wing newspaper?“
Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge

They Are Globalizing the Intifada -- For years, the left wing has been chanting "globalize the intifada." (David Strom/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/12/15/they-are-globalizing-the-intifada-n3809879
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p36#a251215p36

Right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel recently told an audience that he pushed Tesla CEO and fellow billionaire Elon Musk not to give money to charity and instead horde it so it could be used to battle a future “Antichrist.”
According to a Thursday Reuters report, Thiel told attendees of closed-door event in San Francisco last month that he pressed Musk to rescind his commitment to the Giving Pledge, the charitable campaign cofounded by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates that asks signatories…

Instead of Charity, Peter Thiel Told Elon Musk to Use Billions for Right-Wing Crusade Against 'Antichrist' | Common Dreams
Billionaire Peter Thiel urges Elon Musk to hoard wealth to battle future "Antichrist." Thiel warns against giving to left-wing nonprofits.

An interview with Ben Meiselas, who runs the left-leaning US media company MeidasTouch with his brothers Jordan and Brett, on Trump, right-wing media, and more (Steve Rose/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

Glad to hear the Director of the BBC is resigning in disgrace at their utter failure to ensure a 2026 series of Doctor Who. Any DG that can't even arrange for ten episodes of Doctor Who is clearly incompetent and unsuited to the...
Wait? It was nothing to do with Doctor Who? It was about Political Bias?
They think he was too left wing?
Hahhhahaa. Hahhaa. 🤣 😆
Too left wing.
😆
Stop it, you're killing me.
🤣
#bbc #bias

Updated my "Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading" Phase 2!
Added two solid EZLN Zapatista documents, one peer-reviewed journal article, and another field studies on their autonomous governance & education projects!
Happy reading: https://docs.google.com/docu…

How To Lie About Left-Wing Terrorism Like A Common Axios And/Or Trump Fascist!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/how-to-lie-about-left-wing-terrorism

We distinguish "personal unfairness",
-- the view that one’s own economic situation is unfair,
from "social unfairness",
-- the view that the economic situation of others in society is unfair.
Uncertainties associated with the transition to a globalized knowledge economy heighten people’s feelings of personal unfairness
Feelings of personal unfairness increase support for the "populist right"
and feelings about social unfairn…

Left-Wing Populism vs. Right-Wing Populism - What's the Difference? | This vs. That
What's the difference between Left-Wing Populism and Right-Wing Populism? Left-wing populism and right-wing populism are both political movements that aim to...

I tried to reach the last owners of Versailles to see how having such an opulent palace while your people starve worked out… but they seem not to be able to reply.
https://apnews.com/article/east-wing-white-house-ballroom-demolition-b60f…

What lawmakers are saying about Trump's demolition of the East Wing
Members of Congress are divided largely along party lines on the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make room for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom that President Donald Trump wants to build. The stunning images of the teardown this week have left Democratic lawmakers incensed. Republicans, meanwhile, are likening it to a long line of White House renovations over the years. House Speaker Mike Johnson says “the ballroom is going to be glorious.” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schu…

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

I do think that this framing isn't fully correct. "Open Source" often has a libertarian (and therefore explicitly non-left) bend. It can be put into left thinking and politics but it works just as well in more right-wing logics. (See Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism)
https://mastodon.mallegolhanse…

On my Linktree, I’ve kept the link to @…, and the video on revolutionary syndicalism, and thus have moved all my recommended reading to my new document titled "Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading".
📚 Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading:

Martin Parr, of "The Last Resort" (and many other great photography work) is dead. 😞
«His work was not overtly campaigning, although he once told the Observer that “all photojournalists are left wing, you can’t do this job unless you care about people”.»
And care he did, also for the next generation of photographers.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/dec/07/landmark-british-photographer-martin-parr-dies-aged-73

Having begun reading "Post-Scarcity Anarchism" by Murray Bookchin, I might add it to my "Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading" doc.
📄 Reading list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuGnU7O_0eyjf9caYJXJn-KbXfsQi3uHE5EYYzQcbD8…

Left Engine of UPS Cargo Plane Detached From the Wing, Official Says - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/ups-cargo-plane-crash-kentucky-left-engine-detached-2025-11

Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-classifies-anti-capitalism-as-a-political-pre-crime/

Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime
Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.

Ireland elects left-wing president in anti-government landslide (Shawn Pogatchnik/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/ireland-elects-a-new-left-wing-president-in-anti-government-landslide/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p47#a251025p47

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House Republicans held a hearing Wednesday broadcasting long-standing conservative allegations of a left-wing bias in the small, prestigious Truman Scholarship program.
Witnesses called by the GOP said the winners disproportionately espouse causes such as promoting racial justice and fighting climate change
—and wind up working for Democrats and left-leaning organizations
—while few recipients profess interest in conservative aims.
But rather than counter the allegations…

House Republicans Accuse Truman Scholarship of Liberal Bias
Republicans held a hearing airing accusations that the prestigious program heavily favors left-leaning candidates. No one from the scholarship foundation was invited.

I couldn’t find a clear guide, so I put together my own “Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading.”
Thought it might help others getting started on this path.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuGnU7O_0eyjf9caYJXJn-KbXfsQi3uHE5EYYzQcbD8/ed…

"For starters, like shark attacks, the number of events attributed to left-wing terrorism this year is so low in absolute terms that it simply does not justify inducing panic with eye-popping headlines."
Correctly Assessing U.S. Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence
https://www.justsecurity.org/122278/correctly-assessing-left-wing-terrorism-and-political-violence-in-the-united-states/

Haymarket Books has ebooks on sale for $2 until Nov. 7. Some of my favorite books published by them are:
Abolish Rent: on the potential of tenant organizing
Let This Radicalize You: a guide to activism over the long haul
No Cop City, No Cop World: lessons from Atlanta's Cop City fight
Perfect Victims: unpacks anti-Palestinian narratives you may not realize you've internalized

Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe that collective study plays a crucial role in sustaining engaged, effective, and durable left-wing organizations and communities. To that end, we aim to make our books accessible to anyone who might find them valuable. Until Friday, November 7th, ALL Haymarket ebooks are 80% Off. That means …

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

Today's (Canadian) history-inspired band name (found in an article in a left-wing Toronto paper in the 1930s):
The Hepburn-Duplessis Conspiracy

🌹 New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream
#politics

New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream
A national poll from Jacobin, DSA Fund, and Data for Progress finds broad support for democratic socialist leaders and left-wing policies.

MAGA media
is flexing its ability to
shape the debate over antifa and violent crime in American cities,
-- empowered by allies in the White House
hungry for evidence of left-wing terrorism.
The Trump administration is using clips of violent street clashes
— paired with testimony from MAGA-aligned reporters on the ground
— to falsely depict Democratic-led cities as engulfed in chaos.

MAGA media wages asymmetric warfare on antifa
MAGA-aligned journalists frame their coverage as exposing the "truth" mainstream outlets ignore.

Bad news from America.
In Honduras the left's candidate has been defeated, bringing an end to a progressive term.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/2/trump-cries-foul-over-technical-tie-in-honduras-pr…

Trump cries foul over ‘technical tie’ in Honduras presidential race
The latest vote count has Trump’s favoured right-wing candidate Nasry Asfura just 515 ballots ahead of his rival.

How elites destroyed the Democratic Party in the US and fuelled populism
... great and concise analysis of the confluence of right wing and left wing populism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoD6ccdmlfI

Busted: FBI fails to find link between Kirk suspect and left-wing groups - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/charlie-kirk-killer-left-wing/

Bookmark this:
Feds have found no links between Kirk assassination suspect and left-wing groups, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-investigation-no-left-wing-groups-b2830578.html

Top Trump administration adviser Stephen Miller was accused of spreading dangerous “propaganda” Saturday night
regarding the federal judge who ruled that the White House could not deploy 200 National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
The White House deputy chief of staff accused U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut,
who was appointed by Trump during his first term, of “legal insurrection”
after she found that the president’s claims about violent protests at a U.S. Immig…

White House Responds With 'Authoritarian Propaganda' as Judge Blocks National Guard in Portland | Common Dreams
Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller accused Judge Immergut of "legal insurrection" for blocking National Guard deployment to Portland. Miller claimed left-wing terrorism and called for dismantling networks.

It is always disturbing when MAGA politicians go off halfcocked about socialism.
Here are some of the “radical left” socialist programs that Warner must be complaining about:
Medicare
Medicaid
The Affordable Care Act
Social Security
SNAP (food stamps)
Meals on Wheels and Office of Aging services
Every single one of these programs was once characterized by right-wing politicians as a
“socialist program.”

This MAGA politician's disturbing rant shows a party hellbent on hurting its own
“It is hard to watch other states and cities across our nation leap toward socialism… Let’s keep our state moving forward by always rejecting the falsehoods sold by the radical left.” — Secretary of State Kris Warner, Facebook post, November 5, 2025. Although I should be accustomed to it, it is alw...

"In my opinion... for the left-wing militant in general, and the worker in particular, even more particularly the communist worker: start weaving, so to speak, have a loom at home; one cannot continue speaking out against pollution while polluting intensely."
Manuel Sacristšn, influential Spanish eco-Marxist, speaking in 1979. He doesn't mean literally start weaving, although one could, but to live lightly on the earth while struggling against the system.

Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive
identifying “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as
indicators of radical left violence.
Called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7,
it’s being referred to as “NSPM-7” by administration insiders.
“This is the first time in American history that there is an
all-of-government effort to dismantle left wing terrorism,”
Trump’s homeland security advisor Stephen Miller said, refer…

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

Tensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics,
and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond.
For years, Jewish Republicans often denied that the right had a serious problem with antisemitism,
pointing instead to anti-Jewish bigotry on the left and celebrating President Trump’s support for Israel.
But now that problem is staring them directly in the face.
Tensions over antisemitism in…

Why Republicans Are Fighting About the Nazis
Tensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics, and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond.

Oh dear, they really need to sort themselves out and pronto.
Corbyn and Sultana clash over new party membership
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkn3v1e7g3o

Corbyn and Sultana clash over new party membership
MP Zarah Sultana says she is a victim of a "sexist boys' club" in row over setting up new left wing party.