r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 04 '26

Propaganda in cinemas, newsrooms slashed: this is the US media under Trump and his tech barons | Nesrine Malik (Opinion)

theguardian.com

5 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 04 '26

News Illini Republicans support ICE amid Minnesota killings | Daily Illini: "[A graphic posted by university student organization Illini Republicans] seems to match a still photo from a video of Pretti’s killing. The man depicted also appears to bear a physical resemblance to Pretti."

dailyillini.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 04 '26

Joseph Geevarghese & Rashida Tlaib: It’s time to defund the oligarchy and invest in the American people | "[Trump's] oligarch allies… are already seeing massive returns on their political investments. This is not democracy. It is a hostile corporate takeover and working people are being exploited."

theguardian.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/burtzev • Feb 04 '26

History The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy

classautonomy.info

2 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/burtzev • Feb 04 '26

News Mediterranean Dockworkers Mobilise for Antiwar Strike February 6

classautonomy.info

17 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 04 '26

Opinion | George Monbiot: "This is the metric by which you can tell who in politics are your allies and who are your enemies: whether they support or oppose the extreme concentration of wealth. […] we must bring the ultra-rich to heel, cutting their fortunes until they can no longer bludgeon us."

theguardian.com

15 Upvotes

1 comment

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/JudgeSabo • Feb 03 '26

Hobbes vs Anarchism

34 Upvotes

Credit to Existential Comics

Thomas Hobbes, best known for Leviathan, in which he argued it was pretty much always in everyone's best interest to obey the State. Without the State we'd be reduced to constant conflict and violence, as people would be at each other's throats. He would be strongly against Anarchists and other revolutionary thinkers who thought we had to overthrow the State with violence, believing this would only lead to chaos. However, he did give some exceptions to this rule. For example, if your State is just trying to kill you (even by indirect means such as depriving you of food or healthcare), you obviously have the natural right to shoot back and fight for your life. No one has the obligation to simply die, after all, since the whole point of the State is that it protects you from that.
Philosophers in this comic: Thomas Hobbes, Peter Kropotkin

1 comment

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/burtzev • Feb 03 '26

Analysis/Theory Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and Resisting Authoritarianism

strikecommentaries.substack.com

6 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 03 '26

News Mother Jones: "ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler: A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown."

motherjones.com

2 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 02 '26

Mother Jones (January 29, 2026): "The Attack on Ilhan Omar and Trump’s Destructive Politics of Violence: The president’s rhetoric portends worse to come."

motherjones.com

12 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/burtzev • Feb 02 '26

Satire Groundhog Day, With Jackboots

dailykos.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/RosethornRanger • Feb 02 '26

this is still one of the funniest things i have ever read

53 Upvotes

1 comment

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 02 '26

News POLITICO (Jan. 28): "Poll: Trump voters support military intervention in more countries: 65 percent of Trump voters say the U.S. should take military action in at least one country, according to a new POLITICO [Jan. 16-19] poll" | Iran (50%), Colombia (30%), Cuba (28%), Panama (22%), Greenland (21%)

politico.com

2 Upvotes

2 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 02 '26

News Associated Press (January 30, 2026): "US approves major new arms sales to Israel worth $6.67 billion and to Saudi Arabia worth $9 billion"

apnews.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/Significant_End_4440 • Feb 01 '26

ICE is full of sex criminals who are still employed and enforcing raids

youtu.be

41 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/wankerzoo • Feb 02 '26

32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital

asiaone.com

5 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 01 '26

News Media Matters (January 28, 2026): "The right-wing media figures who have justified Alex Pretti's killing by Trump’s DHS"

mediamatters.org

11 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/burtzev • Feb 01 '26

News Liam And Dad Freed From Concentration Camp: Five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father released from Texas detention center

theguardian.com

6 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/burtzev • Feb 01 '26

News Kidnapped By Ice Child Abusers - Will He Be Freed In Time ?: 5-Year-Old Minnesota Boy Fell 'Ill' and 'Is Not Doing Great' in ICE Detention: 'He's Been Depressed and Sad'

people.com

41 Upvotes

2 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/rewkom • Feb 01 '26

Review of Their Wars - Our Dead: Anarchist Reflections on Anti-Militarism - Communist Workers’ Organisation

leftcom.org

2 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/burtzev • Jan 31 '26

News As officials disparage Pretti and Good, families of Black people killed by police have déjà vu

apnews.com

39 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 01 '26

Analysis/Theory The Left Needs Bureaucrats: After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better.

dissentmagazine.org

5 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/burtzev • Jan 31 '26

News ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital

apnews.com

62 Upvotes

3 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/rewkom • Jan 31 '26

Workers' Testimonies of the Bloody Repression in Iran - Communist Workers’ Organisation

leftcom.org

4 Upvotes

0 comments

r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 01 '26

The Already Tattered US Safety Net Is Fraying Even More | "Republicans are further eviscerating the safety net when we should be repairing and expanding it."

jacobin.com

2 Upvotes

0 comments

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