"Newer projects like Your Party in the UK are seeking to spark similar left-populist insurgencies against the ossified establishments in their countries. But if they don’t build the organisational capacity and internal democracy that we neglected, I don’t see much of a future for them. And they must never stop talking to their supporters. When people stop feeling that their participation matters, they drift away."
#YourParty #TheLeft
Gas Mask, by The Left

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Apollo Brown

Victorian Premier Condemns Left-Wing Protest Violence, Stands by Safety of City.

‘The people that came to pick a fight with police were the issue-motivated people on the left,’ said North West Metro police commander Wayne Cheesman.... https://www.popurl.us/2ADoP6Hslasc

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Victorian Premier Condemns Left-Wing Protest Violence, Stands by Safety of City

‘The people that came to pick a fight with police were the issue-motivated people on the left,’ said North West Metro police commander Wayne Cheesman.

MiaTamil

#CharlieKirk and the "Righteous" Right

Well before a suspect was named and arrested, #rightwingers (including #PresidentTrump) were blaming #TheLeft and using the #CharlieKirksassassination to excuse a new #CivilWar against their #political opponents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SABeS7sOk48

Charlie Kirk and the "Righteous" Right

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#RWNJ gun totin' nut job #Amurica is so wrapped up in #hatred for #TheLeft it conveniently blames anyone that isn't a seething foaming at the mouth member of its own #intolerance fueled #DoomLoop for the murder of its #martyr of the moment.

These #Koch fueled mini MAGAT movements and post #Charlottesville cultists get so wrapped up pointing fingers with one hand, masturbating their precious #gunstocks and zeig heiling #DearLeader with the other, never looking in the mirror at their own painfully petty prejudices and hateful hell spawn that stew and seethe in shadows.

The internal dissensions and feuds fueling #radicalized #RightWing rhetoric is what prompts violent fools like the latest guy that took out #CharlieKirk ...but the #PresidentialPropagandist #Punditry and #FauxNews keep beating the #wardrums to blame #Leftists and #LibTurds in a #Reichstag fire event, while #HolocaustDeniers and #Groypers have received free passes to dine at the #Drumpf #WhiteHouse

It's no secret #NickFuentes had been removed from both C-Pac and #TurningPointUSA events and accused Charlie Kirk of being a tool of "the Jews"... So I guess we better blame trans people for Kirk's death?

As David Gilbert wrote in Wired this week :

"For years, extremist groups, white nationalists, and militias like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers saw Charlie Kirk not as their ally, but as their enemy.

Though Kirk denigrated trans people, Muslims, unmarried women, and many minorities and advocated for an America with Christianity at the center of every aspect of life, he was, in their view, a moderate. For some, his staunch support of Israel’s government made Kirk a target rather than a friend."

https://www.wired.com/story/extremists-hated-charlie-kirk-now-radicalizing-others/

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-memes-meaning?srsltid=AfmBOopalRFJqYzpdfvH_P69u1Z2LHz3i5rXX9a9T8aYTKR65rN0c9V8

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/10/nx-s1-5537187/trump-charlie-kirk-blames-left

https://www.newsweek.com/groyper-charlie-kirk-shooting-nick-fuentes-2129114

https://theintercept.com/2024/07/18/nick-fuentes-america-first-conference/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/hasan-piker-interview-charlie-kirk-killing/

What #TheLEFT had to say about #vonderleyen 's #SOTU speech?

There are several news stories going around saying that there are two no-confidence votes to Von Der Leyen about to be submitted, saying little to nothing about them, and even filing them together as if they both want or mean the same.

It might be useful to know exactly what the criticisms are, so here is a link to The Left's comment to today's speech. Read it in full, but here is my summary:

* "acts as the guardian of the interests of the most powerful, at the expense of democracy, justice, and the future of the planet";

* Gaza: "The bare minimum is ending military cooperation and fully suspending the EU–Israel Association Agreement. This is genocide and we need to do everything to stop it"

* pushing the MERCOSUR deal (they are actually light on their criticism of this treaty, but I'll leave my rant about ot on a another toot)

* the EU-US deal: "subjugation of European policy to the economic and military interests of the USA. You are sacrificing energy, digital policy, security, and climate protection on the altar of the hollow phrase of transatlantic partnership"

* "Europeans’ living standards are falling, jobs are lost, authoritarianism grows, and social systems are under pressure"

https://left.eu/the-last-state-of-the-union/

The last State of the Union

The Left in the European Parliament 
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY GROUP

The Left
EU Commission President Von der Leyen may face second no-confidence vote

Von der Leyen survived a rare no-confidence vote in the European Parliament in July.

TheJournal.ie