And now for positive India news: Communist-led Kerala soon to become India’s first state free of extreme poverty

The low levels of destitution in the state is a result of decades of progressive policy interventions such as:

Land reforms

High social spending

Institutionalizing healthcare as a public service

Providing job training and other necessary support for families that did not have a stable source of income

Launching a minimum 100-day job guarantee

Developing individual livelihood plans based on the specific needs of a particular family

Various other programs under successive communist governments

So Kerala is the indian state with the highest human development index. For those that don't know about Keralan politics, state elections are contests between the Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Indian National Congress led United Democratic Front (UDF), Modi's BJP only has 1 single MP in the state.

For decades it used to be that Keralan elections would go like this, every 5 years the incumbent government would lose and the opposition would get to govern, however in 2021 for the first time ever the LDF, which had been governing since 2016, consecutively won the elections and so they have governed the state for almost 10 years, that could explain why so much progress has been achieved.

Now, as someone who doesn't know a lot about Kerala, if winning twice in a row is an outlier outcome then one would guess that, regardless how well they have governed, the LDF will probably lose in 2026 and the UDF will get to govern again, but I just saw this headline in an article I'm not gonna read saying they're polling well and could win 3 times in a row so maybe there's hope!

Should've been there already but, of course, trumpist exceptionalism means liberals only care about this now

CW: SA, child prostitution

"You've never been with a daddy?"

The public prosecutor's office found that this message was sent to a child prostitute by a portuguese Far-Right local MP before asking the boy's age, to which he said 15. After having sex with the boy he paid him 20 euros. He tried for a second encounter but was rejected.

This one is far more serious than the national MP that was stealing bags from airports and selling them on Vinted.com that was revealed a few weeks ago, especially from a party where members call LGBT people "pedophiles".

I'd like to think it would have some electoral repercussions since this type of criminality is not the usual scandals the far-right here get caught up in, but we'll see.

Syrian territorial integirty said "Assad must go" and now syrian territorial integrity is getting bum fucked by israel and turkey.

The curse still holds, people, be careful with what you say

Remember people ABEK-Always Bully Ethan Klein

His ass is the main reason that the movement to deplatform hasan is gaining steam

Now that's unexpected

DW: Moldova says 'no' in vote on joining EU: partial results

90% of votes counted put it at 47/52

Presidential election, likely going to the second round

Fires still raging on in portugal. It's getting pretty bad

And get this, just last week we donated our ONLY 6 KAMOV FIREFIGHTING HELICOPTERS to, guess who?

Also a 28 year old brazillian worker died in one of the forest fires because he had gone into the forest to retrieve his company's equipment.

Putin landed in Mongolia, an ICC adhering country, and wasn't arrested. Media speaks of incredible humiliation

Politico Europe: French left (Socialist Party) looks to UK Labour as a model for booting out Mélenchon

France’s centrist socialists are eyeing Britain’s experience of how to purge the hard left.

Get ready for some CHOICE QUOTES, people

“By turning the page on Corbyn, British Labour allowed itself to turn the page on right-wing populism. We’re going to do that here,” the French MEP told Le Point, comparing Mélenchon to former British left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn, who opened up years of devastating rifts on the British left.

Mélenchon never ceased from escalating tensions within the already fragile pan-left coalition. Earlier this week, discomfort reached a new peak after Mélenchon called to impeach French President Emmanuel Macron. He has been a divisive on topics ranging from Ukraine to support for Palestinians.

As the traditional left kept losing ground, anti-establishment Mélenchon became unstoppable. The hard leftist, who wants to “disobey” EU treaties and admires former Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez, got over 20 percent of votes in the 2022 presidential election (10 times more than the Socialists) and became the líder máximo of the French left, with his party leading the left-wing coalition in the French parliament. Things started to look slightly brighter for the moderate left this summer, when the Socialists and Glucksmann scored better than Mélenchon’s France Unbowed at the European parliament election.

Mélenchon and Corbyn have much in common, noted Sébastien Maillard, a London-based advisor to the Jacques Delors Institute, citing “their opposition to economic liberalism, their strong support for Palestine and their ambiguity regarding Hamas, their accusations of anti-Semitism, their Euroskepticism.”

The moderate left would like to focus more on economic issues, job policies, and security, in a bid to bring the country together instead of fuelling divisions, Socialist Geoffroy said. “The labourists did it quietly, calmly. They finally broke with the more radical positions and it worked, people trusted them,”

Fucked situation, whoever "is seen as" breaking the coalition is going to get punished by voters for sure though

Heard Brace saying this in the latest trueanon and I 100% echo the sentiment: "please let some allegations come out about this guy (tim walz)"

Because holy shit I'm tired of the wholesome big chungus posting about him

The more I learn, and get invested, about Cuba the worse I feel, because it genuinely feels like that is the AES state most committed to international socialism but it's also going through a very hard time right now. Let's hope multipolarity results in some unembargoable (new word I invented) trade block that Cuba can join.

I'm sure the cubans are very concerned that you find it cringe that they'd lean on the russians against the global hegemon