A week ago, the Bolivian left-wing party, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), currently led by Luis Arce, decisively lost the round of elections against the right-wing. This comes after a prolonged period of “infighting” between Arce, and Morales, who previously led the MAS prior to the 2019 coup which briefly installed Jeanine Anez.
I put infighting in quotes because despite the nominal similarities between Arce and Morales, it is clear that this is not merely a counterproductive battle between two men - instead, the Bolivian left has arrived at a time of unavoidable conflict between two competing strategies. The electoral strategy is represented by Arce, who has aligned himself with a more middle-class-oriented campaign that is more economically liberal, whereas Morales represents a more working-class-oriented campaign that seeks to go further than tepid reform.
Such a conflict between electoralism and revolutionary action is inevitable in any and every developing country that 1) possesses a functioning left-wing party or organization, and 2) is under internal and/or external pressure by capitalists. This crisis must be resolved eventually - and this electoral failure is how such a crisis is manifesting right now. So while the Bolivian left has indeed lost the election, it is not yet defeated. The revolutionary campaign can, if it is willing, still ultimately stand triumphant. But what must be done is a real movement towards socialism, which goes beyond technocrats reforming from above, and instead transforms the state into a full political project of the working class, in which their movements, organizations, and protests are genuinely empowered. Such a project will involve repression by the forces of reaction, not least by the United States, but it is the only road left to take.
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Israel's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Did the chuds finally get their trans liberal mass shooter? They’ve been wishcasting it for so fucking long. I still don’t know that I fully believe it but I haven’t seen reliable evidence either way. Lot of the usual rumors circulating
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/active-shooter-situation-unfolding-at-south-minneapolis-church/89-dd54a6fb-0436-48b1-898b-9cbab1ca5dc3
Shooter seems to be a nazi. Only evidence seems to be they changed their name from Robert to robin which doesn’t necessarily mean the shooter is trans people change their names for other reasons.
Edit; one thing I’ve learned from events like this is they usually don’t have the staying power that they used to have. This will probably be out of the news cycle in a week and it will be on to the next thing
Edit 2: seems the shooter is confirmed to be trans.
I wonder why we don’t start going after white supremecists.
The name change documentation indicated they did it because they were trans
Gotcha. Edited
I have a dreadful feeling Trump is going to keep this in the news cycle
Many of the Robins I know are men so if that’s the only thing they have to go on for identifying this person as trans that’s literally meaningless. Robin is a very androgynous name at least in my circles.
CW: racial slur on one of the AR-15 magazine in the images https://xcancel.com/Xenoimpulse/status/1960797103401394280#m There’s more information here about the shooter.
TL;DR, terrorgram and 764/09A most likely groomed the shooter.
I can infer what terrorgram is but what is 764/09A?
Events in Ukraine has a good article on 09A and other esoteric neo nazi groups in which 764 is an adjacent group to it. My understanding is that these neo-nazi esoteric satanic groups look for kids that is not well with respect to their mental health on discord, telegram and other SNS and groom them to do heinous stuff like shooting kids at schools (Antioch school shooting was another case like this).
everything about this is so horrific
Order of nine angles. Nazi “wizards”. At least thats what i assume they’re talking about.
Weren’t they involved with something else recently? I definitely remember hearing about the for some reason in the news mega.
They are also loosely connected to “Big Balls” that DOGE staffer via the cyber criminal network "the com "
They were mentioned in the FBI reporting about alleged “violent nihilists”
They’ve been trying to spur mass shooters for a decade (Well, longer, but they become more prominent then)
If you want a concrete case, then Ethan Melzer was a O9A guy.
Yep. Lots of rumors are flowing around the Twin Cities today, hard to make much of it yet. If so then that’s… definitely not great. Especially since we’ve been promoting MN as a trans safe space.
Edit: Partner found this online. Confirming that other post linked here, apparently Swedish state media is reporting that these are the magazines from the shooter.
a few years ago they claimed a shooter was a femboy or something