Image is of the Freedom Band performing at the end of the Second National Congress of the Socialist Movement of Ghana, sourced from this article. The same article contains most of the information used in the preamble below.
A little over a week ago, the Socialist Movement of Ghana concluded its second National Delegates Congress in Aburi, gathering 300 delegates from across the country. There, they deepened their commitment to the working class of Ghana and committed to intensifying political education and organization at the grassroots. The SMG itself decided to not electorally contest the 2024 elections in Ghana, but still presented a manifesto, and nonetheless managed to get two SMG members parliamentary seats in the National Democratic Congress.
Anyway, back to the National Delegates Congress: the delegates agreed that the Western imperialist system is now under a profound crisis, in which the likely future is a heightening of brutality, chaos, and resource plundering - a future which must be resisted and organized against.
To summarize their various statements and condemnations:
- Inside Ghana: a commitment to women’s rights, youth empowerment, and environmental protection.
- A condemnation of the resource plundering of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by imperialist powers.
- A salute to the people of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, in their campaign against outside imperial control in the Sahel.
- A condemnation of Morocco’s illegal occupation of the Western Sahara, and a call for the UN to identify the independence of the Sahwari people.
- A strong condemnation of Israel’s genocidal atrocities and massive terrorist operations against nearby countries, and support for Palestinian independence.
- Support for the people of Haiti against outside imperial domination.
- A call for the end of the blockade on Cuba and their removal from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
- Solidarity with Maduro and the people of Venezuela against the United States.
- A rejection of all imperialist aggression and sanctions against Iran.
- A condemnation of NATO’s decades-long military expansion eastwards towards Russia, especially as it has now resulted in massive devastation and risks a third world war.
- And finally, a commitment to Pan Africanism and international solidarity with all oppressed peoples around the world.
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The Zionist Entity'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.
might be muslim friendos had enough of king shit (re:entity), might be genz contagion from nepal/madagascar
Usually governments that resort to firing live bullets into crowds are brittle and scared and desperate. Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, the Lebanese government… these places are teetering on the edge. They act with extreme cruelty and lethality because they must. We see this all the time in governments that fall to revolution, it’s often their last acts. We see it in weak and corrupt governments, and in those without access to much resources - even ones on “our side” like Syria and early China and many African revolutions and states.
Countries that are self-assured and in-control don’t even need to fire shots. The protests don’t even form. The organs of the masses are all dismantled, the spectacle in full control of narratives, etc.
absolutely. the state cannot sustain this kind of violence for long, because it only mobilizes people against it, but in the short term it might buy your ailing government time to make a contingency plan.
revealing a gap in my knowledge here, but from the point of view of a state, once protests like these start, are there any ways of stopping them that don’t involve shooting at them with lethal ammunition? Unless you’re western-aligned, then you have plot-armour bullshit or so much crowd-control capacity that it all fizzles out on its own
Ride it out and co-opt it, bring it into your two-party system. Create a comprador class that will sell out while killing and jailing the radicals with principles. Use the media to smear the movement and slowly regain control of the narrative by wearing down the populace’s hot anger. See how the Democrats expertly handled Occupy Wallstreet and the George Floyd protests. Split and suffocate and absorb.
starving them out, it’s not like urban population can self-sustain if it comes to it, depending on your admin buildings not being important basically to function. e.g. hong kong/catalonia/blm protests. To overcome that hurdle you need to cross urban-rural divide and by that point your unions must be powerful enough already to go full hog. So there is a lot of porky instruments here, pending piggies loyalty
Is there precedent for this that’s not an external/settler colonizing power?
the protests don’t have a clear leader, create that clear leader than agree to do what the people want.
I think if the people are not able to organize an armed response, or at least become insurgent stochastically, then the repression will crush the dissidence. At least, for now.
May the people of Morocco find the resilience and organization that lead to victory
May the compradors feel the heartbeat beneath the floorboards grow louder with every bullet fired.
It seems to be a little bit of both. Youth fatigued from the shit economy and lack of access to healthcare while the monarchy keeps making concessions to FIFA and then further inspired by Nepal.
the thing that kickstarted this was the fact that hundreds of people became homeless after an earthquake and stayed homeless
Morocco counts amongst the most disgraceful nations in africa. Its well past time for a change.
I was just in Agadir, I’ll message the host of the place I was at.
Salaam Koolio, thank you for your message. There are currently coordinated peaceful protests following the deaths of 6 women highlighting the issues within the Moroccan healthcare system and to raise awareness of corruption. The police response hasn’t always been so peaceful but incidents are outside hospitals and medical facilities and have not been well represented by the media, here or abroad. We are all safe. Thank you so much for your concern. Esther x
WTF
Paging @LargePenis@hexbear.net
Cool zone yet?
Nothing super cool zone yet, but if it explodes then it should be tomorrow after Friday prayers.
https://youtu.be/8j-PyULdok4
https://youtu.be/iQkqBW6bgAI
small video essays about Morocco
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