Image is sourced from this People’s Dispatch article, depicting communists attending the 2023 funeral of Communist Party President Guillermo Teillier, who was tortured for years under Pinochet’s regime and helped rebuild the Communist Party while under a fascist dictatorship.
We had the Six Day War in 1967, we had the Nineteen Day War (Yom Kippur) in 1973, and now we’ve had the Twelve Day War. I wonder how many more very short wars will plague the region until Palestine is freed?
However, moving on from Western Asia from a little while, we have some interesting news from Chile - the former labor minister and communist, Jeannette Jara, has won the primary election for the left-wing bloc in a landslide (~60% of the vote), as the current President, Gabriel Boric, is term-limited. Her achievements include a minimum wage increase and a reduction of the work week to 40 hours.
In November, Jara will face down the contenders from other parties, including José Antonio Kast, who is analogous to Brazil’s Bolsonaro. Unfortunately, Jara is now the lead figure of a party that has been taking quite a few Ls under Boric’s leadership. Ostensibly a Democratic Socialist, he ruled as - you guessed it - a neoliberal, bending the knee to the US and EU. He not only failed to overthrow the Pinochet-era constitution, he actually allowed the right-wing to turn the proposed new constitution into something worse, and had to settle for campaigning against the new one and keeping the old one. And he had very little solidarity with other left-leaning leaders on the continent, like Maduro, Lula, Petro, or Castillo.
With this in mind, I cannot help but look at Argentina’s very recent history and feel a little dread - but if anybody can save Chile at this point, it can only be a communist.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. 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.
Qassam anti-tank troops continue to deliver explosives by hand against the “IDF” armoured vehicles, this time the Merkava’s ammunition suffered a cook off. Multiple angles available as well. The sheer emotion the cameraman has when his buddy returns alive after delivering the explosive is amazing too.
Absolute bravery from the palestinian fighters, there’s nothing more to add really. Clearly shows how each side fights the other, while one likes to flatten the entire place with their air force and long range artillery, while going in inside their heavily armored vehicles taking zero risks, the other fights on as if they were the protagonists of a typical Hollywood war movie. But this isn’t fiction: The palestinian fights like a true hero would. I can’t stop but to think of Saving Private Ryan’s movie, where in the last battle the US soldiers fight the SS troops up close and personal, planting explosives on the german tanks as they push into the town. In that movie, we’re shown how the US soldiers are heroes for fighting that way when all odds are against them. Then again, that’s a movie, and the palestinian fights like that in real life and proudly shows it as well.
Defeating the zionist monster, one hand-delivered explosive at a time.
The Israeli version of Saving Private Ryan involves cum extraction.
Saving Ryan’s privates
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I have never seen this saving private ryan film. But If you put these events into a film or a book, they would say “okay this is a bit too much.” Yet we see the Palestinian resistance carrying out brave actions against the fascist child-killing occupiers, week after week!!
I remember watching the video of the mujahid jumping out of a tunnel and attaching a magnetic shuaz explosive to a Merkava in the first week of the ground invasion. I had never seen anything like it. And today they still carry out the most incredible operations punishing and humiliating the disgusting zionists!! This is the stuff of legends!! Takbir!!
Those who say the resistance in Gaza have been defeated are either malicious, clueless, or cowardly.
The resistance was so smart to record these operations, it’s doing the same work as all journalists on the ground in Gaza. Despite all the furor over “gopros” during al-aqsa flood, they’ve generated equal, if not more, sympathy for armed resistance simply by showing the reality : bombed out homes and businesses, a technologically superior and morally inferior enemy, and some heroic individuals who stand up by any means necessary. The world now knows how you can not peacefully march in front of a Merkava and expect it not to turn you into paste. “israel” will never again be able to play victim, which is why they’re trying to end the Palestinian problem once and for all, leading into subduing all regional rivals.
did you see the one where two resistance fighters argued over who got to risk their lives to plant the explosive device? they were arguing TO do it like Chinese people argue over who gets to pay for dinner
Do you think resistance fighters excuse themselves to use the washroom and sneak off to plant the explosives without their partner noticing
Must see tv.
One of the scenes in the movie, a group of US soldiers attacking a Tiger tank gets blasted apart by a flak 38 (20mm) anti-aircraft gun. Isn’treal seems to have no concept of armor cover. So many of these videos of badass Palestinians running up to armor to plant explosives.
Allahu Akbar!