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.

A platform I think we all can agree to!

Last week’s thread is here.
The Imperialism Reading Group is here.

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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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.

  • carpoftruth [any, any]@hexbear.netMEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    part funny part sad little item out of canada about the self proclaimed ‘queen of canada’ (a qanon-maga type) and a handful of her followers that have been living in a selfmade miasma of human shit for the past several months.

    The funny part:

    spoiler

    It has been a long-running issue for the village, west of Regina, where residents say they have been tormented for two years by the Kingdom of Canada cult, with residents reportedly harassed, yelled at and videotaped by members of the group.

    When Ricky Manz, the building’s owner and cult member, stopped paying the building’s utility bills last year, the village shut off its water and sewer. The result was waste overflowing from toilets and seeping outside the building’s entrance. Later on, members were seen dumping sewage on the property.

    “The sewage smell was just horrific and really traumatizing the community beyond what they have already faced after having a cult occupy their community.”

    the sad part is that they’ve been doing this in a little village in rural saskatchewan where the locals hate them. the province and feds have been useless

    spoiler

    NDP MLA Brittney Senger says a provincial health order for the building’s owner to clean up the mess in the village of Richmound isn’t enough.

    “We’re calling on the government to actually provide support and clean up the sewage, so that the community can move past this trauma and so kids and families can finally go out and enjoy parks and playgrounds again,” Senger said in an interview.

    But it wasn’t the sewage that led RCMP to raid the building on Sept. 3. Mounties said they obtained a search warrant on a report that someone inside had a firearm. They seized 13 imitation semi-automatic handguns, along with ammunition and electronic devices. Manz, cult leader Romana Didulo and others were arrested.

    The (provincial) health authority declined to answer questions about why it didn’t inspect the building before the raid, as sewage began overflowing months earlier. It also didn’t say what the deadline is to fix the mess and when a health officer is next surveying the building to ensure work is complete. “The SHA is not responsible for scheduling or conducting this work. Only the owner can provide you with the timeline you seek,” a spokesperson said in an email.

    Brad Miller, Richmound’s 64-year-old mayor, said the village of 200 people has been spending money to get rid of the cult since 2023, when it first arrived, but nuisance complaints and commercial building bylaws didn’t work. And the village can’t afford the cleanup now.

    the part where I try to make this newscomm worthy

    spoiler

    here’s a situation where a local municipality has a violent cult dumping human shit into a playground for months and the conservative government of the province does nothing but mealy mouthed orders, the federal colonial police care more about fake guns than children playing in shit in the town’s only playground, and private property is so sacrosanct in the legal system that the best the system can do is write a strongly worded letter telling the owner to fix the issue, with no deadline. total lack of state capacity and state willpower to do anything about nitwit fascists either proactively or even reactively. this is a good example of how canada tolerates fascism and right wing violence when even a fraction of the same behavior from some kind of indigenous land defender/antifa/pro-palestine group would see mountie snipers posted up around the clock