A reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like “in Minecraft”) and comments containing it will be removed.

Image is of protestors in Nigeria in 2024.

As I’m sure everybody is aware by now, Trump’s accusation that Nigerian armed groups are unfairly persecuting Christians in the country is a rather bizarre lie, seeking a justification to go in, to quote Trump, “guns-a-blazing”. Whether this is likely to actually occur or is merely a threat, who can really say nowadays? But Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province are targeting people in Nigeria fairly indiscriminately; insomuch that there is a target, it is farmers whose land is being raided and taken in resource conflicts, and their religious affiliation is not usually questioned by those groups before they are pillaged and/or murdered from what I can tell.

The President of Nigeria, Tinubu, has no small responsibility for this state of affairs - enacting IMF “reforms” which have exacerbated hunger, poverty, and unemployment in the service of Western financial institutions. Those who have protested against this state of affairs have faced repression by state security forces. Meanwhile, Tinubu allegedly has strong connections to the DEA, paying large amounts of money to avoid a trial for his actions; the DEA released this statement: “We oppose the full… release of the DEA’s Bola Tinubu heroin trafficking investigation records,” which is certainly not concerning at all - followed by “While Nigerians have a right to be informed about what their government is up to, they do not have a right to know what their president is up to.”

It must be a shame for him that such a loyal subject of empire is facing such scrutiny, and it likely has everything to do with Nigeria’s inexorably growing connections to China (just like pretty much every country on the planet), especially in relation to Nigeria’s massive mineral deposits. It could also perhaps be retribution for Nigeria’s failure to adequately oppose the growing independence of the Sahel.

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

Please check out the RedAtlas!

The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.

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.

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    Statement from the Sudanese Communist Party on the massacres by Rapid Support Forces in Bara and El Fasher

    Our Party stands clearly and decisively against the horri-fying massacres being com-mitted against civilians in the cities of El Fasher and Bara, as well as in other areas of Kordofan and Darfur; a stance that does not hold any ambiguity or require further justification.

    The Rapid Support Forces continue to perpetrate systematic violence against unarmed civilians: field executions, arbitrary arrests, looting and destruction of property, mass displacement, and forcing residents to flee … and more, as documented and confirmed by reports from the United Nations, human rights organisations, and the media. This hellish, systematic violence is the result of all the wars our country has endured, marked by barbarity and the failure to bring perpetrators to justice. Impunity has never been an exception; rather, it is a central reason for the recurrence of these crimes. The ongoing absence of accountability has recreated an environment that allows the return of war crimes and genocide against the populations of cities and villages as soon as the regime’s forces retreat, as seen in Bara and El Fasher.

    What we witness today is an extension of a policy entrenched since the first Darfur massacres. Therefore, confronting these crimes requires immediate and firm accountability for all those responsible for issuing and exe-cuting orders. We also emphasise that the failure to secure unarmed civilians, and the withdrawal of the army from the steadfast city of El Fasher for months in the face of the Jan- jaweed militia, is an irresponsible act deserving condemnation and accountability. The primary and most important duty of the army is to protect citizens and the home- land, not to protect itself. We, in the Sudanese Com-mmunist Party, always affirm that what is happening is not merely a military struggle for power; rather, it represents a complex scene of conflict between the parasitic wings of capitalism within the country over power and resources. These forces have amassed their wealth and privileges through corruption and the exploitation of power to loot resources, using armed conflict and terrorism to reinforce their dominance.

    The war is, at the same time, a regional/international/imperi-alist scheme aimed at weakening the Sudanese state and creating conditions for disintegration and division to deplete the capabili- ties of the people, the wealth of the country, and violate national sovereignty. This political and eco-nomic dimension (local, regional, and international) of the conflict places a double responsibility on the international community to intervene immediately to stop this war and these massacres. We in the Sudanese Commu-nist Party call on the peoples of the world, and their democratic organ-isations, foremost among them the communist and labor parties, as well as human rights organisations and the conscience of the entire world, for international solidarity with the Sudanese people who are suffering alone and steadfastly in the face of a brutal war entering its third year without a horizon for resolution or end.

    We call for popular movements around the world in the streets, through writing in newspapers, on social media, or other means for the immediate cessation of the war in Sudan and solidarity with our people. We also call for transform -ing “soft statements” and formal appeals into practical steps to protect civilians, open humanitar-ian corridors for the population, deliver aid, and conduct neutral and independent investigations into all war crimes in our country. The criticisms and condemnations issued by international and human rights institutions must be followed by concrete actions: imposing political, economic, and diplomatic sanctions on the perpetrators of violations, banning the export of weapons and logistical support to the criminals, and referring the crimes to independent international and local judicial mechanisms.

    We also demand:

    1. An immediate ceasefire, the declaration of a humanitarian truce, and a complete opening of humanitarian corridors to El Fasher and other areas of Darfur, Bara, and all of North and South Kordofan, ensuring the protection of aid convoys.
    2. A quick, independent, and trans-parent international investiga-tion into war crimes, and holding accountable all who committed, ordered, or contributed to these crimes.
    3. Urgent action from the peoples of the world, its democratic forces, and human rights organ-isations to pressure states and international bodies to halt any support or political or military complicity with the parties responsible for the violations. At the same time, we call on the vanguard of our people, the forces of mass mobilisation, and democratic forces to unite their ranks, escalate peaceful mass struggle, and develop political initiatives aimed at stopping the war, seizing power from the de facto governments in Port Sudan and Nyala, and returning to the path of the revolution to build a civil democratic state that safe-guards human rights and achieves social justice.

    • We will not allow the testimonies of the victims to be buried in statements that merely express sympathy without follow-up.

    Blood cries out for justice, demanding real protection and accountability.

    • Stop the killing. Open the corridors for aid. Bring the perpetrators to justice. • Justice for the victims — and freedom and peace for the people of Sudan.

    Political Bureau

    Sudanese Communist Party

    Published in the Workers Weekly Guardian on November 10th issue #2170 (Paper of the Communist Party of Australia)

    Sorry for any formatting problems or typos. I manually typed it up.