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

Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli 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 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.

  • Hohsia [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    47·
    11 hours ago

    I suppose he acceptance is slowly starting to set in, but it certainly doesn’t make conversations with resisters any easier

    We should not be shocked that the empire is gearing up to pass a bill that will result in more of the same types of historic wealth transfers we have seen time and time again. There is no one in DC who can stop an ontologically evil country from repeating the same patterns that have led us to this moment in the first place (I really thought that was obvious tbh but people are pretending like Kamala would’ve been Jesus Christ and not an empty suit to set us up for something even worse in 2028).

    The naive fantasize about toppling the US government all the fucking time, but we’ll get nuclear war before we get to that point

    • xiaohongshu [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      7 hours ago

      I mean, Biden’s interest rate hike is arguably even more regressive in terms of wealth transfer ($1 trillion free interest to the rich every year, higher than the annual defense spending, while the poor have to endure even more expensive debt repayment burden) than Trump’s massive tax cuts and welfare cuts.

      It’s just that interest rate operates “invisibly” so people don’t notice as much as the blatant Republican policies, but if you look into the data, it’s just as regressive, if not more so.

    • SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      40·
      10 hours ago

      It would’ve been nice to delay it a bit more, get some more organizing in before the Florida concentration camps. But the Dems were determined to lose. I know they blame the voters, but it’s on the Dems and their strategists and the lobbyists and donors that pay their strategists.

      All the establishments Dems speaking out against Mamdani’s election proves that the kind of big picture changes people are asking for are anathema to them, and they would rather lose than win with a socialist, even a milquetoast Dem Soc. They’re the same people advising her to yell about having the biggest lethal military or that Iran is the #1 enemy while a genocide is going on, or to hide the guy who gave kids free school lunches and not to advertise that, while instead advertising how many Republicans are on your side. To put your best proposals on your website where no one cares. To say the economy is doing great and you’d change nothing about what Biden did while everyone is saying groceries are expensive. To match the Republican playbook of fear instead of trying to inspire people with what’s possible.

      Sorry for that rant, I’m just pissed. Every bad thing that happens does seem to increase awareness of communism, so at least there’s that. I just hope left groups can still organize with the level of oppression they are going to get and that the poor and working-class aren’t too distracted just trying to survive under these cuts.