There's way too much going on right now for me to really focus on any one country this week. The aftermath of the fall of the Nepal government has, somewhat surprisingly, reverberated around the world, and not only in countries that are enemies to the West as you'd expect; for example, Morocco's government battle fiercely with Egypt's and Jordan's to be first in line to lick the dogshit off the boots of Zionists, and yet Morocco is currently embroiled in a large protest wave based primarily around a youth unemployment crisis (though their population is also remarkably pro-Palestinian, which generates additional friction). We're also seeing similar protests in Madagascar, Peru, and Paraguay, and perhaps more will come. I'm personally fairly doubtful in the potential for meaningful economic results from these protests (the current imperialist system seems too deeply embedded for a movement that isn't explicitly communist and anti-imperialist to alter conditions), but it is quite possible for new political results at least.
Outside of the developing world, it appears that the unpopularity of western leaders, such as in the UK, France, and Italy, is creating new levels of unrest. In Britain, the political system has become so utterly moribund that even the artificial democracy of a two-party system (more-or-less; the Lib Dems do exist I suppose) no longer suffices, with both Conservatives and Labour gradually sinking. The Reform party appears like it may become the new standard-bearer of the capitalists and petit-bourgeois - that is, the historical wellspring of fascism - and the Left Party (whatever name they eventually choose) may or may not rise to meet the occasion. In France, they're on their fifth Prime Minister in two years, after Lecornu lasted about a month, attempting the liberal classic: promising change, and then appointing the exact same people who have ruled for the last few decades. And pro-Palestinian protests and general strikes have erupted in Italy, in defiance of their rightwing government under Meloni.
While there's plenty of other events (e.g. continuing aggression against Venezuela that might soon erupt into a war) it would be remise of me not to mention the very much ongoing events vis-a-vis Palestine and a potential peace deal there, seemingly supported to some degree by Trump. It could be legitimate, and it could be some big act (very likely the latter, IMO). Both Trump and Netanyahu seem to believe that they're very talented political masterminds, producing manoeuvres and feints that would make Machiavelli blush. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I trust the militant organizations inside Palestine to outplay these American failsons. Hamas and similar groups are not nearly as gullible as the Iranian reformist faction - though few people are!
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
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.
Y'know, I'm pretty much at the point where I don't profoundly care too much about the socialist-capitalist-chinese debate, I'm mostly invested in the idea of being able to give people an example of how you can do stuff differently and still very visibly succeed, even if it's not REALLY that different, because then they might give you a chance, so I think China = Socialism is somewhat useful. But anyway, here's the communist party of Greece's view
I am generaly a quite pro China guy around these parts but as a Greek here are some things to consider:
For one that this was basicaly the standard position on China for most (not in power) ML parties that didnt turn Eurocommunism or socdem (thus not caring of what is or isnt revisionism and socialism). Unironic Dengism in the sense of "this is actualy building socialism, stagism stuff etc" was almost non-existant as a position and argument in communism circles around the globe 10, 20 or 30 years ago and its relative spread recently tracks China's development and western decline more than any obvious qualitative changes in how chinese economic and productive relations are structured. KKE is a famously slow to adapt party even among communist parties (and that has played in their favor in some sense), no surprise if their position didnt meaninfully changed in a decade (since the most rapid and telling results and changes in Chinese socialism have been under Xi).
Secondly, is this even a KKE quote from some recent article or official analysis. I do know that their position is close to this sure, tho maybe not as harsh but it could be a quote from any random party newspaper article or geopol analysis from any time within the last 20 years. The idofcommunism tag is suspect. Thats a dude on twitter that reposts and pushes KKE stuff but isnt actualy a party member. The only thing i have found about him is that he was a candidate in local elections in the KKE aligned/front party. One of thousands. So i wouldnt be so sure thats some fresh KKE statement or official position iron out and published.
Another nuance is that some of the biggest labour fights and wins involving KKE lead unions and orgs were in disputes with Chinese (state owned even) companies and enterprises, primarily ones in Pireaus, like Cosco . With years of strikes and labour organizing led by KKE members, politicians and unions fighting various anti-union, anti-worker, low labour safety policies and conditions. Its easy for situations like these to reinforce a "China is capitalist and imperialist, no two ways about it and not that different from western capital" when the direct organizing experience involving Chinese capital wasnt that different.
As a last point ill just mention that i have had extensive conversations with high ranking KKE members and even ones in charge of foreign policy and geopolitical analysis. And despite criticism they have admitted positives and possibilities of the Chinese model from a socialist perspective despite retaining the main spirit of the above analysis. And i have heard admissions that "yeah if/when we come into power here in greece we have plans to expand our relations with China considerably and ways and party connections to do it, even if its out of geopolitical necessity". The last scenario is off course almost science fiction, albeit less so than in 95% of the western countries
I think so too, although not my party, the communist party of portugal, which didn't turn eurocom nor socdem, and sure inside the party there are people who think both ways about china but the party won't be putting out any "China is capitalist" statements anytime soon, imo there's just no political point in doing so aside from shrugging off a "pro-china" image, which the party does have.
I got from the In Defense Of Communism twitter, supposedly taken from the party's recent theses or congress, I though the site was literally owned by the KKE so I didn't suspect this post
This was a thing I reached before I even became a pro-china guy, that if my party ever got into power (lmao) we'd have a lot of stuff to worry about and a lot of institutions opposing us, most of all the EU, and in that scenario it'd be ridiculous to not try and approach china, especially because China likely wouldn't push economic sanctions against us.
Thank you for the perspective though, I already knew this was KKE's position regarding china but I wasn't aware of how disputes with chinese capital might've influenced it. We haven't had the same happen in portugal, where the most the chinese did was buy up a big public electricity company when an austerity right-wing government put it up for sale, I guess if the country now tried to nationalize it again (which isn't likely) and found that difficult for unfair reasons that could be blamed on china it would be a different story
Thanks for the context.