A week ago, the Bolivian left-wing party, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), currently led by Luis Arce, decisively lost the round of elections against the right-wing. This comes after a prolonged period of “infighting” between Arce, and Morales, who previously led the MAS prior to the 2019 coup which briefly installed Jeanine Anez.
I put infighting in quotes because despite the nominal similarities between Arce and Morales, it is clear that this is not merely a counterproductive battle between two men - instead, the Bolivian left has arrived at a time of unavoidable conflict between two competing strategies. The electoral strategy is represented by Arce, who has aligned himself with a more middle-class-oriented campaign that is more economically liberal, whereas Morales represents a more working-class-oriented campaign that seeks to go further than tepid reform.
Such a conflict between electoralism and revolutionary action is inevitable in any and every developing country that 1) possesses a functioning left-wing party or organization, and 2) is under internal and/or external pressure by capitalists. This crisis must be resolved eventually - and this electoral failure is how such a crisis is manifesting right now. So while the Bolivian left has indeed lost the election, it is not yet defeated. The revolutionary campaign can, if it is willing, still ultimately stand triumphant. But what must be done is a real movement towards socialism, which goes beyond technocrats reforming from above, and instead transforms the state into a full political project of the working class, in which their movements, organizations, and protests are genuinely empowered. Such a project will involve repression by the forces of reaction, not least by the United States, but it is the only road left to take.
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Israel'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.
Iconic headline in one of the last remaining independent Lebanese news outlets.
“The ugly yankee”
AYAU - All Yankees Are Ugly
Seems like Australia might have our own
(Though nothing about the shooter has come to light yet)Pretty sure the shooter is some sovereign citizen libertarian freak.
nonethelessAustralian fella i know said hes a sovereign citizen weirdo who was getting served for sexual assault.
Hope he takes out a few more before getting domed himself lol
Most likely, though the targeting cops specifically is interesting, and if that kind of loser can get their hands on a rifle, then it probably isn’t that hard for a leftist group to do the same. (Though gun control laws will probably be made even stricter in the wake of this)
Thats up near where the white nationalists were looking to fiund their farmstead ethnoclave too
US consumers with prime credit are starting to slip on payments
spoiler
Delinquencies are up in both prime and subprime year over year and month over month. Prime consumers have shrunk and subprime has increased. Auto loan originations are down. Mortgage and auto loan balances are up because of delinquencies. The average us consumer credit score dropped a point
OpenAI in the news again, fully embodying the ethos “move fast, kill people.”
content warning: suicide
Basically looks like some teenager discussed plans to kill himself for months with ChatGPT. Even helped him tie a noose, get the right supplies, etc. Very grim stuff in this article.
But in January, when Adam requested information about specific suicide methods, ChatGPT supplied it. Mr. Raine learned that his son had made previous attempts to kill himself starting in March, including by taking an overdose of his I.B.S. medication. When Adam asked about the best materials for a noose, the bot offered a suggestion that reflected its knowledge of his hobbies. ChatGPT repeatedly recommended that Adam tell someone about how he was feeling. But there were also key moments when it deterred him from seeking help.
Read it here: A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
Ukrainian drone hits NATO ally, Estonia; lands in field, leaving behind a crater.
Seems to be due to Russian jamming. Another case of blowback, it won’t stop at this.
- ERR, Estonian state news agency
I’m gonna go out on a limb and just assume Ukrainian drones are just making their way to Russia via NATO’s airspace. How far can drones fly anyway?
Omfg I checked the Facebook comments on this and like half of them are saying this is some sort of false flag to rope Estonia into the war and that the government needs to scare us to put more funds into defence. Shocking sentiment, never thought I’d see it here. If only there was any political party that could capitalize on it, the left party used to be against militarization but they seem to have reneged on that
Be the leninist vanguard party you want to see in the world
Is Ukraine launching drones from over Belarus?
Upgrades of Russia’s Pantsir air defense systems are reportedly “in full swing,” according to Fighter Bomber. Each system will carry a larger number of missiles, of a new type, which is supposedly cheaper and faster to produce.
Pantsir is capable of firing while on the move, a rare ability among anti-air systems, which makes it (theoretically) very well suited to protecting advancing convoys. You may recall Russia attempting just that at the beginning of the war, to mixed results.
While Russia has been holding back its tanks from the front line, they have been busy working on integrating Arena-M active protection systems. They recently released a video proving that they are capable of intercepting Javelin top-attack missiles.
Wireless drones have also been more or less obsoleted by the improvement in electronic warfare systems. If Russia can come up with a good counter to fiber optic drones, we could very soon see the return of big arrow maneuver warfare.
With the collective West reportedly running out of spare air defense missiles to give Ukraine, and the focus shifting to Asia, the Russian Air Force may even make a big comeback.
The new TKB-1055 counter unmanned systems (C-UAS) missiles have been in action since at least July 21st 2025, when debris was spotted within Russia itself from defending against Ukrainian drone attacks. They can be quad packed per launch tube, have an altitude ceiling of 5000m and a maximum range of 7000m. Maximum velocity is 820m/s, the missile features no guidance module itself, it uses radio command guidance from the Pantsir system.
To be honest it’s difficult to measure the battlefield impact of such, they’ve only been in use for just over a month, and Ukraine has conducted several successful drone strikes in that time period. But it’s hard to use that to say that Pantsir is ineffective in this role, Ukraine could be launching hundreds of drones a night and Pantsir is shooting down the majority of them, with only a few getting through. These new rockets are for countering one way attack drones and in some cases low flying cruise missiles. The reason for their development is that the gun on the Pantsir, which was originally supposed to do this, is not accurate enough for this task. The TKB-1055s will at least provide a vastly increased magazine capacity, which is in line with the philosophy of the Pantsir, quantity and low cost.
Personally I’d think that something like the proposed Russian Ugroza rocket conversion kits would be more practical than another Pantsir upgrade. These were initially displayed in 1999, and can be seen as a Russian equivalent to the USA’s APKWS system. They convert unguided S-5, S-8 and S-13 rockets into laser guided rockets, using thrusters on the side of the conversion kit (covered by small wood covers in the photo) for maneuverability.
I’d say that they’d be more practical because not only does Russia have millions of S series rockets from Soviet stockpiles, they can be air launched in addition to ground launch, you can put dozens of these on a Russian attack helicopter or fighter aircraft for aerial interdiction. Right now Russia relies on their attack helicopters to interdict one way attack drones using air launched Igla missiles and the cannons. An attack helicopter can go from carrying a handful of Iglas to dozens of these. Russia can dedicate a single squadron of fighter aircraft for interdiction of one way attack drones and cruise missiles and take out hundreds of them. APKWS has been a big success for the USA, the concept is proven to work. Given that the original proposal was from 26 years ago, I really think Russia should look into this again.
To be honest it’s difficult to measure the battlefield impact of such, they’ve only been in use for just over a month, and Ukraine has conducted several successful drone strikes in that time period
Could have been a limited test run, or from the very first upgraded systems.
The problem with converting old rockets to missiles is that you will eventually run out of them. Russia has already been heavily using rockets in their original role, launched from helicopters or CAS jets, so they may not have massive stocks sitting unused. This new missile could be intended as a long term purpose-built solution with dedicated mass production lines.
If Russia can come up with a good counter to fiber optic drones, we could very soon see the return of big arrow maneuver warfare
big scissors warfare
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Bloomberg: Microsoft Asked FBI for Help Tracking Palestinian Protests
FBI doing COINTELPRO again, this time directly at the behest of a singular mega corporation, against those who dare oppose genocide.
What’s really fucking me up is the order here. I expect the FBI to ask Microsoft to help with data center tracking. The opposite, while obviously still “expected” because ultimately the FBI exists to serve companies like Microsoft, is still shocking to see in a headline.
Yeah this is genuinely one of the more cyberpunk things we’ve seen recently- a megacorp utilizing the government’s spying resources to enforce terms and conditions on employees
This shit is designed to make us look insane when we bring it up
Alhamdullilah the resistance released footage from a July 7th ambush that killed minimum 5 occupiers
https://tankie.tube/w/bK79FUk5NW7PLn4Yvm35FP
Note the multiple stages, using both explosives and gunfire, and targeting reinforcements.
Erez military site, north of Beit Hanoun; location of the IEDs
Moment of first IED explosion targeting the occupiers
Rescue force advancing on the targeted force
Florida refuses to recognize a driver’s license issued by New Jersey. So much for “full faith and credit”.
C’mon, Balkanize
https://twitter.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/1959972380270329883
Cuba, our people (Florida) beg for liberation!
Oh sweet balkanization speedrun
https://xcancel.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/1959972380270329883
do NOT look at the fascist bots in the replies
Brazil ignores ambassador nomination, and Israel ‘downgrades’ relations with Brazil; ‘They humiliated our ambassador there,’ says Celso Amorim (Special Advisor of Lula).
Israel said it was withdrawing its nomination of Gali Dagan to serve in Brasilia and that it will not appoint a new name for the position. A statement from the Israeli Foreign Ministry reaffirms that President Lula has been considered ‘persona non grata’ by the country since 2024.
Israel reported that it had withdrawn Dagan’s nomination and added that it would not submit a new name to the Foreign Ministry, stating that relations with Brazil would be conducted “at a lower level” diplomatically.
Relations between the two countries have been strained since early last year, when Lula criticized Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip following the attacks of October 7, 2023.
By comparing Israel’s response to Hamas attacks with what Adolf Hitler did to the Jews in the last century, Lula angered Israeli officials. At the time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Brazilian had crossed the “red line.”
- Telegram
I hope Lula crosses more of those red lines.
Israel Katz (Minister of Defense): “When Brazilian President Lula @LulaOficial disrespected the memory of the Holocaust during my tenure as Foreign Minister, I declared him persona non grata in Israel until he apologized.”
“Now he has revealed his true colors as an avowed anti-Semite and supporter of Hamas by withdrawing Brazil from the IHRA—the international body created to combat anti-Semitism and hatred against Israel—placing the country alongside regimes such as Iran, which openly denies the Holocaust and threatens to destroy the State of Israel.”
“As Israel’s Defense Minister, I affirm: we will know how to defend ourselves against the axis of evil of radical Islam, even without the help of Lula and his allies. Shame on the wonderful Brazilian people and Israel’s many friends in Brazil that this is their president. Better days are yet to come for the relationship between our countries.”
the zionists want us to stop caring about antisemitism so that actual antisemitism will drive more jewish people into their arms. they know exactly what they’re doing by misusing the word
I continue to be puzzled by the inherent anti-semitism within zionism… This truism, according to zionists, that Jewish people cannot safely co-exist with other people in any society around the world. It’s the self-hating, self-defeating view of oneself that one hides behind narcissism.
I’ve seen countless comments (a majoriy of which are from non-Jewish people) that normalize this position… Like, lib-left or conservative zionists who claim to stand up for Jews and against antisemitism by insisting that “Jews cannot be safe here, so they need to go back to where they came from”. Of course, nevermind that these people do nothing to make Jewish people safer in their communities, and nevermind that they continue to insist that Jewish faith/identity is inseparable from the zionist nazi regime and its daily livestreams of crimes against humanity. Their ideal way of stopping anti-semitism is to move Jewish people out of site out of mind…
Don’t overcomplicate it. Zionism is and has always been an anti-semitic movement. The most successful one at converting Jewish people to its cause. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzl’s_Mauschel_and_Zionist_antisemitism
yeah a chunk of zionism is buying into the old euro justifications for expulsion
What is “actual antisemitism” and does it really “drive more Jewish people into their arms?”
Seems to me the majority of Jewish people, at least in the the US and occupied Palestine were already zionist.
idk does white boys chanting “blood and soil” ring a bell?
How that is linked to zionist “israel” ?
- dilute the meaning of “antisemitism”
- normal people get tired of the boy crying wolf and stop paying attention
- anti-jewish hate crimes increase due to lack of opposition
- the entity is reinforced as the only safe place for white jews
i can not believe that this is the first time you’re hearing about this concept.
If this is the extent of your evidence for what you called “actual antisemitism”, then you have to prove two things: how the number of white guys saying “blood and soil” is linked to the zionist cancer accusing the planet of being antisemitic for opposing the extermination of Palestinians and that these white guys drive Jews who weren’t already zionists to becoming zionists.
Furthermore “opposition to antisemitism” is historically and presently a weapon against colonized people everywhere by militarized police and the child-killing iof.
the actual antisemitism is what happens at an increased rate in step 3. there’s a split in the nazi camp where some want an example of an ethnostate and some who are just exterminationist.
the zionists want their own persecution to happen because of 4. that’s why Katz calls Lula antisemitic.
Washington Seeks to Develop a New Strategy in the Sahel:
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In recent days, the US has re-engaged in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger under the motto “trade, not aid.”
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Senior American officials have paid successive visits to Bamako, Ouagadougou, and Niamey.
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This approach emphasizes providing logistical and operational support against militant groups, while also exploring access to mineral resources.
Unsurprising. The power struggle in West Africa is best understood as inter-imperialist competition between the French and the US, with other interests playing smaller roles (Russia and Algeria most prominently).
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If Israel treated Gaza like China treated Xinjiang, Israel would be praised constantly for “taming the savage population”, and Netanyahu would win the Nobel Peace Prize every year.
If China treated Xinjiang like Israel treats Gaza, China would’ve been nuked out of existence.
When I think about how people qualify China’s treatment of Uyghurs as genocide but not the israeli Holocaust of Palestinians, my brain feels like it is going to break.
Every smug fucking liberal tripped over themselves to condemn China of genocide for years, without any thought or consideration, or awareness of the facts of the situation. They heard a Western leader say it, so it must be true, and if you disagree, you’re a bot and a liar and a paid shill!
But when it’s a supposed “ally” doing the extermination, ethnic cleansing, slaughter, maiming, starving, systematic SA, and worse (things infinitely worse than what China was ever reliably accused of doing), they become the world’s daftest genocide experts. The thresehold for what constitutes genocide is raised high up into the stratosphere, and no amount of evidence of israel’s crimes, their full-throated intention, and ceaseless determination to cleanse Gaza and the West Bank of Palestinians is enough to even merit discussion.
Even more jokerfying, I still see people claim that the ICJ’s report from January 2024 means there is no genocide.
If China actually treated Xinjiang like israhell treats Gaza, they will be immediately accepted as Western country and they will be loved and praised .
This already happened. It was the initial Western response to the knife attacks in the mid-2010s. Western opinion shifted when it became a useful tool for the West/their ETIM assets were being dealt with. This was at the peak of “reddit atheism” so it was lots of “ReLigIoN oF pEaCe” style comments:
https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/s/umY3JLLsWZ
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/s/IdKasJDwWi
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Opinion: China Is Finally Taking Islamic Terrorism Seriously
By Bret Stephens
Maybe if the Xinjiang Uyghurs were just thousands of white Europeans tourists cosplaying this is such a weird take. With a nuclear stockpile 6 times bigger than Israel even I’d say this “evil China” could get away with a lot if they wanted to.
I get the feeling behind this, clearly the whole cultural genocide bs aged like milk. But this would be just capitalism doing their usual genocide every other generation so about the average. It would get the same reaction as Ukraine and Russia ought to be a nuclear wasteland by this logic today.
USCG seizes 76,000 lbs of narcotics off the coast of Florida: https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/4285029/coast-guard-achieves-historic-milestone-with-offload-over-76140-lbs-in-illegal/
For fairness they should start describing alcohol sales in terms of lethal doses.
23 million potentially lethal doses
or one really big lethal dose
I will take on the 23 million lethal doses like narcotics Jesus
The mythical LDHB (Lethal Dose for Hunter Biden)
LD50 by sheer physical impact
That is a lot of drugs.
looking forward to this afternoon’s press release: USCG and DEA display seizure of 56,000 lbs of narcotics
Tom Barrack telling Lebanese press to act civilized and stop being animalistic
Imagine lapdog Aoun in “negotiations” with this guy and he casually calls entire Lebabon “savages” or some other slur and Aoun just nodding along like a child. “Yes master Thom. You’re right I am a savage animal and my head does look like an egg. Im glad you noticed.”
he looks like كهنة آمون
Another
This when just a few days ago Putin was getting screeched and hooted at by a pack of American dogs and apes calling themselves journalists? Very rich.
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