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.
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
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/s/LkR0UNL1TK
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/s/8SKjjy4872
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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.