Image is of the Freedom Band performing at the end of the Second National Congress of the Socialist Movement of Ghana, sourced from this article. The same article contains most of the information used in the preamble below.
A little over a week ago, the Socialist Movement of Ghana concluded its second National Delegates Congress in Aburi, gathering 300 delegates from across the country. There, they deepened their commitment to the working class of Ghana and committed to intensifying political education and organization at the grassroots. The SMG itself decided to not electorally contest the 2024 elections in Ghana, but still presented a manifesto, and nonetheless managed to get two SMG members parliamentary seats in the National Democratic Congress.
Anyway, back to the National Delegates Congress: the delegates agreed that the Western imperialist system is now under a profound crisis, in which the likely future is a heightening of brutality, chaos, and resource plundering - a future which must be resisted and organized against.
To summarize their various statements and condemnations:
- Inside Ghana: a commitment to women's rights, youth empowerment, and environmental protection.
- A condemnation of the resource plundering of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by imperialist powers.
- A salute to the people of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, in their campaign against outside imperial control in the Sahel.
- A condemnation of Morocco's illegal occupation of the Western Sahara, and a call for the UN to identify the independence of the Sahwari people.
- A strong condemnation of Israel's genocidal atrocities and massive terrorist operations against nearby countries, and support for Palestinian independence.
- Support for the people of Haiti against outside imperial domination.
- A call for the end of the blockade on Cuba and their removal from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
- Solidarity with Maduro and the people of Venezuela against the United States.
- A rejection of all imperialist aggression and sanctions against Iran.
- A condemnation of NATO's decades-long military expansion eastwards towards Russia, especially as it has now resulted in massive devastation and risks a third world war.
- And finally, a commitment to Pan Africanism and international solidarity with all oppressed peoples around the world.
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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.
The White House and US President Donald Trump have released their Gaza "peace plan".
In short, Hamas demilitirisation, a security force of Arab nations to occupy Gaza after Israeli withdrawal, civil governance performed by technocratic Palestinian experts directly overseen and supervised by Trump and other former and current heads of state, aid to resume and Gaza to be rebuilt under this security force and technocrats.
"Give up your only means of defending yourself and we promise we'll definitely stop committing genocide against you. Then afterwards, you can be occupied by someone who might not commit genocide against you."
No dutchmen, belgian, czechslovak or polish would have stomached being partially occupied by nazi germany and refused an army post-ww2 but now they demand the very thing of the palestinians? This shows the astronomically levels of dehumanization Palestinians are subjected to.
The belgians almost broke the lightspeed barrier rolling over for Hitler after he violated their neutrality, they might.
From a realist/realpolitik perspective, it all depends if Qatar can convince Hamas to accept the deal, they have the influence here. The full deal is being presented to Hamas by the Qatari Prime Minister and Egyptian head of Intelligence, so there is significant investment from them here.
explains why isntrael issued a rare apology to Qatar earlier today too, during a joint call with trump.
He’s trying to create a gulf state on the Mediterranean
time will tell if this happens with/without israel's approval
Add a 4th withdrawal to this map where the 4th withdrawal is the final withdrawal of Hamas and I would consider taking the offer.
Hamas can not consider disarming or withdrawing until Israel are behind the security zone and an alternate security arrangement is in place. The ISF is clearly supposed to be that alternate security arrangement.
These terms are surprisingly reasonable and there is real potential in this deal.
There will not be a better deal. The question here is ultimately whether you want Gaza's Palestinians to survive or whether you think Hamas can bring about the total destruction of Israel. I am not convinced that Israel is going to collapse, and therefore taking a deal seems like a reasonable consideration.
If Gaza is to be rebuilt then it also means opening up borders and ports. Hamas' members won't be kept out for long, they will return. Gaza will be able to rebuild. A resistance will be able to re-stock. The ISF will never be able to control Gaza compared to local forces, the ISF will be set upon by local forces while simultaneously being pressured by Israel, it has potential to make relationships between Israel and other states worse while simultaneously re-strengthening Gaza.
As long as these terms require the order of Palestinian withdrawal > Israeli withdrawal > ISF force they are objectively only an intensification of genocide. Israel will allow the Palestinians to disarm and do what they have always done by making up a pretext to keep killing them. The ISF will never see the inside of Gaza and there will be no consequences. This deal is only even worth considering if, as you say, Palestinian withdrawal comes after the ISF force is implemented.
Yes I completely agree. The prevention of genocide is the highest priority here and disarming Hamas before an alternative means of prevention is in place would be catastrophic.
Disarmament doesn't necessarily even mean end of Palestinian resistance either. If the borders of Gaza are opened up after this event then prevention of re-arming will be impossible and they will be in a much better position than before Oct 7th. There are positives to interpret in that outcome.
Another reason why Israel will likely not allow this to happen and will simply continue their genocide unless they are forced not to is that they cannot allow any excavation of ruined buildings that could lead to an accurate count of those killed in this genocide.