Image is of a protest in San Diego against ICE.
On January 7th, 37-year-old Renee Good was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. While a considerable amount of the discussion online has been about the direction her wheels were turning and things like that, truthfully, I think it's just fundamentally bad to shoot a person to death with a gun if you happen to be a state mercenary enforcing an incredibly racist federal policy, regardless of the circumstances.
The murder has since prompted a wave of vigils and protests, not only in Minneapolis, but also in virtually every major city in the country. The demands are justice for Good in particular, and the abolition of ICE in general, to avenge its many victims. The Trump administration has done all they can to inflame the situation, designating Good a "domestic terrorist" and saying that the agent who shot her will be immune from prosecution.
Protests and resistance to this administration's policies have, encouragingly, had an element of international solidarity - not only are flags from countries throughout Latin America (and also Palestine) present, but speakers in protests have even been actively condemning the recent imperialist actions against Venezuela. For it is, of course, one joint struggle. The imperial boomerang always returns - and in the modern day, it returns rapidly.
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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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
This was an official PSL-DSA-Answer joint event on January 10th, at Battlefield Memorial Park in Portland. PSL_PDX has the banner on their Instagram.
The speakers included two democrat politicians so you are just straight up wrong. Portland city commissioner and I believe a state senator who was a Somali immigrant. They also let About Face talk, a Vet organization, who kept spouting incoherent patriotic bullshit. They didn’t denounce the military, they talked about how much better the military is than ICE the whole time.
I was the only one in attendance with a Palestine flag. There were more Ukraine flags there than Palestine flags.
Local politicians might have a specific relationship with a movement or group, I dunno.
About Face is a legit group of anti-imperialist veterans. If he was doing pro-military bullshit, he was misrepresenting his own org.
If so that sucks, but again, what should they do? Spend time yelling at people about their Ukraine flags?
What happened to “PSL would NEVER let a democrat speak”???? See how easily you spout 100% wrong bullshit?
By their fruits ye shall know them. If their fruits are just peaceful permitted marches with the exact same people from 50501 they are doing something wrong. The fact you can’t address this or won’t address this is concerning
Guess I was wrong about a decision that branch made. Could be something the DSA partners pushed for as well, I don't know. Could be the party just endorsed the event and didn't organize it at all or had to compromise with other organizations.
Edit: would also be curious who the specific politicians were to see if they're actually democrats
Soon as ya know it, it’s a DNC campaign event cause “partners” in 50501 “pushed for it”
This is the trap that I’m warning you about that you are ignoring, very suspiciously
Welcome to the compromises of real world organizing,not just posting. Democrats want to seize control of this movement. Your strategy, which can only be inferred by negation since you have no proscriptive strategy, is apparently for the PSL to automatically cede control because they may have to occasionally share space with people who might be Democrats in the process of fighting for the support of the people seeking political solutions.
Again, what is the "trap"? What do you think the party should do to engage with these protest movements?
Oh yes the “real world compromises” which require us to just become Liberals.
Begone
Democrats love a communist like you because you'd never bother to challenge them
They love “communists” like you because you are just the same as them but wearing a red shirt
What do you think the party should do to engage with these protest movements?
They should get involved in actual organization and civil disobedience. They should not continue to do permitted protests forever but actually start threatening commerce, blocking bridges, shutting down transport, etc.
Think more civil rights movement and less 50501
So we should go to a 50501 protest and transform it into a transportation blockade? How do you convince people to do that if you show up and start calling them fascists?
Straw man. PSL should ignore 50501 protests and organize radical civil disobedience instead, drawing all activists and radicals to them like a banner
There are not enough of them to win. We need to make more. That requires engaging with the disillusioned liberals. A vanguard party leads the working class, not the activist world.
Doing the same thing as the failing Liberal institutions and even beginning to merge your movement with theirs will have the opposite effect you think it will.
Fighting is how you grow. Distinguishing yourself as different is how you grow. Biding your time twiddling your thumbs and compromising is how you slowly die. Intertwining your fate with Liberal opportunists is how you become defunct and useless.
Look at Hamas vs Fatah. Fatah gave up, liberalized, refused to fight and tried to bide their time and now they are a bunch of traitorous Zionist scum. Hamas was willing to fight and the masses rallied to them.
The masses demand action. The moment demands action. If PSL refuses then they miss their opportunity