Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is still Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
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.
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.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
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
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.
Last week's discussion post.
Awoo's comment with the Palestine protest in Roblox has fucked me up. Obviously I support support for Palestine, but... This is one of those moments in 2023 that has me completely checked out of reality. Imagine trying to explain this to Marx. His brain would explode: "So the American revolution you wrote about in which everyone in the North called themselves 'essentially a socialist' actually resulted in the largest capitalist state in the history of the world lead by an demented octogenarian and it created vassal states everywhere across the globe including the middle east and the one there is committing genocide against a muslim country with many semitic people but supporting them in the real world is considered antisemitic so we have to hold protests in the virtual computer world of a children's video game. Oh and the revolution never came to Germany or Britain first like you thought, but to backwater Russia, who built the largest socialist project ever and a global superpower spanning a quarter of the landmass of planet Earth only for it to collapse because of Baltic nationalism and the socdem dreams of a reactionary called Gorbachev who opportunistically infiltrated the party and quite literally hit the 'collapse' button once elected to the top post. Those countries are essentially backwaters again now, and there's no real hope of ever having a revolution again because capitalism is global and armed with nuclear bombs."
Death to America
Posadism vindicated
No hope? Okay, so I should do nothing then, good to know
I think the USSR was basically fucked after WW2 regardless of any socdem tomfoolery or baltic nonsense. They lost 20 million+ people, their intelligentsia had mostly been killed or fled, the best Bolshevik Marxists mostly were dead, the US had nukes, the US merged with the fascist axis after conquering it, the US was completely unharmed by the war.
There were of course mistakes, the most fatal was the sino-soviet split because in order to compete against the hegemonic US they should have merged/become unified in socialism and completely shared resources and technologies. The opposite instead happened and they took turns siding with the US and wasting resources against each other