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Image is sourced from this People's Dispatch article, depicting communists attending the 2023 funeral of Communist Party President Guillermo Teillier, who was tortured for years under Pinochet's regime and helped rebuild the Communist Party while under a fascist dictatorship.


We had the Six Day War in 1967, we had the Nineteen Day War (Yom Kippur) in 1973, and now we've had the Twelve Day War. I wonder how many more very short wars will plague the region until Palestine is freed?

However, moving on from Western Asia from a little while, we have some interesting news from Chile - the former labor minister and communist, Jeannette Jara, has won the primary election for the left-wing bloc in a landslide (~60% of the vote), as the current President, Gabriel Boric, is term-limited. Her achievements include a minimum wage increase and a reduction of the work week to 40 hours.

In November, Jara will face down the contenders from other parties, including José Antonio Kast, who is analogous to Brazil's Bolsonaro. Unfortunately, Jara is now the lead figure of a party that has been taking quite a few Ls under Boric's leadership. Ostensibly a Democratic Socialist, he ruled as - you guessed it - a neoliberal, bending the knee to the US and EU. He not only failed to overthrow the Pinochet-era constitution, he actually allowed the right-wing to turn the proposed new constitution into something worse, and had to settle for campaigning against the new one and keeping the old one. And he had very little solidarity with other left-leaning leaders on the continent, like Maduro, Lula, Petro, or Castillo.

With this in mind, I cannot help but look at Argentina's very recent history and feel a little dread - but if anybody can save Chile at this point, it can only be a communist.


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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. 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.


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[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 12 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago)

The House is holding open a procedural vote (that they won), but aren't moving forward with the vote on the Senate BBB yet. Only explanation is they don't have enough votes (yet).

Dayen:

Here's the latest on the Big Beautiful Bill. The process is stalled in the House. There are opposers, yes. But nobody has actually come out to vote no yet. There's ample reason for skepticism that anyone will to tank the bill. (link below)

[-] companero@hexbear.net 11 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

There was a huge explosion in Zhytomyr region (western Ukraine).

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1lq02jm/ua_pov_the_moment_of_the_explosion_in_the/

Lingering smoke already visible when video starts, then an explosion with white smoke.

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1lq1iyf/ua_pov_another_angle_of_the_explosion_in_zhitomir/

The main explosion. Brown "smoke" (dirt) suggests an underground explosion.

I'm guessing Russia struck with at least two ballistic missiles, and the second one blew up whatever Ukraine was storing underground.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 31 points 3 hours ago

Libertarians howl when social media corporations are ordered to deplatform Nazis but hide from public eye when fascists they defend ban books. In Santa Catarina, Brazil, far-right councilwoman Jessica Lemonie is filing a bill to ban "Captain of the Sands" from schools and libraries.

In 1937, when Jorge Amado's novel was first released, the Vargas dictatorship banned it and held public book burnings. It was later banned for 21 years during the "free speech" Bolsonaro's beloved military dictatorship. Nevertheless, it's solde 4.3 million copies in 12 languages.

Fascists hate Captain of the Sands because it humanizes homeless teens living on the beach in Salvador as real people with hopes and dreams like everyone else. The book took on great relevance during the military police massacres of street children in the 80s and 90s.

What annoys the fascists as much as debunking their dehumanization homeless children to justify summary executions, is the fact that the main character in Captains of the Sands grows up and becomes a communist labor union organizer.

[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 32 points 4 hours ago

These posts were 2 hours apart

Friend of mine was in Vietnam a few weeks ago and sent me some pics, it's all bikes and motorcycles, somehow I doubt they have the appetite for SUVs

[-] Eldungeon2@hexbear.net 1 points 3 minutes ago

Too bad the US only exports a 4.04% to Vietnam (of there total imports, from 2022).

https://wits.worldbank.org/CountrySnapshot/en/VNM

[-] ColombianLenin@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

Vietnam paying tariffs is pretty cringe. For being AES they play too much into the west.

[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 2 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago)

Let’s not pretend like China didn’t open up its market to the Americans in order to kill the Soviet Union, whom they perceive as attempting to encircle China through Vietnam. Both Mao and Deng were fully on board with it.

We only didn’t criticize China because it ends up becoming very successful and reaping quite a lot of benefit out of it (and part of the reason why China isn’t going to give up the status quo anytime soon), but when other countries try to play the same game, they get labeled as compradors.

[-] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 19 points 3 hours ago

While I’m not going to take Trump’s word for what’s actually in this trade deal, I assume it’s more about finance capital getting their hooks into Vietnam, which is bad. If it’s only about physical goods then sure, no big deal. But why is Vietnam accepting a 20% tariff (even though it’s obviously the US consumer that pays for it)?

[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 2 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 24 minutes ago)

It went from 46% to 20%.

As I have explained before, America has been running a permanent trade deficit for the past 40 years (last year, it was $900+ billion) to absorb the global surplus capacity of the exporting countries. This ensures that the world is always running in an over-supply mode, keeping prices of the goods cheap while the workers in the exporting countries employed.

When Trump suddenly threatens to slash this massive trade deficit, while many people focus on Americans having to pay higher prices and consume less, the corresponding effect is that the exporting countries in the Global South also faces a slump in consumption demand, which will inevitably lead to production downscale, unemployment and finally recession.

This is what some of those pro-BRICS commentators who confidently said “American imports only comprised a small fraction of world trade! Nobody cares!” don’t understand about international trade, especially since the world is no longer running in a fixed exchange rate regime in the past. Well, turns out the Global South exporting countries care.

The export goods have to go somewhere, and if not, assuming constant global demand, you’re going to be competing with the other exporting countries to dump them somewhere else, and how are you going to compete with the Chinese goods? If you can’t compete with China, then you will go into recession, and maybe looking for an IMF bailout in the near future. So, they still have to sell to America, and what Trump is doing is simply waiting to see what concessions these countries would give. And those exporting countries now compete with one another to see who can be the first to sell their goods to the US to maintain their competitive advantage.

Re-industrialization is a scam. The real goal is to reshape the global supply chain to America’s interest.

This is also why I always say that the only way to counter-attack is for China to ramp up its import to absorb all these exports from the Global South. This means China will have to give up its export industries and transition into a domestic consumption economy (should have done that like 10 years ago). This will automatically render the dollar hegemony useless because those countries will no longer have to sell their goods to the US.

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 16 points 3 hours ago

It's the only offer on the table. Trump has changed the game, every country is getting tariffs. Vietnam is not willing to play hardball with their largest export market.

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 25 points 3 hours ago

Vietnam's median income is around $9000USD. They're not buying $90k+ pickups and SUVs lol, even if their infrastructure could support cars of that size. The next step up from mopeds is a ~$5k small Chinese EV, not a giant SUV.

[-] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 15 points 2 hours ago

While true, bear in mind the Vietnamese petite-bourgeois mindset is almost identical to the Chinese one, i.e. F-150/Jeep Wrangler pilled. There is definitely a market for the assault trucks and child killing SUVs in Vietnam, just smaller.

[-] Kieselguhr@hexbear.net 15 points 3 hours ago

[Asking SEA focused Marxists economists:] why is this good for Vietnam? Shouldn't they be protectionist for a few more decades?

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 17 points 3 hours ago

What products can the United States sell in Vietnam that will displace Vietnamese industries? Virtually nothing. Everything the United States makes is far too expensive or useless to be of any benefit to Vietnamese consumers, nor is American manufacturing at all a threat to Vietnamese manufacturing. The United States exports mostly agricultural products like soybeans and cotton to Vietnam, as well as some cameras and probably some computer chips. Total exports are around $10 billion (compared to Vietnamese exports to the US, ~$115 billion). So even if that doubles, that's not really doing much.

[-] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 13 points 3 hours ago

Even if there are some use cases for an SUV, why would they want an American one? Luxury buyers will prefer a land rover or mercedes anyways

[-] jack@hexbear.net 9 points 2 hours ago

most people in Vietnam wouldn't afford it and the roads won't be able to accomidate it, I live somewhere with realitively big roads and trucks all around, but one day I saw a Toyota Tundra and I realized how massive those things are, was literally taking up the whole lane

[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 55 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Pal Action now a proscribed terrorist group fidel-salute

Correction: parliament voted for it, but not proscribed yet. Has to go through the house of Lords first

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 22 points 4 hours ago

Argentine court authorizes Cristina Kirchner to receive Brazilian president Lula da Silva in his house arrest. Lula's visit is yet to be scheduled.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 44 points 6 hours ago

Live Updates: Sean Combs Acquitted of Sex Trafficking but Found Guilty on Lesser Charges. The music mogul celebrated after being found not guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. He was convicted of transporting people for prostitution and could be released on bond.

[-] RuthBaderGonesburg@hexbear.net 38 points 6 hours ago

If Luigi doesn’t walk after this shit maddened

[-] LoveYourself@hexbear.net 48 points 7 hours ago

Zionazi news outlet reveals:

After intercepting Iranian drones headed to the occupied territories, the child-killing IOF air force pilots had leftover munitions so they dropped them on Gaza "saving a great deal of resources" according to the article.

[-] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 15 points 3 hours ago

The parasitic cancer that is the Zionist entity must be wiped off the face of this earth

[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 14 points 4 hours ago

Flashbacks to the bombing of Laos

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 35 points 6 hours ago

no death could possibly come soon enough for israel

[-] OnceUponATimeInWeHo@hexbear.net 20 points 6 hours ago

Marg bar amrika

Marg bar israel

[-] LoveYourself@hexbear.net 24 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)
[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 42 points 7 hours ago

China demands the U.S. lift blockade against Cuba - Prensa Latina

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Beijing, Jul 2 (Prensa Latina) China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Mao Ning, today urged the United States to lift sanctions against Cuba and remove the Caribbean country from the list of ‘State Sponsors of Terrorism’.

At a press conference, Mao rejected the memorandum to toughen U.S. policy towards Cuba, was signed last Monday by President Donald Trump.

For more than 60 years, the United States has imposed a brutal blockade and illegal sanctions on Cuba, seriously violating the island's right to livelihood and development, transgressing the basic norms governing international relations and causing profound damage to the Cuban people, the spokeswoman recalled.

China firmly supports Cuba on the path of development that suits its national conditions and opposes Washington's unilateral sanctions under the pretext of so-called freedom and democracy, she added.

The spokeswoman stressed that lifting sanctions against Cuba and removing it from the list of ‘state sponsors of terrorism’ is also a shared call of the international community.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 13 points 4 hours ago

Okay but do something about it then. Run the blockade or sanction the US. Literally anything

[-] jack@hexbear.net 15 points 6 hours ago
[-] MizuTama@hexbear.net 21 points 6 hours ago

Have they made statements about this outside the context of the general international community's issue with it before?

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 36 points 7 hours ago

Billionaire-funded CATO Institute is very upset that the Brazilian government expects foreign tech companies to obey their laws while making billions of dollars a year operating in Brazil. But most of their worries can be easily resolved.

Problem: Platforms must, "discover items not against their policies but against the laws of Brazil. Moderators and AI enforcement tools will be expected to be experts in Brazilian law [...]that simply isn’t realistic..." Solution: Hire lawyers. Avg salary in Brazil: US$1000/month

For a fresh take on Brazil's landmark court ruling that is not hopelessly mired in ideological dogma created by American billionaires, read my explanatory piece on Brazil's New Internet Civil Framework. There are no new laws, just more corporate liability

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