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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 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.

  • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
    ·
    1 year ago

    French Communists want alternative to Mélenchon-driven left coalition

    “The seriousness of the international situation, as in France, calls on the left to live up to its responsibilities. Unfortunately, it has not”, the French Communist Party (PCF), which is also part of the left-wing alliance NUPES, said in a statement issued on Sunday. The PCF, which met at its National Council, suggests ending NUPES, the alliance formed for the legislative elections in June 2022. It now brings together left-wing MPs in an “intergroup” in the National Assembly. Today, the NUPES, “formed […] under the hegemonic will of [Mélenchon’s party] LFI, has become a dead end”, the communists said in their statement.

    “The recent refusal to describe the atrocities committed by Hamas as terrorist acts” and “the insults of LFI leaders, comparing the PCF leadership to Nazi collaborationists” were among the reasons listed in the statement.

    This “weakens the rallies needed for peace in the Middle East and the fight against the Israeli army’s war crimes”, the PCF National Council added.

    ...

    However, the Communists still want to “bring together the people, the world of work and the left” through “a rally that is useful and respects our differences”.

    ...

    “I don’t even know what to say about Jean-Luc Mélenchon anymore. I have the impression that he and his camp are engaged in a strategy of permanent conflict”, explained Marine Tondelier, the head of the Green party, on France Culture on Saturday.

    Western leftists have gotta be the most useless fucking people on the planet. Holy fucking shit.

    kind-vladimir-ilyich

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
      ·
      1 year ago

      “The recent refusal to describe the atrocities committed by Hamas as terrorist acts”

      THIS?! THIS is what lights a fire under these filthy revisionists, I swear to god eurocommunism can go rot in hell, disgusting handmaidens of capital and empire

      • Rania 🇩🇿@lemmygrad.ml
        ·
        1 year ago

        Not the first time from the PCF

        "for several weeks, ... many colonial militias, composed of civilians of European origin, made terror reign to re-establish the colonial order and defend French Algeria, in May 1945 in Sétif".

        How were these massacres justified by the authorities and accepted by the opinion of the metropolis? (...) the official version of the government of Algeria, a version which was also that of the three political parties in power under the Gaullist leader (MRP, SFIO and PCF) was as follows: the Constantinois uprising was a “fascist plot” accomplished by "Hitlerian agents".

        The army was dispatched only to "continue the patriotic clean-up action". (...) (...)

        On May 11, “Humanity” recounted the events of the 8th, reporting the general government’s statement: “Hitler-inspired troubled elements in Setif engaged in an armed attack against the population that celebrated the Hitler capitulation. The police, assisted by the army, maintain order. ”

        By unreservedly publishing these words under the title: “A Sétif, fascist attack on the day of victory”, the PCF daily accredited the version of the colonial administration. (...) (...)

        (On 12 May,) the Central Committee of the PCF, taking a shadeless position, explicitly recommended rapid and ruthless repression. He immediately published the following revolution: “We must immediately punish the organizers of the revolt and quickly and quickly the henchmen who led the riot. (...)

      • Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]B
        ·
        1 year ago

        This or Russia Gate has been the death knell of any Western leftist movement. They apparently only know to make themselves sound smart, instead of actually applying leftist theories to real life.

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
      ·
      1 year ago

      "Communists" with a weirdly familiar position of both-sides

      They want peace, but what does that look like to them? Maintaining the status quo where Palestinians still live in an apartheid?

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
        ·
        1 year ago

        It does also prompt a lot of questions for a communist movement when they are against the oppressed overthrowing their oppressors. Like, what exactly is their plan for France? Asking Macron politely for a dictatorship of the proletariat? Organizing candlelit vigils for now until the Sun explodes?

    • Fishroot [none/use name]
      ·
      1 year ago

      The PCF was the reason why the ''left coalition'' during the last election started to split because they started to take hardline position from out of nowhere.

      Most French are actually ok with the positions of Melenchon, which are not that extreme to begin with. but they are somehow stuck on some weird opinions of Melenchon's personality because of how the fifth republic is organized