Image: one of our POW camps filled with captured soldiers of the Christmas regime.
Season's greetings, fellow godless communists. I'm here to disseminate orders from our Supreme Communist Dictator as we once again find ourselves fighting against the very concept of Christmas. As a reminder, by the end of our five-year plan, we plan to be in a position to attack and dethrone God, but this intermediate step is required to fulfil this directive. Our forces in the field have made significant, if gradual, progress since you received your mission update last year. It has been difficult, but we have developed a series of defensive lines to prepare for a counteroffensive out of Lapland that will try and reach the Gulf of Bothnia in an attempt to cut the land bridge that we have set up across Scandinavia.
Currently, we foresee a few major threats. General Santa Clauswitz has been developing many tools in his workshop, including artillery-launched snowballs, barbed tinsel, and reinforced gingerbread armor plating for his tanks and infantry carriers. President Frostyy has made the following public statement: "The socialists who wish to destroy us have no idea what their defenses are about to face. Democracy will always defeat autocracy. Christmas will always triumph over X-mas. The leaders of the axis facing us are all on the naughty list and will be tried for crimes against festivity once this war is over."
Delusional as this may be, the next couple days will be the most dangerous as they stage their counteroffensive, and we need everybody to pitch in and get into defensive positions. We expect this to be the last major push that they will make before collapse. Please report any Christmas trees, mistletoe, or general symbology of the Christmas regime to your superiors.
Over and out.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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. - 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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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.
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 posted by my Phillipine Maoist friend in Redpixel. He linked a whole 55th anniversary statement from the CPP-NPA on twitter, id link it but the account got suspended since lol.
Anyway, it interests me that the CPP-NPA are apparently distancing themselves from Gonzalism. (Especially since twitter maoists justify their Gonzalism with the apparent support for him from global south Maoist parties, lol).
The CPP-NAP were never Gonzaloites and the party wasn't part of RIM. They were Maoists long before RIM hijacked the label
Yeah im starting to gather that. Two of my maoist mutuals on twitter have reduced it to to just Sisonist and Gonzalite disagreement on the universality of PPW (and one said Sison has "rightist deviations" lol).
But my Phillipine Maoist friend spoke highly of Gonzalo for a long time so i didnt realize.
MLM was invented by Gonzalo after the death of Mao. How can you “repudiate Gonzaloism” while also following his specific invented ideology?
It’s one thing to embrace Mao Zedong Thought, I do myself. It’s quite another to be a “MLM” - Mao was an ML, he was not an “MLM”. Gonzalo coined it and popularized it
Mao wasn't a Maoist, yeah (just like Lenin wasn't a Leninist or Marx a Marxist), but Gonzalo didn't invent Maoism, just theorized one strain of it out of several.
And MLs who liked Mao definitely weren't the majority of MLs in the world post Sino-Soviet split. Anti-revisionist MLs and Maoists split off as the majority of the world's ML parties followed the CPSU into revisionism, culminating in the collapse of the Eastern bloc and most MLs abandoning Marxism entirely to become succdems. It's only since then that the MLs left have come back around to Mao.
"Maoist" is often used by Gonzaloites.
MLM is often used by Marxist-Leninists who specifically follow Mao's strain of thought for their conditions.
This is an annoying and difficult to navigate set of words and phrases. You often have to check it carefully with each group to be sure. The NPA are not Gonzaloites.
That was my understanding as well, but if runs a bit counter to what ilynekov said in the other reply. Seems like theres something of a distinction to Sison's ideology. The CPI is actually struggling between the Sison and Gonzalo lines.
I thought that there were communists who called themselves "Maoists" during the lifetime of Mao, but it wasn't a specific sect or ideology it was just communists that generally liked the actions and theories of Mao and supported him. It wasn't a different tendency as we know it today. MLs who liked Mao was like 80% of the communists in the world. Gonzalo then opportunistically took advantage of Mao's popularity after his death for his own personal theories and project. This was when "Marxism-Leninism-Maoism" was formally created and when "Maoists" started splintering and becoming their own "Trotskyist" like break-off tendency
Yeah again that was basically my understanding as well but the more i look into it there does seem to be a distiction between the Maoism of Sison and the Maosim of Gonzalo. Which is interesting to me.
shaking my damn head i didn't know gonzalo invented sephora
Screenshot of the whole post preview in the discord.
This really bothers me