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.
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Who exactly is the traditional US marxist this article is railing against? That type of person seems made up
She's extrapolating from Edward Said's Orientalism, the book. In Orientalism, Marx's description of the colonization of India is interpreted as a justification as it will lead to material conditions for a revolution. Through that lens, we can see how she imagines Marxists being uninterested in the suffering of the Palestinian people as it is a merely a part of a necessary process for communism.
The wording "traditional marxist" hints at this as I don't think any major orgs in America go by that label. She mentions Said directly in the article as well.
Then why fucking write it? Pointless fluff
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I was anti-Hamas personally for the short moment they were fighting against Assad alongside sunni extremists in the Syrian Civil War. That was a major fuck-up, they were used as Qatari/Israeli pawns and killed Iranians, Hezbollah, etc.
They seem to have corrected since, likely the other Palestinian groups in the resistance front whipped them into line and brought them back from the comprador brink and becoming another PA. This was during the time period where Netanyahu and Likkud were purposefully funding Hamas, alongside Qatar, and that should give a hint about their allegiances during this extremely shameful period.
This really isn't true if you're talking about ruling Communist parties. I mean, the CPC is obviously not anti-Iran since the PRC supports the IRI. I also think their intelligence pass notes. Iran began dismantling a CIA spy ring in 2009 while China started doing so to their CIA spy ring in 2010. I don't think the timing is coincidental at all. Most likely, Iranian intelligence started their counterintelligence work first and briefed Chinese intelligence on how their counterintelligence work is doing. The brief might range from just a general guideline of their counterintelligence work to just straight up handing over their findings for Chinese intelligence to use as well.
Iran discovered how informants were communicating with the CIA and passed the information along to China. because the CIA was using the same messaging system in like every single country, China was able to catch a whole bunch of spies.
Jakkkobin subscribers maybe?
I really can't disagree with this more. The "Social Justice Era" if you can even call it that, was totally annihilated by the election of Joe Biden and before that it was dealt a mortal blow by Bernie's capitulation to the democratic party and on top of all that the pandemic, it's now obvious in retrospect that the George Floyd protests were the last hurrah
Since Jan 6 libs have absolutely shifted to the hard right in almost every field; war, environment, abortion, the economy, to say nothing of right wing campaigns against LGBTQ+ people across the country
Yeah. I just absolutely detest liberals' use of words all around, TBH. They don't know what "feminism" must mean. Or what "intersectional" must mean. Or even what "liberal" means, for that matter.
When your "feminism" winds up fucking over BIPOC women because you insist it be mandatory for cops to arrest the men of their families no matter what their own wishes are, what the fuck kind of feminism is that?
When you prioritize all struggles of oppression over class, and in fact ignore class entirely, what the fuck kind of intersectionality is that?
When there's no meaningful difference between who you call "liberal" and who you call "conservative" and don't acknowledge that both these groups are, in fact, quintessential liberals with slightly different branding, you've honestly lost all sight of political reality.
This one phrase from the article:
is honestly a very good example of all this. It's good the article uses the scare quotes, at least, but it seems to do it in a way that actually kind of accepts the label rather than one that rejects it. The "feminist" Joe Biden who rapes women and imprisons their families. The "intersectional" Joe Biden who rejects all struggles of oppression on all axes except when it's time to do PR with e.g. badly crafted apology videos which actually wind up doubling down on his misogyny, racism, classism, etc.
Like, instead of accepting liberals' use of terms and therefore deciding that the terms represent bad ideology (does Bernie's use of "socialist" thus make socialism bad?), maybe just reject the validity of their use of language? That seems a lot more coherent and strategically wise than letting them continuously reshape the linguistic battlefield on you, so you are always on the defensive, always trying to come up with new terms to use that don't fall into their traps, etc.
(I actually kind of resent Marx for falling into the same trap, TBH. Pushing the term "communism" because bourgeois European (lets be real: liberals) had co-opted the term "socialism" probably hurt at least as much as it helped our attempts to form and educate movements through today....)
The golden era of social justice was when Roe v Wade got overruled.
The pandemic and social media has done a number on people's perception of time
We got mf thinking the western social justice movement died three months ago when in reality it died a stillborn death almost half a decade ago
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Fuckin preach!
I wouldn't say it's intersectional feminism per se so much as the chauvinist liberals that deploy it selfishly. The same crowd always tries to co-opt and extinguish liberation.