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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.

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

    And they also believed that DSA members elected to public office were, first and foremost, obliged to follow the positions adopted by the organization, rather than their constituents or their own conscience, as if they were already subordinate to the dictates of an old-fashioned Marxist-Leninist central committee.

    I, uh... yeah. I mean, that's what a party is. That's what democratic centralism is about. If you want a discussion group then go to the next room over. It's one thing if you're objecting to outright reactionary behaviour; quite another if you're just unhappy that they aren't licking the boots of a settler-colonial apartheid state. Might not be a socialist if you're behind those kinds of countries, might wanna try one of the "national socialist" ones instead.

    At least this incident has been very useful for determining who is and isn't on the Left. The Ukraine situation was one thing as it was at least a little complicated and invasions are hard to justify a lot of the time and many people don't know the history or have a very biased interpretation of it, etc, but like, a settler-colonial state which keeps minorities in open-air concentration camps? If you get that issue wrong then please get the hell away from us

    • Wertheimer [any]
      ·
      1 year ago

      That's what democratic centralism is about.

      That's why democratic centralism is against DSA rules.

        • Wertheimer [any]
          ·
          1 year ago

          PSL does. Socialist Alternative might. But yeah, you can't join DSA if you're also a member of an org that does democratic centralism.

          From the DSA by-laws:

          Members may be expelled if they are found to be in substantial disagreement with the principles or policies of the organization or if they consistently engage in undemocratic, disruptive behavior or if they are under the discipline of any self-defined democratic-centralist organization.

          . . .

          Charters for Chapters may be revoked by the NPC or the Convention if the majority of members of a Chapter are found to be in substantial disagreement with the principles, practices, and policies of the organization; or if a majority of members of the Chapter is under the discipline of any self-defined democratic-centralist organization . . .

          So they set up the rules to protect themselves against entryism, but in my experience, DSA folks find the very concept of democratic centralism to be insidious, and it takes a lot of work to persuade them that accepting the results of votes is actually what democracy is.

          • Des [she/her, they/them]
            ·
            1 year ago

            nah democracy is claiming the votes were rigged until your dying breath and forming a faction to sabotage every single action taken by your party until you can claw your way back to power again through fraud, deceit, and factionalism.

            seriously though i used to think democratic centralism sounded insidious too until i realized it was just how actual democracy should work. the "centralist" part just sounded "spooky authoritarian" until i got an explanation from an actual marxist and was like "ohh"

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
          ·
          1 year ago

          Psl, my folks, FRSO, the black panthers (the actual one and not the cranks), that marcyite trot group PSL's descended from, there's a decent handful out there.