Image is of a crowd protesting in Athens.
Last week, on Friday, hundreds of thousands of Greeks poured into the streets to strike and protest on the second anniversary of the deadliest train crash in Greek history, in which 57 people died when a passenger train collided with a freight train. On this February 28th, public transportation was virtually halted, with train drivers, air traffic controllers, and seafarers taking part in a 24 hour strike - alongside other professions like lawyers, teachers, and doctors.
The train crash is emblematic of the decay of state institutions brought about from austerity being forced on Greece in the aftermath of the 2008 Great Recession, in which the IMF and the EU (particularly Germany) plundered the country and forced privatization. While Greece has somewhat recovered from the dire straits it was in during the early 2010s, the consequences of neoliberalism are very clearly ongoing. Mitsotakis' right-wing government has still not even successfully implemented the necessary safety procedures two years on, and so far, nobody has been convicted nor punished for their role in the accident. The austerity measures were deeply unpopular inside Greece and yet the government did not respond to, or ignored, democratic outcry.
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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 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.
as i posted this random noise yesterday, duality of polling, cont.:
also, interesting article, in case newsheads don't poke around website:
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/class-dealignment-occupation-progressive-electorate
I've stopped dismaying that the most anti-war (ukraine war at least) energy right now is on the right, mostly because in my country that's very much not the case but it's gotta fucking suck to live in these power centers like uk and germany where they're lefts only rise the more pro-war they are
i literally can't get over fucking germans with their fucking anti-deutsch brainworms can't pounce on the cult of fucking shukhevich, or whatever the fuck his name is (same with poland). it's baby brain shit, when ukraine ambassador goes to bandera grave, you pummel on it, but noooooooo, we gotta be pro nato so that we can support war, instead of searching for easily explainable reasons why oppose it (like we don't want to be in nato, obviously we don't want ukraine be in nato). and even then, in fucking britain, military spending is literally pure empire building, nobody has managed to attack britain in 200 years, the fuck are you on about, buy antiship/anti-aircraft missiles and sit tight, literally sane military policy for that fucking island. instead they are like boohoo we need more military (spends it on spying on gaza like a boss).
fucking euro-elitist dipshits
it's rage inducing. I got in an argument last mayday with dipshits giving out anti russia leaflets, all the arsenal of democracy and appeasement tripe ect ect. second internationale brainworms are rife in Europe's so called left
Seeing people glaze Starmer over literally being the carrot to Trump's stick is maddening, Britain is a fetid Lovecraftian hell island and beige Hitler announcing HMS Queen Elizabeth being cut in two like a fortune cookie by hypersonic missiles in a year or two will be ASMR to me.
I know said glazing is purely vibes based and temporary but still, got people in my group chats talking about Ukraine winning and shit, driving me nuts.
As much as I hate to say it, the rise of Reform/Farage has been coming, and Reform got screwed by the first past the post system in the last election. Reform had a large share of votes, but got minimal seats in government by comparison. Labour only won by such a large margin last time round because they were able to play the first past the post system to their advantage, Starmer got less votes than Corbyn in actuality. But eventually once a movement or party gets popular enough (such as Reform in this case), no amount of electoral obscurity can stop them from taking the largest share of seats in government.