A week ago, the Bolivian left-wing party, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), currently led by Luis Arce, decisively lost the round of elections against the right-wing. This comes after a prolonged period of "infighting" between Arce, and Morales, who previously led the MAS prior to the 2019 coup which briefly installed Jeanine Anez.
I put infighting in quotes because despite the nominal similarities between Arce and Morales, it is clear that this is not merely a counterproductive battle between two men - instead, the Bolivian left has arrived at a time of unavoidable conflict between two competing strategies. The electoral strategy is represented by Arce, who has aligned himself with a more middle-class-oriented campaign that is more economically liberal, whereas Morales represents a more working-class-oriented campaign that seeks to go further than tepid reform.
Such a conflict between electoralism and revolutionary action is inevitable in any and every developing country that 1) possesses a functioning left-wing party or organization, and 2) is under internal and/or external pressure by capitalists. This crisis must be resolved eventually - and this electoral failure is how such a crisis is manifesting right now. So while the Bolivian left has indeed lost the election, it is not yet defeated. The revolutionary campaign can, if it is willing, still ultimately stand triumphant. But what must be done is a real movement towards socialism, which goes beyond technocrats reforming from above, and instead transforms the state into a full political project of the working class, in which their movements, organizations, and protests are genuinely empowered. Such a project will involve repression by the forces of reaction, not least by the United States, but it is the only road left to take.
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Israel's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.
You think the Housecleaning has Started in Ukraine ?
Guy seems to have been the Intermediator beetween the Faschist Blackshirts and the Goverment so thats a pretty high profile Assasination
Could be CIA cleaning out, Could be the Ukrainian Army killing the hardliniers , Could be russia approving new Target banks.. Could be even Zelensky trying to get breething room , could be Lone wolf..
There's so many possibilities it's really hard to judge. There's thousands of reasons people would want to kill this guy.
The only thing that does strike me is that he was shot 8 times. That almost seems personal for a shooting that was carried out the same way the United Healthcare one occurred with just 3 shots.
Perhaps I'm wrong and it's indicative of "shoot until the target stops moving" style of training?
I know sometimes operator types shoot people a lot in assassinations in order to ensure the target is definitely dead (operators generally being lunatics also probably factors in too, let's be real) but equally I could also buy the shooter being personally pissed off, as you say there's thousands of reasons so you can't really rule anything out.
Zelensky has also allowed its last Reserves of Drone futter (18-22 year olds) to leave the Country instead of Forcfully conscripting them .. Now a Hardliner got got..
Maybe Zelesky saw god or something ?
I don't think the Russians would kill him because he's a key witness to atrocities and subterfuge that could prove or provide evidence (even unwittingly in memoirs or friendly interviews) that would further Russia's case of Maidan definitively being a color revolution by the US. Frankly removing him from the picture this late after the Nazi coup, after the total take-over of government wouldn't help them.
On the other hand the CIA would really want to prevent him blabbing about and establishing more hard links to US color revolutions and support apparatus and the SBU would kill him on their orders or to tie off a loose end of their own for the afterwar period to prevent any real justice or establishing of facts and leave it a he said she said situation between Ukraine, Russia, and the west as to Maidan/2014 and all that followed. Ukraine is losing so doing this kind of work to prevent accountability, spare those who are currently more hidden who were part of the apparatus by cutting off the visible parts makes most sense.
Beyond that Zelensky doing things to remove threats who might want to kill him for losing and/or support the bandarite hardliner faction in the elections is also a plausible motive.
I just don't think the Russians have a reason at this late stage to do that when they're finally winning and there might be a reckoning and a lot of these freaks will be blabbing about how the fall of the reich was not their fault and how great they were at the start doing all these other things and others are to blame.
that makes sense .