Image is of a protest in San Diego against ICE.
On January 7th, 37-year-old Renee Good was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. While a considerable amount of the discussion online has been about the direction her wheels were turning and things like that, truthfully, I think it’s just fundamentally bad to shoot a person to death with a gun if you happen to be a state mercenary enforcing an incredibly racist federal policy, regardless of the circumstances.
The murder has since prompted a wave of vigils and protests, not only in Minneapolis, but also in virtually every major city in the country. The demands are justice for Good in particular, and the abolition of ICE in general, to avenge its many victims. The Trump administration has done all they can to inflame the situation, designating Good a “domestic terrorist” and saying that the agent who shot her will be immune from prosecution.
Protests and resistance to this administration’s policies have, encouragingly, had an element of international solidarity - not only are flags from countries throughout Latin America (and also Palestine) present, but speakers in protests have even been actively condemning the recent imperialist actions against Venezuela. For it is, of course, one joint struggle. The imperial boomerang always returns - and in the modern day, it returns rapidly.
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The Zionist Entity'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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
me when im lyin
I literally went to two PSL events this week that 50% of the signs were American flags or some variation of epic witty Libshit.
The protest was permitted and we marched along approved routes while the cops kept us in bounds.
Want the pictures?
comrade, you either gotta get actively organised, or stop trying to wreck shit by whining about how it could be better
I’ve seen plenty to criticize from PSL, but if you’re not involved in this or another org, you’re just moaning online, you sound like a smug kid
I’m twice as old as you probably and have been through more shit than you know. PSL should look to movements like the Black Panthers (getting armed) and the civil rights movement (civil disobedience) at this crucial juncture. They are being too complacent and electoralist. This is the correct Marxist analysis of the situation, sorry it offends you. PSL is being too passive.
Sure
While I was there I saw 3 Ukraine flags, too many American flags to count, and over half the signs were things like “don’t kill lady Liberty” and “save our democracy and constitution” and that kind of No Kings shit. This was a PSL event. Just go to PSL PDX Instagram to see nonstop evidence of this at their rallies.
When are they going to do anything cause right now they do peaceful permitted marches and that’s it. They are 100% identical to No Kings in their composition and tactics.
Yes, these photos definitely depict
Also,
Bother to pay attention to what the party actually does before you make claims like this. Or just continue to vaguely yell “do something”, I dunno, that seems like your vibe.
I didn’t have my phone, these aren’t my photos but ones curated by PSL’s instagrams. The reality there was much more lib than these photos. It was indistinguishable from a No Kings rally
Let’s say you’re right, which I have no reason to believe you are. What should the Party do when attendees show up with an American flag? Make them leave? Or de-emphasize the liberal messaging in the propaganda produced from the event? Something else?
Tell them during the speeches that they should stop bringing the flags of fascists to the rallies. How would you handle someone showing up to a protest with a Azov Battalion banner? Just let them be there and not mention it?
What would that achieve? Is it more important to denounce the American flag as fascist to a bunch of naieve liberals as a public call-out or to actually explain the operation of imperialism and the need to organize against it? Which one will bring people to your side? Which one will win trust in your organization?
i think doing it directly during a speech would be kind of dumb and waste of your speech time. you are a lot more likely to have success if you have your organizers try to gently encourage some of them to bring a different flag to the next protest after a generally antiamerica speech on stage
i definitely think they should not be posting libshit on their own official instagram
Ok
i think you and your chapter do good work from what you’ve described on here but you need to admit that not every PSL chapter is even 1/10 as effective or principled as yours, it wouldnt be surprising at all to me that lunchfiend’s local PSL chapter is either libbed up or just too weak to actually meaningfully contest the dems’ message at these protests (which unless it is a relatively new chapter probably reflects poorly on the chapter’s leadership)
This would be an enormous failure if so and from my understanding of the party (which is good) is almost certainly not the case
This is much more likely. The party has to build its strength everywhere and contest with existing political forces both in opposition and alliance. My city has a very weak dem machine and had no existing left movement of scale when we showed up, so we filled the vacuum easily. Portland obviously isn’t like that. It’s also totally possible that this is just one event that was mostly Dem run and they managed to snag a spot they wanted to try taking advantage of.