A reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like “in Minecraft”) and comments containing it will be removed.

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.

Last week’s thread is here. The Imperialism Reading Group is here.

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The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.

The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist 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 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.

    • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      43·
      1 day ago

      India is a mess of a country. Among the countries that desperately need a cultural revolution, India ranks very high up there thanks to their incredibly fucked up caste system that permeates every section of society, and the atrocious treatment of women.

    • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      22·
      22 hours ago

      where is this 21% of Americans who are “optimistic” about America’s future? I bet they all have gray hair and can’t walk very well

    • 3rdWorldCommieCat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      37·
      1 day ago

      Islamophobic propaganda and sentiment are on epidemic levels in India. Muslims are the cause of every issue in society so if muslims oppose something then that makes it automatically good while if they support it then it’s automatically bad. Maybe that plays a part in it?

      • churresmo [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        19·
        1 day ago

        and the Islamophobia is present in the chauvinist "communist’ parties as well, like CPI(“Marxist”), for example.

        In recent years, Kerala, a southern Indian state long governed by the Left, has reportedly seen cases of gold smuggling and transactions of illegal, unregulated money. Commenting on the issue in a recent interview, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), chief minister of the state described the Muslim-majority district of Malappuram as a hot spot for these crimes. He claimed that these offenses are most prevalent in this district — and that illegal money is brought into Kerala for “anti-national” activities.

        The label “anti-national,” which is often applied, if not limited to, Indian Muslims, is not the chief minister’s own coinage but rather a term borrowed from the lexicon of Hindu nationalist forces. Strategically deployed by Hindutva organizations to ostracize and demonize Muslims in India, the term takes on a more powerful meaning by labeling them as “traitors” to the motherland.

        Facing backlash, the chief minister disowned the statement. Yet, party leaders’ borrowing of anti-Muslim rhetoric from the Hindu nationalist echo chamber is not something new. In 2010, another CPI(M) stalwart, V. S. Achuthanandan, accused a Muslim political group of using marriage as a tool to “Islamize” Kerala. This claim resembled the “love jihad” narrative, one of many Islamophobic campaigns propagated by Hindutva forces to demonize Indian Muslims. This conspiracy theory tells us that Muslim men lure Hindu women into marriage to convert them and change the religious demographic.

        These positions taken by the CPI(M) are viewed by many civil-society activists as isolated incidents and by some political analysts as deliberate compromises yielding to electoral pressures. However, the CPI(M)’s handling of the “Muslim issue” is more than that — it is a symptom of a larger crisis within the party.

        • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          21·
          24 hours ago

          I’ve read that article and I disagree with how its presented. There are legitimate Muslim fundamentalist groups operating in Kerala, very regressive who are equivalent to Muslim version of RSS.

          He claimed that these offenses are most prevalent in this district — and that illegal money is brought into Kerala for “anti-national” activities.

          Very funny this is the only major thing they can pin on the state Government since they have nothing else. I agree, CPI-M does sometimes do tailism, but their hatred towards reactionary Muslim groups (see SDPI, who have killed CPIM workers) is valid.

          CPI-M has always been against exclusionary policies of the BJP, they heavily opposed Citizenship Amendment Act., are pro Palestine and anti-Zionist.

          This is their paper btw.

          • churresmo [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            10·
            23 hours ago

            Being pro-Palestine doesn’t absolves anyone of being chauvinistic. Just ask a Moroccan what they think of Palestine, and what think of Western Sahara, for example. I normally don’t take Jacobin seriously, but they showed actual issues with CPI-M’s attitude towards Muslims, and it has terrible electoral consequences. Fascism growing in Kerala, as BJP elected their first state representative to Parliament in 2024. At the same time, the CPI(“Marxist”)'s results amongst the Muslim population in Kerala aren’t good, even with they opposing the CAA.

            In the same election that elected a actual Hindu fascist to power, one would expect that Muslims would prefer to vote for the Left, which one would expect to be able to stand up against Hindutva chauvinism. But they mostly voted for the INC-allied Muslim League. Also, one of the websites the Jacobin linked implies that CPI(“M”)/LDF and BJP/RSS have some sort of link, both in their hate of Muslims, and in their love of Adani.

            • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
              6·
              22 hours ago

              News media in Kerala is very much aligned with Congress. As for CPIM support for oligarchs’ certain projects, they run a state Government not central one. CPI-M’s likely fall in the elections later this year will largely be linked to economic issues, which are particularly hard to fix given the constraints they are under. Even the most ideologically ‘pure’ Communist party will struggle with this and will be voted out. Give CPI ML Red Star or whatever smaller Communist parties the state Govt and they will have to deal with the same constraints.

              The resulting fiscal crisis is being used as a convenient justification for Pinarayi government’s increased dependence on neo-colonial financial institutions such as World Bank, ADB, AIIB as well as on other global speculative-financial sources like bond markets, subjecting the state to far-right neoliberal conditionalities as dictated by global creditors and financial speculators.

              Easy for them to blame, criticize from far away. But where is the state Gov upposed to get the revenue from? They can’t raise sales taxes, they don’t collect income taxes, they don’t collect corporate taxes, they can’t run deficits themselves beyond a set limit (i think 3%). KIIFB (and others) were created to make it possible to spend on surplus generating projects by borrowing using a bank like entity.

              • churresmo [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                6·
                22 hours ago

                CPI-M’s likely fall in the elections later this year will largely be linked to economic issues, which are particularly hard to fix given the constraints they are under.

                If they can’t fix these issues, what is the point of disputing elections and getting elected, especially using Marxist symbology and terminology? And I’m not advocating for these other communist parties either.

                • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  8·
                  22 hours ago

                  They have done modest social democracy and improved social services. There are especially limits in employment generating measures, unfortunately. I think this year CPI-M will likely end up losing the last state Government they control. The liberals who win will not fix anything, likely making everything worse paving way for actual fascists. I do not think given the demographics and ideologies, the Hindutva fascists will be able to completely take over Kerala, but they’ll make some gains.

                  Good book https://annas-archive.li/md5/2ec0b08e73d727d44f868956b97676e6

        • jackmaoist [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          8·
          22 hours ago

          The BJP outright labeled everyone against ethanol blending in petrol “anti national”. Most vehicles in India are not compliant with E20 and will break down in the near future because the BJP wanted to do a pump and dump with an ethanol company they own.

    • grandepequeno [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      40·
      1 day ago

      The idea of polling indians in general sounds crazy, like what are you sending people to EVERY INDIAN STATE and then joining the results? No, you’re just doing above average income indians in 1 place? Ok

      • jackmaoist [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        22 hours ago

        North India is filled with the delusional kind. You can poll hundreds of millions of people here and they will be completely insane BJP supporters. Indian politics are completely dominated by north India because of reckless breeding decades ago compared to south India which prioritised family planning.

        • spectre [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          19 hours ago

          What is the likelihood of the country splitting into two or more pieces in the next 100 years? Is the south getting enough out of the current arrangement?

    • PostingInternational@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      40·
      1 day ago

      Swiss are being so feisty…too bad the government is so feckless. Nevertheless, my feelings about Swiss sentiment turning against the US seem confirmed now. Only China and Russia feel stronger against the US…incredible.

    • whatdoiputhere12 [any, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      40·
      1 day ago

      I just want to have a chat with the 2% of Russians that believe the US is an ally

      Do they still believe trump would bring peace to Ukraine? (lol)

      How exactly do they see them as an ally?