Image is sourced from this People’s Dispatch article, depicting communists attending the 2023 funeral of Communist Party President Guillermo Teillier, who was tortured for years under Pinochet’s regime and helped rebuild the Communist Party while under a fascist dictatorship.
We had the Six Day War in 1967, we had the Nineteen Day War (Yom Kippur) in 1973, and now we’ve had the Twelve Day War. I wonder how many more very short wars will plague the region until Palestine is freed?
However, moving on from Western Asia from a little while, we have some interesting news from Chile - the former labor minister and communist, Jeannette Jara, has won the primary election for the left-wing bloc in a landslide (~60% of the vote), as the current President, Gabriel Boric, is term-limited. Her achievements include a minimum wage increase and a reduction of the work week to 40 hours.
In November, Jara will face down the contenders from other parties, including José Antonio Kast, who is analogous to Brazil’s Bolsonaro. Unfortunately, Jara is now the lead figure of a party that has been taking quite a few Ls under Boric’s leadership. Ostensibly a Democratic Socialist, he ruled as - you guessed it - a neoliberal, bending the knee to the US and EU. He not only failed to overthrow the Pinochet-era constitution, he actually allowed the right-wing to turn the proposed new constitution into something worse, and had to settle for campaigning against the new one and keeping the old one. And he had very little solidarity with other left-leaning leaders on the continent, like Maduro, Lula, Petro, or Castillo.
With this in mind, I cannot help but look at Argentina’s very recent history and feel a little dread - but if anybody can save Chile at this point, it can only be a communist.
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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.
Brutal public opinion polling out of Israeli showing that the vast majority of Jewish Israelis are pro genocide
Ansarallah/the Houthis in Yemen have now claimed responsibility for sinking the bulk carrier “Magic Seas”, in their latest statement. Anti Ship Ballistic and Cruise missiles were used alongside unmanned surface vessels rigged with explosives, a detail that was missed in initial reports.
The Magic Seas was a Liberian flagged bulk carrier, owned by Stem Shipping, a shipping company headquartered in Athens, Greece. Stem Shipping is owned by the Bodouroglou family. Magic Seas departed from China, destination was the Suez Canal in Egypt, where it would deliver fertilizer to Egypt. The Yemeni Armed Forces statement says that Stem Shipping was in violation of the naval blockade with other ships, which is why Magic Seas was targeted.
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The iof attack on Evin prison in Tehran specifically targeted transgender prisoners, “About 100 transgender inmates are missing after their section of the prison was flattened, and the authorities say they are presumed dead” (nyt archive link) It seems the west is has already reached the elimination stage of it’s against genocide of us. All Glory to our Martyrs.
Sorry for the lateness!
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Tiktok comment sections have discovered “dd to the idf” does not get filtered by the automod and it’s showing up everywhere even on non political posts.
just seen a Cradle report that Isr**l is planning to force palestinians out of the west bank into jordan. This tracks with reports ive been getting from my family since july 2023 about iof and settlers distributing flyers and regularly warning all palestinians to flee to Jordan.
This news just sunk me to an even deeper sense of despair. I have consistently, since july 2023, been unable to process at all everything is happening and i feel such helplessness. I am the descendant of nakba survivors, our village was destroyed and for 77 years no living member of my family has seen our ancestral home. I have grown up separated from the vast majority of my family who still are living under occupation, in refugee camps that have turned into permanent homes. I have grown up with rage and anger at what has been stolen, the erasure of our history, while constantly being subject to vile islamophobic views of myself and my people here in the US.
Im sorry im kind of venting now, i had somewhere i was going when i started typing but i dont know anymore. Fuck every comprador regime, fuck the zionist entity, fuck white supremacy, fuck the so called united states.
There is footage floating around of a Yankee death squad in Gaza celebrating in Yankee english accents while shooting starving Palestinians in Gaza at an “aid distribution point.”
It is nauseating.
To the Americans on this platform: this is what your government is doing. It can no longer hide behind Netanyahu. Will you do your duty and #globalizetheintifada ??
Over thirty kids at summer camp got swept away and killed by flooding in Texas today because early warning systems have been stripped bare here.
As the weather gets worse and worse due to climate change we are actually scaling back preparation efforts for ideological reasons.
I hate this suicide cult that calls itself a political party. I’m so tired of it all.
The US NATO israel genocide of Gaza killed 33 journalists and social media activists yesterday when the child killing iof bombed an internet cafe.
This photo shows Palestinian journalist Bayan Abu Sultan who survived the zionist airstrike targeting al-Baqa Café in western Gaza City on June 30, 2025.
Additionally, the US private military contractors operating the so-called “Humanitarian Aid Stations” shot 15 starving Palestinians to death at an “aid distribution point” in Rafah yesterday.
the libs in my life are currently saying “this sucks… i can’t wait for midterms…”
bestie what do you MEAN what is that going to DO
Palestine Action is officially now a terrorist organisation and they post this
I remember getting into arguments about this org being “performative shit” months ago here on hexbear lol, how things have changed.
Republicans have the votes to pass their bill that includes evils such as (but not limited to) kicking 15 million Americans off of their health insurance and giving ICE a budget more than half that of the PRC’s entire military (37x higher than the budget of the entire DPRK military for those keeping score at home.) Republicans expanded on the democrats idea of detention centers for undocumented people, constructed/opened a concentration camp in 8 days, and are now selling merch about it. It really makes you wonder: what exactly did the supposed “opposition” party spend the past month doing in preparation for this bill to be voted on?
They spent the entire time trying to create a national debate (surrounding a local election, mind you) intentionally smearing one of the most popular candidates for office their party has had in decades as an antisemite despite the fact he has never said one remotely disparaging thing about the Jewish people in his life. All of this because he is taking the moderate, NOW MAJORITY POSITION of Democratic constituents, of expressing more sympathy with the Palestinian people than Israelis.
A decades altering bill passed without an iota of organizing or warning their constituents against it, and without scoring the easiest political slam dunk of the past several decades by choosing not to blast anti-Republican propaganda about how the bill will negatively impact those living in majority republican areas. It’s so fucking sickening and deeply irredeemable that it sounds fake.
You can’t even call this controlled opposition. Literally the only thing we have ever seen it do effectively is mobilize its wealthy donors and wage bureaucratic lawfare in order to torpedo its own popular candidates who dare step a single toe out of line of complete compliance with the conservative political agenda of the national bourgeois.
