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.
Just my observation on the this here Trump 2024 thing;
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Kind of funny how Trump 2016 was such a huge gift to the liberals and they totally failed.
If Hillary had won in 2016, Republicans would probably crush the Dems in 2018 and 2020, giving them enough power to unilaterally change the US Constitution.
Trump didn’t even plan on winning and was instantly one of the least popular presidents ever. He didn’t have a team for his presidency, he just picked random supporters of his, most of them were just bickering among themselves and the only thing that was really accomplished were the tax cuts. Even deportations were below the Obama or Biden average.
Now, things are different. Because Trump actually had a transition and picked a lot more effective ghouls who aren’t so consumed by interpersonal drama. Especially the guy in charge of immigration, who was also Obama’s main deportation guy. These people know how to get things done!
I haven’t seen much reporting on this, but it seems like in addition to killing the $7,500 EV mandate (federal subsidy) at the end of 2025Q3, the BBB also immediately kills the state-level ZEV credits that companies that make lots of EVs (like Tesla) can sell to other car companies for pure profit. I’m not sure how/if this is true, since ZEV is a state thing. If true, it would explain why Elon is so mad at the BBB.
SCMP: China tells EU it cannot afford Russian loss in Ukraine war, sources say
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat on Wednesday that Beijing cannot afford a Russian loss in Ukraine because it fears the United States would then shift its whole focus to Beijing, according to several people familiar with the exchange.
The comment, to the EU’s Kaja Kallas, would confirm what many in Brussels believe to be Beijing’s position but jar with China’s public utterances. The foreign minstry regularly says China is “not a party” to the war. Some EU officials involved were surprised by the frankness of Wang’s remarks.
Wang is said to have rejected, however, the accusation that China was materially supporting Russia’s war effort, financially or militarily, insisting that if it was doing so, the conflict would have ended long ago.
During a marathon four-hour debate on a wide range of geopolitical and commercial grievances, Wang was said to have given Kallas – the former Estonian prime minister who only late last year took up her role as the bloc’s de facto foreign affairs chief – several “history lessons and lectures”.
It all started in 259 BC… 
I suppose he acceptance is slowly starting to set in, but it certainly doesn’t make conversations with resisters any easier
We should not be shocked that the empire is gearing up to pass a bill that will result in more of the same types of historic wealth transfers we have seen time and time again. There is no one in DC who can stop an ontologically evil country from repeating the same patterns that have led us to this moment in the first place (I really thought that was obvious tbh but people are pretending like Kamala would’ve been Jesus Christ and not an empty suit to set us up for something even worse in 2028).
The naive fantasize about toppling the US government all the fucking time, but we’ll get nuclear war before we get to that point
“I am truly in shock”: Danish Regime Propagandist Has Public Meltdown Over Festival Chants For Palestinian Liberation
Right now they’re calling for the total annihilation of Israel and thereby the Jewish people in both Arabic and English at Fontaines D.C.’s concert. I have never experienced anything like it. So sad. Huge moral collapse. I am truly in shock. No one intervened. People shouted along. What is happening, Roskilde?
David Tarp, chief spin doctor for the head of Denmark’s Social Democrat-controlled Ministry of Employment, hyperventilated this tweet Wednesday night as he required smelling salts and a fainting couch after having witnessed Irish post-punk outfit Fontaines D.C. commit an unspeakable crime at the main stage of the Roskilde Festival: inviting Palestinian activists onstage to call for liberation.
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The activists made declarations of solidarity with Palestine and led the crowd in chants for Palestinian liberation. One chant in particular hurt Tarp’s delicate zionist sensibilities, prompting him to tweet his outrage: “From the River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free.”
Tarp claims to have left the festival grounds in shock shortly after thousands of ordinary people joined the chant, long understood as a call for equality and freedom in all of Palestine. In subsequent statements to state media he made the claim that it was a call for “the extermination of an entire country”, seemingly unaware of the dark irony in making such statements in defense of the zionist entity that is committing an ongoing extermination of the country of Palestine.
Tarp had taken a rare trip outside the safety of the political bubble and mingled with the general public. Rather than feeling the warm embrace of the people he claims to speak for, he encountered mass dissent against the ongoing genocide — and it filled him with horror and disgust. In his tweets he inadvertently admitted that roughly 80 percent of the crowd joined the chants, describing them, in his own words, as “lemmings” swept up in the “rabid madness” coming from the stage.
In true form, regime-loyal media promptly turned to Tarp for comment, hoping to turn this into a Danish equivalent of the moral panic against British band Bob Vylan who is being attacked by Zionists for chanting “Death to the IDF” at their performance at the Glastonbury Festival. State media presented Tarp as merely “a festival-goer”, and not as a professional regime propagandist, granting him generous space to share his bigoted accusations. Without irony, he claimed to know what the chant means better than the people actually chanting it, spreading zionist disinformation as he insisted the call for equality and freedom in Palestine was actually an exterminationist threat.
Observers familiar with Denmark’s Social Democratic party describe it as fervently Zionist and deeply Islamophobic, a part of the reactionary “anti-woke” wave that has spread from America to the rest of the western world. Tarp’s social media history shows him to be a loyal foot soldier of this ideology. In his Twitter feed he is branding New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as “utterly insane”, he scolds the Nordic hermit kingdom’s main LGBTQ+ organization for refusing to take part in islamophobic scare campaigns, he rails against other parties voting not to derail an anti-racism plan for public schools with Zionism and he makes so-called jokes asking whether pro-Palestine activists should be “cancelled for cultural appropriation” for wearing keffiyehs.
Despite Tarp’s histrionics, reactions to his tweet were mixed. Although many agreed with his hateful comments, one alleging that Roskilde is now “a Muslim festival celebrating Hamas”, others mocked Tarp’s hysteria and called him out for lying about the invented of the Palestinian liberation movement. “The state of Israel and Jewish people were never equated,” countered a concertgoer. “If you were there, you’d know.”
The festival itself, meanwhile, is standing firm. Rejecting Tarp’s demands for censorship, organizers have defended Fontaines D.C., affirming that their stage is a place for artistic freedom and that the performance did not violate any guidelines. Meanwhile, critical reviews of the concert have been overwhelmingly positive, with critics praising the band’s willingness to break the silence and center human lives over spectacle.
The entrenched political elite may continue clutching their pearls and scribbling outraged tweets, but if Roskilde is any indication, a new generation is choosing freedom and solidarity over hate — even if it makes spin doctors shriek into the night.
Sources:
- Irsk band deler vandene med koncert, der forvandlede sig til Palæstina-demo, DR (regime media), July 3rd 2025
- Skaber stor debat: Pro-palæstinensiske kampråb fra scenen i Roskilde , BT (corporate media), July 3rd 2025
- Tweet by Tarp (CW: Racism and celebration of genocide in comments)
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.
Four House Republicans changed their votes to YES on Trump’s BBB bill – after Trump gave them signed MAGA hats and selfies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/trump-bill-holdout-republicans.html
Wow republicans are destroying the country we will 
against them after 4 years.The Imperial core is so fucked lmao.
It would be funny were it not for the fact that the US is bringing down the rest of the world with it.
Another day in al Qaeda Syria:
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/martyrs--statue-destroyed-in-aleppo--stirring-controversyZarah Sultana has announced she is quitting Labour to form a new party with Jeremy Corbyn
Brazilian Hugo Calderano, professional table tennis player, was barred from the Grand Smash in Las Vegas. He traveled to Cuba in 2023 to compete in the Pan-American Games, which, according to US rules, makes him ineligible to enter with a visa waiver. Even with Portuguese citizenship, he was denied an ESTA. He ran for an emergency visa and support from American organizations, but couldn’t get an interview in time.
The tournament starts this Friday and Hugo is out. In the best phase of his career, World Cup champion, World Championship silver medalist and WTT gold medalist in Slovenia, the Brazilian missed out on one of the biggest competitions in table tennis.
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Russia has officially recognized the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan, becoming the first country to do so since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
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Why is the idea of Trump banning future elections such a popular thing I keep seeing online? Guatemala’s right-wing is deeply entrenched more than the US and we still have elections. The real issue is how the right-wing has put its claws into everything so well that it isn’t quite blatant unless you’re paying attention.
