Get it? “Revolting” is a double entendre! Anyway…
As the Trump administration continues to accelerate the flagrant disregard of “international law”, we have seen various European leaders flock to China (alongside Canada), seeking deals. Some trips have been more successful than others - for example, Macron’s was fairly dire despite his lavish reception by Xi Jinping, but Starmer’s resulted in some actual deals and tariff reductions. The intent of this wave of diplomacy with China is clear: leverage.
Nobody should be fooled into thinking this revolt immediately benefits the developing world, of course. While a relative weakening of the US compared to Europe is progressive in a limited sense (insofar as the US is the locus of imperialism), every indication shows that, when it matters, the European consensus remains aligned in most respects with the US, such as with them and the Zionist entity against Iran, against national sovereignty in Africa (e.g. ECOWAS), as well as in Latin America (either in support or not sufficiently opposing American designs there against Cuba and Venezuela, to name but two countries). It is also unclear how long such a divide will last - perhaps Trump leaving office in 2028 and a slightly less bellicose leader in power will result in many cancelled deals with China.
Despite the very shaky initial steps over the past couple years, Europe still has many miles it must traverse to achieve sovereignty, let alone socialism. For now, it will cheer on the sanctions against millions of vulnerable people and incoming bombing of Iran and Hezbollah, though perhaps it will also share a degree of the economic/military retaliation.
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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.
Oh wow Mexico is still sending fuel and aid to Cuba? Man where are all those ankle-biting ultra dipshits that were shitting themselves senseless over the twitter timeline over Sheinbaum being another neoliberal american puppet. Surely they’re rethinking their boy-who-cries-wolf behavior right now and adopting a more nuanced position of being willing to wait for time to pass to see what actually materially occurs instead of catching every incendiary headlight and amplifying them to the world as the and their truth.
Cuba themselves say that they haven’t received an oil since early December. “Pursuing all diplomatic avenues to resume oil shipments” is word salad. Either the oil arrives in Cuba or it doesn’t.
Well the nature of how rabid the u.s has been lately and in context of Cuba being possibly militarily sieged in the near future depending on what trump’s tea leaves read, it’s easy to reason mexico’s trying to diplomatically take the heat off the region instead of going ‘fuck it’, sending oil regardless of the consequences, and suddenly we’ll be hearing headlines of a new narco-communist rogue state right on our doorstep and soon enough possibly losing two progressive nations.
Which is why I’m making fun of the rumor mongers for having zero patience and want everything to be a war of maneuver as quick as the nazis on meth rolling the dutch.
Nicaragua, Colombia and Brazil could also send oil shipments to Cuba (specially Brazil), but they didn’t. As far as I remember, in 2025 Lula signed an agreement to send Cuba just Solar Painels, Medicine and Food as part of an aid program. Also they planned to work on housing stuff in 2026. Colombia did send a bit of fuel in late 2025. Nicaragua did send food to Cuba.
Until Mexico-flagged tankers arrive in Cuba her statements are as representative of the material conditions as Trump’s.
The whole “shit talking when time a socdem says they’ll do something contrary to expectations” doesn’t work if they are yet to follow through with the something in question.
To be honest, It does suck that mexican oil shipments have stopped under MORENA/Claudia goverment, when that never really happened under the PRI (Establishment party, Neoliberal), or even PAN (Establishment party, Conservative). I understand that the US have been pressuring Mexico a lot, but still.
Cuba have for decades try to negociate with the US the end of the Embargo, which did sort of happened under Obama, but Trump reversed that to appease his Gusano voters. Now in 2026, it’s pretty clear to me he’s trying to find another quick win and also he’s being influenced by fucking Narco Rubio to do this shit.
Well that would require people to not be reactionary, of course which just means conservative and are completely interchangable, and not an entire method of planning and thinking. But that would be cope, which definitely doesn’t just come from a culture where reacting is more important than watching and processing.
https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/r/e.htm
Reactionaries are the opposite of revolutionaries. It doesn’t just mean “reacts to things”. The “reaction” here is the reaction against revolutionary movement, not an individual’s reaction to new information or events.
I fundamentally disagree with that definition. It is telling that there isn’t a citation to any single work of Marxist related literature to where that definition comes from. I have seen it used in a myriad of ways in Marxist works, but also within Lenin, particularly about the SDS, about those who would jump early into the fires of revolution and commit adventurism and terrorism without so much as a single plan.
Being a reactionary is much more that simply a politically movement, is it a state of being that idolizes action over thought, movement before consideration. It happens to align with conservative political movements because they don’t actually care about moving the buck forward, only about crushing emerging differences and maintaining the status quo. Their thought is already complete, they have no need for more consideration.
The revolutionary moment may be spontaneous, but without revolutionary, not reactionary, action, we will continuously be on the back foot and the moment will stall out and fail.
For our purposes, the reactionary thinking lies in the fact that they have already decided what the outcome of a political problem is, and will look to justify their ideas through any kind of statement or action, without actually waiting to see how something will play out. Wishing for entire states to commit to adventurism on their behalf.
https://massline.org/Dictionary/RE.htm
Here is a Maoist website using the same definition, with a source from Mao using it in that way. Marx and Engels used it in the same way AFAIK, for example “reactionary socialism”.
I’d appreciate sources for the alternate definition (not sarcastic, I mean this sincerely).
Resuming means the aid stopped, right?
According to Cuba, yes. At least since 4th of December 2025.
Surely…