A week ago, the Bolivian left-wing party, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), currently led by Luis Arce, decisively lost the round of elections against the right-wing. This comes after a prolonged period of "infighting" between Arce, and Morales, who previously led the MAS prior to the 2019 coup which briefly installed Jeanine Anez.
I put infighting in quotes because despite the nominal similarities between Arce and Morales, it is clear that this is not merely a counterproductive battle between two men - instead, the Bolivian left has arrived at a time of unavoidable conflict between two competing strategies. The electoral strategy is represented by Arce, who has aligned himself with a more middle-class-oriented campaign that is more economically liberal, whereas Morales represents a more working-class-oriented campaign that seeks to go further than tepid reform.
Such a conflict between electoralism and revolutionary action is inevitable in any and every developing country that 1) possesses a functioning left-wing party or organization, and 2) is under internal and/or external pressure by capitalists. This crisis must be resolved eventually - and this electoral failure is how such a crisis is manifesting right now. So while the Bolivian left has indeed lost the election, it is not yet defeated. The revolutionary campaign can, if it is willing, still ultimately stand triumphant. But what must be done is a real movement towards socialism, which goes beyond technocrats reforming from above, and instead transforms the state into a full political project of the working class, in which their movements, organizations, and protests are genuinely empowered. Such a project will involve repression by the forces of reaction, not least by the United States, but it is the only road left to take.
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Israel'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.
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.
Israel preparing 'target bank' for attacks on Yemen after failure of US campaign
Tel Aviv recently failed in an attempt to assassinate the Yemeni army’s Chief of Staff Mohammad Abd al-Karim al-Raghmari
The Cradle, News Desk ^24/08/2025^
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Israel is preparing a “target bank” for a large-scale campaign against the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) and Ansarallah movement, Hebrew news outlet Walla reported on 24 August.According to the report, the Mossad and Israel’s military intelligence are working to compile a large “target bank” to strike at Ansarallah’s “key centers of gravity.”
Officials are saying that Israel must collect many targets which could be simultaneously struck, aimed at inflicting severe damage – “unlike the recent US operation, which failed to decisively weaken the Houthis.”
The report notes that there was already a failed Israeli attempt to assassinate Mohammad Abd al-Karim al-Raghmari, the YAF’s Chief of Staff.
“Despite Israeli military officials admitting in recent months that striking the Houthis is difficult—since most of their key centers lie underground and some are unknown to Israeli intelligence—political sources insist that ‘the Houthis are defeatable,’” Walla added.
The sources said Israel must simultaneously strike command-and-control, ports, military capabilities, and the Yemeni defense industry.
“Unlike the failed US mission, success requires accumulating many targets whose combined strike could cause significant damage,” the sources said.
A several-month US campaign against Yemen, lasting from March to May, failed to significantly impact the YAF and Ansarallah, which are merged.
Washington burned through over $1 billion in munitions, carrying out over 1,000 airstrikes. The YAF continued to launch missiles and drones, and Washington had trouble locating its underground facilities.
“The US president preferred to cut losses and close the issue with the Houthis through mediation,” Israeli officials told Walla, referring to Donald Trump’s deal which excluded Israel and saw the YAF continue pro-Palestine operations against Israeli targets.
Israel has carried out several violent attacks on Yemen in recent months, in response to the continued Yemeni missile strikes launched in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza. The Walla report says Israel expects an escalation of Yemeni missile attacks once the occupation of Gaza City begins.
Tel Aviv has warned that it will no longer tolerate attacks. Officials have repeatedly signaled that a large-scale campaign against Yemen is in the works.
Israeli Army Radio reported that authorities are investigating whether the missile launched from Yemen at Tel Aviv recently contained multiple warheads, similar to some of those used by Iran during the 12-day war in June.
The missile “disintegrated in the air,” the Israeli army said.
Video footage during the attack showed the missile splitting into at least three different fragments. Multiple impact sites were reported: https://xcancel.com/EllenAbare/status/1958964606379913252