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.
Australia has expelled the Iranian Ambassador, claiming that Iran was behind at least two anti-semetic attacks.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-26/federal-politics-live-aug-26-prime-minister-albanese-penny-wong/105695890
Live thread so terrible for getting actual into but its all I got
Surely if Iran was doing sabotage against Australia they'd do something a bit higher level than targeting some Synagogues?
Rhetorical question of course, here in the UK Iranian hackers get the blame any time there's significant delays on the tube lmao. Still, actually expelling ambassadors seems pretty drastic.
My guess is it's horsetrading given domestic pressure to stop supplying the Israeli army with weapons in a genocide.
"we're being critical of your current actions but we're not siding with your enemies" type stuff.
I guess it depends on what the goal is. No need to go higher level if you can get the desired outcome from something small.
Albonese is also like.. A massive coward. He doesn't really do drastic things, which makes it feel even more drastic to me.
One synagogue, one cafe I think
obvious false flag. Iran has better shit to do, like preparing for resumption of war. They also have never targeted civilians. The entire narrative screams intelligence agency operation.
I'm sure they'll have solid evidence like "a zionist twitter account said so"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-26/iran-behind-antisemitic-attacks-asio-says/105697762
Not live article (but still being updated)
Oooo Kay. Not what I was expecting.
Wasn't asio basically accusing Israel of doing false flags not that long ago? Something like "some of our allies" and "you might be surprised who" or something?
There were other events that aren't listed as the two they linked Iran too, so it's not impossible two different groups are organising their own things.
Or maybe there was an attempted frame job?
2 fires, no fatalities. Seems like a small amount to label the IRGC a terrorist org and expel diplomats. I mean they did just have Israel set up a forward air base in their country during peace and use it to execute civilians...
I don't really want to defend foreign actors attacking people for political reasons. That's like nine tenths of why I'm furious at the west and allies. It just seems a bit extreme given like the CIA, french intelligence, mi5, and mossad regularly get up to worse.
Oh yeah its 100% hypocritical.
But the drastic nature of this is interesting. Australia hasn't expelled an ambassador since WW2 and has evacuated embassy staff from Iran. It's a full severing of all diplomatic ties, which is a big response. Kinda suggesting the evidence is pretty damning to me
They should do the same to Israel though. And the US. And the rest
Israel did that to Iran, they launched drones they had hidden inside their borders
Ah sorry, I misread
Thousands wouldn't but I forgive you.