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Image is of the Freedom Band performing at the end of the Second National Congress of the Socialist Movement of Ghana, sourced from this article. The same article contains most of the information used in the preamble below.
A little over a week ago, the Socialist Movement of Ghana concluded its second National Delegates Congress in Aburi, gathering 300 delegates from across the country. There, they deepened their commitment to the working class of Ghana and committed to intensifying political education and organization at the grassroots. The SMG itself decided to not electorally contest the 2024 elections in Ghana, but still presented a manifesto, and nonetheless managed to get two SMG members parliamentary seats in the National Democratic Congress.
Anyway, back to the National Delegates Congress: the delegates agreed that the Western imperialist system is now under a profound crisis, in which the likely future is a heightening of brutality, chaos, and resource plundering - a future which must be resisted and organized against.
To summarize their various statements and condemnations:
- Inside Ghana: a commitment to women's rights, youth empowerment, and environmental protection.
- A condemnation of the resource plundering of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by imperialist powers.
- A salute to the people of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, in their campaign against outside imperial control in the Sahel.
- A condemnation of Morocco's illegal occupation of the Western Sahara, and a call for the UN to identify the independence of the Sahwari people.
- A strong condemnation of Israel's genocidal atrocities and massive terrorist operations against nearby countries, and support for Palestinian independence.
- Support for the people of Haiti against outside imperial domination.
- A call for the end of the blockade on Cuba and their removal from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
- Solidarity with Maduro and the people of Venezuela against the United States.
- A rejection of all imperialist aggression and sanctions against Iran.
- A condemnation of NATO's decades-long military expansion eastwards towards Russia, especially as it has now resulted in massive devastation and risks a third world war.
- And finally, a commitment to Pan Africanism and international solidarity with all oppressed peoples around the world.
A platform I think we all can agree to!
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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.
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.
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My “take it with a huge grain of salt, but don’t be surprised if it turns out to be true” Russian source says a deal between the US and Taliban is close, if not already secured.
There was a $540 million deal with China, with the Chinese already invested $150 million up-front for building Afghanistan’s various infrastructure projects over the next few years.
However, the US came in with giving the Taliban leadership $250 million per month. Seeing how much they could be getting from the Americans, the Taliban ended up rejecting the Chinese deal.
The source laments that in any case, Russia is already out of the game in Afghanistan. It will be up to the Taliban leadership to negotiate with the US and China and decide who will be more “beneficial” to them.
Take it with a huge grain of salt, as you should, but don’t be surprised if it turns out this way.
Plausible, I suppose. That would mean the Taliban's rhetoric is lies and bluster, but I don't think they are exactly a trustworthy institution.
The problem I see is I doubt it would be popular domestically in Afghanistan.
Is that really a big concern for the Taliban?
I don't know, but I don't think they would be in power if not for popular opposition to US occupation. It's the whole basis of their mandate.
They don't have a mandate and while China should work with them for realpolitik reasons they are bad guys.
The US puppet regime was unpopular so no one fought to support it but the Taliban itself was not incredibly popular either. They won purely because they were the single largest most organized militant group ready to do a power grab, armed up, trained, fighting for decades. It was a clear situation of one or the other with no other powers waiting in the wings with guns to take the country.
IMO it was more ambivalence among the population and exhaustion from all the years of US occupation than a genuine love for their program. That and no one wants to fight to remove them. I mean look how many Americans are truly happy with their political system when you poll them. Yet how many are willing to rise up violently to change that? Almost none. While Afghans are nowhere near as placated and comfortable as Americans on average they like all people were probably tired of the years of fighting and just wanted peace even if it meant accepting back in a bunch of guys whose program has some points you very strongly disagree with as those disagreements didn't rise to level of risking plotting revolution against guys who will execute you in the town square if they catch wind of it. Because besides them the people there see other choices such as debauched corrupt warlords, and opium growers as the other powers or things that could come back. At least with the Taliban you know where they stand and the rules. At least in theory. In practice like all religious zealots some amount of them are varying levels of corrupt and will gladly take buy-outs to rent away some disposable portions of their morality. Especially when it doesn't interfere with their patriarchal misogynist rule, their domestic control, and it's basically just renting a convenience to a former enemy without giving away the truly lusted after oppression of women, self-flagellation and moral panic and control over the mundane aspects of life that religious zealots obsess over.
Good post, thanks for the reply. I want to clarify, I didn't mean mandate in terms of widespread popular mandate, I'm aware that support and recruitment would have been driven by desperation. Especially since they are a Pashtun movement which will make them separate from much of the population. I mean in terms of any credibility, without which it would be harder to hold power in the long term if dissatisfaction grows.
It would be ironic if it didn’t mean potential restart of the xinjiang bs and various sabotage routes into iran, the stans and pakistan.
It will also negatively affect the new silk road railway network - which the us has been successful in picking off and isolating china one by one