Palestine Action is officially now a terrorist organisation and they post this
I remember getting into arguments about this org being "performative shit" months ago here on hexbear lol, how things have changed.
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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.
14k terrorist supporters on that tweet smdh
well i hope they stop spraying paint and start lighting shit on fire because going to prison for being a terrorist and all you did was spray some paint does not seem worth it at all lol. im genuinely curious what took them this long tho, was the embarrassment of one of their (rented lmao) planes being vandalized really what it took for them to crack down after many months of doing this shit?
I would guess, more likely, people will just claim to be doing things independently unless they succeed in an action without being caught. The only change this will bring is that the activists will announce in court "I denounce Palestine Action, I just spray painted that bomber jet because I like the color red." That'll work for a time before judges start calling it a terrorist network and start Guantanamoing the activists
i would be flabbergasted if that defense actually held up in court lmao
That'll work for a time before judges start calling it a terrorist network and start Guantanamoing the activists
The end point of all of this is that anyone supporting palestine ends up being accused of being a terrorist.
I think it's purely because this time it was the military being embarrassed rather than a factory being attacked. Tarnishing the image of the British military is viewed as deeply damaging to the state or something. They don't want to look weak.
"performative shit"
they're literally Actors
When did people say that Pal Action was performative? Damn, they've been the only non-preformative western group since oct 7th. The winds of history and all
I've made a few posts over the years and there's one or two people that would argue about it each time, here's an example: https://hexbear.net/post/210760?scrollToComments=false
Probably wreckers.
THE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL PT1 VOTE IN THE HOUSE IS IN; All Republicans yes, all Democrats no. Full attendance, excluding all the empty seats from the Dem representatives who died and haven't been replaced.
The vote was to move forward with the Senate version of the BBB, with no changes allowed. There will be one hour for debate and then a straight yes/no vote on the bill.
[edit] nevermind, looks like the vote is still open, the rule now has 4 Republicans no votes. Probably just some public theatrics?
excluding all the empty seats from the Dem representatives who died and haven't been replaced.
This is a crazy sentence
Some combat footage and news for today from Russia’s special military operation.
SouthFront’s big collection of Russian combat footage from July 2nd: https://southfront.press/summary-of-russian-combat-footage-from-july-2-2025/
Another Kiev regime ammunition depot went kaboom: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/07/02/1486178.html
A Russian drone strike destroyed a German-built Leopard 2A6 tank in Sumy oblast: https://www.rt.com/russia/620904-russian-military-destroy-leopard-ukraine/
A US-built MaxxPro got destroyed near Krasnoarmeysk: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/07/02/1484169.html
US mercenaries got ambushed while trying to attack Bryansk oblast: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--%F0%9F%94%9EUS-Mercenaries-from-the-International-Foreign-Legion%F0%9F%94%9E:4
Another US merc got eliminated in Sumy oblast: https://tass.com/politics/1984563
There was a huge explosion in Zhytomyr region (western Ukraine).
Lingering smoke already visible when video starts, then an explosion with white smoke.
The main explosion. Brown "smoke" (dirt) suggests an underground explosion.
I'm guessing Russia struck with at least two ballistic missiles, and the second one blew up whatever Ukraine was storing underground.
That windshield damage in the second video is crazy
holy shit
what do we think, ammo dump or something else? looks different to a lot of ammo dump strikes i've seen (not that i'm an expert)?
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The House is holding open a procedural vote (that they won), but aren't moving forward with the vote on the Senate BBB yet. Only explanation is they don't have enough votes (yet).
Dayen:
Here's the latest on the Big Beautiful Bill. The process is stalled in the House. There are opposers, yes. But nobody has actually come out to vote no yet. There's ample reason for skepticism that anyone will to tank the bill. (link below)
Is it seriously called the Big Beautiful Bill ?
I'm sure they're just negotiating over their individual corruption line items
Is the house going to pass the Big Beautiful Boss Baby Bill or nah?
Libertarians howl when social media corporations are ordered to deplatform Nazis but hide from public eye when fascists they defend ban books. In Santa Catarina, Brazil, far-right councilwoman Jessica Lemonie is filing a bill to ban "Captain of the Sands" from schools and libraries.
In 1937, when Jorge Amado's novel was first released, the Vargas dictatorship banned it and held public book burnings. It was later banned for 21 years during the "free speech" Bolsonaro's beloved military dictatorship. Nevertheless, it's solde 4.3 million copies in 12 languages.
Fascists hate Captain of the Sands because it humanizes homeless teens living on the beach in Salvador as real people with hopes and dreams like everyone else. The book took on great relevance during the military police massacres of street children in the 80s and 90s.
What annoys the fascists as much as debunking their dehumanization homeless children to justify summary executions, is the fact that the main character in Captains of the Sands grows up and becomes a communist labor union organizer.
These posts were 2 hours apart
Friend of mine was in Vietnam a few weeks ago and sent me some pics, it's all bikes and motorcycles, somehow I doubt they have the appetite for SUVs
Large Engine Vehicle
lmao what
Vietnam paying tariffs is pretty cringe. For being AES they play too much into the west.
There's no way Vietnam is paying a 20% tariff on their exports to the US. Trump has been lying about how tariffs work the whole time. This is the same language he has used throughout, where he claims tariffs are paid by other countries when in reality they're paid by the importer in the US (and passed on to consumers).
Let’s not pretend like China didn’t open up its market to the Americans in order to kill the Soviet Union, whom they perceive as attempting to encircle China through Vietnam. Both Mao and Deng were fully on board with it.
We only didn’t criticize China because it ends up becoming very successful and reaping quite a lot of benefit out of it (and part of the reason why China isn’t going to give up the status quo anytime soon), but when other countries try to play the same game, they get labeled as compradors.
We only didn’t criticize China because it ends up becoming very successful and reaping quite a lot of benefit out of it (and part of the reason why China isn’t going to give up the status quo anytime soon), but when other countries try to play the same game, they get labeled as compradors.
I'm assuming by "we" you mean Hexbear users because there is no way you've never actualy seen left-critique of China in the past 15 years.
With that assumption you should remember that this community is pretty much the same as r/chapo. We already had the 2022 Ukraine war struggle section that pushed away most of them too and now only moretankiechapo types remained. The pro-China "movement" has been since ~2018 borderline unserious for a reason.
You must remember that this was also at the height of the anti-China propaganda on the west. Suddenly the propaganda went from "lol Chinese empty cities" to Xinjiang genocide and HK protests. "Uncritical support" was a natural consequence of having to battle this because seriously, why would you engage in good faith debate about China's problems with libs thinking the CPC are committing "cultural genocide" by showing google maps false images of supposedly "demolished" Mosques or "concentration camps".
Even today there is literaly no point argueing with anyone about China's problems, you step into almost every other lemmy instance and its the same communism = nazi shit. People pre-emptively assume bad faith through experience.
Its not conductive to academic debate, but in case you mean western Marxism as whole though, I mean just look up the debate on Chinese imperialism, it goes back at least 15 years too.
Plenty of people have been critical of modern China, just not on these online spaces.
As a huge Deng fan, is it not critically different for the second country relative to the first one? The first country to do so was out of necessity, the step backwards to take huge leaps forward which temporarily traded prosperity and socialist ideals in order to achieve a level of production which would grant an ability to gain influence and independence on the global stage in the future. But Vietnam could just turn to China for the same development without capitulating to the US, and it would likely benefit much more. China had no China next to it when Deng made the shifts. Does this not change the action entirely?
I still think that Vietnam likely is making a fine decision, but comparing it to the Opening Up of China feels odd when the circumstances are so different
Fair
A lot of people here probably did criticize China for that until they got called ultras and/or libs
Too bad the US only exports a 4.04% to Vietnam (of there total imports, from 2022).
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