As is tradition, at around this time of year, we discuss the latest developments in the communist plan to destroy Christmas and everything festive and jolly - including that bastard kulak Santa Claus. Down with holly and myrrh, and up with historical materialism!
This year, I’m highlighting the economic trend of de-Decemberization, as the world struggles to break free from the seasonal hegemony imposed by the North Pole. Some regard it as a rather overhyped phenomenon, stating that the chains of Christmas are too frozen for any country to thaw and break in the current environment. Others are more optimistic, and assert that perhaps an alternative world holiday could be established to outright replace it, or maybe a series of smaller holiday traditions can bring it down like a pack of wolves bringing down a moose.
To return to seriousness, as this year draws to a close, I hope everybody here - yes, also you, the person reading this - has a 2026 that was better than 2025, and that the efforts of the United States and their proxies are foiled at every turn. One day, humans will live in a world free from empires, and it would be nice if as many of us as possible lived to see that world’s birth.
At the very least, I’d like to live to see an aircraft carrier sink beneath the waves.
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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.
@[email protected], to your reply to me in the last thread about whether the philipino communists wanted to do socdem electoralism.
Turns out I was misremembering, it’s actually the National Democracy maoist thing but applied to the phillippines, and skimming through their theory I can’t envision concretely what regime type they mean by that, just its principles of course.
Still I doubt they believe they have the basis for the kind of one party rule that communist parties used to aspire to, not in a country that already has elections with big turnouts that people wouldn’t want to see disappear
This is going to be a major issue for any communist revolutions that could happen as the world turns and unipolar US hegemony winds down. Everywhere pretty much is adapted to the liberal electoral system. Earlier revolutions didn’t need to take that away to advance a one-party DOTP. If there’s a revolution in the US, would people here really accept anything more than a very brief period of one party rule? How could you produce that buy-in? If you couldn’t, how do you prevent the bourgeois nature of liberal electoralism from poisoning your revolution?
Yeah, the US kinda proves that you can have competitive elections that people inbue a lot of meaning and energy into, and therefore legitimise the system, that nervertheless doesn’t change core aspects of the political economy of the country.
Everyone knows a couple of ways that make it that way (the ammount of money in political campaigns for example), but the challenge is doing that from the left to empower a communist electoral system, and actually make it democratic without allowing it to revert back completly to capitalism.
I’m sure there are already tons of theoretical models of this, I think I’ve even read of a couple based around cooperatives and voting by cooperative or something like that, but until it’s instatiated somewhere or someone with actual power actually intends to do it idk how we’d even judge it
It’s definitely a bit vague, from what I have read (though I have not been theory-brained in a while, correct me if I am wrong), the electoralism of the NatDems there (Bayan and related) is an interesting case of how you can build ‘communist consciousness’ and organize while not being directly under the boot of NTF-ELCAC and other US-PH initiatives to wipe the CPP-NPA guerillas…
I personally think, that even from a basic understanding, you’d think the two groups (the ‘mass democratic legal orgs’ and the CPP-NPA ) are somewhat at least cooperative but keep it secret because of the mentioned issues, as the legal orgs instead fight through rallies (seen in Nov 30 and Sep 21 protests), news and generally what you can do as a movement while staying legal. Both have the same analyses anyway, but fight differently. Even from the ‘official’ page of the CPP-NPA, they commonly display news that is reported by Bayan, KMU, etc. that relates to workers’ struggles and other issues.
The current idea for the real anti-corruption movement (meaning not liberal nor dutertist/marcos supporter) is a people’s transition council that has been floated around, but for me, is kinda hopeful and a bit optimistic, considering the AFP and PNP probably won’t like a civilian government that can likely threaten corruption that seeps into all aspects, including those enforcement agencies, and unless I missed something, that’s what the current main publicized goals are.