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On October 9th, Daniel Chapo won the Mozambique general election with about 70% of the vote. Chapo is the head of FRELIMO, the Marxist-Leninist party of Mozambique's liberation, which fought an internal anti-communist resistance called RENAMO which was backed by Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa; Frelimo won in 1975. However, as the USSR fell, Frelimo began to allow elections inside Mozambique, and has ruled the country with significant majorities in each election ever since.
The main opposition party inside Mozambique is Podemos, which is led by Venancio Mondlane, a former member of Renamo and trained inside the USA. He alleges that his polling figures predicted a majority win for him, not Frelimo, and has accused Chapo of electoral fraud. There have been the usual slogans about how they yearn for freedom. The EU, of course, "witnessed irregularities." As @WilsonWilson@hexbear.net has pointed out, Mozambique has massive undeveloped gas fields and is outsourcing the development process to France, Norway, the UK, and the USA, while mysterious Islamist groups have popped up to cause chaos in the exact regions which have the gas, slowing the process of actually developing those gas fields. Overall, it appears to be a cookie-cutter colour revolution attempt by the imperial core designed to install a comprador for cheaper resources. Its proximity to BRICS+ member South Africa may also be significant, noting the colour revolution in Bangladesh earlier this year exerting influence near India and China.
Protestors have been battling against the police and government since late October, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries as well as massive disruption, as the government has intermittently blocked access to the internet and social media. As of today, calm appears to be returning, with border crossings beginning to reopen.
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English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
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English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
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Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
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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:
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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.
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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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Thank you very much, comrade.
It's very interesting to me how Trotskyism is forming the most coherent left-wing opposition in Argentina - I struggle to name any other countries where that's the case. There are Trot parties through the imperial core but they aren't even remote threats to power in virtually every case.
It's certainly interesting. I know they maintain discussions with other trots parties around the world, like in Brasil, France, Germany and some small groups in the US and even South Korea, but none are even remotely as big or as important as the ones in Argentina. Sometimes they arrenge for visits to share experiences. For example, a group of US Trots came to Argentina to speak with the main Trot party, the PTS, and ended up being invited to a number of protests which they described as "something completely different to what we have in the US". They brought back to their country some of their experiences, including having a distinguished group of militants who are specialized in first aid to assist those in need during protests, especially if it's being repressed. I like that they have this internationalist perspective as well, they have their own kind of 4th International going on right now.
They also became heavily involved in local conflicts regarding ownership of factories, like when PepsiCo wanted to lay off a shitton of workers from their factory and leave, the Trots organized with the workers and ended up taking and occupying the factory. Other factories were occupied by the workers with asistance from the Trots and they still operate to this day as coops, pretty cool. Such experiences are shared with militants from other countries as well. I like them when they do shit like that, it turns out we can get shit done after all. If they could just stop talking about Trotsky for a minute.... lmao
The Trotskyists were part of the Workers' Party in Brazil until the 1990s (most of the leftists, except the Trabalhistas, who are Brazilian Peronists with presidents Vargas and Goulart, and the radical governor of Rio, Leonel Brizola, in Perón's place, and some communists, were part of the Workers' Party), when they were expelled due to internal fights and I think Lula really doesn't like Trotskyism (in his biography, he said that most of them were boring).
The United Socialist Workers Party follows Nahuel Moreno's thinking and seems to be the most popular Trotskyist party in Brazil, which doesn't mean anything because they never elected anyone, and some people left the party to create the more popular Socialism and Freedom Party, which had an internal dispute between pro-Lula/pro-China and critics of Lula and China, and the pro-Lula faction seemed to have won and elected around 15 members of congress in 2022.
The only other Trotkist party (More like a Nazbol party that think Lula is the second Lenin) is the Workers' Cause Party, which is probably best known in the West for openly celebrating the Taliban's victory as a “workers' victory”. They were also expelled from the Workers' Party, but it seems they are big fans of the Workers' Party and Lula to this day. They complain about Woke, defend Trump, but also claim that Lula is an ultra-nationalist who will turn Brazil into the Second China. They also like Putin and Xi, are very fond of Neymar and claim that FIFA has an imperialist agenda against Neymar. When Brazil vetoed Venezuela from BRICS, they claimed that Maduro was jealous of Lula and that Venezuela wanted to spread US imperialism in Brazil because Venezuela sells oil to the US and the EU (a really strange take).
I'll have to ask which Trot parties the PTS is in talks with from Brasil, because I know they have some dialogue going on.
That reminds me of an insanely obscure Trot party from Italy that declared support for ISIS because it's "anti imperialist" and is involved in a direct struggle against the US
Trotskyism is quite popular in Latin America, but sometimes they mix with local politics and it can become quite weird, almost like a Hearts of Iron shitpost but in real life.