Just got swept off of Reddit completely, only a matter of time of course. What do you guys use to keep up with current events? Lefty subreddits (if you can call any subreddit that much “left” anymore with the tankie crackdowns) were my biggest source of current events and comrade’s perspectives on such.

So what do you comrades use? Any good newsletters? Other social media platforms?

  • @201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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    I just come here anymore. GZD sub really isn’t that great on Reddit anymore and most of the best posters come here too anyway. I can also express my desire to kill capitalists here so that’s a plus.

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    Hopefully ppl will start posting more news here, cause we do have a few news communities. Primary sources: Telesur, btnews, black agenda report, cgtn, qiao collective, multipolarista, are some good ones.

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  • @biessensounasc@lemmygrad.ml
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    none of these are specifically ML but: kawsachun news, multipolarista, mintpress news, the grayzone, telesur, the new atlas on youtube, mangopress on telegram. sometimes i read RT for war-related coverage although it is obviously very skewed.

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      all good suggestions. some additional sources: “breakthrough news”, “consortium news”, “the cradle”, “strategic culture” (a bit hit and miss, some of the authors are very sus), “popular resistance”, WSWS (caution: trotskyist publication), “global times”, “presstv” (iranian; kinda like what telesur is for venezuela), “covertaction magazine”, “antiwar” (warning: a decent bit of cringe libertarian stuff), “counterpunch” (somewhat lib at times, but mostly ok)

      RT is actually a very westernized channel, a lot of Russians don’t like it because it is too lib. if you want to actually read the Russian perspective i’d suggest “izvestia”, “ria novosi” and TASS, just run them through a translation plugin for your browser

      and if anyone is interested in good leftist news from germany i recommend UZ (“unsere zeit”) and “junge welt”

      edit: oh and the “naked capitalism” blog also has some really good articles sometimes. for an ML newsletter i recommend Rainer Shea as well as the Qiao Collective on substack

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    Also I thought there were still some ML subs holding on for dear life? I wouldn’t know, I haven’t been on Reddit for months

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      r/trueanon is aight though the opinions there are sometimes too cis straight hipster white male burnout in his 30s for me and it’s incredibly doomer

      r/sino is aight though not really that ML

      r/shitliberalssay is meh since there’s a lot of fuck both sides sentiment for Ukraine war and calling Russia imperialist

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        r/ShitLiberalsSay was actually the instigator, got banned for criticizing anarchism and got caught for the sub ban evading Shit almost immediately as I used two different accounts

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        i wouldn’t bother with r/sls anymore honestly, the mods there are nuts

        use r/gzd for as long as it still lasts, and otherwise r/sino, r/newswithjingjing, and r/informedtankie

        also r/liberationnews seems to be a decent source of leftist US news, and of course for their respective countries r/russia and r/palestine

    • @AngryBolshevik@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      Most fizzled out quickly after GenZedong, the ones who are still semi active are scared to really post anything for fear of getting quarantined themselves

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    Liberation news

    Mint Press

    Breakthrough News

    telesur

    Payday Report (ok not ML but it’s about Labor news in the US that you won’t see elsewhere)

    Also, bourgeois/mainstream sources are useful to read to keep up with the current events. Wall street journal, financial times, etc

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      Which websites do you subscribe to with these? I have a FreshRSS instance set up but still looking for good news websites from the left that I can subscribe to

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  • KiG V2
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    Breakthrough News is currently my #1 favorite. They don’t hit a homerun 100% of the time but most of their stuff is reliably awesome and it’s very palatable to share with someone not fully “in the know,” it just comes off like good quality cable news. The roster of anchors and guests is very varied, they are all knowledgeable and fairly charismatic.

    Sometimes I still read CounterPunch magazine online (my original first exposure to leftist content), although it’s kind of Pan-Left so you get people of all tendencies, good and bad, getting published. Still pretty solid though.

    I’ve been trying to get more sources directly from China, one of the anchors from BT is from there and she’s awesome but I just wanted to corroborate and supplement it with even more, but I haven’t settled on any one source that I can completely and excitedly cosign just yet.