NYC, May 14, 2022. Photo: revcom.us
A Guide to This Issue of Revolution
What You Need to Know and Engage This Week
About the World and Revolution: In This Issue
May 23, 2022 >>
In the course of this talk, I will be referring to, and digging further into, key points that are put forward in two very important documents which are featured on our website revcom.us: A Declaration, A Call To Get Organized Now For A Real Revolution; and an article of mine, following up on that “Declaration and Call”: This Is A Rare Time When Revolution Becomes Possible—Why That Is So, And How To Seize On This Rare Opportunity. So, for everyone getting into this talk, everyone who cares about the crucial questions it is speaking to, it is also important to take up (or return to) and get deeply into those documents as well—and to go regularly to revcom.us, and watch the weekly YouTube show Revolution—Nothing Less, both of which sharply illustrate why a real revolution is urgently needed, and is possible, what are the goals of this revolution, and how to be part of building for this revolution. What I will be speaking to here is, as the title says, a necessary foundation and a basic roadmap for this revolution... Continue reading >>
This issue:
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THE WAR IN UKRAINE
AND THE INTERESTS OF HUMANITY:
A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH
VS. HARMFUL CONFUSION AND CHAUVINIST DELUSION
Bob Avakian Responds
To People Who Should Know Better (and Maybe Once Did) -
The Supreme Court Moves to End Abortion Rights:
“Taking to the Streets,”
And Refusing to Let This Go Down
Bob Avakian Speaks to This Critical Juncture in the Fight for Abortion Rights,
The Road Forward, and Avoiding Dead Ends -
NEW: WORKING WITH BLACK PANTHERS, WORKING FOR REVOLUTION—
NOT “WOKE IDENTITY” BULLSHIT
by Bob Avakian -
Bob Avakian on the War in Ukraine
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Interview With Bob Avakian
Introductory Comments and Part 7 -
Abortion Rights Emergency: Overturn Roe? Hell No!
Thursday, MAY 26: Initial Sights and Sounds!
(Updated May 27, 2022) -
Two Years After the Murder of George Floyd and the Beautiful Rising
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From Buffalo to Uvalde: To Those in Agony at the Insanity They Call America
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Watch and share: The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show, episode 100
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The War in Ukraine: Dangerous Developments, Imperialist Power Moves, Rank American Hypocrisy
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The Revolution Club
(Updated May 23, 2022) -
Contribute to the National Revolution Tour... Contribute to FIGHTING FOR the Future! We’re Halfway to the $50,000 Goal. Let’s Meet It by June 1!
Articles by Bob Avakian of Continuing Importance on the War in Ukraine:
UKRAINE: WORLD WAR 3 IS THE REAL DANGER, NOT A REPEAT OF WORLD WAR 2
Read online | Download PDF for printing
WORLD WAR 3 AND DANGEROUS IDIOCY
Note to Readers: Get the New Articles by Bob Avakian Out Broadly!
Interview With Bob Avakian
The Interviewer Begins: After reading The New Communism (2016), and thinking about issues that in only five years’ time have manifested more severely, as spotlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, calling even more urgently for changes to the “system that is the fundamental source of much misery and torment in the world”, there are several topics—climate, migration, press freedom, labor-and-supply chain, class, and human rights—that I wonder if you would be willing to speak on. I’ll enumerate below.
The interview is now being serialized in seven parts. The part for this week, and the entire interview, are available below.
INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS AND PART 7 | READ THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW
From Bob Avakian—Revolutionary Leader, Author of the New Communism:
THIS IS A RARE TIME WHEN REVOLUTION BECOMES POSSIBLE—
WHY THAT IS SO, AND HOW TO SEIZE ON THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY
For everyone visiting our site, read this important Declaration and Call from the Revcoms:
FROM THE REVCOMS (REVCOM.US):
A DECLARATION,
A CALL TO GET ORGANIZED NOW
FOR A REAL REVOLUTION
Let’s get down to basics: We need a revolution—nothing less!
Republished from BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian, an excerpt from the essay:
Reform or Revolution
Questions of Orientation, Questions of Morality
A Guide to This Issue of Revolution
What You Need to Know and Engage This Week About the World and Revolution: In This Issue
May 23, 2022 >>
Abortion Rights Emergency:
Abortion on Demand and Without Apology!
STOP the Supreme Court From Taking Away the Right to Abortion!
From RiseUp4AbortionRights.org:
The Supreme Court’s cruel plan to repeal Roe v. Wade and wipe out the right to abortion is a major attack which must be DEFEATED NOW—this May and June—before it is hammered into law.
This could be done if people in our millions make clear, through massive non-violent resistance, that we will bring the gears of society to a grinding halt before we allow the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade...
We must unite all who can be united to oppose this monstrous attack on the fundamental right to abortion...
WE MUST ACT NOW! It is far harder to win a right back after it has been taken, than it is to defend it while you still have it.
Read the full statement >>
RiseUp4AbortionRights.org
@RISEUP4ABORTIONRIGHTS
Overturn Roe? Hell No!
Forced Motherhood = Female Enslavement
Abortion On Demand and Without Apology!
Rise Up! Wear Green!
See "Sights and Sounds from May 26, A Beginning Picture" (Updated May 27, 2022)
San Francisco: Walking out of middle school and high school and taking to the streets Photo: RiseUp4AbortionRights
The SUPREME COURT COULD be STOPPED from
TAKING AWAY ABORTION RIGHTS!
BUT ONLY IF WE ACT TOGETHER and FAST!
JOIN a NATIONAL ORGANIZING SUMMIT on ZOOM
to FIND OUT HOW and GET INVOLVED!
Sunday, May 29 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm ET
RSVP for Zoom Call
Sunsara Taylor: Overturn Roe? Hell No!
Sunsara Taylor: Overturn Roe? Hell No!
Revolution Books NYC,
May 18, 2022.
Text version of Sunsara Taylor's Remarks >>
A SPRING OF RAGE AND HOPE
A SPRING OF RAGE AND HOPE
Episode 102 of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
The RNL Show covers all this and more
Mario Savio speaking at the Sproul Hall steps at UC Berkeley, December 2, 1964
DISPATCH #1 from The RNL Show—
Now Is the Time to Take to the Streets & Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights
You cannot break all the chains, except one. You cannot say you want to be free of exploitation and oppression, except you want to keep the oppression of women by men. You can't say you want to liberate humanity yet keep one half of the people enslaved to the other half. The oppression of women is completely bound up with the division of society into masters and slaves, exploiters and exploited, and the ending of all such conditions is impossible without the complete liberation of women. All this is why women have a tremendous role to play not only in making revolution but in making sure there is all-the-way revolution. The fury of women can and must be fully unleashed as a mighty force for proletarian revolution.
— Bob Avakian, BAsics 3:22
Unbelievable as it may seem, in the 21st century there are still people—including people in positions of power and authority—who are determined to force women to bear children, regardless of the situation, the feelings, and the better judgment of those women themselves. That is a way of enslaving women to the dictates of an oppressive male supremacist, patriarchal system; and that is what the cruel fanatics who are determined to deny women the right to abortion are really all about.
— Bob Avakian
Two Years After the Murder of George Floyd and the Beautiful Rising...
Minneapolis, June 2020. Photo: revcom.us
Episode 103
A TIME TO ACT. A TIME TO BRING THE MACHINE TO A HALT.
Voices From Viewers
Watch The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
New episodes by the Revcoms every Thursday, 5pm PT | 7pm CT | 8pm ET
Watch and subscribe. And spread the word!
Shipment of lethal aid arrives from the U.S. to Ukraine. Photo: U.S. Embassy/Kyiv
Read and share revcom.us coverage:
The War in Ukraine: Dangerous Developments, Imperialist Power Moves, Rank American Hypocrisy
Important recent articles from Bob Avakian on Ukraine
“LEGIT GANGSTERS”—
GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
by Bob Avakian
Download PDF: Short Version | Longer Version
Download PDF for printing
The Cuban Missile Crisis: World In The Balance — an excerpt from Bob Avakian's memoir
Presentation by Andy Zee:
War in Ukraine: What is happening?… Why is it happening?… Where do the interests of humanity lie?... AND WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE REVOLUTION HUMANITY SO URGENTLY NEEDS?
Talk by Raymond Lotta:
Piercing the Lies, Digging Beneath the Surface
The Larger Dynamics of the World Imperialist System Driving the War in Ukraine...
And a Lesson from When There Was a Genuinely Socialist Soviet Union
Bob Avakian speaks on War, Capitalism-Imperialism, and Revolution
"Wars of Empire, Armies of Occupation & Crimes Against Humanity"
An Excerpt from Why We Need An Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution, a speech by Bob Avakian
Also Featured
Seandell Holliday Credit: Facebook
The Revolution Club Fighting For... Getting Organized for... REVOLUTION
Join the National Movement to Bring Forward and Organize This Revolutionary Force
A Guide to This Issue of Revolution
What You Need to Know and Engage This Week About the World and Revolution: In This Issue
May 23, 2022
Seandell Holliday Credit: Facebook
Noche Diaz: “If You Have The Heart To Fight—JOIN THE REVOLUTION CLUB!”
Members of the Revolution Club speak about the 6 POINTS OF ATTENTION FOR THE REVOLUTION
Los Angeles May Day, RevComs marching. Photo: @RevComs
Revolution Club marching on Revolutionary May Day 2022, Los Angeles.
Spread and Discuss "SOMETHING TERRIBLE, OR SOMETHING TRULY EMANCIPATING: Profound Crisis, Deepening Divisions, The Looming Possibility Of Civil War—And The Revolution That Is Urgently Needed, A Necessary Foundation, A Basic Roadmap For This Revolution" by Bob Avakian
La Opinión, the largest Spanish-language daily newspaper in the U.S., posted the Spanish version of Bob Avakian’s new talk on their website on January 5.
See it HERE.
Noche Diaz: Read or listen to Bob Avakian's "SOMETHING TERRIBLE, OR SOMETHING TRULY EMANCIPATING"
Environmental Emergency — Sounding the Alarm
The Destruction of the Planet by Capitalism-Imperialism
An excerpt from the film of a speech by Bob Avakian, “Why We Need An Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution”
Bob Avakian on The Oppression of Black People & the Revolutionary Struggle to End All Oppression
BOB AVAKIAN FOR THE LIBERATION OF BLACK PEOPLE AND THE EMANCIPATION OF ALL HUMANITY
The “Industrialization” of Sexual Exploitation, Imperialist Globalization, and the Descent Into Hell
by Raymond Lotta
Pamphlet version available to download for print (PDF, printers' spreads)
