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A Guide to This Issue of Revolution

What You Need to Know and Engage This Week
About the World and Revolution:
In This Issue September 26, 2022 >>

Announcing New work by BA, SOMETHING TERRIBLE, OR SOMETHING TRULY EMANCIPATING:

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:

THE WOMEN OF IRAN HAVE STOOD UP! THE PEOPLE OF IRAN ARE RAISING THEIR HEADS AND FIGHTING BACK AGAINST THE REGIME! WE NEED TO STAND WITH AND SUPPORT THEM IN THEIR STRUGGLE!
From the Revcoms
Organizing for an Actual Revolution:
7 Key Points
Bob Avakian and the New Communism on Internationalism
Including VIDEO
The Courageous Uprising in Iran
From Revolutionary Communist Organization, Mexico:
REVOLUTIONARY HOPE
New Possibilities Are Opening Up for Liberatory Revolution In the Midst of Acute Crises and Upheavals of the Capitalist System — It Is Urgent to Organize the Fight For Revolution
Bob Avakian: A Radically Different Leader—A Whole New Framework for Human Emancipation
Letters in Support of Bob Avakian
VIDEO: Lenny Wolff: Internationalism... and Revolutionary Hope
Dragging the World Towards an Abyss: U.S./NATO and Russia Escalate Tensions in Ukraine
VIDEO: “LEGIT GANGSTERS” — GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
by Bob Avakian
Worse than Fine-Print Trickery...
Biden's Imperialist Climate Bill: The Devil Lies in the Big Picture
VIDEO: Andy Zee Interviews Raymond Lotta—Parts 1 & 2
Bob Avakian on the Struggle for Abortion Rights: “Taking to the Streets,” And Refusing to Let This Go Down
Revolution, Roger Federer’s Tennis: What Do They Have to Do With Each Other? A Lot, Actually.
by Bob Avakian
September 28: PROTEST and Demand:
LEGAL ABORTION ON DEMAND & WITHOUT APOLOGY EVERYWHERE!
More featured articles...

Organizing for an Actual Revolution:

7 Key Points >>

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Bob Avakian on Methods, Principles and Standards

At the beginning of 2012, an in-depth interview with Bob Avakian (BA) was conducted over a period of several days by A. Brooks... We are republishing here sections of this interview which are highly relevant to the current situation—particularly as a critique of the all too-common practice of lies, slander and unprincipled rumor-mongering that are part of the popular culture these days, including among people calling themselves “anarchist”...“left”...“progressive”... “woke.”
Read the compiled excerpts here.

Letters in Support of Bob Avakian, September 12

“I love—yes, love—Bob Avakian and what he has created for humanity and the possibility of forging a whole new world”

These statements are timely and needed in the face of slanderous lies and attacks launched by various opportunist forces and media outlets against Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, on the role of the Revcoms and Sunsara Taylor in it—and especially targeted against Bob Avakian with unprincipled slander and dangerous lies... Read them all here >>

Revcoms and Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights Answer the Attack Dogs

Lenny Wolff: Fighting for Leadership, Principles, and Standards to Get Beyond This Capitalist-Imperialist Nightmare

A Reply to the “Statement Against RiseUp4AbortionRights”:

In Defense of the Emancipation of Humanity and the Leadership We Need to Get There

The Revcoms

From RiseUp4AbortionRights.org:

To Those Who Would Rather Lie, Slander, and Attack Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights Than Unite All Who Can Be United Against This Fascist Assault

A Contended Question: How To Understand Why Some People Like BA and What He Stands For and Some Hate Him

“If you don't have a poetic spirit—or at least a poetic side—it is very dangerous for you to lead a Marxist movement or be the leader of a socialist state.”

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Listen to a reading of this excerpt by Joe Veale >>

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

Bob Avakian on
What Motivates My Works
And How This Relates to Basic Objectives, Methods and Principles

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 has been serialized in seven parts.

READ THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW

Important Articles By Bob Avakian Opposing “Woke” Distractions and Obstructions

A SERIOUS FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICE—
NOT A PETTY HUSTLE FOR “OWNERSHIP”

January 2021:

NEW YEAR’S STATEMENT BY BOB AVAKIAN

A New Year,
The Urgent Need For A Radically New World—
For The Emancipation Of All Humanity

Read it here: English | Spanish | Farsi (reposted from the website cpimlm.org)

Supplemental Materials

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

Read online | Download pamphlet printer spreads

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!

In Light of the Urgency Spoken to in
“Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating”

A RENEWED CHALLENGE:
SEARCHING FOR AN HONEST LIBERAL OR PROGRESSIVE

by Bob Avakian

Some Key Points Regarding “Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating”

TRUTHS WE NEED TO GET FREE

A Guide to This Issue of Revolution

What You Need to Know and Engage This Week About the World and Revolution:
In This Issue September 26, 2022 >>

The Courageous Uprising in Iran

THE WOMEN OF IRAN HAVE STOOD UP! THE PEOPLE OF IRAN ARE RAISING THEIR HEADS AND FIGHTING BACK AGAINST THE BATONS AND BULLETS OF THE IRANIAN REGIME! WE NEED TO STAND WITH AND SUPPORT THEM IN THEIR STRUGGLE!

Compulsory Hijab and the Murder of Women:
Key Tools of the Fascist Islamic Republic of Iran to Strangle the Whole Society
September 17, 2022

“Death To the Oppressor” Rings Out on Iran’s Streets:

Islamic Republic Murders 22-Year-Old Mahsa Amini for “Violating” Mandatory Hijab Rules

“Internationalism—The Whole World Comes First.” —Bob Avakian, BAsics 5:8

Bob Avakian on Imperialism and Internationalism... The Whole World Comes First—NOT America First

Would Mexico and Central America still be the U.S. backyard after the revolution? Q&A with Bob Avakian

“If you can conceive of a world without America—without everything America stands for and everything it does in the world—then you’ve already taken great strides and begun to get at least a glimpse of a whole new world. If you can envision a world without any imperialism, exploitation, oppression—and the whole philosophy that rationalizes it—a world without division into classes or even different nations, and all the narrow-minded, selfish, outmoded ideas that uphold this; if you can envision all this, then you have the basis for proletarian internationalism. And once you have raised your sights to all this, how could you not feel compelled to take an active part in the world historic struggle to realize it; why would you want to lower your sights to anything less?”

New Possibilities Are Opening Up for Liberatory Revolution In the Midst of Acute Crises and Upheavals of the Capitalist System — It Is Urgent to Organize the Fight For Revolution

Se abren nuevas posibilidades para la revolución liberadora en medio de agudas crisis y trastornos del sistema capitalista – urge organizarse y luchar para la revolución

Organización Comunista Revolucionaria, México

PDF folleto 5.6x8.74" (español) | PDF 8.5x11" (español)

“There is an urgent need for this new synthesis to be taken up, broadly, in this society and in the world as a whole: everywhere people are questioning why things are the way they are, and whether a different world is possible; everywhere people are talking about “revolution” but have no real understanding of what revolution means, no scientific approach to analyzing and dealing with what they are up against and what needs to be done; everywhere people are rising up in rebellion but are hemmed in, let down and left to the mercy of murderous oppressors, or misled onto paths which only reinforce, often with barbaric brutality, the enslaving chains of tradition; everywhere people need a way out of their desperate conditions, but do not see the source of their suffering and the path forward out of the darkness.”

— Bob Avakian, The New Communism

No U.S./NATO War With Russia! No World War 3!

It’s This System, Not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct!

We Don’t Accept Their Future

It’s Time to Get Organized for a Real Revolution

Dragging the World Towards an Abyss—Troop Mobilizations, Military Offensives, Nuclear Threats: U.S./NATO and Russia Escalate Tensions in Ukraine

“LEGIT GANGSTERS”—GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS by Bob Avakian

Read the article >>

Lenny Wolff: Internationalism... and Revolutionary Hope

Bob Avakian on the Struggle for Abortion Rights, the Oppression of Women, and the Revolutionary Struggle to Emancipate ALL Humanity

Why does private ownership of the means of production result in oppression of women?
Q&A With Bob Avakian

Can This System Do Away With, or Do Without, The Oppression of Women?—A Fundamental Question, a Scientific Approach to the Answer

Abortion Rights Emergency:
Abortion on Demand and Without Apology!

An excerpt from Marxism and the Call of the Future
Conversations on Ethics, History, and Politics
Bob Avakian and Bill Martin

Robert Mackey Dishonestly Demonizes Bob Avakian, Erases Revolution, and Trashes the Truth

WILL THE INTERCEPT STAND BY THIS?

In the 1960s, the Government Spread Lies to Foment Violent Conflict Within the Movement

The Lessons of That Time Need to Be Learned Anew Today

The Revcoms Challenge @HasanAbi to A Debate: Democratic Socialism vs. Revolutionary Communism

Environmental Emergency — Sounding the Alarm

Raymond Lotta on Biden's Imperialist Climate Bill: The Devil Lies in the Big Picture—Part 1

Raymond Lotta on Biden's Imperialist Climate Bill—Part 2

Worse than Fine-Print Trickery...

Biden's Imperialist Climate Bill: The Devil Lies in the Big Picture

By Raymond Lotta with the Environmental Working Group of revcom.us

The Destruction of the Planet by Capitalism-Imperialism

From Revolution special issue:
State of EMERGENCY!The Plunder of Our Planet, The Environmental Catastrophe & The Real Revolutionary Solution

Download PDF

Capitalism-Imperialism Is Destroying the Planet... Only Revolution Gives Humanity a Real Chance to Save It — A Resource Page >>

Featured

Bob Avakian—Why We Need An Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution (opening excerpt)

REVOLUTION, ROGER FEDERER’S TENNIS:
WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO DO WITH EACH OTHER?
A LOT, ACTUALLY.

by Bob Avakian

The Republican Party Is Fascist

The Democratic Party Is Also a Machine of Massive War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

This System CANNOT Be Reformed—It MUST Be Overthrown!

Republicans, Democrats and U.S. Crimes Against Humanity: A Chart

A Call for Volunteers to Join with Revolution Books:
At a Time of Great Danger and Revolutionary Possibility... Be Part of Something Truly Emancipating

Watch and spread: The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show

Episode 121

Champion of Democracy? Leader of the Free World?
Or BLOODY JAWED WOLF!
Iran, Ukraine, Climate Crisis

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!

youtube.com/therevcoms

What Is Science? Can We Apply Science to Society? Does Communism Meet the Falsifiability Criterion of Science?

Some of the slanderous attacks on Bob Avakian (BA) and the Revcoms have evolved to raise the controversy—and bogus charge—that communism is not a science, insinuating that it is a set of precepts of one person and setting the stage, therefore, for the charge that BA and the Revcoms are a “cult.” As a basic introduction, thorough refutation, and correct context, we recommend the following excerpts from Ardea Skybreak and Bob Avakian on precisely these questions.

Marxism as a Science—Refuting Karl Popper

by Bob Avakian

An excerpt from MAKING REVOLUTION AND EMANCIPATING HUMANITY

Excerpts from SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION

On the Importance of Science and the Application of Science to Society, the New Synthesis of Communism, and the Leadership of Bob Avakian
An Interview with Ardea Skybreak

Bob Avakian on the War In Ukraine — Essential Reading

An Important Article by Bob Avakian

THE WAR IN UKRAINE
AND THE INTERESTS OF HUMANITY:
A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH
VS. HARMFUL CONFUSION AND CHAUVINIST DELUSION

Download PDF for printing

“LEGIT GANGSTERS”—
GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

by Bob Avakian

Download PDF: Short Version | Longer Version

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 Revolution Club Fighting For... Getting Organized for... REVOLUTION

Join the National Movement to Bring Forward and Organize This Revolutionary Force

What do I do first?

Wherever you are, sign up.
Spread the word.

Find out more about Revolution Club »

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

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"

Download and print organizing materials

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)

Summary:

The “Industrialization” of Sexual Exploitation, Imperialist Globalization, and the Descent into Hell

Thanks to all who donated, our summer fund drive to sustain and expand revcom.us exceeded our $20,000 goal!

Thanks to all who donated, our summer fund drive to sustain and expand revcom.us exceeded our $20,000 goal!

A Guide to This Issue of Revolution

This issue:

Bob Avakian on Methods, Principles and Standards

Revcoms and Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights Answer the Attack Dogs

Lenny Wolff: Fighting for Leadership, Principles, and Standards to Get Beyond This Capitalist-Imperialist Nightmare

A Reply to the “Statement Against RiseUp4AbortionRights”: In Defense of the Emancipation of Humanity and the Leadership We Need to Get There

The Revcoms

From RiseUp4AbortionRights.org:

To Those Who Would Rather Lie, Slander, and Attack Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights Than Unite All Who Can Be United Against This Fascist Assault

Opening Commentary by Andy Zee from The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show: Episode 112, July 28

Behind the Week of Internet Attacks on Bob Avakian and the Revcoms: Imperialist Fear Mongers and Their Servants

In Reply to the Reactionary Hit Piece in the Daily Beast: Why I DO Follow Bob Avakian... and Why YOU Should Too

by Sunsara Taylor

A Contended Question: How To Understand Why Some People Like BA and What He Stands For and Some Hate Him

BA: A Contended Question

Haters Who “Don’t Want to Hear About BA” Are Telling on Themselves

Bob Avakian Speaks to “Cult”: A Ridiculous, Ignorant, and Irresponsible Accusation

We Are Applying a Scientific Method and Approach to Understanding, and Transforming, the World To Emancipate Humanity

Bob Avakian Answers Accusations of “Cult”: IGNORANCE, AND COWARDICE

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Republished from BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian, an excerpt from the essay:

Interview With Bob Avakian

The interview has been serialized in seven parts.

Important Articles By Bob Avakian Opposing “Woke” Distractions and Obstructions

Read it | Watch it -->

January 2021:

NEW YEAR’S STATEMENT BY BOB AVAKIAN

A New Year, The Urgent Need For A Radically New World— For The Emancipation Of All Humanity

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

FROM THE REVCOMS (REVCOM.US):

A DECLARATION, A CALL TO GET ORGANIZED NOWFOR A REAL REVOLUTION

by Bob Avakian

by Bob Avakian

Read the article | Watch the video

A Guide to This Issue of Revolution

The Courageous Uprising in Iran

The Burial of the Compulsory Hijab, the Burial of the Integration of Religion with the State Has Begun! Let's Finish It!

September 23, 2022 Communiqué of the Communist Party of Iran (M.L.M.) www.cpimlm.org

Compulsory Hijab and the Murder of Women: Key Tools of the Fascist Islamic Republic of Iran to Strangle the Whole Society September 17, 2022

Iran’s Islamic Republic Sowed the Wind by Killing Mahsa Amini: NOW IT IS REAPING A HURRICANE OF REBELLION

Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!

Courageous Uprising In Iran: How Did Things Get to This Point? Did the U.S. Have Anything to Do With It?

This Saturday, October 1: “The Time Has Come—Freedom Rally For Iran.”

From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners NOW (IEC)

“Death To the Oppressor” Rings Out on Iran’s Streets: Islamic Republic Murders 22-Year-Old Mahsa Amini for “Violating” Mandatory Hijab Rules

“Internationalism—The Whole World Comes First.” —Bob Avakian, BAsics 5:8

Bob Avakian on Imperialism and Internationalism... The Whole World Comes First—NOT America First

Would Mexico and Central America still be the U.S. backyard after the revolution? Q&A with Bob Avakian

—Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:31

PDF folleto 5.6x8.74" (español) | PDF 8.5x11" (español)

A Reply to the “Statement Against RiseUp4AbortionRights”:

In Defense of the Emancipation of Humanity and the Leadership We Need to Get There

In Reply to the Reactionary Hit Piece in the Daily Beast:
Why I DO Follow Bob Avakian... and Why YOU Should Too

Bob Avakian Answers
Accusations of “Cult”:
IGNORANCE, AND COWARDICE

A New Year,
The Urgent Need For A Radically New World—
For The Emancipation Of All Humanity

THIS IS A RARE TIME WHEN REVOLUTION BECOMES POSSIBLE—
WHY THAT IS SO, AND HOW TO SEIZE ON THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY

A DECLARATION,
A CALL TO GET ORGANIZED NOW
FOR A REAL REVOLUTION

September 23, 2022

Communiqué of the Communist Party of Iran (M.L.M.) www.cpimlm.org

Compulsory Hijab and the Murder of Women:
Key Tools of the Fascist Islamic Republic of Iran to Strangle the Whole Society
September 17, 2022

Iran’s Islamic Republic Sowed the Wind by Killing Mahsa Amini:

NOW IT IS REAPING A HURRICANE OF REBELLION

Courageous Uprising In Iran:

How Did Things Get to This Point? Did the U.S. Have Anything to Do With It?

This Saturday, October 1:

“The Time Has Come—Freedom Rally For Iran.”

“Death To the Oppressor” Rings Out on Iran’s Streets:

Islamic Republic Murders 22-Year-Old Mahsa Amini for “Violating” Mandatory Hijab Rules