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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 August 15, 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:

Bob Avakian on Methods, Principles and Standards
More Letters In Support of Bob Avakian and Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights
Revcoms and Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights Answer the Attack Dogs
A Contended Question: How To Understand Why Some People Like BA and What He Stands For and Some Hate Him
Bob Avakian: A Radically Different Leader—A Whole New Framework for Human Emancipation
Organizing for an Actual Revolution:
7 Key Points
VIDEO: Lenny Wolff: Fighting for Leadership, Principles, and Standards
VIDEO: Kicking into High Gear the Campaign to Grow the Audience of The RNL Show
San Francisco’s Outrageous Injection of Pro-abortion Protester Challenged in Federal Court
What to Learn–and What NOT to Learn–From the Kansas Referendum on Abortion
From The RNL Show, Episode 114: Opening Commentary by Andy Zee
VIDEO: Q&A with Bob Avakian: “You've dedicated your life to revolution. Have you ever been discouraged? How do you stay motivated?”
Intensifying Conflict Between Republi-fascists and Democrats
Aftermath of Pelosi’s Provocative Taiwan Visit
Concussion Decision Further Exposes Murderous, Thieving Racism of NFL Owners
Heinous Attack on Salman Rushdie Must Be Condemned
Black Police Chief Reformer… Meet Reality
News On the Struggle to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners
More featured articles...

Organizing for an Actual Revolution:

7 Key Points >>

Download Pamphlet PDF (printer spreads) | Download Leaflet PDF (letter size, 2-sided)

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.

More Letters In Support of Bob Avakian and Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights

“Methods And Principles In Line With A New World… vs Lies And Petty Jockeying”

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 >>

Roosevelt, member of the Chicago Revolution Club, reads his statement of support for Bob Avakian

Sunsara Taylor Interviews Longtime Pro-Abortion Feminist Carol Downer

Andy Zee interviews political activist Jim Fouratt

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read it | Watch it -->

Download and print PDF:

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

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

Andy Zee interviews Victoria Eggers from LA chapter of RiseUp4AbortionRights & Vets Rise 4 Roe

Featured

From The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show Episode 114, August 11, 2022

Opening Commentary by Andy Zee

“You've dedicated your life to revolution. Have you ever been discouraged? How do you stay motivated?”

Q&A with Bob Avakian, after the filmed speech WHY WE NEED AN ACTUAL REVOLUTION AND HOW WE CAN REALLY MAKE REVOLUTION

International Poetry Festival in Medellín, Colombia: Boldly Struggling to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners on the Basis of Internationalism

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

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

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Episode 115

Real Revolution & the New Communism—
NOT Trying to Reform This Rotten Empire

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“A REVOLUTION RHYME
FOR THIS HISTORIC TIME”

by a Revcom Poet

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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

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The War in Ukraine: Dangerous Developments, Imperialist Power Moves, Rank American Hypocrisy

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

From Bob Avakian on Ukraine:

“LEGIT GANGSTERS”—
GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

by Bob Avakian

Download PDF: Short Version | Longer Version

Sean Penn’s Delirious Madness
And the Danger of Nuclear War

by Bob Avakian

The Cuban Missile Crisis: World In The Balance — an excerpt from Bob Avakian's memoir

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

Imperialist Parasitism and “Democracy”:

Why So Many Liberals and Progressives

Are Shameless Supporters of “Their” Imperialism

by Bob Avakian

Bob Avakian Calls Out
FRONTING FOR THIS SYSTEM
OF OPPRESSION

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

From the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America: an entirely different kind of military with an entirely different purpose, structure and ethics.

Read this excerpt of the Constitution, authored by Bob Avakian, to get a beginning sense of what this would be like.

See more about Ukraine >>

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 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”

Constitution For The New Socialist Republic In North America cover 400

Download PDF

How Would a Revolutionary Socialist Society Address the Environmental Emergency?

Some Key Principles of Socialist Sustainable Development

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

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

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

Summer 2022 revcom.us fund drive reaches goal: It's not too late to donate!

Summer 2022 revcom.us fund drive reaches goal: It's not too late to donate!

A Guide to This Issue of Revolution

This issue:

Bob Avakian on Methods, Principles and Standards

More Letters In Support of Bob Avakian and Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights

“Methods And Principles In Line With A New World… vs Lies And Petty Jockeying”

Roosevelt, member of the Chicago Revolution Club, reads his statement of support for Bob Avakian

Sunsara Taylor Interviews Longtime Pro-Abortion Feminist Carol Downer

Reposted from Counterpunch:

Why is “the Left” Red-Baiting Rise Up for Abortion Rights on the Eve of Fascist Destruction?

by Paul Street

Andy Zee interviews political activist Jim Fouratt

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

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

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

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.

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

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

“A Scientific Approach to Society, and Changing the World”

“A Scientific Outlook, A Boundless Curiosity About the World”

“A Scientific Assessment: The World Today Is a Horror for the Majority of Humanity—And That Can Be Radically Changed”

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

Robert Mackey Dishonestly Demonizes Bob Avakian, Erases Revolution, and Trashes the Truth WILL THE INTERCEPT STAND BY THIS?

by Sunsara Taylor

Bob Avakian Is Not a “Mad Cult Leader”: He Is a Deep Thinker and Profoundly Thoughtful Leader

An Open Letter to Fighters for Abortion Being Hit by This Accusation—And Others Who Are Hearing It

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

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

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

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

WILL THE INTERCEPT STAND BY THIS?