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Bringing Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights to the Women's March National Convention—Big Impact, a Lot to Build On

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Over 1,000 people attended the National Convention of the Women's March in Houston on the weekend of August 13-14. A booth staffed by members of Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights (RU4AR) was, as one of the RU4AR volunteers said, "MOBBED" throughout Saturday. "Our booth, our materials—stickers, posters, bandanas, which were highly in demand, seemed to be a major pole of attraction. People were looking for a way to ACT and they found it. The photos of the green wave in Argentina and the bold actions like Guido on the bridge elicited an emotional response with two people I can remember saying they literally got goosebumps."

Hundreds of packets containing Rise Up leaflets, stickers, a green bandanna, and the Rise Up response, "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," were distributed. Funds were raised to support RU4AR's efforts. Women from big cities and from towns in Colorado and Utah and places like Lansing, Michigan, and Texarkana, Texas/Arkansas, met with the staffers.

On Sunday, a crew of Revcom supporters also went to the convention. People came to the convention not only looking for ways to act but with questions and thoughts about why the right to abortion is under attack, where does this attack go from here and what objectively is a fascist offensive, what does the future hold, with a few saying we need a revolution but with some different understandings of what that means. The Revcom supporters directed people to BA’s "Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating...," with a brief explanation of why we are confronting the specter of a fascist America, but also why these are rare times when revolution becomes possible. The Revcoms raised funds for the Revolution website, sold "Forced Motherhood Is Female Enslavement" T-shirts to raise money for the National Tour to Organize for an ACTUAL Revolution, and distributed hundreds of palm cards for Bob Avakian's "Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating..."

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From the genocide in Gaza, to the growing threat of world war between nuclear powers, to escalating environmental devastation… the capitalist-imperialist system ruling over us is a horror for billions around the world and is tearing up the fabric of life on earth. Now the all-out battle within the U.S. ruling class, between fascist Republicans and war criminal Democrats, is coming to a head—likely during, or before, the coming elections—ripping society apart unlike anything since the Civil War. 

Bob Avakian (BA), revolutionary leader and author of the new communism, has developed a strategy to prepare for and make revolution. He’s scientifically analyzed that this is a rare time when an actual revolution has become more possible, and has laid out the sweeping vision, solid foundation and concrete blueprint for “what comes next,” in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America

The website revcom.us follows and applies that leadership and is essential to all this. We post new materials from BA and curate his whole body of work. We apply the science he’s developed to analyze and expose every key event in society, every week. Revcom.us posts BA’s timely leadership for the revcoms (revolutionary communists), including his social media posts which break this down for people every week and sometimes more. We act as a guiding and connecting hub for the growing revcom movement nationwide: not just showing what’s being done, but going into what’s right and what’s wrong and rapidly learning—and recruiting new people into what has to be a rapidly growing force.

Put it this way: there will be no revolution unless this website not only “keeps going” but goes up to a whole different level!

So what should you give to make 2024 our year—a year of revolution? 
Everything you possibly can! 
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Your donations contribute to:

  • Promotion of BA on social media and the Bob Avakian Interviews on The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show 
  • Strengthen revcom.us as an accessible, secure, robust website able to rise to the challenge of meeting the extraordinary demands of navigating the storms and preparing for revolution in this pivotal, unprecedented year
  • Fund revcoms to travel to national “hotspots,” where extreme contradictions are pulling apart the fabric of this country and creating the possibility of wrenching an actual revolution out of this intensifying situation
  • Expand the reach and coverage of revcom.us
  • Printing and distribution of key Revcom materials including the Declaration and Proclamation