Donate to the $30,000 fund drive for the National Campaign to Get @BobAvakianOfficial Reaching Everywhere.
Bob Avakian is a revolutionary leader who has developed the new communism. Through his social media, he is providing real time leadership for how to understand all the fascist craziness, what millions need to do to defeat this fascism, and how to do so as part of getting rid of the system that's given rise to this fascism, and so many other atrocities... how it really is possible to get to a radically different system.
We are almost two thirds to our goal, and there are a number of new donors contributing, but we are going to extend the drive until July 15 to meet, and even exceed, this goal. The funds are for a high-impact postering campaign for @BobAvakianOfficial, interacting with social media advertising—aiming to reach millions. The funds also go toward an on-the-ground grassroots movement spreading Bob Avakian's work throughout society.
** We are excited to share that The Bob Avakian Institute is printing Volume 2 of the pamphlet, Trump/MAGA Fascism: What We're Really Facing, Why, and What Must Be Done to Defeat It Before It's Too Late. This is a series of social media messages from Bob Avakian. The new edition will include new messages, along with the New Year's message, 2025: A New Year—Profound New Challenges—And a Profoundly Positive Way Forward in the Face of Very Real Horror. The Institute distributed 30,000 of Volume 1, and will be printing Volume 2 in bulk. You can download a copy here and write to them at info@TheBobAvakianInstitute.org to place an order.
Just think about the last few weeks in this incredibly fraught and wildly changing time: All of a sudden, fully armed federal agents start roaming city streets kidnapping immigrants. This is met with mass resistance and Trump sends in the U.S. military. Trump calls off workplace raids, and within 24 hours, comes out more viciously in support of them. A war on Iran starts and then stops. The fascist Supreme Court shatters the rule of law and rips away the basic rights of whole sections of people. The U.S. sees one of the largest days of protest in its history. There are fracturing divides among all sections of people—the Republi-fascists, the Democrats, the broad masses of people. What people thought was reliable and stable about society goes up in smoke before their very eyes.
This has led to anger and agonizing with millions and millions of people jolted awake by Trump/MAGA fascism. There is almost no gathering—no dinner party, no family gathering, no concert—where the horrific state of the world goes unmentioned, full of worried hand-wringing and upset.
People want to understand: What the fuck is happening? Why? Where did all this insanity come from? And what can we do to stop it? And there are big underlying questions: Is there hope? A positive way the world can be?
What Bob Avakian (BA) is doing through his social media messages is unique in providing concrete, real-time, consistent scientific guidance and clarity for these crucial and confusing events and questions as they are unfolding.
Have a look through the social media messages in this Volume 2 (or Volume 1) to get a sense of what we mean.
BA spoke directly to the role these social media messages can play in the Interview he did earlier this year with Sunsara Taylor:
It's very important that amidst all the noise out there that this [these social media messages] break through and reach people and get people themselves involved in struggling over what's being said... Is it true? If it is true, what are the implications of that? How do we understand this? What's the method that's being used to go after the different aspects of reality that are being engaged and analyzed? It's very important with all the noise out there and all the distraction out there that keeps people numbed, and worse, to try to break through that and rally people to the orientation of really engaging deeply with the world and what needs to be done about changing it in a positive way."
Bob Avakian answers what role his social media messages play in helping people understand, and change, the world. From the January, 2025 Interview with Sunsara Taylor, "Humanity Does Not Have to Live This Way."
As we have written before, what people do or do not do will pivot on what they do—and do not—understand.
Reaching the millions of people we spoke about above with the leadership that BA is providing will take funds. And because he is leading people to think outside of, and beyond, the confines of this system—it will take a struggle. This is going up against those who are working to resolve the crisis with fascism within the terms of the system that gave rise to this.
While uniting all who can be united, now is a time for a broad debate and discussion—and BA's work, getting at the truth and providing standards for strengthening the unity that's needed is essential.
Reach widely with Bob Avakian's social media, and with a call to donate to get this before many others.
Go here for a fundraising letter that you can adapt. And here for some reports from volunteers with important lessons about the need to make the fundraising itself a mass social question.
Everything we do right now will be enriched by getting together with friends to discuss these social media messages—with your friends and neighbors, your family, people you work with... or reach out to people you don't know and organize a discussion! This is a time to grapple together, in principled debate and discussion, about how to understand what we're facing and what's needed.
Write to info@BobAvakianOfficialEverywhere.org with your thoughts—on the content of these messages, on questions and obstacles you're encountering, and on positive experience and engagement you're having.
** We are inspired to share this moving letter from friends from the Iranian Diaspora and others who support Iran’s political prisoners and the Women, Life, Freedom uprising. They are doing a fundraiser for the Campaign to Get @BobAvakianOfficial Everywhere by selling an important book from the recently released Iranian political prisoner, Sepideh Gholian, Evin Prison Bakers’ Club, Surviving Iran’s Most Notorious Prisons in 16 Recipes.
Read about and join in their efforts.
We are some friends from the Iranian Diaspora and others who support Iran’s political prisoners and the Women, Life, Freedom uprising. We want to contribute again to winning the $30K BA Official fund drive.
To reiterate what our group said in calling for others to donate in the last such important fund drive: “The people of Iran have fought and sacrificed for decades to get free of oppressive regimes, with a spirit, heroism, and self-sacrifice that are an inspiration and example. But that alone is not enough. People need scientific leadership with the strategy that will enable them to defeat oppressive and fascist regimes and emancipate themselves and all humanity. We think that Bob Avakian is such a revolutionary leader. We are lucky to have BA's revolutionary leadership at this crucial time.”
We oppose the Zionist-fascist Israeli-U.S. war in full force against Iran. It is a dire threat to all the people in Iran, the people all over the Middle East and possibly the world as the war threatens to expand exponentially. And Israel’s terror bombing of trapped, defenseless prisoners in Evin, with its many political prisoners, is as depraved as their bombing of hospitals in Gaza.
We have consistently opposed the dark ages, capitalist theocratic regime in Iran with its extreme, misogynistic repression, now more than ever. We stand firmly in support of the courageous political dissidents there, especially the prison hunger strikers determined to stop the now wartime execution machine that may go into high gear.
One of Iran’s inspiring voices of resistance has been that of Sepideh Gholian. She is a journalist-activist who was imprisoned by the Islamic Republic for most of her twenties. She was arrested in late 2018 during a labor strike and severely tortured in detention. In early 2023, when she was released from Evin prison, a video of her removing her hijab and calling for the downfall of Khamenei went viral.
She was rearrested hours later and sentenced to two more years. She has been released recently in mid-June 2025, shortly after the release of her book.
We think it appropriate to offer her new book Evin Prison Bakers’ Club, Surviving Iran’s Most Notorious Prisons in 16 Recipes for donors to the campaign to get @BobAvakianOfficial reaching everywhere. It is part of humanizing the people, and political prisoners, now under attack by the U.S.-Israel axis. The book objectively captures the kind of culture in a future, revolutionary society that we can imagine from the new communism developed by Bob Avakian. The book blends brutal reality with a flight of the imagination so boundaries are not absolute but in motion. It is imbued with a largeness of mind and generosity of spirit, an unconditional camaraderie under duress, a collective joy in the fierce struggle against women’s oppression, and more. It portends what humanity is capable of—with the leadership that can lead us to be emancipated from enforced systems of exploitation and oppression that is today’s world.
Cover image of The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club by Sepideh Gholian. Graphic: OneWorld. Graphic: OneWorld.
And Sepideh’s journey comes with 16 recipes from around the world (for aspiring or current good bakers)! One recipe reminds the baker to “remember to wear a flowery dress” while making the dish (or maybe a flowery shirt).
We collectively pledge to raise $500 for this project by July 1. We are asking $50 to cover the book’s cost plus the donation. The book is also available at Revolution Books in Berkeley and sales of the book will also contribute to this important bookstore staying open.
In the near future, we also are planning fundraising activities for the @BobAvakianOfficial campaign as the Evin Prison Bakers Club auxiliary. We may hold a bake-off ourselves, but want to encourage others to bake recipes from Sepideh’s book, and to sell books to friends/family, and donate the funds to WINNING this historic fight to connect Bob Avakian’s rare and unique revolutionary leadership to millions. What future we get does indeed depend on it.