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Editorial:

Raising Money… and Making Revolution

This week we call on all revcoms, on everyone who supports the revcoms, and on all of you who hunger for a different world and have come to this site seeking one… to do two big things:

One, make a major effort to get out the Proclamation WE ARE THE REVCOMS. If you’ve been doing this, sum up with others your efforts so far, develop thinking and plans to make those efforts count for more, find the ways to bring forward people you’ve been meeting to be part of this whole process, and make another major push. And if you haven’t been doing this, let’s get busy!!

REVCOMS distribute the broadsheet.

 

REVCOMS distribute the broadsheet.    Photo: @therevcoms

This is a time of sharp changes. Radical change is coming, one way or the other. That change will either be a reactionary, violent change coming on top of the horror that already exists… or a revolutionary, emancipating change. This Proclamation puts before the world our scientific understanding of the need for revolution and possibility—IN THIS TIME—to make revolution.

Two, take out the call for the June 4 Fundraising Livestream when you are distributing WE ARE THE REVCOMS and circulate that call far and wide. Begin yourselves to raise the urgently needed money to make the vision in WE ARE THE REVCOMS a material force in society.

The movement for revolution needs money to not only get out thousands and thousands of these Proclamations to people, but to carry out the many-pronged strategy laid out in that Proclamation.

IMPORTANT: Making revolution requires struggling with people to concretely support that revolution, every step along the way, whether they have known about the revolution for a while or are just getting introduced to it. When you struggle with people not just over ideas, but over what they are going to do—including where they are going to put their resources—you give them a way to change the world and to change themselves too.

Making revolution also requires working with people, bringing them in on the problems we are trying to solve and why, and unleashing their creativity to more deeply understand and help solve problems, in a process together with others. We have many examples over the past year and more of people who have done what may seem to be small things—making and selling crafts, bake sales, yard sales, going to friends and family and so on—but if multiplied could be very significant. These “building block” activities enable people to contribute their talents and in the process to create revolutionary networks of organization, community and solidarity. Let us know what you are doing or have done, so others can learn.

At this Sunday’s livestream, we’ll be talking with Sunsara Taylor about her speech at UCLA on “‘Woke’ Lunacy Vs. Real Revolution” and the initiative this is part of. We’ll go back and forth with Michelle Xai of the Los Angeles Revolution Club on what’s coming up this summer. And we’ll get into the three-part interview with Bob Avakian, Up Close and Personal with Bob Avakian: Heart and Soul & Hard-Core for Revolution, with Annie Day, and some new plans to widely promote it.

So get the word out on this livestream fundraiser. Bring people together for festive group watches. Build this as a big aid in raising funds.

Very importantly: send experiences you have this week in getting out the Proclamation and in raising funds to getorganizedforrevolutiontour@gmail.com or DM us @therevcoms by this Saturday at noon.

One final note: As part of this, and leading into the fundraising livestream, we should spread the powerful and provocative speech from Sunsara Taylor, “‘Woke’ Lunacy Vs. Real Revolution,” and raise funds from people in every corner of society who want to see this woke madness taken on.

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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! 
DONATE NOW to revcom.us and get with BA and the revcoms!    

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