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Episode 73 of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show

Bob Avakian on Revenge vs. Emancipation! PLUS: Cornel West, Andy Zee on The Wretched of the Earth

In Episode 73: Bob Avakian on Revenge vs. Emancipation! Plus, Cornel West and Andy Zee on the 60th-year anniversary publication of Franz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. And sights and sounds from the Women's March for Abortion Justice and the need for mass resistance and revolution, NOT relying on elections and the system.

In this rare time when revolution could be ripened and made in the U.S. imperialist citadel... when so many around the world suffer so needlessly as a result of this system of capitalism-imperialism... and when many are looking for a way out of this nightmare... we bring you crucial guidance and leadership, as well as debate and discussion. An excerpt of a speech from Bob Avakian, the most important political leader and thinker on the planet, speaks to why revenge must not guide the revolution but instead must be rooted in the emancipation of ALL humanity.

Then, we present a major exchange between Cornel West and Andy Zee on the occasion of the 60th anniversary publication of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. This Revolution Books NYC event, produced in partnership with the Brooklyn Book Festival, featured Cornel West, who wrote the introduction for this new edition of the book, in conversation with Andy Zee, host of The RNL Show. This took place at Revolution Books NYC on September 29, 2021. It was a packed house that spilled into the street with outdoor seating and it was Livestreamed. Watch the full event here.

Co-host Sunsara Taylor returns to the abortion rights emergency. She brings some sights and sounds from the march, highlighting the impact and revolutionary clarity brought by the BREAK ALL THE CHAINS! Unleash the Fury of Women As A Mighty Force For Revolution! contingents organized by the Revcoms. She also calls out the danger of the strategy put forward by the main Women's March leaders of relying on this system's elections, calling instead for mass, sustained resistance and organizing for an actual revolution.

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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.

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