What follows is not comprehensive, but aimed at highlighting key and timely works from Bob Avakian.
For a more extensive listing of BA's works, go here.
THE BOB AVAKIAN INTERVIEWS 2025
"Humanity Does Not Have to Live This Way!"
Part 1: Fascism, Capitalism, & the Way Out of the Madness
Part 2: The New Communism: A Whole New Way To Live, a Fundamentally Different System
- Essential readings from BA
- BA: A Different Kind of Leader
- On Fascism
- Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America
- What Is Science?
- Democracy and Dictatorship
- Revolutionary Strategy
- Internationalism
- Exploitation
- Palestine
- The Oppression of Women
- The Oppression of Black People
- Revolution Not Reform
- “Woke” Obstructions
- On Liberals and Parasitic Imperialism
- Ukraine
- Sports and Big Questions
- Religion
Up Close and Personal with Bob Avakian, Heart and Soul & Hard-Core For Revolution (2022)
Bob Avakian: A Completely Different Kind of Leader
On Trump/MAGA Fascism
Important Messages from Bob Avakian, courtesy of The Bob Avakian Institute:
A series of social media messages. Plus his New Year's message: 2025: A New Year—Profound New Challenges—And a Profoundly Positive Way Forward in the Face of Very Real Horror.
Watch and listen to the playlist of these messages
Follow @BobAvakianOfficial on youtube, substack and telegram for real-time revolutionary leadership. This includes sharp analysis on what we're facing with Trump MAGA fascism, the roots of this in this system and how it's possible to drive this regime from power through mass sustained, non-violent protest.
This far-sighted book—published in 1999—includes a scathing refutation of the reality behind conservative Christian fascist morality, a critical look at the limitations of “liberation theology,” including a discussion of Jim Wallis’s book, The Soul of Politics, and an inspiring look at morality from a revolutionary perspective.
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Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America
CONSTITUTION For The New Socialist Republic In North America (Draft Proposal) Authored by Bob Avakian and adopted by the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
The New Communism: The legal system, prisons & the rights of the people in the new socialist society
Excerpt from the Bob Avakian Interviews, 2025: Humanity Does Not Have to Live This Way! PART 2- The New Communism: A Whole New Way To Live, a Fundamentally Different System
Watch in full at @bobavakianofficial.
On The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, by Bob Avakian
It is a fact that, nowhere else, in any actual or proposed founding or guiding document of any government, is there anything like not only the protection but the provision for dissent and intellectual and cultural ferment that is embodied in this Constitution, while this has, as its solid core, a grounding in the socialist transformation of the economy, with the goal of abolishing all exploitation, and the corresponding transformation of the social relations and political institutions, to uproot all oppression, and the promotion, through the educational system and in society as a whole, of an approach that will “enable people to pursue the truth wherever it leads, with a spirit of critical thinking and scientific curiosity, and in this way to continually learn about the world and be better able to contribute to changing it in accordance with the fundamental interests of humanity.”
What Is Science? Can We Apply Science to Society?
PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION
Excerpts from SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION
An Interview with Ardea Skybreak
Democracy and Dictatorship
The Strategy for Revolution... In This Rare Time
The Bob Avakian Interviews, 2025, Part 2: The New Communism...
The Bob Avakian Interviews, 2025, Part 2: The New Communism...
“Internationalism—The Whole World Comes First.” —BAsics 5:8
“If you can conceive of a world without America—without everything America stands for and everything it does in the world—then you’ve already taken great strides and begun to get at least a glimpse of a whole new world. If you can envision a world without any imperialism, exploitation, oppression—and the whole philosophy that rationalizes it—a world without division into classes or even different nations, and all the narrow-minded, selfish, outmoded ideas that uphold this; if you can envision all this, then you have the basis for proletarian internationalism. And once you have raised your sights to all this, how could you not feel compelled to take an active part in the world historic struggle to realize it; why would you want to lower your sights to anything less?”
—Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:31
Bob Avakian on Imperialism and Internationalism... The Whole World Comes First—NOT America First
Would Mexico and Central America still be the U.S. backyard after the revolution? Q&A with Bob Avakian
On Exploitation
VIDEO: Exploitation: What It Is, How to Put an End to it
On Palestine, Israel, Imperialism: War, The Danger of Even Greater War—And Revolution
To put it in basic terms, Israel is a colonial-settler state which was imposed on the region of the Middle East, at the cost of great suffering for the Palestinian people (and the people of the region more broadly), Israel could not have come into being without the backing of imperialism, and it acts not only in its own interests but as an armed garrison and instrument of enforcement for U.S. imperialism.
Bob Avakian on the Two Meanings of “Never Again”
An except from REVOLUTION AND RELIGION: A Dialogue Between CORNEL WEST & BOB AVAKIAN
This groundbreaking analysis, made during the George W. Bush years, continues to be very relevant, especially in the context of sharpening contradictions centered in the Middle East.
On the Oppression of Women and the Revolutionary Struggle to Emancipate ALL Humanity
You cannot break all the chains, except one. You cannot say you want to be free of exploitation and oppression, except you want to keep the oppression of women by men. You can’t say you want to liberate humanity yet keep one half of the people enslaved to the other half. The oppression of women is completely bound up with the division of society into masters and slaves, exploiters and exploited, and the ending of all such conditions is impossible without the complete liberation of women. All this is why women have a tremendous role to play not only in making revolution but in making sure there is all-the-way revolution. The fury of women can and must be fully unleashed as a mighty force for proletarian revolution.
BAsics 3:22
From A TALK BY BOB AVAKIAN, FALL 2009, UNRESOLVED CONTRADICTIONS, DRIVING FORCES FOR REVOLUTION
The New Synthesis and the Woman Question: The Emancipation of Women and the Communist Revolution—Further Leaps and Radical Ruptures
Bob Avakian: Break ALL The Chains
An excerpt from The Bob Avakian Interviews
Bob Avakian: Break the Chains, Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!
Why does private ownership of the means of production result in oppression of women?
Q&A With Bob Avakian
On the Oppression of Black People and the Revolutionary Struggle to End All Oppression
Bob Avakian for the Liberation of Black People and the Emancipation of All Humanity
Bob Avakian for the Liberation of Black People and the Emancipation of All Humanity
Liberating Revolution, Not Lifeless Reformism
Opposing “Woke” Distractions and Obstructions
VIDEO: A Serious Fight Against Injustice—
Not a Petty Hustle for "Ownership"
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Bob Avakian: Woke is a Joke, a Bad Joke
On Liberals and Parasitic Imperialism
VIDEO: LIBERALS... LIAR LIAR
On the War In Ukraine
“LEGIT GANGSTERS”—
GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Bob Avakian: Free Yourself from the GTF! The Great Tautological Fallacy
On Sports and Big Questions
BASKETBALL AND BIG QUESTIONS
The Caitlin Clark Controversy—Greats, “Greatest of All Time,” White Stars in a “Black Sport,” Racism and the Fight Against it, and the Kind of World We Should Strive to Have
by Bob Avakian—revolutionary leader, author and architect of the new communism, and a passionate fan of basketball
The NBA: Marketing the Minstrel Show and Serving the Big Gangsters
From "7 Talks" (2006)
Track 1, Track 2
On Religion
AWAY WITH ALL GODS
Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian
AWAY WITH ALL GODS
Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian
REVOLUTION AND RELIGION:
The Fight For Emancipation and the Role of Religion
A Dialogue Between CORNEL WEST and BOB AVAKIAN
A film of the November 2014 historic Dialogue on a question of great importance in today's world between the Revolutionary Christian Cornel West and the Revolutionary Communist Bob Avakian.