In a World Crying Out for Change:
A Bold Plan to Go into 2023 with a Roar

This world cries out for revolution. The dog-eat-dog economic and political system we live our lives under gives rise to one horror after another. Think about it:

• Wars to expand and/or defend empire, from the Ukraine to Middle East, and nuclear threats that could blow humanity off the planet altogether thrown around by Russia and the U.S. (go here for a some of the key articles on Ukraine).
• The intensifying and vengeful oppression of women, from the stripping of abortion rights in the U.S. to the murderous repression in Iran of women demonstrating for the simple right of dressing and moving as they please, as well as the brutality and humiliation visited on LGBTQ people.
• The violent pillaging and destruction of the environment we live in, where empty promises are a new form of pollution and millions of refugees pour out of countries made unlivable, desperately risking their lives to be able to live.
• And right here, in the “leader of the free world,” the holiday season comes with more people locked up than anywhere else on the planet by far—two million people who are way disproportionately Black youth, Latino youth, and Native youth—with this just the ugly, brutal tip of a centuries-long iceberg of oppression and discrimination of all kinds.

Yes, this IS America: the society where life is so “wonderful” that in the past ten days alone, three times some individual has gone off and killed multiple people… people on a football team… people in a gay bar… people at work… when does it end?!?

Bob Avakian, BA, the most important thinker and leader on the planet today, has said:

We can no longer afford to allow these imperialists to dominate the world and to determine the destiny of humanity. They need to be overthrown as quickly as possible.

We Need a Revolution—A REAL Revolution

BA has also brought forward a strategy for how to go from the small numbers today in the revolutionary movement to thousands and then millions. He’s developed a strategy for defeating and dismantling, when the time is right, the system’s forces of violent repression. And he’s authored a Constitution for the new society, a sweeping vision and concrete blueprint for a way that people could live and flourish together.

Bob Avakian and the Revcoms are talking about a real revolution—not just a change of faces in the same old system, but something much deeper:

• A totally new economic system rooted in cooperation, meeting people’s needs, tending the environment and supporting revolution all over the planet…
• A new political system that reinforces that economic system and backs people up in changing all the oppressive relations of today, all the ways that one section of people lords it over another… and
• A new culture and new ways of relating to people that can enable people to flourish as they change the world.

And Now We Have a Game-Changer

A few short weeks ago, The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less! Youtube show began posting a series of three interviews with Bob Avakian. These interviews are at one and the same time delightful and very, very deep and serious. BA speaks to everyone in these interviews. He does it from the heart and he does it with all the science that he has led in developing these past 50 years—a science that can be wielded to analyze and change and liberate the society we live in. Go here to see or read some of the ways that a whole range of people have responded.

Over these next six weeks, getting this interview out into society is the leading edge of actually preparing the ground, preparing the people and preparing the vanguard itself for revolution… for the time when millions can be led to put it on the line to bring in a whole new world.

At the same time, the Revcoms (short for revolutionary communists) are aiming to raise $100,000 in the next few months. This fund drive will make it possible to get the interview out there, and also make possible the continued operation of this website and of the Revolution Tour project, now located in LA. This Tuesday marks the launch of the fund drive, and there are materials on this page to find out more and get started. Raising and donating funds to this movement is a great way to support the movement and to expand it.

From watching the interview in groups to spreading the word in many different ways…

From raising funds to talking with friends or people you’ve just met and getting them to spread it…

From joining with revcoms—or going yourself—to get the word out where the contradictions and conflicts of society are roiling the sharpest, using everything from tablets to trucks to show people clips from this interview—this is what the next six weeks should look like. And the more that you join with this, the faster and stronger this movement for revolution can grow.

We need this all over. People need to see this on the walls and telephone poles… and see it again on social media… They need to run into people handing them palm cards on the streets or trains… and then see it again on bulletin boards from laundromats to campuses to clubs… so that this becomes “a thing” and a growing mass of people begin to meet this leader, hear what he says about the times we’re living in, and find out how they can be part of revolution, and the emancipation of humanity.

Go here to find three short reasons you can tell everyone to watch this interview, and go here to read a letter addressing the revcoms themselves on how to approach this. In addition, there are new responses from different people to the interview that give a sense of the breadth of people who are getting into this and what they are taking from it. And remember: December 10-11 is a major fund-raising weekend with events in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Berkeley and hopefully more cities.

Also in this issue, we call your attention to news from the heroic rebellions in Iran, some key articles and clips from Bob Avakian on Ukraine, and other important articles. And come back during the week for news of the November 25 and December 1 actions called by RiseUp4AbortionRights.

Included in this issue:

* Three-part interview: 
Up Close and Personal with 
Bob Avakian 
Heart and Soul & Hard-Core for Revolution

• Part 3
• Part 2
• Part 1
• New: In a Time When the Future Hangs in the Balance, When Solutions Offered End Up with the Horrors Going On and On… There Is Hope, and a Roadmap to the Emancipation of Humanity: DONATE GENEROUSLY to make this hope a reality
• Special page with ways to join the efforts to spread the word, donate, find out what people are saying and materials to distribute.
• Updated: What People Are Saying... and Doing
• New: Three Reasons Why YOU Can’t Miss the Bob Avakian Interviews on the Revolution—Nothing Less! YouTube Show
• New: A Message to the Revcoms and Everyone Else Yearning for a Better World: THIS Is A “Game-Changer”: The Bob Avakian Interviews
• New: Watching the Interviews in Chicago: "These Are The People In Your Heart"

* Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating: Profound Crisis, Deepening Divisions, The Looming Possibility Of Civil War—And The Revolution That Is Urgently Needed, A Necessary Foundation, A Basic Roadmap For This Revolution

* Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points

* Struggle in Iran

• New: Uprising in Iran — Week 10: Murderous Escalation Against Courageous, Ongoing Protests — Urgent Need for Global Outcry in Support of Iranian Rebellion and for Revolutionary Leadership
• New: From Atash/Fire Journal: Islamic Child-Killing Regime
• From Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist): If There Is to Be a Revolution, a Revolutionary Situation Must Be Created!
• From CPI(MLM): People of the World: Take Up the Cry of Revolution from Iran as Your Own!

* New: Five Dead, 25 Injured in Attack on Club Q in Colorado Springs: The Mounting Toll—in Lives and Terror—of Hate-fueled, Fascist Propaganda Against LGBTQ People

* New: A Black Nazi, a White Nazi, and an Orange Nazi walk into a golf club for dinner. No, this is not how the joke begins. This is how genocides begin.

* New: Capitalism-Imperialism and the Threat to the Fish in the Sea, Part 2 of the series on the ocean, by the Environmental Writers Group, revcom.us

* New: The World Cup in Qatar Is Soaked with the Blood of Immigrants—The Capitalist-Imperialist System Is Outmoded and Must Be Swept Away

* New: Reflections on Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
Learning from the Past to Forge A Future Free From Empire, Imperialism, and All Exploitation, Part 3, by Raymond Lotta