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A Guide to This Issue of Revolution 

What You Need to Know and Engage This Week 
About the World and Revolution:

In This Issue November 28, 2022

Updated

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.

COME GET WITH THE REVCOMS IN MAJOR FUND-RAISING EVENTS—

TALK, EAT, WATCH EXCERPTS OF THE BOB AVAKIAN INTERVIEW, TALK SOME MORE AND LAY PLANS—

WEEKEND OF DECEMBER 10 AND 11, EITHER LIVE OR ON ZOOM. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE DETAILS.

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

* 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: 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

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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

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