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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 July 18, 2022

The Importance of Defending Leadership

There were many very important developments in the past week—Biden’s bloody trip to firm up the Middle Eastern butchers under U.S. control… the continued horrors brought on by the virulent campaign to wipe out abortion… the ongoing destruction of the environment… all of which we cover this week.

But the one that may prove to have the most fateful significance was the rapid-fire series of attacks in a number of significant online outlets against Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights and, in particular, the fact that some of its members follow the leadership of Bob Avakian, BA. We go into these attacks in a number of ways in this issue. And we provide orientation for everyone reading this to be able to defend and fight for this leadership. (See the list below, under “Defending and fighting for BA’s revolutionary leadership,” for titles of and links to these articles.) For fight we must.

Society is cleaving apart in turmoil from top to bottom. The old ways of ruling and running things are no longer holding. At such a time in particular, the battle is not over leadership or no leadership; but what kind of leadership, to do what, with what aims, methods and principles.

There are the fascists, with their Dark Ages lunacy and their determination to destroy everything and anything that gets in the way of that; the Democratic Party with all its deception and its desperation to keep this imperialist system going under the rules that served it in the past; there are the forces caught up in the woke madness of trying to impose the rules in what they think of as their own little sanctuaries and sandboxes and attempting to cancel those who won’t abide by those rules (as they are now attempting to cancel BA and the revcoms); or there is in fact Bob Avakian and the leadership he is providing, and the revcoms who follow that leadership.

Among those who run and control these media outlets are some who know that, and this is a large part of what is driving this attack. But the people don’t. And it’s on those of us reading this to tell them, even if and when it means serious and, yes, ferocious struggle to do so. In one form or another, this struggle is not going to go away. It is on us to take this up with real urgency and eagerness, and with the calm and confidence that flows out of our understanding of the enemy’s weaknesses, based on two rock-hard truths:

1) that this system is a horror for the vast majority of 7+ billion people in the world and that what is represented by the new communism is in the most fundamental interests of humanity; and

2) that this lashing out comes from a profound sense of that underlying vulnerability on the part of these representatives of capitalism-imperialism.

The articles and videos in this issue provide the tools to understand and spread why BA is under attack, the danger of this attack, and the importance of his leadership; and they provide tools to take on the wrong thinking among the people, as ferociously as needed.

Included in this issue:

* Bob Avakian: A Radically Different Leader—A Whole New Framework for Human Emancipation

* 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, by Bob Avakian

* Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points

* Defending and fighting for BA’s revolutionary leadership

* Reposted from RiseUp4AbortionRights.org: We Need Honest Debate, Not Unprincipled Attacks: A Further Response to the Attacks On Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights

* January 6 Hearings—and the Violence of This System, by Bob Avakian read / watch

* Webb Telescope: “Galaxies at the Edge of Time!”

* Biden Goes to the Middle East—Provides Vivid Demonstration That: The Democratic Party Is a Machine of Massive War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

* The Bottomless Cruelty of a Depraved System—Denying Abortion to a 10-Year-Old

* The fight for abortion rights

* Imperialist Proxy War in Ukraine and the Looming Energy Crisis: This System’s Response? Accelerate the Climate Catastrophe

* From International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now: Defiant, Renowned Iranian Filmmakers Jailed—Global Demand for Their Release

* Reach Out to People to DONATE to the revcom.us Summer Fund Drive

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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 “WE NEED AND WE DEMAND: A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE, A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM” and the Proclamation, “WE ARE THE REVCOMS (Revolutionary Communists)”

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