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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 25, 2022

Against Bogus Accusations of “Cult”

Fighting for What’s True… Fighting for the Revolutionary Leadership of Bob Avakian

Welcome to the website of the movement for revolution.

This movement is in the midst of a huge and crucial battle. Last week we covered and refuted the slanderous attacks against Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, Sunsara Taylor and, in particular, Bob Avakian—attacks that have blanketed the internet in a number of major websites and other outlets, as well as social media. On Thursday, the RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube and, in particular, its host Andy Zee, further went on the offensive, fighting for the truth and fighting for Bob Avakian’s revolutionary leadership. Go here to see Andy Zee’s commentary and be sure to tune in Monday night (5 pm PT, 8 pm ET) to the special Zoom call: When the Headlines Scream “Communist Cult Is Hijacking the Abortion Rights Movement”: What Are They Trying to Stop & What Don’t They Want You to Know? (To join, DM @TheRevcoms on social media, or email TheRevcoms@gmail.com) Watch the whole episode of The RNL Show here—and tell your friends about this hard-hitting, truth-telling show.

This week this website provides another weapon in this fight—an open letter from Sunsara Taylor that cuts through the scare words, confusion and ignorance and brings the truth: Bob Avakian Is Not a “Mad Cult Leader”: He Is a Deep Thinker and Profoundly Thoughtful Leader. An Open Letter to Fighters for Abortion Being Hit by This Accusation—And Others Who Are Hearing It. Sunsara starts by saying that Bob Avakian, BA, “is a very deep thinker and profoundly thoughtful leader,” and goes on to quote from BA’s own open letter to the theoretical physicist and author Lee Smolin that he “has dedicated his life to an understanding of human society and its historical development, and the potential and active struggle for its emancipating transformation—and more specifically... [is] someone who has taken up and applied Marxism/communism to these fundamental questions, precisely not as utopianism but as a scientific method and approach.”

Taylor then provides some of the basic substance of that application. Especially, but not only, if you’re new to this site, read her piece carefully and more than once—it answers the “cult” accusation, and it goes way beyond it. But don’t just read this letter; take advantage of the PDF version to spread it online and share it in “in real life,” printing it as a pamphlet. And make sure to dig into, and/or continue to review and use, the other powerful material on this site: Bob Avakian, A Different Kind Of Leader, A Whole New Framework Of Emancipation; Haters Who “Don’t Want to Hear About BA” Are Telling on Themselves; BA’s official biography; and this week, a very moving excerpt from The New Communism on why Bob Avakian does the work he does. There is also last week’s article Behind the Week of Internet Attacks on Bob Avakian and the Revcoms: Imperialist Fear Mongers and Their Servants that analyzes these attacks and the potential danger they involve.

The point is this: answering these attacks—which are as potentially serious as they are utterly groundless—is critically important, and these are the tools to do that, for yourselves and for others.

Important and urgent as it is to get this truth out now—and it is extremely important, given those potential dangers—it’s important to root all this in some even more bedrock truths: that humanity needs revolution and the new communism developed by Bob Avakian; that revolutions are extremely complex undertakings that require extremely developed and high-level leadership; and that Bob Avakian has proven over 50 years, in the problems that he has tackled and solved and the example that he has set, that he is that leadership.

If you are new to the site, read Bob Avakian's extremely important analysis of the current crossroads, 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, which lays out the situation humanity faces, and how to wrench out of the mounting horror something truly emancipating—through revolution. There is the deep analysis and the roadmap to do that. If you are not new to the site, return to that work—dig deeper into it—there are layers. Use as a guide in building the movement for revolution the 7 Key Points, the basic principles that boil these down into very synthesized terms. And new or old, wage struggle with people, serious struggle, ferocious struggle to get into this and take this up. For here is the cardinal point in all this:

The masses of people—basic masses and people of other strata, or walks of life, as well—desperately need the leadership of BA and the new communism, even though in their masses they don’t yet know it, and some who do are resisting it. How often do the masses have a situation where they have such a leader?! And this takes on particular significance in this “rare time,” a time in which a revolution could actually be made—a time which must not be squandered and wasted. Anything and anyone that obstructs the means by which these masses come to know this and take it up is doing great harm, even as it is important to distinguish between those who consciously and actively do this and those who are simply “spontaneously” following the prevailing trends, putrid as they are.

This issue of the website is both a tool to take on these attacks, vigorously and ferociously, to expose those who are perpetrating them… an urgent invitation to get deeper into the basic foundation of understanding and the roadmap to liberation contained in “Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating,” and the concentration of this in the 7 Key Points.

We also cover much else this week that both relates to this but gets into many different aspects of the situation humanity faces and why all of this urgently calls out for revolution. Dig into and spread these articles—and be sure to tune into The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube this Thursday for more hard-hitting truth.

Included in this issue:

* 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

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

* Countering the Attacks on Bob Avakian and the Revcoms

* The Fight for Abortion Rights

* January 6 Hearings—And the Violence of This System, by Bob Avakian

* Punishment for Running a Stop Sign and Speeding While Black? A Vicious Pig Beat Down

* Make a World of Difference: 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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