A Guide to This Issue of Revolution
What You Need to Know and Engage This Week
About the World and Revolution:
In This Issue August 1, 2022 >>
In the course of this talk, I will be referring to, and digging further into, key points that are put forward in two very important documents which are featured on our website revcom.us: A Declaration, A Call To Get Organized Now For A Real Revolution; and an article of mine, following up on that “Declaration and Call”: This Is A Rare Time When Revolution Becomes Possible—Why That Is So, And How To Seize On This Rare Opportunity. So, for everyone getting into this talk, everyone who cares about the crucial questions it is speaking to, it is also important to take up (or return to) and get deeply into those documents as well—and to go regularly to revcom.us, and watch the weekly YouTube show Revolution—Nothing Less, both of which sharply illustrate why a real revolution is urgently needed, and is possible, what are the goals of this revolution, and how to be part of building for this revolution. What I will be speaking to here is, as the title says, a necessary foundation and a basic roadmap for this revolution... Continue reading >>
This issue:
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Organizing for an Actual Revolution:
7 Key Points -
Bob Avakian: A Radically Different Leader—A Whole New Framework for Human Emancipation
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NEW:
Bob Avakian on Methods, Principles and Standards -
Andy Zee on Doubling Down with Revolution and the Leadership Needed to End All Oppression
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Bob Avakian: "A real leader" ... "Very rare" ... "Protect him at all costs":
Statements of Support -
What Is Science? Can We Apply Science to Society? Does Communism Meet the Falsifiability Criterion of Science?
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VIDEO: Kicking into High Gear the Campaign to Grow the Audience of The RNL Show
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VIDEO: The First Aftershocks After Roe and the Enslaving Future If We Don’t Raise Our Heads and Fight
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Yes, It IS “Hard to chart new courses on foreign policy”… WHEN YOU’RE IMPERIALIST GANGSTERS!
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1 in 3 People Gunned Down by Pigs Were Running or Driving Away From Their Killers
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The Climate Bill—Bullshit of “Historic” Proportions
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Remembering Bill Russell
Organizing for an Actual Revolution:
7 Key Points >>
Download Pamphlet PDF (printer spreads) | Download Leaflet PDF (letter size, 2-sided)
Interview With Bob Avakian
The Interviewer Begins: After reading The New Communism (2016), and thinking about issues that in only five years’ time have manifested more severely, as spotlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, calling even more urgently for changes to the “system that is the fundamental source of much misery and torment in the world”, there are several topics—climate, migration, press freedom, labor-and-supply chain, class, and human rights—that I wonder if you would be willing to speak on. I’ll enumerate below.
The interview has been serialized in seven parts.
READ THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW
Answering the Attacks on Bob Avakian and the Revcoms
Republished from BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian, an excerpt from the essay:
Reform or Revolution
Questions of Orientation, Questions of Morality
NEW:
Bob Avakian on Methods, Principles and Standards
At the beginning of 2012, an in-depth interview with Bob Avakian (BA) was conducted over a period of several days by A. Brooks... We are republishing here sections of this interview which are highly relevant to the current situation—particularly as a critique of the all too-common practice of lies, slander and unprincipled rumor-mongering that are part of the popular culture these days, including among people calling themselves “anarchist”...“left”...“progressive”... “woke.”
Read the compiled excerpts here.
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Theory and Reality... Knowing and Changing the World
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A Scientific Approach to Society, and Changing Society
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The Importance of Line... and of Polemics
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When People Are Falling Into Bullshit, They Should Be Told So: The Need for Sharp, and Principled, Struggle
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The Culture, the Principles, the Standards We Need
What Is Science? Can We Apply Science to Society? Does Communism Meet the Falsifiability Criterion of Science?
Some of the slanderous attacks on Bob Avakian (BA) and the Revcoms have evolved to raise the controversy—and bogus charge—that communism is not a science, insinuating that it is a set of precepts of one person and setting the stage, therefore, for the charge that BA and the Revcoms are a “cult.” As a basic introduction, thorough refutation, and correct context, we recommend the following excerpts from Ardea Skybreak and Bob Avakian on precisely these questions.
Marxism as a Science—Refuting Karl Popper
by Bob Avakian
An excerpt from MAKING REVOLUTION AND EMANCIPATING HUMANITY
Excerpts from SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION
On the Importance of Science and the Application of Science to Society, the New Synthesis of Communism, and the Leadership of Bob Avakian
An Interview with Ardea Skybreak
Important Articles By Bob Avakian Opposing “Woke” Distractions and Obstructions
From Bob Avakian—Revolutionary Leader, Author of the New Communism:
THIS IS A RARE TIME WHEN REVOLUTION BECOMES POSSIBLE—
WHY THAT IS SO, AND HOW TO SEIZE ON THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY
For everyone visiting our site, read this important Declaration and Call from the Revcoms:
FROM THE REVCOMS (REVCOM.US):
A DECLARATION,
A CALL TO GET ORGANIZED NOW
FOR A REAL REVOLUTION
Let’s get down to basics: We need a revolution—nothing less!
A Guide to This Issue of Revolution
What You Need to Know and Engage This Week About the World and Revolution:
In This Issue August 1, 2022 >>
The Revcoms Challenge @HasanAbi to A Debate: Democratic Socialism vs. Revolutionary Communism
In Reply to the Reactionary Hit Piece in the Daily Beast:
Why I DO Follow Bob Avakian... and Why YOU Should Too
by Sunsara Taylor
Bob Avakian on the Struggle for Abortion Rights, 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.
— Bob Avakian, BAsics 3:22
Abortion Rights Emergency:
Abortion on Demand and Without Apology!
Sunsara Taylor: We Refuse to Accept the Enslavement of Women — WHEN WOMEN ARE NOT FREE, NO ONE IS FREE
From The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show.
Featured
Deep Field. Photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Cosmic Cliffs: The birth of stars. Photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Bob Avakian on The Oppression of Black People & the Revolutionary Struggle to End All Oppression
BOB AVAKIAN FOR THE LIBERATION OF BLACK PEOPLE AND THE EMANCIPATION OF ALL HUMANITY
Watch and spread: The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
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Episode 113
Break Out of the Confining and Degrading Terms of This System —
Get Into REAL REVOLUTION
Watch The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
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Annie Day on the BS Accusations of "CULT" — STOP Getting Played, Get Serious About Revolution
From The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
Noche Diaz: “If You Have The Heart To Fight—JOIN THE REVOLUTION CLUB!”
Members of the Revolution Club speak about the 6 POINTS OF ATTENTION FOR THE REVOLUTION
Los Angeles May Day, RevComs marching. Photo: @RevComs
Shipment of lethal aid arrives from the U.S. to Ukraine. Photo: U.S. Embassy/Kyiv
Read and share revcom.us coverage:
The War in Ukraine: Dangerous Developments, Imperialist Power Moves, Rank American Hypocrisy
From Bob Avakian on Ukraine:
“LEGIT GANGSTERS”—
GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
by Bob Avakian
Download PDF: Short Version | Longer Version
The Cuban Missile Crisis: World In The Balance — an excerpt from Bob Avakian's memoir
Presentation by Andy Zee:
War in Ukraine: What is happening?… Why is it happening?… Where do the interests of humanity lie?... AND WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE REVOLUTION HUMANITY SO URGENTLY NEEDS?
Talk by Raymond Lotta:
Piercing the Lies, Digging Beneath the Surface
The Larger Dynamics of the World Imperialist System Driving the War in Ukraine...
And a Lesson from When There Was a Genuinely Socialist Soviet Union
Bob Avakian speaks on War, Capitalism-Imperialism, and Revolution
"Wars of Empire, Armies of Occupation & Crimes Against Humanity"
An Excerpt from Why We Need An Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution, a speech by Bob Avakian
From the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America: an entirely different kind of military with an entirely different purpose, structure and ethics.
Read this excerpt of the Constitution, authored by Bob Avakian, to get a beginning sense of what this would be like.
Spread and Discuss "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
La Opinión, the largest Spanish-language daily newspaper in the U.S., posted the Spanish version of Bob Avakian’s new talk on their website on January 5.
See it HERE.
Noche Diaz: Read or listen to Bob Avakian's "SOMETHING TERRIBLE, OR SOMETHING TRULY EMANCIPATING"
Environmental Emergency — Sounding the Alarm
The Destruction of the Planet by Capitalism-Imperialism
An excerpt from the film of a speech by Bob Avakian, “Why We Need An Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution”
The “Industrialization” of Sexual Exploitation, Imperialist Globalization, and the Descent Into Hell
by Raymond Lotta
Pamphlet version available to download for print (PDF, printers' spreads)
