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 29, 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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Interview With Bob Avakian
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Bob Avakian on Methods, Principles and Standards
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Letters in Support of Bob Avakian
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Revcoms and Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights Answer the Attack Dogs
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A Contended Question: How To Understand Why Some People Like BA and What He Stands For and Some Hate Him
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Bob Avakian: A Radically Different Leader—A Whole New Framework for Human Emancipation
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Organizing for an Actual Revolution:
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Bob Avakian on the Struggle for Abortion Rights, the Oppression of Women, and the Revolutionary Struggle to Emancipate Humanity
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Shattering the Chains of Female Enslavement—and the Emancipation of All Humanity
by Toni RedTree -
From OSYAN:
The Global Roots and Global Struggle Against Women’s Oppression -
VIDEO: Kicking into High Gear the Campaign to Grow the Audience of The RNL Show
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The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show episode #116 and selected clips
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Fascist Governors Bus Immigrants to East Coast, Repression and Conflict Intensify
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Ukraine: The Danger of “Catastrophic Escalation” in a Proxy War Between Rival Global Gangsters
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Biden's Imperialist Climate Bill: The Devil Lies in the Big Picture
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Revolutionary Communist Organization, Mexico: the Government’s Ayotzinapa Report... and more
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The System-Caused Deaths During Hurricane Katrina
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More featured articles...
Organizing for an Actual Revolution:
7 Key Points >>
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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
Letters in Support of Bob Avakian, August 22
“I cherish the principled revolutionary approach… of Bob Avakian.”
Revcoms and Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights Answer the Attack Dogs
Lenny Wolff: Fighting for Leadership, Principles, and Standards to Get Beyond This Capitalist-Imperialist Nightmare
A Contended Question: How To Understand Why Some People Like BA and What He Stands For and Some Hate Him


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

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
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
Download and print PDF:
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 29, 2022 >>
Bob Avakian on the Struggle for Abortion Rights, the Oppression of Women, and the Revolutionary Struggle to Emancipate ALL Humanity
Abortion Rights Emergency:
Abortion on Demand and Without Apology!
Post-Roe America, the 2022 Women's Convention, and the Ongoing Fight for the Right to Abortion
The Revcoms Challenge @HasanAbi to A Debate: Democratic Socialism vs. Revolutionary Communism
Featured
Andy Zee to Everyone Who Can't Stand This World the Way it is...
Bob Avakian: Why We Need A Scientific Method and Approach to Life and Our Struggle
“El Desafiante”
by Outernational
The Problem and the Solution — Up Against the False Paths and Dead Ends — by Bob Avakian
An excerpt from: Why We Need An Actual Revolution and How We Can Really Make Revolution, a speech by Bob Avakian
Watch and spread: The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
Episode 117
Hurricane Katrina, Patriarchy & Capitalism, Urgent Lessons for Revolution
Watch The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
New episodes by the Revcoms every Thursday, 5pm PT | 7pm CT | 8pm ET
Watch and subscribe. And spread the word!

Shipment of lethal aid arrives from the U.S. to Ukraine. Photo: U.S. Embassy/Kyiv
Bob Avakian on the War In Ukraine
Essential Reading
From Bob Avakian on Ukraine:
“LEGIT GANGSTERS”—
GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
by Bob Avakian
Download PDF: Short Version | Longer Version