A Guide to This Issue of Revolution
What You Need to Know and Engage This Week
About the World and Revolution:
In This Issue September 19, 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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New from Revolutionary Communist Organization, Mexico:
REVOLUTIONARY HOPE
New Possibilities Are Opening Up for Liberatory Revolution In the Midst of Acute Crises and Upheavals of the Capitalist System — It Is Urgent to Organize the Fight For Revolution -
Organizing for an Actual Revolution:
7 Key Points -
Bob Avakian and the New Communism on Internationalism
Including VIDEO -
Recent Statements From Revolutionary Communist Groups Around the World
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Bob Avakian: A Radically Different Leader—A Whole New Framework for Human Emancipation
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Letters in Support of Bob Avakian
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VIDEO: Lenny Wolff: Internationalism... and Revolutionary Hope
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The Courageous Uprising in Iran
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The Fascist Assault on Voting Rights and the Fight for the Future
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Worse than Fine-Print Trickery...
Biden's Imperialist Climate Bill: The Devil Lies in the Big Picture -
VIDEO: Andy Zee Interviews Raymond Lotta—Part 1
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The “Made-in-the-USA” Offensive in the Ukraine Proxy War
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“LEGIT GANGSTERS” — GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
by Bob Avakian -
Update September 22: Ukraine War Moves Into an Extremely Dangerous Phase
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REVOLUTION, ROGER FEDERER’S TENNIS: WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO DO WITH EACH OTHER? A LOT, ACTUALLY.
by Bob Avakian -
Learning About Bill Russell, Reflecting on Bob Avakian’s Leadership
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September 28: PROTEST and Demand:
LEGAL ABORTION ON DEMAND & WITHOUT APOLOGY EVERYWHERE! -
More featured articles...
Organizing for an Actual Revolution:
7 Key Points >>
Download Pamphlet PDF (printer spreads) | Download Leaflet PDF (letter size, 2-sided)
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
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
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 September 19, 2022 >>
The Courageous Uprising in Iran
Uprising in Iran: Anger, Courage and Joy!
“There is an urgent need for this new synthesis to be taken up, broadly, in this society and in the world as a whole: everywhere people are questioning why things are the way they are, and whether a different world is possible; everywhere people are talking about “revolution” but have no real understanding of what revolution means, no scientific approach to analyzing and dealing with what they are up against and what needs to be done; everywhere people are rising up in rebellion but are hemmed in, let down and left to the mercy of murderous oppressors, or misled onto paths which only reinforce, often with barbaric brutality, the enslaving chains of tradition; everywhere people need a way out of their desperate conditions, but do not see the source of their suffering and the path forward out of the darkness.”
— Bob Avakian, The New Communism
“Internationalism—The Whole World Comes First.” —Bob Avakian, BAsics 5:8
Bob Avakian on Imperialism and Internationalism... The Whole World Comes First—NOT America First
Would Mexico and Central America still be the U.S. backyard after the revolution? Q&A with Bob Avakian
“If you can conceive of a world without America—without everything America stands for and everything it does in the world—then you’ve already taken great strides and begun to get at least a glimpse of a whole new world. If you can envision a world without any imperialism, exploitation, oppression—and the whole philosophy that rationalizes it—a world without division into classes or even different nations, and all the narrow-minded, selfish, outmoded ideas that uphold this; if you can envision all this, then you have the basis for proletarian internationalism. And once you have raised your sights to all this, how could you not feel compelled to take an active part in the world historic struggle to realize it; why would you want to lower your sights to anything less?”
—Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:31
Environmental Emergency — Sounding the Alarm
Raymond Lotta on Biden's Imperialist Climate Bill: The Devil Lies in the Big Picture—Part 1
The Destruction of the Planet by Capitalism-Imperialism
Bob Avakian on the Struggle for Abortion Rights, the Oppression of Women, and the Revolutionary Struggle to Emancipate ALL Humanity
Why does private ownership of the means of production result in oppression of women?
Q&A With Bob Avakian
Abortion Rights Emergency:
Abortion on Demand and Without Apology!
The Revcoms Challenge @HasanAbi to A Debate: Democratic Socialism vs. Revolutionary Communism
Featured
“LEGIT GANGSTERS”—GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS by Bob Avakian
Lenny Wolff: Internationalism... and Revolutionary Hope
Lenny Wolff on The RNL Show:
The Rise and Fall of Mikhail Gorbachev... And One Surprising Lesson For Revolution Today
Watch and spread: The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
Episode 120
Ukraine War Gets Hotter, Hurricanes Get Fiercer, Wake The F*ck Up!
The World Cries Out 4 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!
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
Bob Avakian on the War In Ukraine — Essential Reading
“LEGIT GANGSTERS”—
GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
by Bob Avakian
Download PDF: Short Version | Longer Version
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
The Revolution Club Fighting For... Getting Organized for... REVOLUTION
Join the National Movement to Bring Forward and Organize This Revolutionary Force
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
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"
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)
