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In This Issue… May 8, 2023
Welcome to the May 8 issue of Revolution.
Click here for a complete guide to this week's issue >>
Including:
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NEW: U.S. Constitution: An Exploiters’ Vision of Freedom—Added Notes (and Brief Introduction)
by Bob Avakian -
International May 1st, 2023
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Down With the Persecution of Immigrants!
We Don’t Have an Immigration Problem, We Have an Imperialism Problem -
Time to Fight for Abortion Rights
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Waging The Struggle Against Fascist Lunacy and Woke Madness
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No Nuclear War! It’s This System, Not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct!
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NEW: The NYC Subway Lynching of Jordan Neely
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The Police Murder of Reginald Clay in Chicago
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And more...
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 >>
Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points >>
Everyone who can’t stand this world, the way it is, needs to be challenged to be part of the revolution that is the way out of this madness. And people need to know there is an actual strategy for making this revolution, based on the key points of the “foundation” and “roadmap” for this revolution in the work by the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian: “Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating.” The following is the basic means for carrying out this strategy, so that the currently small forces for the revolution that is urgently needed can grow in numbers and strength, quickly in a concentrated way, and become the powerful force that is needed to lead this revolution. Spreading and popularizing these Key Points is also an important part of carrying out this strategy.
It is a fact that, nowhere else, in any actual or proposed founding or guiding document of any government, is there anything like not only the protection but the provision for dissent and intellectual and cultural ferment that is embodied in this Constitution, while this has, as its solid core, a grounding in the socialist transformation of the economy, with the goal of abolishing all exploitation, and the corresponding transformation of the social relations and political institutions, to uproot all oppression, and the promotion, through the educational system and in society as a whole, of an approach that will “enable people to pursue the truth wherever it leads, with a spirit of critical thinking and scientific curiosity, and in this way to continually learn about the world and be better able to contribute to changing it in accordance with the fundamental interests of humanity.”
— Bob Avakian
Note to revcom.us readers: We are currently in the very initial and formative steps of reorganizing the home page of our site. This is a work in progress. The aim is to make the works and leadership of Bob Avakian (BA), the most important political thinker and leader in the world today, more accessible—and, at the same time, applying the method and approach brought forward by BA to orient people to new developments in the world. We welcome your comments, and suggestions on the design and organization of the site (write to revolution.reports@yahoo.com).
This page includes Bob Avakian on key questions:
YOU Can’t Miss the Bob Avakian Interviews
A Message to the Revcoms and Everyone Else Yearning for a Better World
THIS Is A “Game-Changer:” The Bob Avakian Interviews
International May 1st, 2023
We Refuse to Accept This System’s Future!
A Better World, Without Exploitation and Oppression, Is Possible!
Revolution for a Whole New Emancipating Way to Live IS Possible!
New York City, May First Photo: revcom.us
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May 1st Statements from Revolutionary Communists Around the World
With the release of WE ARE THE REVCOMS!,
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Subway Lynching; Refugees Terrorized; Humanity Doesn't Have to Live This Way —
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Some Key Short Pieces From Bob Avakian
Bob Avakian On Opposing “Woke” Madness and Obstructions
A SERIOUS FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICE—NOT A PETTY HUSTLE FOR “OWNERSHIP”
Waging The Struggle Against Fascist Lunacy and Woke Madness
SNEAK PEEK: "Woke" Lunacy VS Real Revolution— Sunsara Taylor Speaks in Berkeley
4 POINTS ON PRIVILEGE
Sunsara Taylor on the Erasure of Women and the Attack on Ana Kasparian
Woke Insanity, Fascist Lunacy — More Alike Than You Think
Woke Idiocy vs. the Revolution Humanity Needs
Raymond Lotta on the Industrialization of Sexual Exploitation and Global Capitalism
Andy Zee Interviews Raymond Lotta
Presentation by Raymond Lotta at Revolution Books NYC
Raymond Lotta on the Industrialization of Sexual Exploitation and Global Capitalism
Andy Zee Interviews Raymond Lotta
Presentation by Raymond Lotta at Revolution Books NYC
Imperialist Parasitism and Class-Social Recomposition in the U.S. From the 1970s to Today: An Exploration of Trends and Changes
by Raymond Lotta
Full article | Introduction and Summary
The “Industrialization” of Sexual Exploitation, Imperialist Globalization, and the Descent Into Hell
by Raymond Lotta
Full article | Summary
Down With the Persecution of Immigrants!
We Don’t Have an Immigration Problem, We Have an Imperialism Problem
No Nuclear War! It’s This System, Not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct!
NO U.S./NATO WAR WITH RUSSIA!
STOP U.S. THREATS AGAINST CHINA!
NO WORLD WAR 3!
IT’S THIS SYSTEM, NOT HUMANITY, THAT NEEDS TO BECOME EXTINCT!
WE DON’T ACCEPT THEIR FUTURE—IT’S TIME TO GET ORGANIZED FOR A REAL REVOLUTION
Bob Avakian on Imperialist Gangsters and the Need for Revolution — Essential Reading
Bob Avakian on Biden, Putin & Xi Jinping: Imperialist Gangsters and the Need for Revolution!
“LEGIT GANGSTERS”—
GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
by Bob Avakian
Download PDF: Short Version | Longer Version
Bob Avakian: Free Yourself from the GTF! The Great Tautological Fallacy
“Did you always have this view of America?” An excerpt from the new interview with Bob Avakian
"LEGIT GANGSTERS”—GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS by Bob Avakian
Time to Fight for Abortion Rights
Sunsara Taylor Interview with Mark Joseph Stern on The RNL Show
Bob Avakian on the Struggle for Abortion Rights, the Oppression of Women, and the Revolutionary Struggle to Emancipate ALL Humanity
Bob Avakian on Why You Can’t Break All the Chains Except One...
From The Bob Avakian Interviews:
What Accounts For The Attack On Abortion And What Must Be Done
There would be no United States as we now know it today without slavery. That is a simple and basic truth. — Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:1
A song by family members of “Lil Red,” Reginald Clay, murdered by Chicago police on April 15, performed at the International May 1st rally.
There is the potential for something of unprecedented beauty to arise out of unspeakable ugliness: Black people playing a crucial role in putting an end, at long last, to this system which has, for so long, not just exploited but dehumanized, terrorized and tormented them in a thousand ways—putting an end to this in the only way it can be done—by fighting to emancipate humanity, to put an end to the long night in which human society has been divided into masters and slaves, and the masses of humanity have been lashed, beaten, raped, slaughtered, shackled and shrouded in ignorance and misery.
— Bob Avakian
BOB AVAKIAN FOR THE LIBERATION OF BLACK PEOPLE AND THE EMANCIPATION OF ALL HUMANITY
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Tuesday, May 16, 7 PM
Revolution Books, NYC
Andy Zee, Host of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show,
Discussion and Q&A on "WE ARE THE REVCOMS (Revolutionary Communists), We Are Working for A Real Revolution and A Whole New, Emancipating Way To Live."
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The Courageous Uprising in Iran
What we see in contention here with Jihad [Islamic fundamentalism] on the one hand and McWorld/McCrusade [increasingly globalized western imperialism] on the other hand, are historically outmoded strata among colonized and oppressed humanity up against historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system. These two reactionary poles reinforce each other, even while opposing each other. If you side with either of these “outmodeds,” you end up strengthening both.
While this is a very important formulation and is crucial to understanding much of the dynamics driving things in the world in this period, at the same time we do have to be clear about which of these “historically outmodeds” has done the greater damage and poses the greater threat to humanity: It is the “historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system,” and in particular the U.S. imperialists.
—Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:28
The Revolution Club Fighting For... Getting Organized for... REVOLUTION
Join the National Movement to Bring Forward and Organize This Revolutionary Force
Revcoms at LA Times Book Fair - April 22 2023
Noche Diaz: “If You Have The Heart To Fight—JOIN THE REVOLUTION CLUB!”
Revcoms, Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, and Others Answer the Attack Dogs
The BAsics, by JP and Shonuff
from the Revolution Club, Chicago
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Statements from diverse perspectives are timely and needed in the face of slanderous lies and attacks launched by various opportunist forces and media outlets against Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, on the role of the Revcoms and Sunsara Taylor in it—and especially targeted against Bob Avakian with unprincipled slander and dangerous lies...
Read them all here >>
Lenny Wolff: Fighting for Leadership, Principles, and Standards to Get Beyond This Capitalist-Imperialist Nightmare
The Revcoms Challenge @HasanAbi to A Debate: Democratic Socialism vs. Revolutionary Communism
Children wade through floodwaters in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Climate change is causing more frequent and severe monsoons, floods, droughts, and other extreme weather events around the world, February 26, 2018 Photo: AP
