How/Where to Take Part:
See Plans from Different Areas for the REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS! Week October 28 - November 5
Key dates for the week:
Monday, October 30, 4-7 pm:
(or another day early in the week depending on how you want to mark Halloween)
A MOBILE MARCH OR MANIFESTATION WITH THE POINTS OF ATTENTION FOR THE REVOLUTION (POA)
Wednesday, November 1:
Take BA to Campus Day called for by The BA Institute
Thursday, November 2:
Collective viewings of The RNL Show, which airs every Thursday at 5 pm PT, 7 pm CT, 8 pm ET.
Friday, November 3:
Nationwide late afternoon/dinnertime demonstrations and marches in a key neighborhood of the oppressed, with the slogans:
From South Central (or from South Side Chicago, or from Harlem, or from 3rd Ward, etc.) to Palestine, People Need Revolution!
Stop the U.S.-Backed Israeli War on Palestine!
We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, a Fundamentally Different System!
FUNDRAISING DINNERS / EVENTS / CELEBRATIONS
Download materials to spread where you are >>
Download, print, distribute the leaflet with these slogans (PDF):
Download, print, distribute the Six Points of Attention for the Revolution (PDF):
Climate... War... Fascism
The Future of Humanity Is Endangered
Join the Nationwide Efforts to
Get REAL REVOLUTION Known
Everywhere
REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS!
To everyone who can’t stand this world the way it is... who is sick and tired of so many people being treated as less than human… who has ever dreamed of a much better world, or even wondered whether that is possible:
THE REVOLUTION CALLS ON YOU to be part of making real revolution known to millions nationwide. Bring hope to others while you learn more about this yourself.
*No Experience Required*
The world is on fire! Climate destruction... nuclear war threatened... a horrifying genocidal war being waged on the people of Gaza by Israel, backed by the U.S.... the direct danger of all-out fascism in this country... the worsening oppression of Black and Brown people, of women, of LGBTQ people…
NO MORE! This system of capitalism-imperialism that we live under is the cause of all this tremendous suffering and destruction of life here and around the world.
People have tried all kinds of changes within this system, but all these reforms never get to the root of the problem. To really put an end to these horrors brought down by this system, we need REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS! NOT voting, praying or wasting time trying to reform it.
No! We need to get rid of this system, uproot it, overthrow it and put something totally different in its place—a fundamentally different system. People need to get with and follow the revcoms. NOT the lying politicians and media mouthpieces… NOT those who front for the oppressors and preach about “reconciliation” with this system… NOT people trying to be the top dog in this dog-eat-dog system.
Word of this revolution needs to get out, urgently. And people need to be organized for this revolution. This involves challenging all these oppressive ways of thinking and acting. From October 28–November 5, join a force nationwide struggling against all of that:
Live By and Fight for the Points of Attention,
The Code of the Revolution!
We will project a serious force for revolution, through people living by and fighting for the Points of Attention for the Revolution. (See below.) These concentrate the world we are fighting for. This week and beyond, live by these.
Get With Bob Avakian (BA),
The Leadership We Have for
the Revolution We Need!
We will bring Bob Avakian’s leadership from the neighborhoods to the college campuses showing The Bob Avakian Interviews on The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show everywhere. Real liberating revolution requires great leadership, and we have that in Bob Avakian (BA). For over 50 years, BA has dedicated his life to revolution and given his heart for humanity. He has developed a new communism and the roadmap to organize now for the time when millions could make and win a real revolution. BA has done something which no one has done before—written the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, which provides a sweeping vision, a firm foundation, and a concrete blueprint for a new society.
You need to know about and engage BA through these interviews, which address the biggest questions confronting humanity: Why, despite how it appears on the surface, revolution has become more possible—even in this powerful country? What is science and why do we need it to make revolution? What has sustained him on the revolutionary road? BA answers these questions and more in The BA Interviews, which you can watch on YouTube.com/TheRevcoms. Be part of spreading this while you’re digging into it.
Stand Against the U.S.-Backed
Israeli War on Palestine!
The state of Israel—fully backed and funded by U.S. imperialism—is actively committing a genocidal war on Palestinian people in Gaza. They’re dropping thousands of bombs and slaughtering thousands of people, including children. Over 2 million people are trapped. People in the U.S. have a special responsibility to rise up in mass protest to demand that this STOP NOW! And to work urgently for a real revolution to overthrow the whole system of capitalism-imperialism that is causing this nightmare. This is the message we’ll bring all over society—to protests, campuses and neighborhoods… wherever people are being jolted by what’s happening, and agonizing about why and what’s needed.
From the U.S. ghettos and barrios to the people of Palestine: The people of the world need an emancipating revolution!
We Need and We Demand:
A New Emancipating Way to Live
A Fundamentally Different System!
PLANS AND VISION FOR THE WEEK, HOW YOU CAN TAKE PART, WHEREVER YOU ARE:
** Live by, and fight for, the Points of Attention, the Code of the Revolution and use this artwork to make posters. Get these up on the walls, and struggle over how to be living today—as a revolutionary force in line with the future that we are fighting to bring into being. Posting this up in neighborhoods and marching as a serious force for revolution can set terms about what people should be living and fighting for—up against all the dead-end or destructive things that too many are caught up in. This can change how masses of people see things, and force different sections of people to respond to the terms of the revolution, and the interests of humanity.
** Dig into, and organize group showings of The Bob Avakian Interviews on The RNL— Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show. The discussion of, and spreading these interviews are at the heart of everything we're doing to organize and train people in a scientific understanding, and for people to get connected and learn about BA, the leadership we have for the revolution we need. Share and spread these everywhere. This coming Thursday, pull people together—in backyards, barber shops and parks—to watch The RNL Show. Come to these special showings:
OAKLAND, CA: Sunday, November 5, 12:30pm, The New Parkway Theater, 474 24th Street
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** Raise funds all throughout. This is a necessary part of organizing forces for revolution. You may want to be part of organizing a fundraising celebration, take up a fundraising project, carry around a revolutionary change jar where you collect smaller donations from friends and family. Raising funds both challenges people and it enables them to take a stand—even a beginning stand—with the revolution.
** All throughout the week and building up to the nationwide protests on Friday, November 3—From the U.S. Ghettos and Barrios to Palestine, We Need a REAL Revolution—share this sticker so people can be part of standing against what U.S.-backed Israel is doing to the Palestinian people in our names. Have people throughout the neighborhoods of the oppressed sign banners that say: From South Central (or from South Side Chicago, or from Harlem, or from 3rd Ward, etc.) to Palestine, People Need Real Revolution! People in this country need to know they have a disproportionate responsibility to the people of the world to get rid of the world's leading terrorist and oppressor: the American capitalist-imperialist system.
NATIONAL FOCAL POINTS:
** TODAY, Monday, Points of Attention Day—join in marches and caravans to manifest a force living by, and fighting for the Code of the Revolution in these Points of Attention.
** Wednesday, November 1, Take BA to the Campuses Day. Go here for materials and read the Call for this from The Bob Avakian Institute.
In addition to spreading materials all over a campus or high school about The BA Interviews, break open debate and discussion about the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America written by BA. Here's what he says about what's concentrated in this Constitution:
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.”
Even many people who hate how we're forced to live under this system, don't think there's another way the world can be. This Constitution—and real engagement, debate and discussion about it—can raise people's sights to “how much better life could be, for the great majority of people, if millions of people got behind this revolution and carried it through—making it possible to restructure all of society on a completely different foundation, with a radically different economic system (mode of production) and emancipating relations among people...” (from REVOLUTION—Building Up the Basis to Go for the Whole Thing, With a Real Chance to Win: Strategic Orientation and Practical Approach)
We should also take the opportunity to break open debate about questions of dictatorship and democracy, and what kind of leadership we need. Spread the “provocation” posters for the Interviews, and watch clips together with students, professors and others. Go here for materials.
** Friday, November 3, late afternoon/dinnertime demonstrations and marches in a key neighborhood of the oppressed, with the slogans:
From the Ghettos and Barrios of the U.S. to Palestine, People Need Real Revolution!
U.S. And Israel: Hands Off the Palestinian People!
Israel: STOP the Genocidal State of Siege and War Against 2 Million Palestinians Trapped in Gaza! U.S. Imperialism STOP Your Bloody Arming of Israel!
Hamas Is Not a Force For Liberation—The Palestinian People Need a Real Revolution!
The People of the World Need REAL Revolution and a Whole New Emancipating Way to Live!
In addition to organizing for these in the neighborhoods, reach out broadly—involving people from different perspectives, uniting behind these slogans as a part of this overall week. There have been significant outpourings of protest against the genocide unfolding in Gaza, they need to be reached with the overall message of this revolution. Reach out to these forces with these slogans and the REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS Week as a whole and invite them to manifest in the neighborhoods of the oppressed. Bringing together different sections of society in this way, broadly uniting in relation to this revolutionary movement is essential now.
As part of the banner signings being done throughout the week, discuss why Point of Attention #3 says, “We fight for a world without borders...” and what that internationalism has to do with standing with the people in Palestine right now—why it matters to march across the country, behind this banner in the neighborhoods of the oppressed on Friday. If there are downtown marches the next day, organize a contingent from the neighborhood to take this banner there—standing against the crimes of the American empire, as part of a force determined to overthrow this empire.
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Let's build momentum through all this, learning from each other, and from people stepping in to get organized with this—hearing their ideas on what needs to be done, and how to impact and reach others with this revolution.