Welcome to the April 17, 2023 issue of Revolution.
We strive to ground all the coverage on this website in the science, strategy and vision brought forward by Bob Avakian, BA, the most important thinker and leader in the world today. The method and approach developed by BA enables us to analyze the underlying dynamics and driving forces of events, to go up against and lay bare the false paths that are out there, and to lay the foundations of the revolution humanity so urgently needs. The race against time we face is one of bringing forward millions for revolution in the next few years to meet the challenge of making revolution in these times. The keys to this are laid out by BA in a number of critical works, especially 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, and now, in the recent Bob Avakian Interviews on The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube. Without grounding yourself in and returning to these works, along with other critical works for this whole period, you won’t really know what’s going on or why—with all the horrors today—revolution is actually more possible. And you won’t know how to go to work on realizing that possibility.
Table of Contents:
International May 1st, 2023
- To the Revcoms and Those Who Are Checking Out the Movement for Revolution: How You Can Act on May 1, 2023 and Begin to Put REAL Revolution “On The Map” [new]
- May 1 flyer: PDF/text [new]
- Times and locations for May 1 actions and events [new]
- DONATE $$ TO PUT REVOLUTION ON THE MAP IN 2023! $25,000 by May 1st: WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS SYSTEM’S FUTURE! [updated]
- VIDEO: Bob Avakian Answers People Who Say: “Revolution Sounds Good but It Ain’t Gonna Happen”
- A MESSAGE TO STUDENTS… AND OTHERS, from the Revcoms [new]
- VIDEO: A Revolutionary Rhyme for This Historic Time, by a Revcom poet
- Some Thoughts on Revolution Clubs and Spring Offensive, by Michelle Xai [new]
- May 1: Put Revolution On The Map in 2023. A TIME FULL OF DANGER—A TIME TO SEIZE
- Go here to join efforts to spread the word, donate, and get materials for broad distribution [updated]
Time to Fight for Abortion Rights
- Mifepristone Alert! [new]
- Sights and Sounds: April 15: “Fascist Judges: Keep Your Hands Off Abortion Medication!” [new]
- Sunsara Taylor Interview with Mark Joseph Stern on The RNL Show
- Abortion on Demand & Without Apology Everywhere! Forced Motherhood Is Female Enslavement! Break the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!
- It Is Time to Get Real. It Is Time to Fight for Abortion Rights, by Coco Das
Great Divides in Society Are Intensifying
- VIDEO: Bob Avakian on the Splits at the Top... Andy Zee and Sunsara Taylor on the Indictment of Trump, from The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
- Clash in Tennessee: Fascists Expel Black Legislators for Protesting a Mass Shooting of Schoolchildren
- Prisoner Writes on the Trump Indictment… and Calls on Youth and Fellow Prisoners to Get with the Revolution
No Nuclear War! It’s This System, Not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct!
- Leaks of Secret Military Documents Reveal: The U.S. Is Fighting a Proxy War Against an Imperialist Rival; the Imperialist-Created World Is a Backstabbing Rat’s Nest—Humanity Can and Must Get Beyond It [new]
- Leak of Top-Secret War Documents: the U.S. is Deeply Involved in Directing Proxy War Against Its Imperialist Rival; Spying on Friend and Foe Alike [new]
- Question: “I know the US has done bad things around the world, but don't we need to help the Ukrainian people?” ANSWER: The Only Help You Are Giving Is to America's Attempt to Further Dominate and Plunder the World [new]
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Shamelessly Shilling for the U.S. War Machine [new]
- Finland, Belarus, Taiwan Three More Ways the World Just Got More Dangerous
- Nuclear-Armed Imperialists Face Off Worldwide—Three Ways the World Just Got More Dangerous
Bob Avakian on Opposing “Woke” Madness and Obstructions
- I’m So Sick of This Whole “Identity Politics” and “Woke” Thing. REVOLUTION AND EMANCIPATION—NOT PETTY REFORM AND REVENGE: On Movements, Principles, Means and Ends
- Bob Avakian on Fascist Lunacy and “Woke Folk” Insanity: A New “Two Outmodeds”
- More by Bob Avakian
Waging the Struggle Against Fascist Lunacy and Woke Madness
- VIDEO: From the Bob Avakian Interviews: Woke Is a Joke, a Bad Joke
- VIDEO: Sunsara Taylor on the Erasure of Women & the Recent Controversy Surrounding Anna Kasparian's Tweet
- VIDEO: Woke Insanity, Fascist Lunacy—More Alike Than You Think
- VIDEO: Woke Idiocy vs the Revolution Humanity Needs
Other Featured
The Courageous Uprising in Iran
- From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now (IEC): A Protest Letter from Mehran Raouf, Sent Out from Evin Prison: “Prisoners with dual citizenship are deprived of their citizenship rights!” [new]
- From the IEC: Global Grassroots Groundswell Urgently Needed: Free Rebel Rapper Toomaj Salehi!
- Dangerous, Misogynist Escalation in Iran: Ruling Theocrats Double Down on Enforcing Mandatory Hijab Amid Continued Protests
- From the Communist Party of Iran, Maxist-Leninist-Maoist: If There Is to Be a Revolution, a Revolutionary Situation Must Be Created!