Welcome to the April 24, 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”
- May 1 flyer [updated April 21]: PDF/text
- Times and locations for May 1 actions and events
- VIDEO: Look Around You — A World Deep in Turmoil and in Urgent Need for a Real Revolution, Commentary by Andy Zee[new]
- VIDEO: Building for May 1st 2023 & Getting Organized for a Real Revolution — Join us, Michell Xai and Andy Zee [new]
- DONATE $$ TO PUT REVOLUTION ON THE MAP IN 2023! $25,000 by May 1st: WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS SYSTEM’S FUTURE! [updated]
- Posters to stir up debate, provoke controversy, drive people to watch the BA Interviews [new]
- A MESSAGE TO STUDENTS… AND OTHERS, from the Revcoms
- VIDEO: A Revolutionary Rhyme for This Historic Time, by a Revcom poet
- Go here to for times and locations of May 1 protests, donate, get materials to spread the word [updated]
Some Key Short Pieces from Bob Avakian
- Bob Avakian Responds to a Basic Youth: “Common Sense” Is Often Wrong. A Scientific Approach Shows Revolution Is Possible, Especially in This “Rare Time”
- Bob Avakian Speaks to “Cult”: A Ridiculous, Ignorant and Irresponsible Accusation. We Are Applying a Scientific Method and Approach to Understanding, and Transforming, the World to Emancipate Humanity
- AMERICA: Truly a Model—of DEPRAVED RACIST GENOCIDE
- “Legit Gangsters”—Gangsters with Nuclear Weapons (Longer version/Shorter version)
Time to Fight for Abortion Rights
- From Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights: As SCOTUS Stays Restriction on Mifepristone—Fascist Judges: Hands OFF Abortion Pill [new]
- Sights and Sounds: April 15: “Fascist Judges: Keep Your Hands Off Abortion Medication!”
- VIDEO: 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!
Earth Day 2023: Capitalism-Imperialism Is Destroying the Planet... Only Revolution Gives Humanity a Real Chance to Save It
- From Austin, Texas: 2023 Earth Day: IT IS THIS SYSTEM, NOT HUMANITY, THAT MUST GO EXTINCT! [new]
- Resource page on the environmental emergency [updated]
No Nuclear War! It’s This System, Not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct!
- Some Lessons in Bringing the Pop Quiz About the War Over Ukraine To Columbia Political Science Students: A Letter from Raymond Lotta to Revcoms and Other Fighters Against Imperialism, Oppression and Injustice [new]
- The World Teeters Toward World War... America Proclaims "We're the Force for Good in the World"... Really? Take the Quiz
- Ukraine: World War 3 Is the Real Danger, Not a Repeat of World War 2, by Bob Avakian
- 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
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Shamelessly Shilling for the U.S. War Machine
- Nuclear-Armed Imperialists Face Off Worldwide—Three Ways the World Just Got More Dangerous
Waging the Struggle Against Fascist Lunacy and Woke Madness
- VIDEO: Woke Lunacy vs. Real Revolution: 4 POINTS ON PRIVILEGE [new]
- “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution: a Speech from Sunsara Taylor (PDF) [new]
- 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
Other Featured
- Kidnapped and Exploited: The Biden Administration’s Self-Proclaimed “Generosity” Towards Children [new]
- Florida Fascists Expand “Don't Say Gay” Bill to Terrorize and Silence LGBTQ People: What Future for Our Youth?!? [new]
- Florida Under DeSantis: A National Pacesetter… in Implementing Fascism! [new]
- Cold-Blooded Slaughter Doesn’t Even Begin to Describe It: Georgia Pigs Shot Protester 57 Times, While Tests Show Protester Did Not Fire Once! [updated]
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott Vows to Pardon Fascist Killer of Black Lives Matter Protester
- VIDEO: Texas Governor Greg Abbott Vows to Pardon Fascist Killer of Black Lives Matter Protester [new]
- Garrett Foster, Presente!
- County Officials in Oklahoma Caught Longing for the Days of Lynchings and Discussing Killing Two Reporters [new]
- Introducing a new section of the site: Setting the record straight on the Russian and Chinese revolutions [new]
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!”
- 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!