Welcome to the August 14, 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:
Major Declaration from the Revcoms:
WE NEED AND WE DEMAND:
A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE,
A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM
In the name of the people… In the name of humanity…
We Declare and Demand:
The Existing Capitalist-Imperialist System And Institutions Of Government In This Country Must Be Abolished And Dismantled—And Replaced By A New, Socialist System Based On The CONSTITUTION FOR THE NEW SOCIALIST REPUBLIC IN NORTH AMERICA
WE ARE THE REVCOMS: WE ARE WORKING FOR A REAL REVOLUTION AND A WHOLE NEW, EMANCIPATING WAY TO LIVE
- Read the text of proclamation issued May 1, 2023
- Get PDFs of the broadsheet for printing: Cover/Back/Centerfold
A Message to Revcoms and Everyone Else Yearning for a Better World: THIS Is a “Game-Changer”: The Bob Avakian Interviews (Part 1/Part 2/Part 3/Part 4)
Two Systems. Two Constitutions. Two Futures.
- U.S. Constitution: An Exploiters’ Vision of Freedom—Added Notes (and Brief Introduction), by Bob Avakian (Download PDF pamphlet)
- Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America
- VIDEO: From The RNL Show: Bob Avakian on Why He Wrote the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America
From Bob Avakian:
- REVOLUTION: MAJOR TURNING POINTS AND RARE OPPORTUNITIES
Or... Why did Lenin talk about World War 1 as a “stage manager” of revolution?...
And why did Mao say, We should thank Japan for invading China? by Bob Avakian - REVOLUTION: A REAL CHANCE TO WIN
Part One: We Are Serious
Part Two: A Scientifically Based Strategy
Part Three: Civil War and Revolution [new] - REVOLUTION IS POSSIBLE
THIS RARE TIME MUST BE SEIZED
Important excerpts from “Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating”
STATE OF EMERGENCY: CHAINS ON PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY NEED TO BE FREE
A message from Bob Avakian, revolutionary leader, author and architect of a whole new framework for human emancipation: the new communism [new]
Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points
Three Articles from Bob Avakian
- GOD, PREJUDICE, OPPRESSION, TERROR AND THE WAY OUT OF THIS MADNESS (download PDF)
- EXPLOITATION: WHAT IT IS, HOW TO PUT AN END TO IT
- SUPREME COURT: CHRISTIAN FASCISTS STEALING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNIST THEORY AND THE PROBLEM WITH “MASS LINE”, by Bob Avakian
ANTI-SCIENTIFIC “ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM”: Serving American Imperialism and Promoting American Chauvinism, by Bob Avakian (Download PDF pamphlet)
Reality and Distortions of Reality—Objective Truth and Subjective Influences, by Ardea Skybreak
The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
- VIDEO: Watch the latest weekly episode: Trump Indictment, Mississippi Goon Squad, O’Shae Sibley, “Woke” Is a Joke… We Need Revolution! [new]
“Woke” Is a Destructive Force
- “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution: A speech by Rafael Kadaris, and Q&A, Tuesday, August 15, 7 pm, Revolution Books NYC
- Join the Revcoms at the Sociology Conference in Philly!
- VIDEO: From the Bob Avakian Interviews: “Woke” is a joke, a bad joke [new]
- A Seven Point Indictment: “Woke” is a destructive force in the political, intellectual, artistic and ethical life of society
- VIDEO: “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution, a speech by Sunsara Taylor (a special episode of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show)
- From Sunsara Taylor: Donate to “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution Campus Speaking Tour
- Special page: Get involved with the Sunsara Taylor Campus Speaking Tour
- Bob Avakian on Opposing “Woke” Madness and Obstructions
Operation Saturation
- VIDEO: OPERATION SATURATION — Putting Revolution on the Map [new]
- Operation Saturation: Put Revolution on the Map by Putting It on the Walls [new]
Featured
- VIDEO/TEXT: Andy Zee commentary on The RNL Show: The Indictments of Trump and the Rare Time; The Sharpening Volatile Divide and the Responsibility and Potential to Act for a Real Revolution [new]
- Full Announcement: THE RAYMOND LOTTA FALL CAMPUS SPEAKING TOUR: You’ve Been Lied To! The First Communist Revolutions Were Liberating… The NEW Communist Revolution Will Be Far Better [new]
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr…. Quackery and Conspiracy… Unconventional Ideas and a Scientific Approach, by Bob Avakian (new: now available as pamphlet PDF)
- Grieving the Loss of Lives from the Maui Fires… and Angry at the System [new]
- Reprinted from San Antonio Current: Jason Aldean’s claims of patriotism and victimhood both ring hollow [new]
- VIDEO: BARBIE?!? Stop Play-Acting with Patriarchal Toys. Unleash the Fury of Women for Revolution
- VIDEO: Raymond Lotta Speaking on “Robert Oppenheimer Served America’s Empire: We Have the Responsibility and Possibility to End This Horror, and Bring a Far Better World Into Being.”
- VIDEO: O’Shae Sibley: Murdered for Being Gay — We Say NO MORE! [new]
- VIDEO: Mississippi Pigs Terrorize and Torture Two Black Men — What Kind of Sick System Is This!? [new]
- Border Update: Two More Immigrant Deaths From “Operation Lone Star,” Fascist Governors Send Reinforcements to Texas [new]
- Reflections from a Reader about Rodriguez, and the Film Searching for Sugar Man That Tells His Story [new]
- Turning What Were School Libraries Into Detention Centers: The Fascist Transformation of the Houston School District [new]
- Coming to a School Near You: Patriotic Christian Fascist Indoctrination [new]
- Bringing “We Need and We Demand” and “We Are the Revcoms” to a Rally Against the Fascist Takeover of Houston’s School District [new]
- Lessons Learned from Broad Outreach Outing at Farmer’s Market on Hiroshima Day Weekend [new]
- Snapshot: Chicago Hiroshima Day at the Logan Square Market [new]
- Houston Snapshot: Watching Raymond Lotta’s Talk on Robert Oppenheimer [new]
- The Righteous Clash in Montgomery… And Being Able to Bury Amerikkka & the Capitalist System It Was Founded on… for Good, by Toni RedTree [new]
No Nuclear War! It’s This System, not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct!
- Ukrainian Offensive Escalates Against Dug-In Russian Army
Wake Up People! A Hellish Imperialist War Is Imperiling the World - War in Ukraine: Frequently Asked Questions
- “DON’T WORRY ABOUT NUCLEAR WAR—IF THERE IS ONE, RUSSIA WILL LOSE!” The Dangerous Demagoguery of Timothy Snyder on Behalf of U.S. Imperialism and Its Proxy War in Ukraine, by Bob Avakian
- Ukraine: World War 3 Is the Real Danger, Not a Repeat of World War 2, by Bob Avakian
- Piercing the Lies, Digging Beneath the Surface
The Larger Dynamics of the World Imperialist System Driving the War in Ukraine... And a Lesson from When There Was a Genuinely Socialist Soviet Union, by Raymond Lotta - Resource Page on the War in Ukraine and U.S. Threats Against China
Booklickers Gallery
- VIDEO: Bootlicker of the Week: KRS-One… or should we say KRS-Five-O
- Nominations Now Open for Booklickers Hall of Shame
From Bob Avakian
- LIBERALS… LIAR, LIAR: In honor of Daniel Ellsberg: who was willing and determined to face, to speak—and to urge others to speak out about—crucial truths about the crimes of this American empire and the dangers it poses to the people of the world and the very existence of humanity
[including video] - About Bill Maher— A Further Observation on American Chauvinism And Parasitic Individualism
Raising Funds to Put Revolution on the Map
The Courageous Uprising in Iran
- From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now: Somayeh Kargar Speaks at the Festival Soleil d’Iran in Paris, France [new]
- Iran’s Theocrats Stiffen Hijab Laws Ahead of Mahsa Amini Uprising Anniversary
Universities a Focus of Repression and Potential Hotbeds of Resistance - From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now: Global Outcry Needed: No Bans! No Jail Time! No Executions!
- From Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: If There Is to Be a Revolution, a Revolutionary Situation Must Be Created!
Capitalism-Imperialism Is Destroying the Planet... Only Revolution Gives Humanity a Real Chance to Save It
The Revolution Club
- Fighting for… Getting Organized for… REVOLUTION. Find out more about the Revolution Club here.