Welcome to the August 28, 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
Part Four: Hard Core Youth and the Revolution
Part Five: Winning and Winning [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
Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points
Bob Avakian on Exploitation
- PUTTING AN END TO EXPLOITATION, AND ALL OPPRESSION [new]
- VIDEO: EXPLOITATION: WHAT IT IS, HOW TO PUT AN END TO IT by Bob Avakian (produced by The RNL Show) [new]
- EXPLOITATION: WHAT IT IS, HOW TO PUT AN END TO IT
GOD, PREJUDICE, OPPRESSION, TERROR AND THE WAY OUT OF THIS MADNESS, by Bob Avakian (download PDF)
SUPREME COURT: CHRISTIAN FASCISTS STEALING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, by Bob Avakian
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: EXPLOITATION: What It Is & How to Put an End to It, new from Bob Avakian, and more… [new]
“Woke” Is a Destructive Force
- Revcoms at the American Sociological Association Conference: Spreading Revolution, Stirring Up Controversy, Waging Sharp Struggle [new]
- Reflections on the Experience of the Revcoms' Work at the ASA Conference [new]
- VIDEO: “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution: A talk by Rafael Kadaris, and Q&A, at Revolution Books NYC
- VIDEO: From the Bob Avakian Interviews: “Woke” is a joke, a bad joke
- 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
- Labor Day Weekend 2023: Make A Giant Step Toward Putting Revolution On The Map [new]
- VIDEO: Defeat & Abolish This Monstrous System... and Establish a Far Better System, Andy Zee on The RNL Show [new]
- Broadsheets (PDF) for We Need and We Demand : A Whole New Way to Live, A Fundamentally Different System [new]
The Murderous Assault on LGBTQ People—And What’s Needed Now
- All-Sided Murderous Assault on LGBTQ People: NOW'S THE TIME to Defend Each Other, and to Get Organized for Revolution [new]
- Why I Was Protesting for LGBTQ Rights on August 22, Why I Was Brutalized by the LAPD, and What We All Need to Do Now [new]
- VIDEO: Why Are the Violent Attacks Against LGBTQ People Intensifying? To understand this, see this clip from the Bob Avakian Interviews.
- Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points
- Excerpt from Bob Avakian’s 2021 New Year’s Statement, on “profound changes in the situation and social position of large numbers of women, both within this country and internationally”
The Horror in Jacksonville, the Liberation of Black People, and the Revolution We Need
- Yet Another Racist Mass Murder—This Time Jacksonville, Florida
Why Do These Nightmares Keep Happening? What Will It REALLY Take to Stop Them? [new] - VIDEO: Bob Avakian for the Liberation of Black People and the Emancipation of All Humanity
- Excerpt from WE NEED AND WE DEMAND: A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE, A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM [new]
Featured
- VIDEO: Andy Zee Commentary on The RNL Show: The Trump Indictment, Liberal Delusions, and the Potential for Revolution
- VIDEO: REVOLUTION: A Scientific Strategy to Win
- 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
- Pop Quiz: Everything You’ve Been Told About Communism IS WRONG. CAPITALISM IS A FAILURE, COMMUNIST REVOLUTION IS THE SOLUTION (read online | download PDF) [new]
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr…. Quackery and Conspiracy… Unconventional Ideas and a Scientific Approach, by Bob Avakian (now available as pamphlet PDF)
- Beyond Wishful Thinking and Wrong Conviction: Reflections on the Radical Potential of a Rare Time, by Paul Street
- From a Prisoner: “The American Crime Series is liberating to the mind of all those who read it. This is why I believe it to be a vital part of the revolution.” [new]
Raising Funds for the Revolution
Deadly Fires in Hawai’i—We need a whole new way to live
- The Deadly Fires in Hawaiʻi: A Disaster Created by U.S. Capitalism-Imperialism, by Environment Writing Group, revcom.us
- To the People Living in and Loving Hawai’i: WE NEED A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE
- Grieving the Loss of Lives from the Maui Fires… and Angry at the System
No Nuclear War! It’s This System, not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct!
- A World in Flames: Imperialist Bloodbath in Ukraine Expands, War Preparations in East Asia Intensify
- 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
The Courageous Uprising in Iran
- On the 70th Anniversary of the U.S.-British Coup in Iran—
Watch Coup 53, Read the American Crime Series - From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now:
Two Timely Check It Outs About Iran - From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now: As Anniversary of “Women-Life-Freedom” Uprising in Iran Approaches, Repression & Protest Preparations Intensify
- Somayeh Kargar Speaks at the Festival Soleil d’Iran in Paris, France
Capitalism-Imperialism Is Destroying the Planet... Only Revolution Gives Humanity a Real Chance to Save It
The Revolution Club
- “Parents Rights,” a MAGA Fascist Assault Has Been Unleashed on a Generation of Youth, by Noche Diaz
- VIDEO: A Message from Members of the Chicago Revolution Club [new]
- In Loving Memory of Lauri Carleton and Rage at Her Murder
- Fighting for… Getting Organized for… REVOLUTION. Find out more about the Revolution Club here.