Welcome to REVOLUTION, the online weekly news source that lets you know what’s happening, why it’s happening, what it means for humanity… and how it relates to making revolution.
Reflect for a moment on the year now ending. In February, Russia invaded Ukraine. The U.S. seized on this as an opportunity to use Ukraine to wage a proxy war against its Russian imperialist rival. In June, despite a struggle of thousands led by RiseUp4AbortionRights, the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion and violently changed the lives of millions of women. In September, masses of people rose up in Iran for the liberation of women and, as things quickly developed, against the oppressive rule of the religious authorities, and they continue to battle in the face of truly savage repression.
So this is a time of upheaval and conflict, both in the world and within the U.S. itself. This is a time that in some key ways is unprecedented in this country, a time when revolution—yes, here in the belly of the beast—is actually more possible. That is the context for the most important thing featured in this issue: the new three-part interview “Up Close and Personal With Bob Avakian, Heart and Soul & Hard-Core for Revolution.” Bob Avakian, BA, is the architect of the new communism, the most important political thinker and leader in the world today. In these interviews, BA lays out why we need a revolution, how we can actually make revolution, and what the goal and guiding morality of the revolution must be—and he does it in a way with… well, with real heart and soul, drawing on his whole life experience. Get into these interviews, and do it more than once. At the same time, go here for a page that features people’s different responses to the interviews, that lets you in on the diverse ways that people are spreading this, and that provides thinking and guidance on what we need to be doing now to give these the impact that the times so urgently require.
Very important—and as both a foundation for understanding, and a roadmap for navigating, these unique times we live in—go here for Bob Avakian’s extremely important talk 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.
This week we also cover some key events in the world, including the powerful struggle being waged by the people of Iran up against brutal repression; the moves by the U.S. to prepare for war with its imperialist rivals, China and Russia—war that in this nuclear age carries a real risk of ending humanity altogether; a searing exposure of the oppression of immigrants drawing on the “case study” of Venezuela; and the crisis around crypto currency.
The holidays are a time when people often reflect on the year past and spend time with friends and family… and that can be really good and sustaining and necessary (as well as some times a little difficult). Over these next two weeks, part of that holiday period should be turning those friends and family on to these interviews with Bob Avakian and raising funds to spread them far and wide. Raising funds is a key way to get these interviews out to many thousands more and a real way for people to be part of this movement in a beginning—but—extremely important way.
You can go to the interview page to draw from the guidance we’ve published and from the experience and insights of others who’ve written in to Revolution. Take a risk well worth taking—it is not an exaggeration to say that the world is at stake.
Finally, this movement depends on your active thinking as well your actions. So we are also asking you to read the fourth installment of our series “This Is a ‘Game-Changer’: The Bob Avakian Interviews” and write us (revolution.reports@yahoo.com) with your thinking on the questions posed in it.
Table of contents:
* The Bob Avakian Interviews: Up Close and Personal with Bob Avakian, Heart and Soul & Hard-Core for Revolution
- Go HERE for all 3 parts.
- Part 3
- Part 2
- Part 1
- New: A Message to the Revcoms and Everyone Else Yearning for a Better World: THIS Is A “Game-Changer”: The Bob Avakian Interviews, Part 4: Once More on Important Relations and Dynamics
- New: Impacting Society with the Bob Avakian Interviews in a Crisis Around the Torture-Chamber Juvenile Halls... A real way out of the madness
- New: “What really stood out to me is that I saw a completely different leader.”
- New: Outreach to Professors: Invite the Revcoms to Speak to Your Class!
- Special page with ways to join the efforts to spread the word, donate, find out what people are saying and materials to distribute.
- Updated: What People Are Saying... and Doing
- 3 Reasons Why YOU Can’t Miss the Bob Avakian Interviews on the Revolution—Nothing Less! YouTube Show
- New Video: A Revolutionary Tamale Sale and the Role for YOU in Raising Funds to Put Revolution on the Map
- Out of the Gate Towards $100,000 Goal! A Glimpse of What’s Possible
- New: Get the Word Out: Fund Drive Livestream, January 8!
- New: In Lieu of Gifts, Make a Donation to the Fund Drive to Put This Revolution on the Map
- Updated: Taking Up the Call to Raise Funds to Put REAL Revolution on the Map
- NEW: A “10x10” Appeal from the Revolution Club, Chicago: Be part of the holiday fund drive to raise $35,000 by January 2—to put REAL Revolution on the map! Be part of building up the organized forces for the revolution!
- The Holiday Fund Drive: Resources and Materials
* Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points
* Uprising in Iran
- New: Week 13 of Iran Uprising: Regime Launches New Wave of Executions & Sham Trials, Unleashing Outrage and Horror Worldwide
- New: From a Prisoner in the U.S.: “The Iranian Uprising has brought such high hopes to me…”
- From Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist): If There Is to Be a Revolution, a Revolutionary Situation Must Be Created!
- From Atash/Fire Journal #133 of Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: Forward to the Revolutionary Student Movement
* Danger of World War
- New: WARNING! U.S. Imperialists Step Up Preparations for World War—These MFers Want YOU to Fight and Die for Empire… What Future are YOU Preparing For?
- New: Playing War Games, and Preparing for the Real Thing
- New Video: Bob Avakian on the Threat of War and the Rare Time We Are In
- Updated: The War in Ukraine: A Resource Page
*Immigrants and the Border
- New: Welcome to AmeriKKKa: U.S. Slams Door in Faces of Tens of Thousands of Desperate Venezuelans
- New: Alert: Possible End of Title 42… and Major Intensification of the “Border Crisis”
* New: The Crime of Crypto, The Crime of Capitalism
* New: Editorial: Looking Back on the Old Year, Celebrating the New One… and Making Revolution