Welcome to the February 20, 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:
No to U.S./NATO War vs. Russia and Threats vs. China!
- February 24: Watch for It! IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT COMING FROM THE REVCOMS ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE U.S./NATO-RUSSIAN WAR IN UKRAINE [new this issue]
- The U.S.-NATO/Russian War in Ukraine After One Year: Nuclear-Armed Powers Prepare for Even Deadlier Battles in Coming Weeks and Months [new]
- A Year of U.S. Economic Warfare, Military Threats and Provocations Against China [new]
- A Short History of U.S. Pretexts for War [new]
- A Brief Word on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin [new]
- BIPOC Leadership: There Is No Such Thing: The Fight Against Oppression and Leadership That Is Needed, by Bob Avakian
- RNL takedown of an American chauvinist [from The RNL Show]
- Bob Avakian on Biden, Putin & Xi Jinping: Imperialist Gangsters and the Need for Revolution! [from the Bob Avakian Interviews]
International Women’s Day, and Fight for Abortion Rights
- International Women’s Day 2023: Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution! [new]
- March 8, International Women’s Day: Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!
- BA on the Oppression of Women and discussion with Lenny Wolff and Sunsara Taylor [from The RNL Show]
- ALERT: Urgent Threat to Nationwide Access to Medication Abortions, by Sunsara Taylor [new]
- Video Now Available: Fran Luck & Sunsara Taylor Discuss Abortion Rights, Revolution & the Liberation of Women on the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
- Raymond Lotta at Revolution Books NY: The "Industrialization" of Sexual Exploitation, and Global Capitalism... Or Why "Sex Work" Is NOT "Agency" but Degradation and Nightmare... and Why We Need Revolution [new]
$100,000 Fund Drive to Put Revolution on the Map in 2023
- Fundraising Livestream: Bigger, More Revolutionary and More Participatory Than Ever!!—aired February 19, watch again and spread to others
- Statements from Donors to the February 19 Fundraising Livestream [new}
- Updated: What people are saying and doing about the BA Interviews and raising funds
The Struggle in Iran
- Letter from a reader: Reza Pahlavi’s Coming Out Party and the Future of Iran [new]
- IEC update: Recently Released Prisoners Call for Freedom for All Political Prisoners [new]
Other Featured Articles
- Fentanyl: A Deadly Plague Produced and Exploited by Capitalism-Imperialism [new]
- Turkey/Syria Earthquake Plunges Millions Further Into Misery and Horror [with new Update]
- Check It Out: Bill Russell: Legend [new]