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In This Issue… February 6, 2023

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.

This site follows the leadership of Bob Avakian, BA, the architect of the new communism. Here is where you can find the body of work of BA as well as important articles on who he is and how he leads. This is the site where you can dig into key current works of BA that analyze not just why revolution is needed and what that revolution needs to be about, but the real prospects and possibilities for making revolution in these times and the key questions that need to be addressed.

BA has analyzed that these times in which the very conditions that pose the prospect of something really terrible for humanity also contain the potential out of which something truly emancipating could be wrenched… if we make revolution. In the incredibly important work 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, BA analyzes the times we live in, the challenges we face and how we could meet and surmount those challenges. In recent articles (AMERICA: Truly a Model—of DEPRAVED RACIST GENOCIDE. How can any decent person deny that we need a revolution to overthrow this system? and “‘Common Sense’ Is Often Wrong; A Scientific Approach Shows Revolution Is Possible, Especially In This ‘Rare Time’), BA very succinctly gets into why nothing short of revolution is needed and how you can’t begin to see the possibilities for this revolution if you rely on “common sense” rather than science. Most important right now are the “up close and personal” interviews with Bob Avakian done this past fall—interviews which give a living sense of this revolution and reach both your head and your heart. Go here to watch the interviews, and here for some of the responses from those who’ve watched them and been moved by them. Oh, and for those who say “why do you follow just one leader,” go here for a really good short explanation of the relationship between leadership and led and the kind of leaders this movement is working to bring forward.

This site works to apply the method and approach brought forward by Bob Avakian to the events of the world every week. This week we analyze the increasingly intense conflict between the U.S. and China ("Entering the 'Red Zone': U.S. Steps up Military, Diplomatic, And Economic Warmongering Against China" and "U.S. Launches Full-Court Press at China); we include reports and analysis on the sharp expressions of the oppression of Black people in this country—the murder of Tyre Nichols by Memphis pigs, the fascist attempt to suppress and distort the teaching of Black history in Florida, and other examples as well; and we’re including articles on the oppression of women in Latin America from comrade organizations in Mexico and Colombia. Revolution has also been covering the inspiring rebellion in Iran and this week includes an excerpt of a new article by the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninst-Maoist) on the direction forward for the struggle there, as well as some cultural correspondence about Jafar Panahi, an Iranian film-maker persecuted by the government. We also include an essay on the illusions in a recent Op-Ed by novelist Richard Powers in the New York Times.

This site gives you ways to be part of building a movement to change all this, to bring into being a whole new world. Go here to read about the fund drive to raise $100,000 to support the movement for revolution and how new people are being organized through that drive. And go here to find out about an upcoming livestream for that drive. Go here to read about a recent program at Revolution Books in New York after the murder of Tyre Nichols—a program that drew a sharp line between reform and revolution. Go here to read about how revcoms challenged people at an artistic event on the war in Ukraine. And go here for the controversy stirred up by the revcoms at Columbia University in New York.

So, welcome to that and more.

 

We are at a turning point in history. The capitalist-imperialist system is a horror for billions of people here and around the world and threatening the very fabric of life on earth. Now the election of fascist Trump poses even more extreme dangers for humanity—and underscores the total illegitimacy of this system, and the urgent need for a radically different system.

The website Revcom.us follows the revolutionary leadership of Bob Avakian (BA), the author of the new communism. Bob Avakian has scientifically analyzed that we are in a rare time when an actual revolution has become more possible in the U.S. He’s charted a strategy for making that revolution, and laid out a sweeping vision and concrete blueprint for “what comes next” in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America.

Revcom.us projects BA’s voice, leadership, and vision throughout society. It posts his timely leadership for the revcoms (revolutionary communists) and the whole movement for revolution, including his social media posts, and curates his whole body of work. 

Our website applies the scientific approach BA has developed to analyze major events in society and the world—why they are happening, how they relate to each other, how all this relates to the system we live under, where people's interests lie, how revolution is in fact the solution to all this, and what the goals of that revolution are.

Revcom.us acts as a guiding and connecting hub for the revcom movement nationwide: showing what’s being done, digging into what’s right and what’s wrong, and rapidly learning—and recruiting new people into what has to be a rapidly growing force. As part of this, revcom.us feature and promotes the weekly The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube.com. 

Put it this way: there will be no revolution unless this website not only “keeps going” but rises to a whole different level!

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