Welcome to the July 10, 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 NEW 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
July 4: America Is Nothing to Celebrate!
- Video: Abolish This System & U.S. Constitution! Establish the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic! (Episode 155 of The RNL Show, July 6) [new]
- Video: Lenny Wolff at Revolution Books NYC, July 2: A Guide to Two Documents for Today and for the Future [new]
- Sights and Sounds: July 4: Revcoms deliver the message: “We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, A Fundamentally Different System”
- Commentary: Two Systems. Two Constitutions. Two Futures. Andy Zee, The RNL Show
- An inconvenient—but absolutely necessary—truth for July 4
- Cheers to Jill Scott for Her Searing Rendition of the National Anthem [new]
U.S. Constitution: An Exploiters’ Vision of Freedom—Added Notes (and Brief Introduction), by Bob Avakian (Download PDF pamphlet)
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
No Nuclear War! It’s This System, not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct!
- Chaotic, Bloody Developments in Imperialist War in Ukraine—and the Urgent Need for Clarity in the “Fog of War” [new]
- Biden Announces U.S. Will Supply Ukraine with Cluster Bombs: A Rain of Death That Kills for Decades [new]
- “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
Raising $100,000 to Put Revolution on the Map
- Tune into the Revcoms’ July 16 Fundraising Livestream: $100K to Put Revolution on the Map in 2023! [new]
- News and Statements from the Donors to the $100,000 Fund Drive [updated]
- Distribute this call for funds with the We Are the Revcoms proclamation: half-page | full page (updated PDFs)
Featured
- Facing Torture and Death in Texas Prisons Without Air Conditioning [new]
- With U.S. Support: Israel Ravages Palestinian Refugee Camp in Jenin [new]
- Fascist-Dominated U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Affirmative Action: Reinforcing White Supremacy, Hitting the Gas Pedal on the Road to Fascism… and Revolutionary Possibilities
- Taking “WE ARE THE REVCOMS” to the American Library Association Conference [new]
“Woke” Is a Destructive Force
- 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)
- Q&A from UCLA speech by Sunsara Taylor (videos): #1, #2, #3
- From Sunsara Taylor: Donate to “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution Campus Speaking Tour
- Reposted: BOB AVAKIAN ON ANARCHISM AND ANARCHISTS—Some Good Intentions, but No Fundamental Solution, and Some Big Problems
- Special page: Get involved with the Sunsara Taylor Campus Speaking Tour
- Bob Avakian on Opposing “Woke” Madness and Obstructions
The Courageous Uprising in Iran
- Revolution Books Berkeley: Nasser Mohajer Discusses His Book Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988
- From the IEC: Video from Colombia: Voices of Internationalist Solidarity
- From Atash/Fire, journal of the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist): Statement in Support of the LGBTQ Movement
- 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
- Hottest Global Temperatures in 125,000 Years! Urgently Needed: A Whole New Way to Live, a Fundamentally Different System [new]
- “Beyond Extreme”: Marine Heat Waves, the Ugly Horrors of This System, and the Ticking Clock
We Need Revolution! System Change NOT Climate Change! - The Rapacity, Destructiveness, and Violence Built into Imperialism: Nuclear-Armed Imperialist Powers Scramble to Profit from Melting Polar Ice
- Special Environment Crisis Resource Page
The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
- Watch the latest weekly episode: Abolish This System & U.S. Constitution! Establish the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic!
The Revolution Club
- From the Revolution Club, Chicago: Taking “We Are The Revcoms” to Chicago’s South Shore and Pride Fest
- Find out more about the Revolution Club