Welcome to the July 31, 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
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
by Bob Avakian [new] - REVOLUTION IS POSSIBLE
THIS RARE TIME MUST BE SEIZED
Important excerpts from “Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating” [new]
Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points
Three Articles from Bob Avakian
- GOD, PREJUDICE, OPPRESSION, TERROR AND THE WAY OUT OF THIS MADNESS (download PDF)
- EXPLOITATION: WHAT IT IS, HOW TO PUT AN END TO IT
- SUPREME COURT: CHRISTIAN FASCISTS STEALING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
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: BA on Fight the power, and transform the people, for revolution [new]
- VIDEO: Watch the latest weekly episode: Trump’s Fascist Agenda 47, Jason Aldean, a Country Coming Apart — Get Organized for Revolution [new]
August 6: We Declare No More!
- The Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S. Were Crimes Against Humanity!
No War With Russia! Stop U.S. Threats Against China! No WW3!
It Is This System, Not Humanity, That Must Become Extinct!
We Don’t Accept Their Future — It’s Time to Get Organized for a Real Revolution [new]- Go here to join an activity near you [new]
- Download PDFs [new]
- VIDEO: Raymond Lotta speaking on "Robert Oppenheimer Served America’s Empire: We Have the Responsibility and Possibility to End This Horror, and Bring a Far Better World Into Being." [new]
- VIDEO: Bob Avakian on Biden, Putin & Xi Jinping: Imperialist Gangsters and the Need for Revolution!
- From the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America:
An Entirely Different Kind of Military with an Entirely Different Purpose, Structure and Ethics - On the Film Oppenheimer And The Real Lessons Of History
- American Crime Case #97: August 6 and 9, 1945—The Nuclear Incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
No Nuclear War! It’s This System, not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct!
- Ukrainian Offensive Escalates Against Dug-In Russian Army
Wake Up People! A Hellish Imperialist War Is Imperiling the World [new] - 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
Featured
- Donald Trump Indicted: The Situation Intensifies, Prepare for Struggle [new, August 1]
- Powerful Uprising Against Police Murder and Racist Oppression Rocks France for Six Days, Defying Massive State Repression and Fascist Menace [new]
- New reactionary bullshit from puffed-up idiot who does great damage...
Pseudo-Marxist Slavoj Žižek Calls for Law and Order in France
by Raymond Lotta [new] - VIDEO: Andy Zee and Sunsara Taylor Give Tribute to Courageous Singer Sinéad O’Connor 1966-2023 [new]
- Sinéad O'Connor and the Beauty of Her Rage
An Appreciation and Remembrance
by Annie Day [new] - The New York Times Puts on a Show of Agonizing Over a Single Question… When the Real Answer Is Actually Pretty Simple [new]
- VIDEO: Rafael Kadaris Talks About Country Singer Jason Aldean’s Fascist Rallying Cry for Civil War [new]
- What Next From the Florida Board of Education?
How Tattooists at Auschwitz Learned Useful Skills for After the War?!? [new] - THOUGHTS ON BOB AVAKIAN’S ANALYSIS THAT THIS IS A RARE TIME WHEN REVOLUTION IS MORE POSSIBLE
- An Existential Crisis Erupts in Zionist, Apartheid Israel
With update note, July 25, 2023 [updated]
Bootlicker of the Week: KRS-One… or should we say KRS-Five-O?
by Rafael Kadaris
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] - ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR... QUACKERY AND CONSPIRACY... UNCONVENTIONAL IDEAS AND A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH. To Debate or Not to Debate—That Is a Question of Principle and Method
including PDF for download and distribution] - About Bill Maher— A Further Observation on American Chauvinism And Parasitic Individualism
Raising Funds to Put Revolution on the Map
A big thank-you to everyone who contributed
- VIDEO: Watch the Revcoms’ Fundraising Livestream that aired on July 16: $100K+ Raised to Put Revolution on the Map in 2023!
- News and Statements from Donors
“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
- Iran’s Theocrats Stiffen Hijab Laws Ahead of Mahsa Amini Uprising Anniversary
Universities a Focus of Repression and Potential Hotbeds of Resistance [new] - From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now: Global Outcry Needed: No Bans! No Jail Time! No Executions!
- From Atash/Fire, journal of the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist): Repression Won’t Fade Away! Rise Up to Free the Political Prisoners
- 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
- “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 Environmental Crisis Resource Page
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