Welcome to the June 12, 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:
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
NEW from Bob Avakian: ANTI-SCIENTIFIC “ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM”: Serving American Imperialism and Promoting American Chauvinism (Download PDF pamphlet)
U.S. Constitution: An Exploiters’ Vision of Freedom—Added Notes (and Brief Introduction), by Bob Avakian (Download PDF pamphlet)
From Bob Avakian…
- Basics 3:1
- Enough of “woke folk” who act as if it is actually oppressed people who are fragile beings…
- Everything Depends…
- Without Confronting the Very Real Horror…
“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)
- VIDEO: From The RNL Show: Q&A at UCLA #2: Why Use the Word "Woke"? — Communism Is Anti-Woke? — Objective Reality & Safe Spaces [new]
- VIDEO: From The RNL Show: Excerpts from Q&As at UCLA: Identity Politics — What is Science? — MAGA and the Stakes of the Moment
- From Sunsara Taylor: Donate to “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution Campus Speaking Tour
- Newly 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
No Nuclear War! It’s This System, not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct!
- With new Added Notes from the author and introduction: Shameless American Chauvinism: “Anti-Authoritarianism” as a “Cover” for Supporting U.S. Imperialism, by Bob Avakian
- War in Ukraine: Major U.S./NATO Offensive Begins, U.S. Repudiates Calls for a Ceasefire, Opens Door for Further Attacks Within Russia [new]
- Sabotaged Pipelines and Nazi Insignia—Violent Escalations of U.S. Lies, Cover-ups, and Excuses in a Dirty War [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
- Pouring Gasoline on a Raging Fire: Face-off Intensifies at Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine
- IMPORTANT NOTICE: Nominations Now Open for Bootlickers Hall of Shame
- Resource Page on the War in Ukraine and U.S. Threats Against China
Raising $100,000 by July 16 to Put Revolution on the Map
- Raising $100,000 to Put Revolution—The Fight for the Future—On the Map Tune Into the Fundraising Livestream, June 25 [new]
- VIDEO: Watch: $100,000 fund drive livestream that aired June 4
- 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)
Taking the “We Are the Revcoms” Proclamation Out into the World
- Andy Zee on the WE ARE THE REVCOMS Proclamation (read / watch)
- VIDEO: International May 1st, 2023: Revolution for a Whole New Emancipating Way to Live IS Possible!
- VIDEO: A Challenge to the Youth, from the BA Interviews
- Revcoms Write on the We Are the Revcoms Broadsheet
Featured
- THE INDICTMENT OF DONALD TRUMP, THE UPHEAVAL THAT IS COMING, AND THE INTERESTS OF HUMANITY [new]
- VIDEO: From The RNL Show: Morning Coffee [new]
- THIS is what BOURGEOIS DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE: Atlanta City Council Rubber Stamps Cop City, Police Terror, and Preparation for Worse [new]
- On the Cold-Blooded Racist Murder of Ajike “AJ” Owens [new]
- STOP the Fascist Attacks and Demonization of LGBTQ People! WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS SYSTEM'S FUTURE! A Better World Without Exploitation and Oppression Is Possible. NOW IS THE TIME TO GET ORGANIZED FOR A REAL REVOLUTION
- Anti-LGBTQ Madness Hits California: Confronting Fascists at a school board meeting
- Alert! Danger of Major “Legal” Attack on Black People and Other Oppressed Nationalities: Fascist Supreme Court Expected to Launch Major Attack on Affirmative Action Soon
- Fight the Power, and Transform the People, for Revolution: Standing Up to Defend the People at Elementary School Targeted by Anti-LGBTQ Thugs
- From the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America:
The Nation of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans Within the New Socialist Republic in North America
Capitalism-Imperialism Is Destroying the Planet... Only Revolution Gives Humanity a Real Chance to Save It
- Wildfires in Canada Causing Massive Air Pollution “Look Up” to See What's Happening to Our Planet... “Raise Your Sights” To The Revolution Needed To Save It! [new]
- The Rapacity, Destructiveness, and Violence Built into Imperialism: Nuclear-Armed Imperialist Powers Scramble to Profit from Melting Polar Ice [new]
The Courageous Uprising in Iran
- From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners NOW: Ariel Dorfman Joins Global Outcry for Medical Release of Nahid Taghavi [new]
- "Stop Executions in Iran!" rings out in Colombian streets "The struggle of the Iranian people is our struggle!"
- Life of Iranian Political Prisoner Nahid Taghavi in Immediate Danger: Fellow Prisoner & Renowned Human Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Sounds Alarm
- From Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: If There Is to Be a Revolution, a Revolutionary Situation Must Be Created!
The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
- Watch the latest weekly episode: You Think You’re Woke... But You're Sleepwalking Through a Nightmare: The System Must be Overthrown!