Welcome to the June 26, 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: SCIENTIFIC COMMUNIST THEORY AND THE PROBLEM WITH “MASS LINE”
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
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)
- 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 [updated]
- Bob Avakian on Opposing “Woke” Madness and Obstructions
No Nuclear War! It’s This System, not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct!
- An inconvenient—but absolutely necessary—truth for July 4
- A Note to Our Readers on the Intense Conflict Between the U.S., Russia, and China, with a Focus on Ukraine: Unraveling and Understanding the Rapid Weekly Changes in the World Situation
- From China to Ukraine to the Arctic: Conflict Between the U.S., Russia, and China Grows Even More Intense and Explosive
- “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 by July 16 to Put Revolution on the Map
- Watch now: Livestream that aired June 25 [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)
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
- JULY 4, 2023: AMERICA IS NOTHING TO CELEBRATE. WE DEMAND: A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE, A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM. 1 pm, July 4, Independence Hall, Philadelphia [new] [download leaflets]
- VIDEO: Big Announcement: Join the Revcoms on July 4 in Philadelphia and Nationwide!
- From The RNL Show: Andy Zee on—“America Was NEVER Great! We Need Revolution, Nothing Less” [new]
- Female Enslavement in the “Land of the Free”: We Need a New Society with ABORTION ON DEMAND AND WITHOUT APOLOGY!, by Sunsara Taylor [new]
- One-Year Anniversary of the Overturning of Roe: A Nightmare for Women and Society, a Driving Force for Revolution [new]
- Daniel Ellsberg, Courageous Whistleblower, Antiwar Activist, and Writer, Dies at 92 [new]
- Check it Out: Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives [new]
- From The RNL Show: The Trump Indictment… and Why This Is a Rare Time When Revolution Is More Possible
- THE INDICTMENT OF DONALD TRUMP, THE UPHEAVAL THAT IS COMING, AND THE INTERESTS OF HUMANITY
- A Divine History of Blasphemy
- VIDEO: Revcoms counter Catholic fascists on Pride Night at Dodger Stadium
- 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
The Courageous Uprising in Iran
- Letter to the IEC on the June 21 UUSF and IEC Vigil in SF: Together We Will Grow the Global Outcry to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners NOW! [new]
- From Atash/Fire, journal of the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist): Statement in Support of the LGBTQ Movement [new]
- Ariel Dorfman Joins Global Outcry for Release of Nahid Taghavi
- 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
- “Beyond Extreme”: Marine Heat Waves, the Ugly Horrors of This System, and the Ticking Clock
We Need Revolution! System Change NOT Climate Change! [new] - 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: 1 Year Since Roe v. Wade, Juneteenth & the Revolution We Need to End Slavery in Every Form
The Revolution Club
- From the Revolution Club, Chicago: Taking “We Are The Revcoms” to Chicago‘s South Shore and Pride Fest [new]
- Find out more about the Revolution Club