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- Revolution Number 47: Once more: anti-Zionism, and opposition to the Zionist state of Israel, is not anti-Semitism!
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PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION, by Bob Avakian
Bob Avakian (BA)—Official Biography
Courtesy of The Bob Avakian Institute, updated May 2024
The Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity calls on you to join:
REVOLUTION SUMMER 2024
Working for a REAL REVOLUTION
For a Whole New Emancipating Way to Live,
A Fundamentally Different System
STOP the U.S./Israeli Genocide of Palestinians NOW!
Another World IS Possible!
Featured
- Donald Trump Convicted of 34 Felonies: The Coming Clash, the Need for—and the Possibility of—REVOLUTION
- Reposted: The Trials of Fascist Donald Trump, and the Criminal Nature of This Whole System, by Bob Avakian
- Staring into the Abyss of Nuclear War—Biden OKs U.S. Weapons for Attacks on Russia
- Remembering Bill Walton
- Reposted: Bob Avakian Responds to Mark Rudd on the Lessons of the 1960s and the Need for an Actual Revolution
Palestine
- Genocide Joe’s “Red Lines”—Written in Disappearing Ink In Gaza and the West Bank: Ceasefire Lies, Escalating Genocide
- Excerpt from Upcoming Interview with Dr. Mohamad Abdelfattah on The Revolution, Nothing Less! Show
- [video] Andy Zee Interviews Alan Goodman: Fiery Inferno in Rafah Created by U.S./Israeli Bombing (from The RNL Show)
- More Officials Resign from Biden Administration over the Genocide in Gaza: “There is so clearly a right and a wrong…”
- Artists Protest Against U.S./Israeli Genocide in Gaza… and Challenge Their Peers
- Students, Faculty, Supporters Defy Attacks and Continue Protests—Walking Out of Commencements, Disrupting Reunions, Striking Against University Repression
- No Commencement or Alumni Reunion as Usual Amidst a Genocide!
- 1,000-plus NYC High School Students Walk Out to Demand Gaza Ceasefire and Immediate End to U.S. Support for Israel’s Genocide of Palestinian People
- Teach in, Los Angeles: Stop the Genocidal Slaughter of the Palestinian People
- Protesters at University of Chicago Graduation Brutally Attacked but Students Remained Defiant
Crucial Grounding in Carrying Out Revolutionary Work to Build Up the Basis to Go for the Whole Thing with a Real Chance to Win: Basic Questions of Method and Approach
by Bob Avakian
Repression, Resistance and the Potential for Revolution in Iran
- From the Emergency Campaign to Free Iran's Political Prisoners Now (IEC): Cheers to Undaunted Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof Wave of Prominent Voices Rise to Stop Execution of Toomaj Salehi
Latest episode of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube:
[video] Israel Bombing "Safe Zones" Is Not a Red Line for Biden, Humanity Needs Revolution
Also Available at Revcom.us Home Page
From the Revcoms (Revolutionary Communists):
REVOLUTION
BUILDING UP THE BASIS TO GO FOR THE WHOLE THING, WITH A REAL CHANCE TO WIN
STRATEGIC ORIENTATION AND PRACTICAL APPROACH
Read/PDF for pamphlet version
A 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 (REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNISTS): 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
Climate Devastation... Nuclear War Threatened... The Direct Danger of All-Out Fascism... Times Like These Demand a Revolutionary Answer
THE BOB AVAKIAN INTERVIEWS
on The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
- Videos: Interview Part 1/Part 2/Part 3
- A Message to the Revcoms and Everyone Else Yearning for a Better World: THIS Is A “Game-Changer”: The Bob Avakian Interviews (Part 1/Part 2/Part 3/Part 4)
Bob Avakian on Social Media
- Real Revolution, In This Time: What the Powers-That-Be Don't Want You to Know
A series of social media dispatches from Bob Avakian
(read or download PDF for flyer) - Download flyers and pamphlets of BA's social media posts
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
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
by Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Leader, Author of the New Communism
Audio: Listen to Bob Avakian Reading "Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating"
REVOLUTION IS POSSIBLE, THIS RARE TIME MUST BE SEIZED—important excerpts from "Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating"
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, by Bob Avakian
Part One: We Are Serious
Part Two: A Scientifically Based Strategy
Part Three: Civil War and Revolution
Part Four: Hard Core Youth and the Revolution
Part Five: Winning and Winning
PDF of pamphlet with all five parts
2024 SCENARIOS (A SKETCH), AND THE CHALLENGES, by Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Leader, Author of the New Communism
Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points
BOB AVAKIAN: A RADICALLY DIFFERENT LEADER—A WHOLE NEW FRAMEWORK FOR HUMAN EMANCIPATION
Bob Avakian (BA) is the most important political thinker and leader in the world today.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "TOTALITARIANISM"
“Totalitarianism” is a thoroughly unscientific—or, really, anti-scientific—“theory” concocted and promoted by intellectual apologists of this system of capitalism-imperialism.
by Bob Avakian
New compilation from The Bob Avakian Institute: Israel and Palestine, the Middle East and U.S. Imperialism, the Revolution Humanity Needs: A selection of writings from Bob Avakian
THE REVCOM CORPS
For The Emancipation Of Humanity
"WE ARE WORKING FOR A REAL REVOLUTION AND A WHOLE NEW EMANCIPATING WAY TO LIVE"
Stop the U.S.-Backed Israeli Genocidal War Against Palestine!
The Palestinian People Must Be Free!
Down With the Racist Apartheid State of Israel and Its Master, U.S. Imperialism!
Stop the Repression, Censorship and Blacklisting of Pro-Palestinian Voices!
From the Imperialist USA to Palestine The People Need Real Revolution Based on the New Communism!
- Resource Page on the Genocidal Assault on Palestine—And Israel as an Enforcer of Imperialism
- Leaflets and other materials
- A Crucial Crossroads in the Struggle to STOP the U.S.-Israeli Genocide of Palestinians... A Historic Moment in the World
How Do We Go Forward? —A contribution from the Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity - T-Shirt Drive: Donate $100 to support the Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity
These two articles by Bob Avakian on exploitation—and putting an end to exploitation and oppression— contain a very concentrated and popularized understanding of basic essentials as to what this capitalist-imperialist system actually is, and what it actually rests on, why it has to be overthrown and replaced by a socialist system aiming for a communist world, and what are essential elements of that new society and world.
- PUTTING AN END TO EXPLOITATION, AND ALL OPPRESSION
- EXPLOITATION: WHAT IT IS, HOW TO PUT AN END TO IT
Repression, Resistance and the Potential for Revolution in Iran
- From the Emergency Campaign to Free Iran's Political Prisoners Now: Death Sentence for Toomaj Still Stands: Voices Worldwide Rise Against Execution Surge of Iran’s Political and Other Prisoners
- Revolution Books, NYC, Sunday, June 9, 3 pm: Emergency Program—Let the World Know, Stop the Execution of Toomaj... Free Iran's Political Prisoners
- The Sudden Death of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi: What It Does and Doesn’t Mean for the People of Iran
- From Atash/Fire #143, Journal of the Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: The Reality of Communism, Bourgeois Democracy Means Class Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie, Part 1
- From Atash/Fire #144, Journal of the Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: The Reality of Communism, The Reality of Democracy and the Ideal of Democracy, Part 2
- From Atash/Fire #145, Journal of the Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: The Reality of Communism, Democracy and Freedom of Expression—The Economic Base Is the Decisive Factor! Part 3
- From Atash/Fire #146, Journal of the Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: The Reality of Communism: What Is Social Democracy and Why Is It a Capitalist Dictatorship? Part 4
- From Atash/Fire #147, Journal of the Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: The Reality of Communism, Revisionist Democracy: Socialism in Name, Capitalism in Essence, Part 5
- From Atash/Fire #148, Journal of the Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: The Reality of Communism: Totalitarianism: A Yardstick That Cannot Measure Reality, Part 6
- From Atash/Fire #149, Journal of the Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: The Reality of Communism: Practicing Democracy, Practicing Compromise with the Status Quo, Part 7
- From Atash/Fire #150, Journal of the Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: The Reality of Communism: Part 8: Democracy Under Socialism
The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
- The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show Podcast!!
- New episodes by the Revcoms every Thursday, 5 pm PT/7 pm CT/8 pm ET. Watch, subscribe, spread the word! youtube.com/therevcoms
On Democratic Centralism
Scientifically Understanding, and Changing the World
From SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION: On the Importance of Science and the Application of Science to Society, the New Synthesis of Communism and the Leadership of Bob Avakian. An Interview with Ardea Skybreak
Featured from Bob Avakian
- Essential readings from BA
- Palestine
- Ukraine
- "Woke" Obstructions
- Abortion
- The Oppression of Black People
- BA: A Different Kind of Leader
- Internationalism
- What Is Science?
- Revolution Not Reform
- BA on Fascism
Posters: What is that? Who said that? Say what? Provoke. Inspire. Drive people to Bob Avakian on social media: @BobAvakianOfficial and the BA Interviews on The RNL Show
BASKETBALL AND BIG QUESTIONS
The Caitlin Clark Controversy—
Greats, "Greatest of all Time,"
White Stars in a "Black Sport,"
Racism and the Fight Against It,
And the Kind of World We Should Strive to Have
by Bob Avakian—revolutionary leader, author and architect of the new communism,
and a passionate fan of basketball
ALLEGIANCE
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- A Special RNL Show Dispatch
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- Download flyer PDF
"There would be no United States as we now know it today without slavery. That is a simple and basic truth." Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:1
- [video] BOB AVAKIAN FOR THE LIBERATION OF BLACK PEOPLE AND THE EMANCIPATION OF ALL HUMANITY [repost]
- American Crime Case #12: The 1921 Tulsa Massacre and the Destruction of Black Wall Street
- RACIAL OPPRESSION CAN BE ENDED—BUT NOT UNDER THIS SYSTEM, by Bob Avakian [repost]
- Bob Avakian on the Oppression of Black People and the Revolutionary Struggle to End All Oppression—Resource Page
“Woke” Is a Destructive Force
- Rich and Lively Engagement About “‘Woke’ Lunacy vs. Real Revolution” at Two Universities in North Carolina
- “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution National Tour Hits Houston
- 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)
- Special page: Get involved with the Sunsara Taylor Campus Speaking Tour
- Bob Avakian on Opposing “Woke” Madness and Obstructions
On the Need to Break the Mental Shackles
THE TRIALS OF FASCIST DONALD TRUMP, AND THE CRIMINAL NATURE OF THIS WHOLE SYSTEM
Or, Don’t Be Played for Suckers by Trump’s Posturing, or the Democrats’ Posing as Defenders of Justice—We Need a Revolution and a Fundamentally Different and Far Better System, by Bob AvakianCAPITALISTS, ANTI-COMMUNISTS: BLATANT HYPOCRISY, GLARING CONTRADICTION, by Bob Avakian
Listen to the audio of this piece by Bob AvakianGOD, PREJUDICE, OPPRESSION, TERROR AND THE WAY OUT OF THIS MADNESS, by Bob Avakian (download PDF)
State of Emergency
- STATE OF EMERGENCY: CHAINS ON PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY NEED TO BE FREE: A message from Bob Avakian, revolutionary leader, author and architect of a whole new framework for human emancipation: the new communism
Audio of this piece by Bob Avakian - Illustrated version of BA's article from The RNL Show: State of Emergency...
"Cult"—An Ignorant and Cowardly Slander
Bob Avakian Speaks to "Cult": A Ridiculous, Ignorant and Irresponsible Accusation
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
Revolutionary Hope/La esperanza revolucionaria, Revolutionary Communist Organization, Mexico
5 Stops—five horrific forms of oppression that this system can’t reform away. Learn more:
- STOP Genocidal Persecution, Mass Incarceration, Police Brutality and Murder of Black and Brown People!
- STOP The Patriarchal Degradation, Dehumanization, and Subjugation of All Women Everywhere, and All Oppression Based on Gender or Sexual Orientation!
- STOP Wars of Empire, Armies of Occupation, and Crimes Against Humanity!
- STOP The Demonization, Criminalization, and Deportation of Immigrants and the Militarization of the Border!
- STOP Capitalism-Imperialism from Destroying Our Planet!