Welcome to the June 5, 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
U.S. Constitution: An Exploiters’ Vision of Freedom—Added Notes (and Brief Introduction), by Bob Avakian
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
- VIDEO: From The RNL Show: A clip of the Q&A session after the speech by Sunsara Taylor at UCLA, “‘Woke’ Lunacy vs. Real Revolution” [new]
- 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)
- 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 [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
- VIDEO: From The RNL Show: Andy Zee calls out those shilling for US imperialism in their proxy war against Russia in Ukraine [new]
- Pouring Gasoline on a Raging Fire: Face-off Intensifies at Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine [new]
- 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
- Watch: $100,000 fund drive livestream that aired June 4 [new]
- News and Statements from the Donors to the Fund Drive Livestream [new]
- Editorial: Raising Money… and Making Revolution
- Distribute this call for funds with the We Are the Revcoms proclamation: half-page | full page (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
- 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 [new]
- Anti-LGBTQ Madness Hits California: Confronting Fascists at a school board meeting [new]
- 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 [new]
- Fight the Power, and Transform the People, for Revolution: Standing Up to Defend the People at Elementary School Targeted by Anti-LGBTQ Thugs [new]
- A Response to Pamela Paul's Knee-Jerk Denunciation of Mao's Cultural Revolution... Or How Critical Thinking Is Deleted in “The Decade That Cannot Be Deleted”, by Raymond Lotta
- Scientists Sound Alarm: Pace of Climate Change Moving More Quickly to Cross 1.5◦ C Danger Level
The Bitter Lessons of COINTELPRO Need to Be Taken to Heart NOW
- American Crime Case #41: COINTELPRO—The FBI Targets the New Left, 1964-1971
- American Crime Case #42: COINTELPRO—The FBI Targets the Black Freedom Struggle, 1956-1971
- In the 1960s, the Government Spread Lies to Foment Violent Conflict Within the Movement: The Lessons of That Time Need to Be Learned Anew Today
- What Is Counter-Revolution?
The Courageous Uprising in Iran
- "Stop Executions in Iran!" rings out in Colombian streets "The struggle of the Iranian people is our struggle!" [new]
- From Atash, journal of Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: A report on the Clubhouse: “The Necessity of Fighting for the Release of Political Prisoners”
- Inspiring Protests by Groups of Political Prisoners: “Executions Will Only Strengthen the People’s Will to Resist”
- Rage and Grief Confront New Executions by Iran’s Theocratic Regime
- From Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: If There Is to Be a Revolution, a Revolutionary Situation Must Be Created!