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Bob Avakian on Social Media
- Get the latest social media message from BA on Substack, Instagram, Facebook, X, Telegram, Threads, TikTok, WhatsApp and YouTube
What is that? Who said that? Say what? Provoke. Inspire. Drive people to Bob Avakian on social media
- 3 new posters with quotes from @BobAvakianOfficial dispatches and QR code
Palestine
- Biden Makes Bullshit Promise While the U.S. Enables the Starvation of Palestinian Children Before Our Very Eyes
HOW LONG?!?!! - Biden’s State of the Union on Israel: 600 Words, 4 Massive Lies & 1 Cruel Joke
- Cheers to Jonathan Glazer, Director of The Zone of Interest
- "All Eyes on Rafah" Protest at the Oscars
- Cheers: To Ella Williams, AKA Squirrel Flower—No Performing for the War Machine!
International Women's Day 2024
- [video] From @BobAvakianOfficial: Break The Chains—Unleash The Fury Of Women As A Mighty Force For Revolution! A Special Message
- Break The Chains!
Unleash The Fury Of Women As A Mighty Force For Revolution!
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2024
Come together in fury, defiance and joy to Break ALL the Chains! - Enslavement or Emancipation?
Women's Future Depends on YOU!
by Sunsara Taylor - Revcom Corps Into the Streets on International Women's Day
- International Women's Day Around the World
- More from Bob Avakian:
STOP The Patriarchal Degradation, Dehumanization, and Subjugation of All Women Everywhere, and All Oppression Based on Gender or Sexual Orientation!
We Don't Have an Immigration Problem—We Have an Imperialism Problem
- Texas Anti-Immigrant Law Would Enable Every Pig in the State To Demand, “Show Me Your Papers!” (updated)
Featured
- State of Union Speech at a Time of Sharp Clash: The Truth Biden Revealed... and the Deeper Lie He Told
- [video] No to Stupor Tuesday! Yes to Revolution! (from The RNL Show)
- [video] Raymond Lotta speaking on "Robert Oppenheimer Served America's Empire: We Have the Responsibility and the Possibility to End This Horror, and Bring a Far Better World into Being" (newly reposted)
- From Alborada Comunista, Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Group, Colombia: Capitalism and Patriarchy: TO GET RID OF BOTH, LET'S MAKE REVOLUTION!
Repression, Resistance and the Potential for Revolution in Iran
- Solidarity Statement from the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now (read at the LA International Women's Day rally)
- Note of Appreciation to Comrades in Colombia
Latest episode of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube:
[Video] From Palestine to the USA, Revolution Is the Way!
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
NEW: PDF for pamphlet version
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) - Letter from a reader on Bob Avakian's Social Media: The High Stakes of Thousands Getting Into These Now
- Reflections from a reader: Genocide in Gaza, This Rare Time, and the Urgent Need—and Real Potential—to Spread @BobAvakianOfficial Far and Wide
THE REVCOM CORPS
For The Emancipation Of Humanity
"WE ARE WORKING FOR A REAL REVOLUTION AND A WHOLE NEW EMANCIPATING WAY TO LIVE"
2024 SCENARIOS (A SKETCH), AND THE CHALLENGES, by Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Leader, Author of the New Communism
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
Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points
ALLEGIANCE
- Read and spread
- A Special RNL Show Dispatch
- Download poster PDF/JPG
- Download flyer PDF
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.
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...
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
"Cult"—An Ignorant and Cowardly Slander
Bob Avakian Speaks to "Cult": A Ridiculous, Ignorant and Irresponsible Accusation
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
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 Avakian
CAPITALISTS, ANTI-COMMUNISTS: BLATANT HYPOCRISY, GLARING CONTRADICTION, by Bob Avakian
Listen to the audio of this piece by Bob Avakian
GOD, PREJUDICE, OPPRESSION, TERROR AND THE WAY OUT OF THIS MADNESS, by Bob Avakian (download PDF)
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
- From Bob Avakian on Palestine, Israel, Imperialism: War, the Danger of Even Greater War—and Revolution
-“Why should I care about Palestine when we've got problems here?”
-Israel and Palestine: a terrible ironic twist of history
-Taking on the “justifications” for Israel's genocide of Palestinians
-Why is the U.S. supporting Israel's genocide of Palestinians?
-"Israel has done something truly incredible—Israel has managed to turn Jews into Nazis!"
-[video] Bob Avakian on the Two Meanings of "Never Again" - Essential Writings from Bob Avakian on the Middle East, Israel and the Revolution—and the World—We Need
- Take the Quiz! Israel: Perception & Reality
-Part 1: The Origins of the State of Israel, the Palestinians, and the Holocaust
-Part 2: Israel and Comparisons to Apartheid South Africa
Bob Avakian on the Oppression of Women and the Revolutionary Struggle to Emancipate ALL Humanity
- Video: Bob Avakian on Why You Can’t Break All the Chains Except One...
- Video: From The Bob Avakian Interviews: What Accounts For The Attack On Abortion And What Must Be Done
- THE CRUCIAL FIGHT FOR ABORTION RIGHTS AND ENDING ALL OPPRESSION
Broad Unity and Necessary Struggle - Go HERE for more from Bob Avakian
We Don't Have an Immigration Problem—We Have an Imperialism Problem
- [video] Dueling visits to border by Biden and Trump. Same damn system!
- Contribute Now to Support the Revcoms at the Border in Eagle Pass
- Storm Clouds Darken at the Border
- Stop the Demonization, Criminalization, and Deportation of Immigrants and the Militarization of the Border! A Special Resource Page
Featured
- The Revcoms Called Out Timothy Snyder's Lies About Communism... Now Yale Wants to Shut Down the Needed Debate... Unchain Your Mind, Join the Revolution for a Whole New World
- Go HERE for "The True History of the Communist Revolution" resource page
- Go HERE for more on the socialist experience
- Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: March 8, Global Day of Preparation for Revolution and Nothing Less!
- From the Revolutionary Communist Organization, Mexico: International Women's Day—Break All the Chains, Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!
Repression, Resistance and the Potential for Revolution in Iran
- From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran's Political Prisoners Now (IEC): Evin Women Sit-In to Support Narges Mohammadi; Nahid Taghavi Sent Back to Evin
- From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran's Political Prisoners Now (IEC): A Night of Cultural Revolt Full of Joy and Hope: Free Rebel Rapper Toomaj Salehi and ALL Iran’s Political Prisoners With Urgency
- From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran's Political Prisoners Now (IEC): Iran's Political Prisoners Are Revolting! Let's Support and Join Them!
- From Atash/Fire, journal of the Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: On the Importance of Truth to Achieving Emancipation: A Letter to Narges Mohammadi from Somayeh Kargar
- 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
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
"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
Bootlickers Gallery
“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
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
Bob Avakian on Imperialist Gangsters and the Need for Revolution — Essential Reading
- “DON’T WORRY ABOUT A 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
- THE WAR IN UKRAINE AND THE INTERESTS OF HUMANITY: A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH VS. HARMFUL CONFUSION AND CHAUVINIST DELUSION
Bob Avakian Responds to People Who Should Know Better (and Maybe Once Did) - Shameless American Chauvinism: "Anti-Authoritarianism" as a "Cover" for Supporting U.S. Imperialism, with added note by Bob Avakian
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] - About Bill Maher— A Further Observation on American Chauvinism And Parasitic Individualism
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
Revolutionary Hope/La esperanza revolucionaria, Revolutionary Communist Organization, Mexico