Welcome to the May 15, 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
$100,000 Summer Solstice Fund Drive! Raising $100K by June 21, 2023 to put revolution on the map
- Week 2 of the $100,000 Summer Solstice Fund Drive: TWO KEY THINGS TO DO [new]
- Take out this leaflet to raise funds: half-page | full page [new]
- From Sunsara Taylor: Donate to “‘Woke’ Lunacy vs Real Revolution” Campus Speaking Tour [new]
The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
- VIDEO: Subway Lynching; Refugees Terrorized; Humanity Doesn’t Have to Live This Way—Get with the Revolution. Episode 147, premiered May 11. [new]
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…
Taking the “We Are the Revcoms” Proclamation Out into the World
- Tuesday, May 16, 7 pm, Revolution Books NYC: Andy Zee in a discussion and Q&A on We Are the Revcoms
- Revcoms Write on the We Are the Revcoms Broadsheet [new]
- From a Reader: On Bob Avakian’s “The U.S. Constitution: An Exploiters’ Vision of Freedom—Added Notes (and Brief Introduction)” [new]
Waging the Struggle Against Fascist Lunacy and Woke Madness
- Announcing a special RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on Friday, May 26 featuring Sunsara Taylor's talk titled “Woke Lunacy vs. Real Revolution” [new]
- “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution at a College in Southern California: Report on the second stop of a speaking tour with Sunsara Taylor
- VIDEO: Sunsara Taylor Speaks at UCSD on Woke Lunacy vs. Real Revolution
- “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution in Berkeley: A Report on the First Stop of a Speaking Tour with Sunsara Taylor
- VIDEO: 4 Points on Privilege (excerpt from The RNL Show)
- VIDEO: From the Bob Avakian Interviews: Woke Is a Joke, a Bad Joke
Down With the Persecution of Immigrants!
We Don’t Have an Immigration Problem, We Have an Imperialism Problem
- VIDEO: As Title 42 Ends... We Say: We Don't Have an Immigration Problem, We Have an Imperialism Problem [new]
- U.S. Imperialism Perpetuates Its Monstrous Crimes Against Humanity: Title 42 Ends… A New Era of Border Repression Begins [new]
- Democrats and Republi-fascists—Fundamental Agreement, Intense Conflict Over the System’s “Border Crisis”… and the Possibility for Revolution [new]
- When It Comes to Persecuting and Repressing Immigrants… Here’s How Biden Out-Trumps Trump [new]
- Down with the Biden/Trump Persecution of Immigrants! No Human Being Is Illegal! We don’t have an immigration problem, we have an imperialism problem. This SYSTEM Must Go! Now’s the Time to Get Organized for a Real Revolution!
- Taking the message from revcoms into the streets: This System Has No Answer to the Refugee Crisis, WE DO [new]
- Excerpt from the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, on Immigrants, Citizenship and Asylum
- From Why We Need an Actual Revolution and How We Can Really Make Revolution, by Bob Avakian: The Demonization, Criminalization and Deportation of Immigrants and the Militarization of the Border [new]
- Revolution Club Chicago: Stop Attacks on Immigrants! Stop Falling for the System’s Divide-and-Conquer Game! Unite for Real Revolution and the Emancipation of Humanity
NYC Subway Lynching of Jordan Neely
- VIDEO: The NYC Subway Lynching of Jordan Neely... and Capitalist Dictatorship [new]
- Update on the Subway Killing of Jordan Neely by a White Vigilante: Protests, Charges, and Slanders [new]
- On the Subway Lynching of Jordan Neely… Another Black Life Snuffed Out by This System… Enough! Time to Get Organized for a Real Revolution, by Carl Dix
No Nuclear War! It’s This System, not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct!
- Belligerent Threats, Massive Military Buildup: U.S. Ups the Ante, Raises the Tension in East Asia Confrontation with China
- Resource Page on the War in Ukraine and U.S. Threats Against China
Time to Fight for Abortion Rights
- Alert! Abortion Pill Case Continues in Federal Court, May 17 Legal Abortion on Demand and Without Apology—Nationwide! Forced Motherhood = Female Enslavement
- VIDEO: Sunsara Taylor Interview with Mark Joseph Stern (from The RNL Show)
The Courageous Uprising in Iran