Welcome to the November 20, 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:
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: 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
- A Message to the Revcoms and Everyone Else Yearning for a Better World: The Bob Avakian Interviews (Part 1/Part 2/Part 3/Part 4)
- Get Your Tickets Now For the Special Screenings of Selections From The Bob Avakian Interviews On The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show in New York City, November 28
- Report on Showing of Selections from The BA Interviews on The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show: Lighting Up the Big Screen in Oakland California
- Videos: Voices on why you should watch the BA Interviews on The RNL Show: Former Iranian political prisoner Somayeh Kargar; Musician Arturo O’Farrill/Filmmaker David Zeiger/Historian Paul Street
- Video: Donate to Put Revolution on the Map: A Message and Fund Appeal from David, Bay Area Revolution Club
- Share these short clips to give people a taste of the Interviews:
-Stay in your lane"?! WAKE TF UP!
-It's Way Bigger Than Any Individual
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
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
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...
- Thoughts on Reading: State of Emergency: Chains on People Who Desperately Need to Be Free
- Building Networks and Centers of Distribution—for Revolution from a team in Houston
Posters: What is that? Who said that? Say what? Provoke. Inspire. Drive people to the BA Interviews on The RNL Show
Bob Avakian on Exploitation
- Killer Mike, Ice Cube, WHY CAPITALIST PROGRAMS and BOURGEOIS ASPIRATIONS CANNOT LEAD TO LIBERATION and WHY WE NEED A REAL REVOLUTION
- PUTTING AN END TO EXPLOITATION, AND ALL OPPRESSION
- VIDEO: EXPLOITATION: WHAT IT IS, HOW TO PUT AN END TO IT by Bob Avakian
(produced by The RNL Show) - EXPLOITATION: WHAT IT IS, HOW TO PUT AN END TO IT
THE TRIALS OF FASCIST DONALD TRUMP, AND THE CRIMINAL NATURE OF THE 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 [updated]
- Some Basic Truths About the U.S.-Supported Israeli War Against Palestine, by Bob Avakian
- A Timely Provocation from Bob Avakian
- The Moral Blind Spot of Supporters of Israel Who Criticize Hamas—and Hamas Alone—for Murdering Children, by Bob Avakian
- Yes, There Can Be No “Equivalence” Between Israel and the Palestinians—But the Reality Is the Reverse of What Supporters of Israel Insist, by Bob Avakian
- Video: Bob Avakian on the Two Meanings of "Never Again"
- For the Revcoms, Including People in and Around the Revolution Clubs: PALESTINE, ISRAEL, IMPERIALISM: WAR, THE DANGER OF EVEN GREATER WAR—AND REVOLUTION
BASIC ORIENTATION, COMPELLING AGITATION AND MOVING MASSES, by Bob Avakian - Essential Writings from Bob Avakian on the Middle East, Israel and the Revolution—and the World—We Need
- Widespread Opposition for U.S. Backing of Israeli Genocide of Palestinians Coming from Within the System’s Institutions [new]
- Biden Writes Major Guest Editorial for the Washington Post: Reaffirms Support for Israel’s Genocidal War, Links It to Aggressive Moves Worldwide [new]
- Commentary from Annie Day on The RNL Show: The Genocidal War on Palestinians: Repression, Resistance, and the Need for Real Revolution (watch/read) [new]
- Once More on: Why Did Joe Biden Say That “If Israel didn’t exist, America would have had to invent it”?
- GAZA: Israel Attacks Homes, Hospitals, Schools, Refuge Centers, Bakeries and More –Destroying Palestinians’ Ability to Live THIS IS WAR—A GENOCIDAL WAR—BACKED MILITARILY, DIPLOMATICALLY, AND FINANCIALLY BY THE U.S.A. [new]
- Breaking Out at U.S. College Campuses
Student Protests condemning Israel's genocidal slaughter of the people of Gaza [new] - Inspiring Campus Protests Against Israel Hit a Raw Nerve, Targeted with Intensifying Repression
- In the U.S. and Around the World: People Continue to Take to the Streets Against Israel's Genocidal Attacks on the Palestinian People [new]
- My (Brief) Life as a Kibbutznik, or How I Learned to Hate ALL Imperialism, by Lenny Wolff
- What Is Hamas?
- Setting the Record Straight on Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Important Difference Between the Two
- Take the Quiz! Israel: Perception & Reality
Part 1. The Origins of the State of Israel, the Palestinians, and the Holocaust - Leaflet from the Revcoms [pdf]
- Get with the Revcoms: Slogans around Palestine [pdf]
Featured
- Video: Bob Avakian on: Fight the Power, Transform the People, For Revolution
- TUNE IN to a Special Thanksgiving episode of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show: "God's Chosen People?" Israel's Bloodthirsty Old Testament Myth
Thursday, November 23, 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET, youtube.com/therevcoms
The Communist Revolution so Badly Needed… vs. the Anti-Communist Brainwash You’re Getting: Raymond Lotta Fall Speaking Tour
Video: The Truth About the Ukraine War: Refuting Timothy Snyder’s Lies, Demagoguery & War Mongering, Raymond Lotta, from The RNL Show [new]
Trafficking in Lies, Demagoguery, and War Mongering: Timothy Snyder is a Vicious Anti-Communist Ideologue... And Shameless Apologist for the U.S. Empire: A Challenge to Debate from Raymond Lotta (Summary/Challenge)
- Video: Raymond Lotta Kicks Off the Fall Speaking Tour on “The Communist Revolution So Badly Needed… vs. the Anti-Communist Brainwash You’re Getting,” Revolution Books NYC, September 19
- Learn About the Tour… Bring Raymond Lotta to Your Campus
- Against the Anti-Communist Brainwash... Socialist China’s Great Leap Forward of 1958-60:
What It Was Actually About, Why It Is Attacked, and the Actual Causes of Famine, by Raymond Lotta - Resource page: The True History of Communist Revolution
- More on the Socialist Experience
“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
The Courageous Uprising in Iran
- From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran's Political Prisoners Now: Inspiring and Challenging Screening of the Documentary White Torture [new]
- From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran's Political Prisoners Now: Breaking News: Iranian Rebel Rapper Toomaj Salehi Released on Bail! [new]
- From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran's Political Prisoners Now:
Uncompromising Voice of Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi Must Not Be Silenced—Be Her Voice Now - From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now:
Outrage and Repression Surround Death of Armita Geravand
Their Lives Are in Danger: Free Nasrin, Narges and All Iran’s Courageous Political Prisoners Now!
- 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 #143, Journal of the Communist Party of Iran (MLM): The Reality of Communism Bourgeois Democracy Means Class Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie
- From Atash/Fire #142, Journal of the Communist Party of Iran (MLM): Revolution Is Impossible Without a Revolutionary War to Overthrow the Ruling Government
The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
- Announcing: The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show Podcast!!
- Video: Watch the latest weekly episode: Stop the U.S./Israeli War Against Gaza! Fight the Power, and Transform the People, for Revolution! [new]
The Revolution Club
- A reflection for the revcoms and those in and around the Revolution Clubs: I Am So Proud to Say I’m a Follower of Bob Avakian... and Why You Should Be Too, from Michelle Xai [new]
- Joe Veale on The RNL—Revolution Nothing Less—Show on the Points of Attention, the Code of the Revolution
- Live By and Fight for the Points of Attention, The Code of the Revolution!
- For Your Reference: Agitation from Bob Avakian. A FINAL NOTE: On the Real Nature and Monstrous Crimes of This Country
- Go here to find out about the Revolution Club
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 why he has never given up—and a response
- Video: Why Have You Never Given Up on Revolution? Bob Avakian Answers, from the Bob Avakian Interviews
- Video: A Reflection on Bob Avakian's Leadership
No Nuclear War! It’s This System, not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct!
- A World in Flames: Imperialist Bloodbath in Ukraine Expands, War Preparations in East Asia Intensify
- War in Ukraine: Frequently Asked Questions
- 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
Bootlickers Gallery
- Video: Bootlicker of the Week: KRS-One… or should we say KRS-Five-O
- Nominations Now Open for Bootlickers Hall of Shame
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
Capitalism-Imperialism Is Destroying the Planet... Only Revolution Gives Humanity a Real Chance to Save It