Welcome to the September 11, 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:
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
A Message to 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)
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: 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
Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points
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... [new]
- Thoughts on Reading: State of Emergency: Chains on People Who Desperately Need to Be Free [new]
What is that? Who said that? Say what?
Bob Avakian on Exploitation
- 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
CAPITALISTS, ANTI-COMMUNISTS: BLATANT HYPOCRISY, GLARING CONTRADICTION, by Bob Avakian
NEW: 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)
SUPREME COURT: CHRISTIAN FASCISTS STEALING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, by Bob Avakian
The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
- Announcing: The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less—Show Podcast!! [new]
- VIDEO: Watch the latest weekly episode: We Tried It in a Small Town & at Jason Aldean's Concert... Putting Emancipating Revolution on the Map [new]
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
From Bob Avakian — And a Reflection
- 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 [new]
- Video: Bob Avakian Answers People Who Say "Revolution Sounds Good but It Ain't Gonna Happen"
Calling Out the Fascists — Getting Organized for Revolution
- Revcoms Stomp and Burn Flags at Jason Aldean Show in Tinley Park, IL [new]
- Revcoms Seize the National Headlines [new]
- Addressing the Audacity Gap: Why the Revcoms Lit Up the American Flag at Jason Aldean's Fascist Shit-Show in Tinley Park, by Paul Street [new]
- Try That in a Sundown Town, by Paul Street
- Video: Rafael Kadaris Talks About Country Singer Jason Aldean’s Rallying Cry for Civil War
Lynching: A Very American Crime
- An introduction
- American Crime Case #6: Lynching in America—The Torture, Mutilation and Murder of Thousands of Black People and the Terrorizing of Millions More, 1865-1950 [new]
- Video: Bob Avakian, “They’re selling postcards of the hanging,” a clip from the film of the talk Revolution
The Murderous Assault on LGBTQ People—And What’s Needed Now
- All-Sided Murderous Assault on LGBTQ People: NOW'S THE TIME to Defend Each Other, and to Get Organized for Revolution
- From Lucha Bright:
Why I Was Brutalized by the LAPD for Protesting for LGBTQ Rights and What We All Need to Do Now - “I am asking you to make a donation to the revcoms today”
- Video: Excerpts from L.A. Press Conference with Lucha Bright Who Was Brutally Assaulted & Arrested by LAPD
- What Would Communist Revolution Do to Liberate LGBTQ People?
Featured
- From The RNL—Revolution Nothing Less—Show
September 2023: Will the Force for Revolution Be Forged? [new]
by Andy Zee - RICO Indictment Against Cop City Protesters: An Ominous and Illegitimate Fascist Assault on Legitimate and Righteous Protest [new]
- Morocco: Thousands Reported Dead, Thousands More Injured in Powerful Earthquake [new]
- The Black Giuliani—NYC Mayor Eric Adams—Says “Migrants Will Destroy New York” … BULLSHIT!!! [new]
- Yet Another Human Murdered by Pigs—This Time in Philly [new]
- Cheers to Coco Gauff for Supporting the Environmental Protest That Interrupted Her U.S. Open Semi-final Match [new]
- Biden Pathetically Gestures Towards Protecting Alaska Wilderness As the Planet Gets Hotter and U.S. Imperialism Remains World’s Largest Oil and Natural Gas Producer [new]
- American Crime #57: The 1973 CIA Coup in Chile [reposted with new intro]
- Raymond Lotta Fall Speaking Tour Starts on September 19 at Revolution Books NYC: The Communist Revolution So Badly Needed... vs. the Anti-Communist Brainwash You're Getting
- Pop Quiz: Everything You’ve Been Told About Communism IS WRONG. CAPITALISM IS A FAILURE, COMMUNIST REVOLUTION IS THE SOLUTION (read online | download PDF)
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr…. Quackery and Conspiracy… Unconventional Ideas and a Scientific Approach, by Bob Avakian (download pamphlet PDF)
- Labor Day Weekend 2023: Spreading Revolution Across the Country [new]
- A Brief Struggle with a Writer “Bob Avakian is playing the role that Lenin played then” [new]
“Woke” Is a Destructive Force
- 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)
- Video: “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution: A talk by Rafael Kadaris, and Q&A, at Revolution Books NYC
- From Sunsara Taylor: Donate to “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution Campus Speaking Tour
- Special page: Get involved with the Sunsara Taylor Campus Speaking Tour
- Bob Avakian on Opposing “Woke” Madness and Obstructions
Raising Funds for the Revolution
- Donate to: PUT REVOLUTION ON THE MAP IN 2023!
- Tune into a Fundraising Q&A/Livestream on Sunday, September 17, 2 pm PT/4 pm CT/5 pm ET [new]
- News from Donors: Cleveland Street Sale
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
- Ukraine: World War 3 Is the Real Danger, Not a Repeat of World War 2, by Bob Avakian
- 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
The Courageous Uprising in Iran
- Thoughts on the Possibility of Solidarity and Coordination Among Liberation Movements, Other Progressive Forces and Groups in the [Middle East] Region, by Somayeh Kargar, former political prisoner in Iran [new]
- September 17, Berkeley: An Evening of Poetry for the Mahsa Jina Amini Uprising & the Heroic Political Prisoners [updated]
- From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now: “Enough of Sleepwalking in Willful Blindness!” Song by Mina Deris [new]
- On the 70th Anniversary of the U.S.-British Coup in Iran—
Watch Coup 53, Read the American Crime Series
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
The Revolution Club
- “Parents Rights,” a MAGA Fascist Assault Has Been Unleashed on a Generation of Youth, by Noche Diaz
- VIDEO: A Message from Members of the Chicago Revolution Club
- In Loving Memory of Lauri Carleton and Rage at Her Murder
- Fighting for… Getting Organized for… REVOLUTION. Find out more about the Revolution Club here.