Welcome to the September 25, 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
Up Close and Personal With
Bob Avakian
Heart and Soul & Hard-Core
For Revolution
A Rare Appearance on
The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
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: 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 [new]
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 [new]
- 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
New from Bob Avakian:
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
CAPITALISTS, ANTI-COMMUNISTS: BLATANT HYPOCRISY, GLARING CONTRADICTION, by Bob Avakian
NEW: listen to the audio of this piece by Bob Avakian
Video: Bob Avakian on the Poisonous Notion of “The Ends Justify the Means” [new]
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!!
- Video: Watch the latest weekly episode: The Communist Revolution Urgently Needed vs. the Anti-Communist Brainwash, plus Iran’s Jina Uprising [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
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
Calling Out the Fascists—Getting Organized for Revolution
- Video: Episode 165 of The RNL Show: We Tried It in a Small Town & at Jason Aldean's Concert... Putting Emancipating Revolution on the Map
- From the Revolution Club Chicago: DEFEND THE REVOLUTION CLUB CHICAGO
- Revcoms Seize the National Headlines
- 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
- Video: Rafael Kadaris Talks About Country Singer Jason Aldean’s Rallying Cry for Civil War
Featured
- A Letter to Revcoms and Everyone Else Who Will Be Spreading Allegiance [new]
- PUTTING REVOLUTION ON THE MAP: AN EARLY “FALL” OFFENSIVE
- The Acquittal of Ken Paxton, the Accelerating Aggression of Christian Fascism, and the Urgent Need to Put Revolution on the Map [new]
- Coming this week: Announcement of screening of selections from the Bob Avakian Interviews—October 17, The Hudson Theaters, Hollywood, CA [new]
- This System Doesn’t Give a Damn About Children [new]
- Crushed and Stolen Childhoods: The Exploitation of Immigrants in Parasitic America [reposted with updated editors’ note]
- Check It Out—The Swimmers [new]
- The Black Giuliani—NYC Mayor Eric Adams—Says “Migrants Will Destroy New York” … BULLSHIT!!!
- Welcoming people from all over the world [new]
- We don’t have an immigration problem… We have an imperialism problem. For recent coverage at revcom.us around immigrants and the border, see here, here, and here.
The Courageous Uprising in Iran—One Year Anniversary
- Video: From The RNL Show: Sunsara Taylor Talks About the One Year Anniversary of Iran’s Jina Uprising [new]
- On the Anniversary of Jina Uprising in Iran: Revolution, Nothing Less for Iran and Everywhere
Statement by the Communist Party of Iran (MLM) - From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now (IEC): Sights and Sounds of Jina Uprising Anniversary Actions Worldwide [new]
- The Courageous Uprising in Iran...One Year Anniversary
- In Memory of Mahsa (Jina) Amini and for the Emancipation of All Women in the World
- Revolution Books Berkeley: An Evening of Poetry for the Mahsa Jina Amini Uprising and the Heroic Political Prisoners in Iran [new]
- From Atash, journal of the CPI(MLM): Revolution Is Impossible Without a Revolutionary War to Overthrow the Ruling Government
- From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now (IEC): Women Prisoners Burn Headscarves in Evin Prison Courtyard
The Communist Revolution so Badly Needed… vs. the Anti-Communist Brainwash You’re Getting
- 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 [new]
- Pop Quiz: Everything You’ve Been Told About Communism IS WRONG. CAPITALISM IS A FAILURE, COMMUNIST REVOLUTION IS THE SOLUTION (read online | download PDF)
- Resource page: The True History of Communist Revolution
- More on the Socialist Experience
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr…. Quackery and Conspiracy… Unconventional Ideas and a Scientific Approach, by Bob Avakian (download pamphlet PDF)
Raising Funds for the Revolution
- Video: Watch the successful fundraising livestream that aired September 17
- News and statements from donors
- Donate to: PUT REVOLUTION ON THE MAP IN 2023!
“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
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
Bootlickers Gallery
- Video: Bootlicker of the Week: KRS-One… or should we say KRS-Five-O
- Nominations Now Open for Bootlickers Hall of Shame
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
- “Enough of Sleepwalking in Willful Blindness!” Song by Mina Deris
- On the 70th Anniversary of the U.S.-British Coup in Iran—Watch Coup 53, Read the American Crime Series
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
- Updated: What Is the Revolution Club? What Does It Mean to Join? How Do I Become a Part of This Revolution?
- From the Revolution Club Chicago: DEFEND THE REVOLUTION CLUB CHICAGO
- For Your Reference: Agitation from Bob Avakian. A FINAL NOTE: On the Real Nature and Monstrous Crimes of This Country [new]