Welcome to the September 4, 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)
VIDEO: Why Have You Never Given Up On Revolution? Bob Avakian Answers. From the Bob Avakian Interviews. Plus a discussion with hosts Andy Zee and Sunsara Taylor of Bob Avakian’s answer. [new]
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
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
Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points
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
GOD, PREJUDICE, OPPRESSION, TERROR AND THE WAY OUT OF THIS MADNESS, by Bob Avakian (download PDF)
NEW from Bob Avakian: CAPITALISTS, ANTI-COMMUNISTS: BLATANT HYPOCRISY, GLARING CONTRADICTION
SUPREME COURT: CHRISTIAN FASCISTS STEALING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, by Bob Avakian
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
The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
- VIDEO: Watch the latest weekly episode: Why Have You Never Given Up On Revolution? What Sustains You? Bob Avakian Answers + MORE! [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
Lynching: A Very American Crime
- An introduction [new]
- 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
- From the Revolution Club, Chicago
Protest Saturday, September 9: Call Out Fascist Lynch Mob Instigator Jason Aldean [new] - VIDEO: Rafael Kadaris Talks About Country Singer Jason Aldean’s Rallying Cry for Civil War
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
- Why I Was Protesting for LGBTQ Rights on August 22, Why I Was Brutalized by the LAPD, and What We All Need to Do Now, by Lucha Bright [updated]
- From Lucha Bright: “I am asking you to make a donation to the revcoms today” [new]
- What Would Communist Revolution Do to Liberate LGBTQ People?
The Horror in Jacksonville, the Liberation of Black People, and the Revolution We Need
- Yet Another Racist Mass Murder—This Time Jacksonville, Florida
Why Do These Nightmares Keep Happening? What Will It REALLY Take to Stop Them? - VIDEO: Bob Avakian for the Liberation of Black People and the Emancipation of All Humanity
- Excerpt from WE NEED AND WE DEMAND: A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE, A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM
Featured
- 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 [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)
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr…. Quackery and Conspiracy… Unconventional Ideas and a Scientific Approach, by Bob Avakian (download pamphlet PDF)
- Why the U.S. Lied About Saudi Arabia Massacring Hundreds of African Immigrants [new]
- Depraved Thugs—aka Police Officers—Murder Ta’Kiya Young in Ohio When Will It End? When—And ONLY When—We Make Revolution [new]
Raising Funds for the Revolution
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
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
The Courageous Uprising in Iran
- From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now:
"I have lived my life to the sound of your voice": Poem from Sepideh Gholian to arrested singer Mehdi Yarrahi [new] - September 17, Berkeley: An Evening of Poetry for the Mahsa Jina Amini Uprising & the Heroic Political Prisoners [new]
- On the 70th Anniversary of the U.S.-British Coup in Iran—
Watch Coup 53, Read the American Crime Series - From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now:
As Anniversary of “Women-Life-Freedom” Uprising in Iran Approaches, Repression & Protest Preparations Intensify
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.