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July 4: The Revcoms deliver the message:

“We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, A Fundamentally Different System”

On July 4, in Philadelphia and in other cities, the revcoms sent a message to the world: we are fighting for a world without America, without everything America stands for and everything it does to the world. And the revcoms released a major new declaration: “We Need and We Demand : A Whole New Way to Live, A Fundamentally Different System.”

Revcoms holding the U.S. flag and red-paint-splattered constitution, July 4, in front of Independence Hall, Philadelphia.

 

Revcoms holding the U.S. flag and the U.S. Constitution symbolically dripping with the blood of people of the world, July 4, in front of Independence Hall, Philadelphia.    Photo: revcom.us

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The Revcoms at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, July 4, 2023.

In a dramatic action, in front of Independence Hall, Philadelphia on July 4 – and in cities across the country – the revcoms released a major new Declaration:

“WE NEED AND WE DEMAND: A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE, A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM”

Speaking on July 4, Michelle Xai, a leader of the Revolution Club said “The revcoms – revolutionary communists – are aiming to lead millions to defeat the violent enforcers of this monstrous system.... to abolish this system, with all its oppressive institutions, and its governing U.S. Constitution and to establish a far better system, based on the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, written by the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian.”  (The strategy for this is spelled out in this proclamation released in May, “WE ARE THE REVCOMS.”)

Xai indicted the US Constitution for the ways it justifies the system of capitalism-imperialism – while it was defaced, symbolically dripping in the blood of the people of the world.   In contrast, she and other revcoms spoke to the ways society would be run on a whole different foundation with the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic.

Annie Day, part of the National Tour for Revolution, asked “what becomes possible with a real revolution?”  She answered, “This new Declaration spells this out, 'a whole new dimension of freedom and rights of the people, a whole different economy—to meet fundamental needs and serve highest interests, eliminating discrimination, inequality, and oppression in every form, education to actually educate and empower the masses of people, health care to serve the people, abolishing nuclear weapons, finally abolishing war, and systematically addressing the environmental crisis.'"

Day continued, “We are small here today, but we recognize that we're acting in a society where the entire fabric is being ripped apart, where this system is coming apart at the seams – with vicious fascists on the one side who've said they won't respect elections they lose, and war criminal Democrats who are right now aggressively facing off with Russia and China in a way that could lead to nuclear annihilation.”

She and others declared their intention to make this a mass demand of millions:

In the Name of the People... In the Name of Humanity...

WE DECLARE AND WE 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

After a short march, Xai led a group of RevComs—revolutionary communists—in shredding the American flag in front of Independence Hall.  “We are the revcoms,” she said, “we are fighting for a real revolution and a whole new emancipating way to live.”

The U.S. Constitution is splattered with red paint on July 4, 2023, Independence Hall, Philadelphia.

 

The U.S. Constitution is splattered with red paint on July 4, 2023, in front of Independence Hall, Philadelphia.    Photo: revcom.us

Revcoms tear apart and burn the U.S. flag, July 4 in front of Independence Hall, Philadelphia.

 

Revcoms rip apart and burn the U.S. flag, July 4, in front of Independence Hall, Philadelphia.    Photo: revcom.us

Revcoms line up to march behind banner "We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live..."

 

The Revcoms line up to march behind banner "We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live..." on July 4, 2023, in front of Independence Hall, Philadelphia.     Photo: revcom.us

Los Angeles

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July 4, Venice Beach, Revcoms proclaim “We Demand the Abolition of this System and Its Constitution. We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, A Fundamentally Different System”    Photo via twitter: revcom.us

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July 4, Venice Beach, Revcoms burn a U.S. flag.    Photo via twitter: revcom.us

Chicago

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In front of the Revolution Club Organizing Center in Chicago announcing “We Need and We Demand a Whole New Way to Live.”    Photo: @RevClubChi

In front of the Revolution Club Organizing Center announcing "We Need and We Demand a Whole New Way to Live"

 

Revolution Club members in front of the Chicago Organizing Center announcing “We Need and We Demand a Whole New Way to Live”    Photo: @RevClubChi

San Francisco Bay Area

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From the genocide in Gaza, to the growing threat of world war between nuclear powers, to escalating environmental devastation… the capitalist-imperialist system ruling over us is a horror for billions around the world and is tearing up the fabric of life on earth. Now the all-out battle within the U.S. ruling class, between fascist Republicans and war criminal Democrats, is coming to a head—likely during, or before, the coming elections—ripping society apart unlike anything since the Civil War. 

Bob Avakian (BA), revolutionary leader and author of the new communism, has developed a strategy to prepare for and make revolution. He’s scientifically analyzed that this is a rare time when an actual revolution has become more possible, and has laid out the sweeping vision, solid foundation and concrete blueprint for “what comes next,” in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America. 

The website revcom.us follows and applies that leadership and is essential to all this. We post new materials from BA and curate his whole body of work. We apply the science he’s developed to analyze and expose every key event in society, every week. Revcom.us posts BA’s timely leadership for the revcoms (revolutionary communists), including his social media posts which break this down for people every week and sometimes more. We act as a guiding and connecting hub for the growing revcom movement nationwide: not just showing what’s being done, but going into what’s right and what’s wrong and rapidly learning—and recruiting new people into what has to be a rapidly growing force.

Put it this way: there will be no revolution unless this website not only “keeps going” but goes up to a whole different level!

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