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A Message From The Revcoms On International May Day 2026

This is a statement from the Revcoms for May 1st that can be distributed with or separate from WE NEED AND WE DEMAND: A Whole New Way to Live, A Fundamentally Different System, and made available generally on this occasion.

Los Angeles RevCom Corps banner leads march, February 2, 2025.

 

We march at a time when this capitalist-imperialist system is running up against its limits, and a fascist movement headed by Trump has come to power to save that system. Repression… war and U.S. military aggression from Gaza to Venezuela to Nigeria to Iran and beyond—with the real threat of a spiral into nuclear war at any time…full-out anti-immigrant hatred and intensified oppression of Black people and other people of color, women, LGBT people… all while the polar ice melts and the “great powers” see only a chance for military control of the sea lanes that this will open up! 

This is insanity—murderous insanity! 

As Bob Avakian has said:

We, the people of the world, can no longer afford to allow these imperialists to continue to dominate the world and determine the destiny of humanity. They need to be overthrown as quickly as possible. And it is a scientific fact that we do not have to live this way.” 

—Bob Avakian, revolutionary leader and author of the new communism 

We Demand: Stop the Genocidal U.S./Israeli War on Iran and Lebanon!

What does it say about this system, when the demented fascist Trump threatens on social media that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” and not be facing immediate removal from office?

What does it say about this system when both ruling parties have backed and funded the precursors of the Iran war—supporting and funding the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza and two decades of interventions and wars that have turned the region to rubble? 

And what does it say about us if we tolerate this?!?

IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY—
WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA
TRUMP MUST GO NOW!

Trump and his minions are well aware of the growing anger against his regime. They are, right now, actively moving to subvert the next election, including through the use of ICE at the polls. They are, right now, also ramping up repression against everyone who opposes them, from liberals to radicals to revolutionaries. This repression must also be fought right now—and in a united way, regardless of significant differences among those who oppose it—even as we debate out those differences in a principled way.

THIS WHOLE SYSTEM IS ROTTEN AND ILLEGITIMATE!

WE NEED AND WE DEMAND A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE AND A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM.

Capitalism is not just greedy billionaires. Capitalism is a system, and today it is a worldwide system of exploitation: capitalism-imperialism. Capitalism in this country not only exploits tens of millions in this country: as a system, it exists on the backs and bodies of the children who mine cobalt in the Congo for our phones, the women worked literally to death in Bangladesh and Vietnam sewing our clothes, the bitterly exploited farmers in Mexico producing our avocados, etc. 

We, as part of world humanity, do not need a “fairer distribution of wealth”—we need a whole new system. Bob Avakian has put it this way:

We are now at the point where it is more and more urgently necessary to move beyond this whole monstrous system—beyond a situation where people are forced to struggle just for individual survival, with everyone compelled to be in competition and conflict with others, and the masses of people everywhere are chained down by outmoded oppressive relations, while the future, and the very existence, of humanity is increasingly endangered.

And it is possible now to move beyond all this.

—Bob Avakian—from HUMANITY ON THE BRINK: A Forced March Into the Abyss, or Forging a Way Forward Out of the Madness? @BobAvakianOfficial on Substack. 

There is leadership, science and analysis of how humanity could get beyond this madness. There is a viable vision and blueprint for a whole different system and a future that is within reach—be sure to read We Need And We Demand: A Whole New Way To Live, A Fundamentally Different System being passed out today, as well as the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America. There is a serious strategy for how to make this real. And there is a way you can make the critical difference—learning more about this revolution while being part of building the crucial battles right now against this system. Get with the revolution!

We are at a turning point in history. The capitalist-imperialist system is a horror for billions of people here and around the world and threatening the very fabric of life on earth. Now the election of fascist Trump poses even more extreme dangers for humanity—and underscores the total illegitimacy of this system, and the urgent need for a radically different system.

The website Revcom.us follows the revolutionary leadership of Bob Avakian (BA), the author of the new communism. Bob Avakian has scientifically analyzed that we are in a rare time when an actual revolution has become more possible in the U.S. He’s charted a strategy for making that revolution, and laid out a sweeping vision and concrete blueprint for “what comes next” in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America.

Revcom.us projects BA’s voice, leadership, and vision throughout society. It posts his timely leadership for the revcoms (revolutionary communists) and the whole movement for revolution, including his social media posts, and curates his whole body of work. 

Our website applies the scientific approach BA has developed to analyze major events in society and the world—why they are happening, how they relate to each other, how all this relates to the system we live under, where people's interests lie, how revolution is in fact the solution to all this, and what the goals of that revolution are.

Revcom.us acts as a guiding and connecting hub for the revcom movement nationwide: showing what’s being done, digging into what’s right and what’s wrong, and rapidly learning—and recruiting new people into what has to be a rapidly growing force. As part of this, revcom.us feature and promotes the weekly The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube.com. 

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

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