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From the Revolution Club, Los Angeles:

New Year 2023
LAPD Slaughters Takar Smith, Oscar Leon Sanchez, and Keenan Anderson

We Can No Longer Allow This System’s Enforcers to Murder Our People!

The Whole System Has to Go!

We Are Preparing NOW for an Actual Revolution—and There Is a Way for YOU to Be Part of This

Days into the new year and LAPD has killed again and again and again. Shooting, tasing, taking the lives of Black and Latino men without pause, shattering the lives of children and loved ones. Takar Smith, a father of six, was having an episode and his wife went to the police asking for help. She told them, “Please don’t kill my husband. He’s not in his right mind.” What kind of way is it for people to have to live when you know, if you are Black, that the police are likely to kill your husband if you call for help? And then, like clockwork, they DO. As if a Black man having a mental breakdown is a “freebee” for them.

The next day in South Central, LAPD killed Oscar Leon Sanchez. He was 35 years old and having a major depressive episode. He supposedly had a sharp object and “stepped toward” the police, and they shot him. On the same day in Venice, 31-year-old teacher Keenan Anderson, who was clearly unwell, was forced to the ground and tased over and over again. He died of cardiac arrest.

This is completely unnecessary! We do NOT have to live this way.

This system has to be overthrown as soon as possible through a real revolution. These pigs enforce a system with white supremacy and male supremacy built into it. It’s a system that uses people to build its wealth and then throws them away, and it does this to people all over the world, destroying the environment and causing endless wars.

No amount of voting in different people can change this, we need revolution.

We could replace this system with a radically different and better one that uproots oppression instead of making it worse. The revolutionary leader Bob Avakian shows how in that new system, a people’s police force would be made up of people who would risk their own lives to protect the people, ESPECIALLY those having mental breakdowns, caring for them instead of treating them like garbage.

Right now, this society is being ripped apart from top to bottom. As dangerous as that is, it actually makes revolution more possible. We have the leadership we need to make this revolution in Bob Avakian (BA) and the strategy and the scientific method he’s developed, the new communism. We’ve never had a leader like BA and you need to know him (watch the Interviews with him at TheRevcoms on YouTube).

We are moving now to make this revolution, and you need to be part of it.

Bob Avakian says,

Instead of fighting and killing each other, what people need to be doing now is uniting to defend each other—opposing all unjust violence, not launching attacks on anyone but at the same time not allowing the police or “civilian” fascist thugs to wantonly brutalize and murder people. And people need to do this as part of building up the forces for revolution.

Instead of snarking and sniping at each other, and being divided by “identities,” people should be working to unite everyone, from every part of society, who can be united in the fight against oppression and injustice, with the goal of putting an end to this system that is the source of this oppression and injustice.

Anyone who doesn't want the murder and cruelty of this system to continue and wants to get this whole damn system off our backs and off the backs of the people of the world needs to sign up with the Revolution Club and start stepping out with this. We are in a time where these kinds of murder and cruelty will continue to get worse and more frequent, or we will make revolution.

This moment and time cannot be wasted. Get with this Revolution!

—Los Angeles Revolution Club

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Watch The Bob Avakian Interviews—Up Close and Personal With Bob Avakian: Heart and Soul & Hard-Core For Revolution on The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show at YouTube.com/TheRevcoms

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Help Make 2024 Our Year—a Year of Revolution! 
Donate to Revcom.us

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!

So what should you give to make 2024 our year—a year of revolution? 
Everything you possibly can! 
DONATE NOW to revcom.us and get with BA and the revcoms!    

Your donations contribute to:

  • Promotion of BA on social media and the Bob Avakian Interviews on The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show 
  • Strengthen revcom.us as an accessible, secure, robust website able to rise to the challenge of meeting the extraordinary demands of navigating the storms and preparing for revolution in this pivotal, unprecedented year
  • Fund revcoms to travel to national “hotspots,” where extreme contradictions are pulling apart the fabric of this country and creating the possibility of wrenching an actual revolution out of this intensifying situation
  • Expand the reach and coverage of revcom.us
  • Printing and distribution of key Revcom materials including the Declaration and Proclamation