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Revcoms in the News

On this page are some recent examples of revcoms appearing in mainstream news coverage.

Spectrum News, Los Angeles, video clip featuring Michelle Xai, a leader of the Revolution Club in LA, preparing for protests after Rittenhouse not-guilty verdict.

New York Times, November 24, 2021, front page article on verdict in Charlottesville, Virginia, trial of white supremacists, with photo from 2017 of revcoms confronting the fascists at their march in Charlottesville.

New York Times Nov 24, 2021 front page with pic of revcoms in Charlottesville 2017

 

Hundreds protest in Chicago with GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY banner after Rittenhouse was acquitted.

 

Associated Press wire service photo, November 20, 2021, showing revcom banner in Chicago protest against Rittenhouse verdict, with hundreds of people in downtown streets, including Jesse Jackson.

NBC Chicago News, November 16, 2021, scene in front of Kenosha, Wisconsin, courthouse where the Rittenhouse trial was taking place.

NBC Chicago News, November 16, scene in front of Kenosha, Wisconsin, courthouse where the Rittenhouse trial was taking place.

 

AM New York, The Villager, November 20, 2021, revolution club after Rittenhouse verdict

 

"From Brooklyn’s Barclays Center to Manhattan’s Washington Square Park, protesters not only cried out in anger, but they also called for a 'revolution.' … 'He [Rittenhouse] went to slaughter people and he did. And now we just saw with this verdict that came down and actually gave the fascist and these white supremacists, a green light to murder protesters,' Emma Kaplan of the New York Revolution Club said at a demonstration in Washington Square Park. 'We protested last summer, we need to take it back and we need to re-polarize for a revolution,' she added."

Los Angeles Times, Letters to the Editor Page, November 22, 2021

November 22, 2021 Letter to Editor Los Angeles Times Rittenhouse Verdict

 

AM New York New Yorkers React to Verdict in Ahmaud Arbery Murder Trial

 

Caption on photo: "Activists from the New York Revolution Club gathered in celebration of the guilty verdicts in the Ahmed Arbery trial, but say more work needs to be done."   

AM New York, November 25, 2021

New York Times, November 24, 2021, "Three Men Found Guilty of Murdering Ahmaud Arbery: Live Updates"

… A small group in Times Square carried signs and shouted slogans, with several tourists joining in as Emma Kaplan chanted through an electric bullhorn: “Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!”

Ms. Kaplan, a spokeswoman for the New York City Revolution Club, called the verdicts a “celebration” of justice.

“It’s righteous that they found these guys guilty,” she said. “But it’s an indictment of the system that it could have gone either way.”…

ABC 7 San Francisco Bay Area, Nearly 100 people protest not guilty verdict in Rittenhouse trial

 

Screen shot from news video that included revcoms in the street during the protest.   

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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. 

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