Revolution #284, November 4, 2012      Click for current front and back page

New Online Audio   

BA on Obama

"Let's Be Real Here: As Bad As Bush Was,
In Many Ways Obama Is Worse..."

This audio clip is from a recent talk by BA, and is highly relevant going into the elections.

Listen to it, play it for others, and spread it.

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Announcing: BA Everywhere Through the Holidays and into the New Year...

November 4, 2012

Coming soon... a special Revolution newspaper section on BA Everywhere... Imagine the Difference It Could Make! This will be a crucial tool during the last six weeks of the year through the Thanksgiving-Xmas-New Year's period—in going all out to raise big funds and forge a community of people working together to project Bob Avakian's works and vision into all corners of society.

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The American Enterprise—Property and Slavery
Peculiar Notions of "Freedom" and Profound Contradictions

We are reprinting this essay by Bob Avakian on the eve of the elections. It is particularly relevant in injecting some REALITY into the current atmosphere.

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Militarization of U.S.-Mexico Border - Photo: AP

Photo: AP

What’s NOT Up for Debate in the Presidential Election… And What This Tells You About This System

We’re told the two presidential candidates have laid out very different plans and visions for “where the country needs to go.” But we can learn a lot about the nature of the system that both of these men represent if we look at the things that were NOT up for debate, if we look at the things they agree on.

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The Real Difference Between the Republicans and the Democrats

A lot of people feel that say what you want, there is a deep-down philosophical difference between Republicans and Democrats. Well, let’s look at this.

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Afghanistan

Photo: AP

 


17th Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and Criminalization of a Generation

Reports and photos from October 22, when people across the country took to the street to demand a stop to police brutality, repression, and criminalization of a generation.

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New York City October 22, 2012 17th Annual day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, ad Criminalization of a Generation

Blow the Whitsle on Stop & Frisk - August

Trial of STOP "Stop & Frisk" Freedom Fighters Begins

The trial of four freedom fighters in the struggle to STOP "Stop & Frisk"—Carl Dix, Jamel Mims, Morgan Rhodewalt and Bob Parsons—began on October 23 in New York City. The racist NYPD policy of stop-and-frisk—that stops hundreds of thousands of people every year, especially Black and Latino youth—is totally illegitimate. What is being put on trial here is nothing less than the ability and right to stand up to this and say NO MORE.

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The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism-imperialism and political structures to enforce that capitalism-imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.

Bob Avakian
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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Take It to the Streets!
Stop the War On Women!

Abortion on Demand and Without Apology

End Pornography & Patriarchy:
The Enslavement and Degradation of Women

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Reflections on What Humanity Needs: Revolution, And the New Synthesis of Communism

The Critical Importance of Leadership

I recently went back over the interview with BA… I started this particular reading of the interview with an intention to deepen my grasp of its sweep and depth "in its own right." But as I read, I was struck by its direct relevance to some particular problems that the movement for revolution (and those working to lead it forward) confront right now.

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Call to Resist NDAA and Stand Together Against Repression Published in The Nation

The November 5 issue of The Nation magazine features, as a paid ad, A Call To Stand Together to Oppose the Obama Administration's Dangerous Assault on Fundamental Rights. The statement has garnered more than 700 signers from diverse fields.

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 Also in this issue

Mayor Declares that Women Being Massacred by Men "Can't Be Avoided"
I Declare: We Have No More Time—Or Women's Lives—To Waste Before Making Revolution!

October 25, 2012


A Stimulating Listening Party for Cornel West Interview of BA

We held a listening party for the Cornel West interview with BA at our bookstore to open up engagement with this and generate ideas to get it out there.

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WHAT THE FUCK!

Spitting Out My Coffee While Reading the New York Times Liberal White-(Supremacist)-Wash

I open the pages of the Sunday New York Times about two weeks ago to find this remarkable sentence:

“In the early 19th century, the United States was one of the most egalitarian societies on the planet.”

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On Facing Two Years for Protesting Stop-and-Frisk

October 25, 2012

 

New Documentary
NYPD vs. The Central Park Five—Then and Now

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, together with his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband, David McMahon, have made and are about to release The Central Park Five, their movie about the New York Police Department (NYPD) railroad of five Black youth in 1989-90, which was one of the most shocking instances of racist injustice in the long and ugly history of this country.

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Connecting with BA at the Harlem Book Fair

October 25, 2012

At a Critical Time… Sustain Revolution!

In a world of vicious exploitation, brutal oppression, and environmental devastation, a new stage of the communist revolution, based on Bob Avakian's new synthesis of communism, is fighting to be born. One essential component of this is that Revolution newspaper and revcom.us have the financial resources to survive!

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New and Breaking News...

From the Editors:

On Hurricane Sandy—What Is the Problem? What Is the Solution? And What We Need to Do Now!

November 2, 2012

 

Important Report From NYC Revolution Club Meeting

November 2, 2012

 

We are human beings, we demand to be treated with respect and compassion!

Demands developed by New York Revolution Club, to be circulated and organized around

November 1, 2012

 

Why a Natural Disaster Became a Social Disaster, and Why It Doesn't Have To Be That Way: Reflections on Hurricane Sandy and the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal)

by Raymond Lotta

November 3, 2012

 

Superstorm Sandy and Climate Change

November 1, 2012

 

Special Coverage of How Hurricane Sandy Is Affecting People, Including in the Projects and the Shelters

November 4, 2012

 

Announcing: BA Everywhere Through the Holidays and into the New Year...

November 4, 2012

 

Sustain revcom.us
Before, during, after the Storm—there's no other website like this!

November 3, 2012

 

 

NOTICE:
Trial of STOP "Stop & Frisk" freedom fighters is scheduled to resume Monday, November 5.

Check back for updates.

 

 

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