REVOLUTION #338, May 11, 2014                    Click for current front and back page

"Where We Are in the Revolution"

An Important Talk from the Revolutionary Communist Party

This talk will be given in several cities on May 10, 12, 15, and 17.

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» Publicity material for important talk in May, "Where We Are in the Revolution"


May Day 2014

We Refuse to Accept Slavery in Any Form Here and Around the World

Fight the Power, And Transform the People, for Revolution

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Los Angeles May 1, 2014

 

Editorial:

Three Outrages in Four Days in AmeriKKKa

The anti-affirmative action decision by the Supreme Court, the fascist mob around rancher Cliven Bundy, racist rants by LA Clipper owner Donald Sterling—these outrages in April reveal how tightly white supremacy is woven into the fabric of Amerikkka. The only solution to the oppression of Black and other oppressed people, and to other foundational outrages in this society, is REAL REVOLUTION.

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There would be no United States as we now know it today without slavery. That is a simple and basic truth.

Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:1

 

Donald Sterling Rears His Ugly Racist Head

The NBA reflects, serves, and promotes the exploitative and oppressive values of this system. Sterling—with his uncontested record of blatantly promoting white supremacy— tells you much about what that is all about.

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Download ful poster: PDF for print | JPG for web.

BA Everywhere

BA Everywhere is the mass fundraising campaign to raise big money to make the revolutionary vision and framework developed by Bob Avakian, "BA," known in all corners of society.

 

BA Everywhere in May and June

From the Hellholes of a Nation of Cages:

A Call to Contribute to Human Emancipation
1000 Years--$1000 for BA Everywhere

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Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners on What BAsics and Other Revolutionary Literature Means to Them

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The Importance of Ongoing Fundraising

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Get the latest on the BA Everywhere campaign here.

We ARE Building a Movement for Revolution and Building the Party as Its Leading Core

 Also in this issue

Obama's New Criteria for Releasing People from Prison—

Smoke and Mirrors Aimed at Covering Over the Horrors of Mass Incarceration

Obama announced new steps that will supposedly grant more clemency to federal prisoners doing time for nonviolent drug offenses. In reality, this is a case of the head of a criminal system trying to cover over the ugly reality of mass incarceration of Black and Latino people.

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Ukraine: A Clash of Predatory Powers

The situation in Ukraine is a dangerous clash of predatory powers. People in the U.S. are being systematically lied to and trained to look at the situation from the interests of the rulers empire.

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From A World to Win News Service:

What Is the Clash in Ukraine About?

At bottom, what's happening in Ukraine is a conflict between reactionaries on every level.

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Special May Offer of PDF of History of Communism eBook

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NEW—
eBook from Insight Press, available at Amazon.com and other retailers.


Interview with Collette Flanagan

Mothers Against Police Brutality: "Our Quest for Justice"

A national strategy meeting was held in New York City in April to plan for the October Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration. Revolution/revcom.us talked with participants at the meeting, including families of those in prison, parents of those who have been killed by the police, and others active in the struggle against mass incarceration.

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Letters from Prisoners:

» "Turn this concrete cell that has broken & destroyed so many many lives into a classroom"

» "No Americans had been harmed" (Japan earthquake)


Cowboy Indian Alliance Opposes Keystone XL

April 22. On Earth Day, a group that included Native people, ranchers and farmers called the Cowboy Indian Alliance, came to Washington DC to mount a protest to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline.

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Albuquerque, New Mexico

The Police Murder of 19-Year-Old Mary Hawkes

On April 22, Albuquerque cops killed Mary Hawkes—the third person in five weeks killed by the police in this city.

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WE SAY NO MORE!

A Call for a Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation

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White House Calls 1 in 5 College Women Raped “Complex” and Calls for More Surveys

Actually, It's Very Simple: We Need Revolution!

One in five women in the U.S. will be raped or sexually assaulted while in college. In the face of this, the Obama administration announced a task force focused on investigation and surveys. This is bullshit.

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We don't need a "Rape Task Force"! We need a REVOLUTION and a world WITHOUT RAPE!

Interview

Student Protest Forces Condoleezza Rice to Pull Out of Rutgers Commencement

Condoleezza Rice, one of the main war criminals in the Bush White House, was forced to back out of a commencement speech at Rutgers University in New Jersey after determined protests by students. Revolution talked with one of the students involved in the protests.

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Kerry Drops the "A" Word and Then Backtracks—

But Israel IS an Apartheid State

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Israel could become an apartheid state if the U.S.-brokered "two-state solution" fails—and then quickly backtracked on the use of the term "apartheid." The defining reality is that Israel is an apartheid state NOW.

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Source: Oklahoma Department of Corrections

America: The land of the executioners, and the home of the torturers

Death Row, Execution Room, Oklahoma Department of Corrections

LATEST POSTS & BREAKING NEWS

NEW from Bob Avakian:

Break ALL the Chains!

Bob Avakian on the Emancipation of Women and
the Communist Revolution


Sampler Edition

Break ALL the Chains!

Bob Avakian on the Emancipation of Women and
the Communist Revolution


Boko Haram, Campus Rape, AND REVOLUTION

May 12, 2014

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From A World to Win News Service

Egypt: Death Sentences and Elections—More Bricks in the Wall

May 14, 2012

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Obama's National Climate Assessment Report—NOT a Real Solution to the Environmental Emergency

May 13, 2014

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Hearne, Texas: Cop Murders 93-Year-Old Woman

May 13, 2014

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Major Step in Further Breaking Down Separation of Church and State:

Supreme Court Gives Green Light to Prayer in Town Meetings

May 9, 2014

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People Respond to a Challenge from a Harlem Youth on "Where We Are in the Revolution"

May 7, 2014

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Now online in Spanish!

Conquer the World? The International Proletariat Must and Will

Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

 

Spanish | English


Posted at Demarcations: A Journal of Communist Theory and Polemic:

The (new) Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist and the Crossroads Facing the International Communist Movement

Read it at demarcations-journal.org

April 7, 2014


 

BA Speaks:
REVOLUTION— NOTHING LESS!

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Important analysis and reports on End Pornography & Patriarchy: The Enslavement and Degradation of Women

Updated May 17, 2014

New Reports on Building the Movement for Revolution

Updated May 1, 2014


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