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Week of July 18, 2016

A Basic Point of Orientation

July 15, 2016

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Bob Avakian on Trump, Clinton, "Lesser Evils," and Revolution

July 4, 2016

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Trump vs. Clinton:
Criminal Choices of a Criminal System

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Cast Away Illusions, Get Organized for Revolution

Mein Trumpf—Fangs Bared

July 21, 2016

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A Message to the Bernie Sanders Supporters:
An Invitation—and a Challenge

July 13, 2016

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New Excerpt from Major Work by Bob Avakian:
Excerpt from the section: The Basis for Revolution

July 18, 2016

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UPDATED July 23, 2016

America Was NEVER Great...Everything You NEED to Know About the Conventions

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UPDATED July 23, 2016

STOP MURDER AND TERROR BY POLICE NOW!!
We Need Revolution!

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Bob Avakian (BA) has made a historic breakthrough for human emancipation
You are needed—to let the world know! Contribute to the BA Everywhere Campaign

July 18, 2016

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Prisoner & Ex-Prisoner Write on Bob Avakian and on Science & Revolution... An Interview With Ardea Skybreak

July 15, 2016

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Bob Avakian and Cornel West:
Is there value to voting?
Can voting stop fascism?

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Bob Avakian:
Police murder... and the murderous logic of this system's election game.

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Bob Avakian on Trump, Clinton, "Lesser Evils," and Revolution

July 4, 2016

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3 Things that have to happen in order for there to be real and lasting change for the better:

1) People have to fully confront the actual history of this country and its role in the world up to today, and the terrible consequences of this.

2) People have to dig seriously and scientifically into how this system of capitalism-imperialism actually works, and what this actually causes in the world.

3) People have to look deeply into the solution to all this.

Bob Avakian
May 1st, 2016

 

Want to Know What the Big Deal Is About BA?

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Science...Revolution BA Science...Revolution Framework and Guidelines for Study and Discussion Framework and Guidelines 11x17 PDF Framework and Guidelines 8.5x11 PDF Framework and Guidelines text New Synthesis of Communism Excerpts
A New Theoretical Framework for a New Stage of Communist Revolution What is New in the New Synthesis? An Explorer, a Critical Thinker, a Follower of BA; Understanding the World, And Changing It For the Better, In the Interests of Humanity Some Thank Yous That Need To Be Said Aloud Order the book here Download the full interview in PDF format here Skybreak

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Question: What Do Trump, the Christian Fascists and the Islamic Fundamentalist Jihadists All Have in Common?

Answer: Utter, Blatant Misogyny.

July 16, 2016

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Obama in Dallas: Honeyed Words, a Pot of Lies, and One Important Truth

July 12, 2016

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Taking Out the Message: "Time To Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution"

Organizing a Focused, Coherent Force for Even Greater Societal Impact

July 11, 2016

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Interview with Revolutionary Artist

Dread Scott and Progressive Art Exhibit Under Attack

July 13, 2016

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Prosecution Backs Down:
No Crime, No Time for Clark Kissinger and Miles Solay for #ShutDownRikers Civil Disobedience

July 12, 2016

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I want to get into BA...Where do I start?

A Must-See Film!

Disc 1
HOW LONG MUST THIS NIGHTMARE OF OPPRESSION & BRUTALITY GO ON?
Not God, Not "Unchanging Human Nature," Not Conspiracy...
A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING REALITY
WHY THINGS ARE THE WAY THEY ARE... THEY HAVE NOT ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY... THEY CAN BE RADICALLY CHANGED
• The USA: Founded on Slavery & Genocide
• The Oppression of Women: Bound Up With This System . . . a Driving Force for Revolution
• The Revolutionary Potential of Those Most Oppressed Requires Scientific Leadership
Disc 2
A RADICALLY DIFFERENT AND FAR BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
WE NEED A REVOLUTION TO OVERCOME ALL OPPRESSIVE DIVISIONS
• We Need a Real Revolution, Not Better Democracy Under This System
• Socialism Is Three Things
• Above All, Socialism Is a Transition to Communism: A New Synthesis
REMIND ME: "WHICH SYSTEM, CAPITALISM OR COMMUNISM, IS THE NIGHTMARE FOR HUMANITY?"
THE ELECTION HUSTLE: "IF THEY DRAW YOU IN, THEY WIN"
• As Bad As Bush Was...Obama Is Even Worse
• Seizing on Contradictions of the System to Prepare for Revolution
• Bourgeois Democratic Intellectuals Thinking Like Serfs Unable to Imagine a Different World
INTERNATIONALISM – THE WHOLE WORLD COMES FIRST
EMANCIPATING HUMANITY...TRANSFORMING CONDITIONS & TRANSFORMING HUMAN NATURE
REVOLUTION IS POSSIBLE: THE STRATEGY FOR REVOLUTION
Disc 3
A REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION...THE ROLE OF YOUTH...& HOW TO WORK TODAY SO THAT THERE IS A REVOLUTIONARY FORCE WHEN THAT TIME COMES
COULD WE REALLY WIN...REALLY?
RESISTING THE BRAINWASH – A RADICAL REVOLT AGAINST A REVOLTING CULTURE
PEOPLE ARE SYSTEMATICALLY MIS-EDUCATED UNDER THIS SYSTEM
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNIST LEADERSHIP – THE ROSETTA STONE WE NEED TO WIN
• Straight Talk on BA
THE CHALLENGE: REVOLUTION – NOTHING LESS!

Of Continuing Interest

 

Bob Avakian on The pivotal role of the Black national question, the pivotal relation between national liberation and proletarian revolution, in the U.S.:

» Communism and Jeffersonian Democracy

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» "The Oppression of Black People & the Revolutionary Struggle to End All Oppression" 

April 25, 2016

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On "Principled Compromises," and Other Crimes Against Humanity

November 12, 2015

By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

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The Strategic Approach to Revolution and Its Relation to Basic Questions of Epistemology and Method

By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

August 4, 2014

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Bob Avakian (BA): A Contended Question

August 19, 2012

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On the Rise of Donald Trump… And the Need for and Possibility of Real Revolution

March 7, 2016

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“Putting Forward Our Line—In a Bold, Moving, Compelling Way,” by Bob Avakian

Published in two parts in Revolutionary Worker:

» Part 1, #1177, December 1, 2002

» Part 2, #1178, December 8, 2002

The Coming Civil War and Repolarization for Revolution in the Present Era

by Bob Avakian

Published 2004/2005

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Interview with a Former Prisoner

Includes "Part 1: Breaking with the Gang Life, Getting with the REAL Revolution," "Part 2: Science, Revolutionary Theory, and Getting Into Bob Avakian," and "Part 3: Don't Risk Your Life Over Stupid Shit—Be Down for Revolution"

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Letter from a reader

WORKING ON THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE REVOLUTION: reflections on bringing forward a revolutionary people and organizing for an actual revolution

April 27, 2015

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A QUESTION SHARPLY POSED

by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

Originally published April 14, 2013

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Freedom and Necessity, and Proceeding from a Strategic Standpoint: Some Thoughts on Methods and Leadership

by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

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Some Points of Orientation, Principle, and Method Regarding the Accusations Against Bill Cosby

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What Is an Abortion and Why Women Must Have the Right to Choose
Life Cannot and Should Not Always Be Preserved

January 23, 2005

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Coup Attempt in Turkey:

Crisis in a Key U.S. Ally

July 18, 2016

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American Crime

Case #88: Nuclear Testing in the Pacific

July 18, 2016

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From A World to Win News Service

Mexico: May the Heroic Spirit of Nochixtlan Herald a Liberating Revolution!

July 18, 2016

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VOLUNTEER FOR REVCOM.US

May 30, 2016

» Call for Volunteers: Research or write for the revcom.us series: American Crime

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Constitution, Law and Rights

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Break All the Chains

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Demarcations

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A Statement from the Revolutionary Communist Party: ON THE STRATEGY FOR REVOLUTION

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Updated July 24, 2016

Cast Away Illusions, Get Organized for Revolution

Mein Trumpf—Fangs Bared

July 21, 2016

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Revolution Club at the RNC & DNC

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Update July 24:

Joey Johnson, Other Revcoms and Defendants Released!

July 24, 2016

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Carl Dix from Cleveland:

One Flag Burns—Two Futures Clash

All Out to Defend Joey Johnson and All Those Arrested

July 21, 2016

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PRESS CONFERENCE IN CLEVELAND 9:30 am, Thursday, July 21

July 21, 2016

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North Miami, Florida Pig Shoots Unarmed Black Man Lying on Street with Hands Up

July 21, 2016

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The REAL Plagiarism at the RNC: Giuliani Bites Off Hitler

July 19, 2016

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Baton Rouge—2 Reflections

» The Truth Matters

» Do Protests Do Good?

July 18 as of 5 pm, 2016

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Spread two new powerful video clips from BA

July 18, 2016

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"Law and Order? THIS Is What It Means in America"

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Tweetable Series #AmericaWasNeverGreat We need to overthrow the system!

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Freddie Gray Murder: Another Pig Walks Free

July 18, 2016

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Question: Why do we not initiate violence during this period when we are carrying out the “three prepares”—why do we not just “get it on,” and try to bring down this system, right now?

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Question: Aren’t Ferguson and Baltimore examples of the people initiating violence?

Reposted July 10, 2016

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THE NEW SYNTHESIS OF COMMUNISM: FUNDAMENTAL ORIENTATION, METHOD AND APPROACH, AND CORE ELEMENTS—
AN OUTLINE

by Bob Avakian,

Chairman, Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, Summer 2015

Updated with links

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VOLUNTEER FOR REVCOM.US

May 30, 2016

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Indian Printing of Bob Avakian's Democracy: Can't We Do Better Than That?

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Religious Fundamentalism, Imperialism and "The War on Terror"

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Why Is Religious Fundamentalism Growing in Today's World

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