We Need and We Demand
Revolution For
A Whole New Way To Live,
A Fundamentally Different System
Stop the U.S./Israeli Genocide of Palestinians NOW!
Stop Capitalism-Imperialism from Stealing Our Future!
Los Angeles
A member of the Revcom Corps speaks at Revolutionary Internationalist May Day in Los Angeles. Photo: revcom.us
Sixty people of different nationalities gathered in Jim Gilliam Park in South Central Los Angeles for a Rally, March, and Picnic to celebrate Revolutionary Internationalist May Day. The day pulsed with revolutionary determination. Fueled by the courage and resistance of college students standing up to vicious repression in solidarity with people of Gaza, there was a profound sense that we are in the midst of a defining moment for a generation. The Revcom speakers went deep with people on preparing now for a real revolution. People listened and watched Bob Avakian on a large screen TV, from the The BA Interviews on The RNL Show, speaking to the youth who catch the hardest hell. After marching through the neighborhood, the REVCOM CORPS for the Emancipation of Humanity led the crowd in a call and response of the Points of Attention for the Revolution while holding aloft banners signed by the masses of people in South Central LA in support of the people of Gaza. The Celebration ended with moving calls to Stop the Execution of the Revolutionary Rapper Toomaj Salehi and the playing of his song Battlefield.
New York City
Revcom Corps marches in Harlem, NYC May Day, May 4, 2024.
After a short, defiant and colorful march through Harlem from Revolution Books, about 60 people—including those attracted by the march, others brand new to the revolution as well as those who have been building for May Day—gathered to celebrate Revolutionary Internationalist May Day in Marcus Garvey Park. People listened intently to the speeches, and there was lively back and forth during the organizing meeting.
New York City, Haitian banner in May Day march through Harlem, May 4, 2024. Photo: Special to revcom.us
New York City, support for Toomaj in May Day celebration, May 4, 2024. Photo: revcom.us
Chicago
Chicago march on May Day, May 4, 2024. Photo: Special to revcom.us
RevCom Corps banner at the School of the Art Institute encampment, May 4, 2024. Photo: Art Blakey II
The Revcom Corps led a revolutionary internationalist rally at Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. Besides speeches from the Revcom Corps and a solidarity statement from Cleveland about the banner saying “From Palestine to Cleveland, We Need Real Revolution! Hands Off the Brave Students! Hands Off Gaza!,” message number 30 from @BobAvakianOfficial and music from Iranian rebel rapper Toomaj was played over the sound system, and statements from actively retired priest Bob Bossie and a diaspora Iranian youth about Toomaj were read. A march then headed to the Art Institute—a major cultural institution on busy Michigan Ave.—to stand with the defiant protest of students who had set up a pro-Palestinian encampment there and bring the message: “We need and we demand revolution for a whole new way to live, a fundamentally different system!”
San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco RevCom Corps, May Day 2024. Photo: Special to revcom.us
San Francisco, May Day, May 4, 2024. Photo: Special to revcom.us
The Revcom Corps, Bay Area, rallied in pouring rain at 24th and Mission St. in the SF Mission District. Then there was a gathering at a nearby taqueria, with speeches from the Revcom Corps and a statement delivered from the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran's Political Prisoners Now against the death sentence handed down on rebel rapper Toomaj Salehi.
Texas
Houson, Texas, Revolutionary May Day, May 1, 2024. Photo: revcom.us
Houston, Texas, Revolutionary May Day, banner, May 1, 2024. Photo: revcom.us
Houston. This beautiful Revolutionary Internationalist May Day banner circulated from neighborhoods of the oppressed in Houston, to the University of Texas and a protest against the genocide in Gaza this weekend, to Eagle Pass and the U.S. Mexico border—bringing together people from different backgrounds, experiences, and walks of life, but who share a common humanity, and, whether they are aware of it or not, a common fight to make revolution and overthrow capitalism imperialism.
Eagle Pass, Texas. A crew of revcoms travelled to Eagle Pass on April 27, on the U.S.-Mexico border. Eagle Pass is ground zero of "Operation Lone Star", a deadly fascist assault on immigrants. Standing in front of the infamous "border wall", they burned American flags and delivered a statement for Revolutionary Internationalist May Day in Spanish and English.
We Need and We Demand
Revolution For
A Whole New Way To Live,
A Fundamentally Different System
Stop the U.S./Israeli Genocide of Palestinians NOW!
Stop Capitalism-Imperialism from Stealing Our Future!
The madness of this system of capitalism-imperialism cannot be fixed or reformed. From the heartless U.S./Israeli slaughter and starvation of Palestinians… to the threats of nuclear annihilation... from the city streets, hell-hole prisons and police who terrorize and kill Black and Brown people... to the denial of women's right to abortion and attacks on LGBTQ people...
The problem is the system of capitalism-imperialism.
When the parasitic luxury of some rests on a world where whole countries are turned into sweatshops… a world of child labor and sexual slavery… a world where millions of migrants and refugees are driven to risk everything to cross borders—only to then be demonized and hunted like animals:
This system must be overthrown.
When this system has poisoned the air and water, destroying the environment... when its rulers threaten nuclear war… and the very future of humanity is in real danger:
We need and we demand a whole new way to live, a fundamentally different system!
Some say that nothing can change and it's out of our hands.
NO!
On May Day 2024, we declare: We will dare to fight and win a future worthy of our children and all of humanity.
In powerful social media messages, the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian has done what nobody in this country has ever done before. He breaks down for everyone why we need a real revolution and how this revolution can be made—not in some far-off time, but right in this time. Listen to these messages at @BobAvakianOfficial on all social media platforms.
Bob Avakian says:
With thousands organized into the ranks of the revolution, millions can be won to revolution; and with millions won to revolution, there could be a real possibility for this revolution to win.
Be one of those thousands needed NOW! Join The REVCOM CORPS for the Emancipation of Humanity, and become a part of making this revolution known as a growing, organized, disciplined, bold, and fearless force. Learn about the revolution while spreading the word that there is a way to change the world.
If you have the heart to fight for something worth fighting for,
