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Statement from International Grad Student in Humanities, Columbia University

I first encountered the Revcoms through the May Day [May 1st, 2023] parade. It was a very fruitful event for me intellectually. I got to hear personal stories of a Haitian during the parade, who condemned U.S. invasions and interventions in Haiti starting in 1915. I also heard from Black citizens who refused to go to the Vietnam War, for “the true battle is against the ruling class and imperialism.” I heard people saying there is only one race and that is humanity. In the evening event at the Revolution Books bookstore that followed, I was invited to read a poem by a Gazan poet, who described the horrors and fears during an Israeli airstrike. People were really appreciative of my poetry reading, and I could sense solidarity in the air among people coming from some 10+ countries. It was really a fantastic night.

I was again invited to the Jordan Neely protest and funeral. I got to exchange views with other members of Revcoms, and learnt from Carl Dix that it is not a matter of building more mental health asylums, but the system driven by profit is fundamentally inhumane for young, Black people like Jordan Neely.

That perspective got me really interested in the larger ideology of the group. I did more research online about the Revcoms and Revolution Club, and one thing that resonated with me and with what Carl said was Sunsara Taylor’s critique of identity politics on YouTube: for immigrant children who are kidnapped at the border and working for big corporations, it does not matter that the person who suppressed exposure of this crime is Susan Rice, a Black female.

"Woke" Lunacy Vs. Real Revolution — Sunsara Taylor Speaks at UCLA
Episode 149 of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show

Bob Avakian said in a speech: with the same system in place, no matter who has the upper hand against whom, the horrible situation that some will oppress others will simply continue. We want to get to a world where there are no people who are up and no people who are down, no people who rule and no people who are ruled over, which seems to me to be true equality, more true than the Greek philosopher who envisioned the idea of equal citizenship of ruling and being ruled in his Politics. The same philosopher said different constitutions are distinguished by its ruling class and class interest; and Marx picked up on that and said the state is the violent machinery whereby the ruling class maintains its rule, and the ruling ideology in a state is the ideology of the ruling class. Along this vein, to change the nature of the profit-driven system, there is no alternative outside of a real revolution, revolution defined as the total change in the system based on the new constitution [Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, authored by Bob Avakian].

These events are deeply thought provoking and prompt me to acquaint myself more deeply with Marxist literature. I helped the group spread words by posting fliers and the Proclamation “We Are the Revcoms” on Columbia campus. I call on more people to donate to the fund drive to continue that debate and spread more words for the flames of a real revolution.

WE ARE THE REVCOMS (revolutionary communists)

 

We are at a turning point in history. The capitalist-imperialist system is a horror for billions of people here and around the world and threatening the very fabric of life on earth. Now the election of fascist Trump poses even more extreme dangers for humanity—and underscores the total illegitimacy of this system, and the urgent need for a radically different system.

The website Revcom.us follows the revolutionary leadership of Bob Avakian (BA), the author of the new communism. Bob Avakian has scientifically analyzed that we are in a rare time when an actual revolution has become more possible in the U.S. He’s charted a strategy for making that revolution, and laid out a sweeping vision and concrete blueprint for “what comes next” in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America.

Revcom.us projects BA’s voice, leadership, and vision throughout society. It posts his timely leadership for the revcoms (revolutionary communists) and the whole movement for revolution, including his social media posts, and curates his whole body of work. 

Our website applies the scientific approach BA has developed to analyze major events in society and the world—why they are happening, how they relate to each other, how all this relates to the system we live under, where people's interests lie, how revolution is in fact the solution to all this, and what the goals of that revolution are.

Revcom.us acts as a guiding and connecting hub for the revcom movement nationwide: showing what’s being done, digging into what’s right and what’s wrong, and rapidly learning—and recruiting new people into what has to be a rapidly growing force. As part of this, revcom.us feature and promotes the weekly The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube.com. 

Put it this way: there will be no revolution unless this website not only “keeps going” but rises to a whole different level!

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