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Take to the Streets!

WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS SYSTEM’S FUTURE!

A Better World Without Oppression and Exploitation Is Possible

No U.S./Nato War With Russia!
Stop U.S. Threats Against China!
No World War 3!

It’s This System, Not Humanity, That Needs To Become Extinct!

NOW IS THE TIME
TO GET ORGANIZED FOR A REAL REVOLUTION

 

Revolution for a Whole New Emancipating Way to Live IS Possible!

MAY 1, 2023

Sights and Sounds: International May 1st 2023

From The Michael Slate Show on KPFK.org
Michelle Xai calls on people to become part of revolutionary May 1.

Read the text of the speech:

International Revolutionary May Day 2023

WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS SYSTEM’S FUTURE!

A Better World Without Oppression and Exploitation Is Possible
With the release of WE ARE THE REVCOMS!,
ANNOUNCING: $100,000 Summer Solstice Fund Drive!
Raising $100,000 by June 21, 2023 to Put Revolution On the Map
Get ready, make plans... stay tuned.
Save the date for the first fundraising livestream May 28, 2023.

Editorial

May 1: Put Revolution on the Map in 2023

A TIME FULL OF DANGER—A TIME TO SEIZE

Statement from Bob Bossie:

MAY DAY for the planet and humanity—Internationalist May First 2023

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Stir up debate... provoke controversy... drive people to watch The Bob Avakian Interviews from The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show. Print out these posters and saturate the hell out of a couple neighborhoods, a campus or school. Get them wherever you can so they are unignorable. Print them in color, black and white, big or small. The QR code will take people right to The BA Interviews.

THE BOB AVAKIAN INTERVIEWS

Subtitles in Spanish
Now Available: Farsi Subtitles  >>
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Part 1

Subtitles in Spanish

Part 2

Subtitles in Spanish.

Part 3

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STEPPING INTO THE REVOLUTION...
AND RAISING FUNDS

♦ VERY IMPORTANT: Send your ideas and reports on your experiences to GetOrganizedforRevolutionTour@ gmail.com or DM us @therevcoms.
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Seeds and Shoots of Revolution—Fundraising for the Revcoms on International May 1 at Revolution Books NYC
On May 1, Revolution Books (RB) in New York City hosted an Internationalist Revolutionary Celebration. A group of older, retired Black people who come out of the 1960s struggles of Black folk in the U.S. came together to take responsibility for an inspiring fundraiser for May 1. In different ways, they all are looking to and want to see a revolution happen here. They are RB supporters who have been especially active around various fundraising projects over the past several years, especially cooking food, for RB and the movement for revolution.
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From a retired teachers’ aide
After watching Andy Zee’s May 1st editorial on The RNL Show, I wanted to contribute to a brighter future... Now for the $25,000 challenge, I got some more shirts that say Forced Motherhood is Female Enslavement to raise funds. I was helping a friend with his yard sale, so I brought the shirts there... I’d like to challenge everyone to grab some of these important conversation-starting shirts to raise funds and to spread the word...
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From a donor who contributed $1000 to the fund drive
....The more we can fund this revolutionary movement and inspire others, the quicker we can bring about the end of this regime. The system is a sick cancer on the people of the world and the responsibility we have here gives us a special role....
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Some Thoughts on Revolution Clubs and Spring Offensive

By Michelle Xai
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Op-ed in Columbia Spectator:

An invitation and challenge to Columbia students

by Raymond Lotta and Larry Everest
From a group of people who work on the revcom.us website
People from all walks of life who hate the way things are and long for a way out of this madness: There IS a way out—REAL revolution. There is a moment to seize. Become part of putting revolution on the map by matching our $1,000 contribution to the May Day 2023 $25,000 fund drive. Every dollar up to $1,000 that is donated will be doubled. Join us!
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Cleveland: Spreading the message of May 1 among people hoping for a better world but not knowing their hopes really can become reality! 
A few supporters of the revcoms in Cleveland raised $360 for the May 1st fund drive yesterday selling cake slices, brownies, and cookies at small businesses in strip malls.... We had been to many of the same shops before and many remembered learning about the RNL Show. They were glad to see us again and glad to be reminded to watch the RNL Show.  Those who had asked us to leave flyers for the $100,000 drive were all out and wanted May 1st flyers.
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RE: REVCOM.US INTERNATIONAL MAY DAY CALL TO ACTION FOR REVOLUTION
Why we need to educate ourselves and organize for an actual revolution NOW!
From a biology tutor:
.... That is why we go in the streets at rallies this International May Day. Make a donation, educate yourselves and read the new plan that Bob Avakian wrote about how we can organize for revolution, by watching The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube, and by going to the website revcom.us. It is a plan that will work and needs to be organized for NOW!!
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Working on challenging and organizing people—fundraising plan from a Midwest city
Since the call to raise $25,000 for May 1st was issued, I've done a lot of calling to people who see themselves as supporters of the revcoms digging into why raising funds this month will make a huge difference to making the May 1st events impact millions with the message that a force is gathering for real revolution. Both the May 1st editorial and the fundraising flyer are great in walking people through this—especially the point in the flyer which says: “Your funds will enable these demonstrations to happen—and more than that, they will be part of making this force and the alternative it represents known to millions.” There has been a lot of struggle involved in most of these conversations—it's definitely not where people go on autopilot.
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Making the substance of the May 1st editorial the common property and foundation for building for the holiday
In developing our plans for May 1st, we started with a discussion of the May 1st editorial, and plans to make the substance of it the common property of, and foundation for, all those who will be building for it—supporters as well as new people we meet. All of this is taking place in the midst of sharpening contradictions, and we talked about the need to lead with May 1st (its politics and goals) in acting on them—whether it be the intensifying crisis at the border or the accelerating war on women with the Mifepristone ban, just to name a couple. Not only is a better world possible, there is a force, the revcoms, preparing to seize on this rare time, and organizing now to make revolution—people need to be challenged to join with that to put revolution on the map.
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A $1,000 match challenge from four retirees from Hawai`i:
“We’ve dreamed of revolution for decades and now, when we see the possibilities unfolding, health and distance limits what we can do. However, the courageous young revolutionary leaders we see on the RNL show give us hope. We challenge you to join us in raising $25,000 to expand their work and put revolution on the map.”

Reflections on Repolarization...

from a member of the National Tour to Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution
March 27, 2023
In the last week, comrades from the National Tour have been part of building for national protests on Sunday, April 2....
We've been getting a sharper appreciation of the impact these protests and slogans can make—fighting to lead people to confront and act in relation to the urgent and dangerous situation, and doing so as part of getting organized now for an actual revolution. We've been learning about what people are thinking—and not thinking—when it comes to the U.S./NATO war with Russia in Ukraine, and the U.S.'s dangerous threats against China, and the contradictoriness in this.
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Message from the Revcoms on the One-Year Anniversary of the Ukraine War

....No decent person should be joining in with the U.S. imperialists in their rivalry with other imperialists. The silence, so far, from people of conscience in this country has been deafening. Continued silence could be deadly. THIS MUST CHANGE, AND WE ARE CHANGING IT.
Starting April 2, and then building again around the May Day internationalist holiday, we will be mobilizing rallies....
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