*The leadership of Bob Avakian who has transformed the objective situation in the world today by developing the New Communism so we can have the ability to be as scientific as possible as we analyze both the natural and social aspects of the world correctly, while always fighting for “The Whole World Comes First.” As an Iranian revolutionary communist recently said, “Just as the socialist revolutions of the 20th century … would not have been possible without Marxism which was founded and developed by Marx and further developed by Lenin and Mao, socialist revolutions in our time are not possible without the New Communism developed by Bob Avakian.”

*The Revolutionary Communist Party, an organization without which we cannot make and lead a real revolution, not to reform, but to thoroughly overthrow and dismantle this capitalist-imperialist system while putting a socialist economic and political system in its place.

*The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show being able to reach, train and lead thousands and thousands of people through social media, as well as @BobAvakianOfficial.

*The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, a blueprint that deals with all of the facets of how a new Socialist society should be structured as part of developing a socialist mode of production economy, ending all oppressive relations, abolishing all class differences, and revolutionizing all ideas. (I especially love this tool! Everyone should carry a copy of it in their back pocket at all times to be able to show it to people.)

*We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, A fundamentally Different System.

*We Are the Revcoms; We are Working for a Real Revolution and a Whole New, Emancipating Way to Live.

* 5 Stops, 2 Choices, 6 Points of Attention

* The revcom.us website. How beautiful and uplifting it is to be able to go online and read honest articles about the way the world is and how to change it, as well as get the latest works by Bob Avakian.

Stop. Think about this. How incredibly precious and invaluable these tools are, without which we have no chance to make a real revolution. Humanity does not have to live this way.

We DO have these tools. We cannot squander them. We need money to make them and get them out into people’s hands.

I was recently at a medical conference. I was wearing my keffiyeh in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Scores of people came up to me to thank me for wearing my keffiyeh, some asked why I was wearing it. This started many conversations. I soon ran out of leaflets and literature to give to people greatly underestimating how many of these professionals were profoundly affected by the atrocities the Israeli/U.S. governments were committing. I was using my business card to write revcom.us on the back so people could further dig into the underlying causes of what is going on. Once I heard about the summer plans, I thought back to the conference wishing I had information about these plans and asking for donations for this fund drive for “Be part of making history. Be a part of fighting for a whole new way humanity could be living.” Everyone needs to know that there IS a way out and there IS a way forward.

The opportunity of making a whole new world is possible in this rare time, but we need to use and to get these tools out very broadly. We need to get the Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity OUT. We need to make REVOLUTION SUMMER 2024 a magnet to draw forward all those who hate what they see around them and become part of a living movement to overthrow this system so not another child dies because of the workings of this system.

To do this, we need thousands of donations small and big. I am not able to be in the streets anymore, but I can help by being part of making a whole new, emancipating way to live by donating. Join me. Get your friends to join. Get anyone and everyone you know who hates the way this world is (that will be all of your friends and then some) to pitch in. It is truly a liberating feeling to be part of this Fund Drive.

While it was sometimes loud with the roar of engines and blaring stereos, people responded especially to the T-shirt "No Fascist Trump, No Genocide Joe! The whole damn system’s got to go!" Saying, “Yes, this can't be the choice or it's not a choice at all.” Several raised the question of today's youth: Are too many into messed up stuff to get with the revolution? I encouraged them to check out @BobAvakianOfficial to see the potential he sees in the youth and the struggle we need to wage with them to get out of all that. 

Many responded to the U.S. backing and funding genocide in Gaza. One responded, "I'm a vet, I know what they do." One man said he's 64 and has wanted to see revolution most of his life. He took a small stack of flyers.

Before they took off, I got out over 150 flyers and a few small bundles.

Breakdown:

A chunk of the funds will come from bake sales. And we are planning a street sale for late in July—the fundraising needs to continue in high gear all through the summer! There are several people who can be won to enthusiastically take up picking up, organizing, displaying and selling stuff. And there are a good number of people to reach out to for donations (including middle strata people, artists, and store owners, some of whom might contribute Arab food) and people who would promote it both online and with flyers.

There is a weekly Wednesday music festival here during the summer. Last Wednesday, we raised $100 there selling simple baked goods & distributed hundreds of Revolution Summer flyers. There are three more before July 4th, and one of them will be huge with reggae fans. We plan to take out Revolution Summer 2024 to all three and promote the financial goals we are trying to reach.

There was a discussion with a longtime sustainer today who has recently been paying much more attention to the social media dispatches from @BobAvakianOffical. He volunteered to reach out to a retired sports figure here and an artist friend about the drive and there was some exploration of what kind of struggle it would require to win contributions.

There are several people we will go to for $50-$100 who are likely and a possibility for some of them to call on 10 friends to contribute $10 each—this could include 3-5 store owners/managers. A couple of us need to dig through lists to come up with more.

There are a number of people who have donated in various ways that we want to approach to make videos about why they donate and what is important to them about supporting this movement for REAL revolution. We have already noted that a number people who have begun listening to @BobAvakianOfficial are more open to engaging with this and getting involved.

We have plans this weekend to go to a nearby city where there was recently a mass shooting at a block party. We’re going to take out the call for Revolution Summer and the Points of Attention among the people there. While it’s not likely to raise a lot of money it could be an important way to connect with people who don't want to continue living this way.

We’ll keep you posted on how our plans are developing.

To victory!