As we close out 2025, many will reflect on the darkness of the last year: the extreme danger of Trump/MAGA fascism, a world of genocide and climate catastrophe. While people urgently need to confront the existential fascist danger we face, and dig more deeply into the system of capitalism-imperialism which gave rise to this fascism along with so many other horrors, they also need to know there is a basis for hope in what Bob Avakian called in January 2025: "a profoundly positive way forward in the face of very real horror."
We encourage our readers to take some time this week to return to these key works from Bob Avakian, the revolutionary leader and architect of the new communism:
And get together with friends and family to watch the two-part Interview with Avakian, also from the beginning of 2025:
Think about this: If over the past year millions had seriously taken up Bob Avakian’s analysis and the leadership he provides, where might we be right now in confronting fascism and bringing forward a radically different and much better world—and given where we actually are, what must we do right now to reach, win over, and move those millions to face the reality BA lays out in these works and find the courage to act on it?
Let’s begin the new year with scientific determination, the courage this moment demands, curiosity about how the world actually works—how it can be transformed—and a much-needed hope. Not religious or blind hope, but hope grounded in reality: in how humanity could be living.
If you’ve ever wondered whether a radically different society could meet people’s basic needs, work to uproot all oppression, and protect dissent, protest, and critical thinking—even against its own government—watch this excerpt from the 2025 BA interviews and pull together gatherings and discussions on New Year’s Day.
If you don’t already have plans, join a Zoom discussion on New Year's Day, Thursday, January 1, 4 pm PT/7 pm ET and invite others to take this up with you. Register HERE.
Sunsara Taylor asks: "You have said that never before in any proposed or actually existing founding document of a government has there been anything close to the level, not only of provision for dissent, protest, disagreement and ferment as is written into the Constitution that you authored. While also being oriented to meeting people’s basic needs and overcoming oppression. Can you give an example of how this is built into the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic?"
We'll discuss Bob Avakian's answer: