Here is another profound truth: Even with all the ways that the heavy chains of hundreds, and thousands, of years of oppressive tradition weigh down on the masses of people—and place a heavy burden particularly on the half of humanity that is female—there is a deep yearning to be free of all this, which not only leads to imaginary hopes of supernatural salvation but also erupts in unrestrained fury right in this real world. And that fury needs to be fully called forth, given a scientific, revolutionary expression—focused toward the emancipation of all the oppressed and exploited of the world, and ultimately all humanity—directed to fighting against the fundamental source of all the suffering: this system of capitalism-imperialism, with its suffocating and brutal, patriarchal male supremacy, along with all its other outrages. This takes on even more powerful meaning and urgent importance in the current situation in this country (and others), where the forceful assertion of raw misogyny (hatred of women) and patriarchal subjugation of women is becoming more blatant and unbridled, focused to a significant degree now in the escalating moves to even further deny women control over their own lives and their very bodies, with the right to abortion, and even birth control, being brought under mounting attack. Right now, this slogan and call needs to be taken up broadly and made a powerful material force: Break the Chains, Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!
From “Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating: Profound Crisis, Deep Divisions, The Looming Possibility of Civil War—And the Revolution That Is Urgently Needed. A Necessary Foundation, A Basic Roadmap for This Revolution,” by Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Leader, Author of the New Communism
In one month, it will be International Women’s Day. This year that day, March 8, takes place in the shadow of what most think will be a decision in June by the U.S. Supreme Court overturning, or at minimum cutting the guts out of, this fundamental right.
The stakes of this are nothing less than what Bob Avakian states in his article, posted last Tuesday, “The Fight For Abortion Rights And The Emancipation of Women”:
The attack on the right to abortion is a move to further intensify the already horrific oppression of women, denying them control of their lives and their very bodies, reducing them to breeders of children, cruelly subordinated to men and a patriarchal male-supremacist society. Forced motherhood is in fact female enslavement. Anything which waters down or distracts from this essential truth is objectively aiding this fundamental attack on the half of humanity that is female—is undermining the fight for their emancipation, and the emancipation of humanity as a whole from any form of oppression and exploitation.
Because of that, March 8, 2022 must be marked in the U.S. by determined mass mobilization saying NO! HELL NO!—we refuse to allow the imposition of forced motherhood—of female enslavement—against women in the U.S.
For this reason, we are giving great emphasis in this issue to the call being issued by Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights and a number of related articles. And we are calling on you, regular readers and newcomers, to read this in the context of the analysis and “roadmap” that is in the larger piece we quoted at the very opening, “Something Terrible Or Something Truly Emancipating.” This talk from Bob Avakian, BA, can enable you to put this and nearly every other major event in society in the context of the extreme negative situation now facing humanity… and what we need to do to wrench the very rare positive chance to bring out of that looming horror an emancipatory revolution.
This issue of the website also contains articles on other major developments in the world, the driving causes behind them, the interests of humanity within that, and how these relate to revolution. The articles for this issue are listed below. And be sure to go to the Revolution Club page to find out how to be part of changing the world you are reading about on this site.
* March 8, International Women’s Day, and the Fight for Abortion Rights
- From RiseUp4AbortionRights.org:
Tuesday, March 8 International Women’s Day
Take to the streets nationwide to declare:
We Refuse to Let the U.S. Supreme Court Deny Women’s Humanity and Decimate Their Rights!
ABORTION ON DEMAND & WITHOUT APOLOGY! - Beginning list of cities for March 8 protests.
- DID YOU KNOW? 10 FACTS ABOUT THE ABORTION RIGHTS EMERGENCY!
- February 16, 7pm EST, at Revolution Books in Harlem and streamed live:
Forced Motherhood Is Female Enslavement—
We REFUSE to Let the Supreme Court Decimate Abortion Rights! - “Woke-Washing” a Murderous Attack on Women. You Can’t Fight for Abortion Rights While You’re Erasing Women (updated)
- The Fight for Abortion Rights and the Emancipation of Women, by Bob Avakian
- As a Service, Abortion Funds Have Some Value—As a “Strategy,” They Are Deadly!
- Prisoner Asks “Right-to-Life” Fascists—“Why Stop At Fetuses? Why Not ‘Personhood’ for Sperm Cells Too?”
* The NYPD Is NOT a Collection of Choir Boys, Saints and Kindly Social Workers: The True Stories of a Dog-Pack of Fascist Brutes, Racist Killers, and Lying Cover-Up Artists
* The “No-Knock Warrant” Police Execution of Amir Locke
* Clash Over Ukraine
- On the Danger of War in Ukraine: Triggers, Motives, and OUR Interests
- U.S. Denounces Russia at the U.N. Over Ukraine, but for “Redrawing borders by force…” the USA is #1 with a Bullet
- A Revcom Appeal: Help Raise Funds For the Washington Post To Fund A Decent Research Facility
* Black History Month
- Racism: White Kids Need to Learn About It, by Bob Avakian
- Bob Avakian for the Liberation of Black People and Emancipation of All Humanity
- Racial Oppression Can Be Ended—But Not Under This System, by Bob Avakian
* Football Coach Brian Flores Fights the NFL Plantation