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A Guide to This Issue of Revolution

What You Need to Know and Engage This Week
About the World and Revolution: In This Issue
May 3, 2022

The Significance of May 1, 2022…
Will Be Up to US!

Something radically different stepped out on May 1 in the U.S. At a time when the rulers of the U.S. and Europe are trying to whip people into a dangerous chauvinist frenzy in response to the unjust Russian invasion of Ukraine… and when far too many people among the progressive middle strata are being taken in and going along with this, while too many others are turning away from this and putting their heads deeper in the sand—a small but  determined force hit the streets in Los Angeles and New York, mobilizing people around these slogans:

NO US/NATO WAR WITH RUSSIA! NO TO WORLD WAR 3!
IT’S THIS SYSTEM, NOT HUMANITY, THAT MUST BECOME EXTINCT!

WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT THEIR FUTURE!
IT’S TIME TO GET ORGANIZED FOR A REAL REVOLUTION!

The Revolution Clubs marched through the streets of Los Angeles and New York, joined by others, under those banners, projecting an organized, militant and conscious force determined to sound the alarm and mobilize people against a possible World War 3. For the first time, a force was out around slogans that laid bare the real stakes… and put forward the real interests of humanity, getting this outmoded and life-destroying system off humanity’s back. These marches carried with them the hope of people who DO NOT ACCEPT this future, who reject the insanity of a system that has pushed the whole planet to the brink of incredible horrors.

Comrades in Los Angeles, joined by Revolution Club members from the Midwest and Oakland-San Francisco-Berkeley spent the week prior to the actions going out to people in neighborhoods of the oppressed, the trains, the high schools and colleges, a book fair and all over with this message. And in the middle of all this, they made the time in Los Angeles to mark the 30th anniversary of the historic rebellion against police brutality and white supremacy with a march through the area where it started. Meanwhile, in New York, the Revolution Club found a way to call out the NY pig Mayor Eric Adams as the Black Giuliani right in his face at a mass event where his return to the repressive measures of the Giuliani days were being promoted, while wearing the green bandana promoting abortion rights wherever they went.

As one important dimension of this May 1, revolutionary communist forces in a number of countries brought this same message into May 1st protests—in Berlin, Germany; Paris, France; five cities in Colombia; Stockholm, Sweden—(go here for leaflets that were distributed in different countries, here for sights from Los Angeles and New York, and here for May Day around the world. Comrades from Iran and Afghanistan contributed to and joined these efforts. In all of these places, bold banners featured these same slogans and pointed to the need for revolution speaking to the conditions in their part of the world linked to what humanity is facing in all parts of the planet. There is great importance at this moment to strengthening revolutionary communist forces from many different countries being able to act in unity to impact society—against the dangers of these war moves, and for revolution to end the system that must now become extinct.

Today, we emphasize posting the sights and sounds of this May 1, along with analysis of the rapidly developing danger in Ukraine. For even as people were taking the streets, the U.S. made another move to escalate the war, as the powerful Democrat Nancy Pelosi led a delegation to Ukraine itself and called for victory against Russia.

This coming week marks the 100th episode of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube. If we are to build off the determined but still too small forces that came out on May 1, spreading the reach of this show is one very critical stepping stone. We ask our readers to take these next few days to figure out how to really reach back and reach out to many, many others to watch episode 100, together if possible, and start a positive chain reaction.

This coming week will also be crucial to building the important week of struggle beginning on May 8 called for by Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights. Go to RiseUp4AbortionRights.org to find out more as things develop.

Once again, a determined force came out on May 1st. Their marching, their speeches, their efforts in the buildup to reach and struggle with masses of people, and their solidarity showed the potential. They are up against big obstacles. But those who have stepped forward now—armed most of all with the revolutionary science of the new communism brought forward by Bob Avakian and a bone-deep dedication to emancipating humanity—represents a key to unlocking the potential in this explosive political situation… if we are able to carry forward from here. They are the hope for humanity… in a situation where the stakes could not be higher.

That is the challenge before us. Those who marched on May 1 dared to accept this.

WILL YOU?

In this issue:

* Latest from Bob Avakian on Ukraine:

* Interview with Bob Avakian

* Revolution: Hope of the Hopeless
  Bob Avakian Speaks To
  "WE GOT NO FUTURE
  AND WE'RE GONNA DIE YOUNG ANYWAY"

* From RiseUp4AbortionRights.org: Emergency Alert! Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights!

* Revolutionary Internationalist May Day 2022

* The fight for abortion rights

* U.S. Imperialists Escalate Ukraine Proxy War with Russia—Grave Dangers for Humanity... Humanity Cannot Allow These Imperialists to Continue to Rule the World  (posted 5/4)

* The United States of Atrocity: When It Comes to War Crimes, USA Is “Number One”—Part 3, 1991-2022

* Biden Administration Announces Plan for Massive and Comprehensive “Surge” in Border Repression

* From The RNL Show: 30th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Rebellion, April 29, 1992—Andy Zee interviews Joe Veale

* Contribute to the National Revolution Tour... Contribute to FIGHTING FOR the Future! Let's Meet the $50,000 Goal by June 1! Voices from Those Who Have Donated (posted 5/4)

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From the genocide in Gaza, to the growing threat of world war between nuclear powers, to escalating environmental devastation… the capitalist-imperialist system ruling over us is a horror for billions around the world and is tearing up the fabric of life on earth. Now the all-out battle within the U.S. ruling class, between fascist Republicans and war criminal Democrats, is coming to a head—likely during, or before, the coming elections—ripping society apart unlike anything since the Civil War. 

Bob Avakian (BA), revolutionary leader and author of the new communism, has developed a strategy to prepare for and make revolution. He’s scientifically analyzed that this is a rare time when an actual revolution has become more possible, and has laid out the sweeping vision, solid foundation and concrete blueprint for “what comes next,” in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America. 

The website revcom.us follows and applies that leadership and is essential to all this. We post new materials from BA and curate his whole body of work. We apply the science he’s developed to analyze and expose every key event in society, every week. Revcom.us posts BA’s timely leadership for the revcoms (revolutionary communists), including his social media posts which break this down for people every week and sometimes more. We act as a guiding and connecting hub for the growing revcom movement nationwide: not just showing what’s being done, but going into what’s right and what’s wrong and rapidly learning—and recruiting new people into what has to be a rapidly growing force.

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