Bob Avakian

Recent Writings

• Correction: A Note from Bob Avakian: On Montesquieu, Slavery and the U.S. Constitution, February 17, 2008
• Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine and its Anti-Communist Distortions — Unfortunately, No Shock There, February 3, 2008
• Refusal to Resist Crimes Against Humanity Is Itself A Crime, by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, November 11, 2007
• On Racism and The System, Thoughts on reading Clarence Page’s “Hung Up on Noose News”, by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, November 4, 2007
• MAKING REVOLUTION AND EMANCIPATING HUMANITY, PART 1: BEYOND THE NARROW HORIZON OF BOURGEOIS RIGHT, by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, October 21, 2007
• Part 1: Full Text, October 21, 2007
• Entire Part 2, November 25, 2007
• Why Is Religious Fundamentalism Growing in Today’s World—
  And What Is the Real Alternative?, by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, October 14, 2007
• Excerpt from New Book on Religion by Bob Avakian, Religious Fundamentalism, Imperialism and “The War on Terror” , October 7, 2007
• Bringing Forward Another Way   html  |  pdf  |  zip
• Excerpts from this talk, March 18, 2007
• Part 1, March 25, 2007
• Part 2, April 22, 2007
• Part 3, April 29, 2007
• Part 4, May 6, 2007
• Part 5, May 13, 2007
• Part 6, May 20, 2007
• Part 7, May 27, 2007
• Part 8, June 10, 2007
• Part 9, June 17, 2007
• Part 10, June 24, 2007
• Part 11, July 1, 2007
• Part 12, July 15, 2007
• Part 13, July 22, 2007
• Part 14, July 29, 2007
• Part 15 , August 19, 2007
• Part 16, August 26, 2007
• Part 17, September 9, 2007
• The Oppression of Black People and the Revolutionary Struggle to End All Oppression
• Resistance, Revolution, and What Should — and Should Not — Be Supported, January 31, 2007
• Series of essays and talks from Bob Avakian, Chairman of the RCP, USA, on issues and contradictions involved in the socialist transition to communism.
• The Role of Dissent in a Vibrant Society, December 10, 2006
• Three Alternative Worlds, December 3, 2006
• The Struggle in the Realm of Ideas, November 26, 2006
• BOB AVAKIAN: The Revolution We Are About Should Not Only Encompass But Welcome the Arundhati Roys of the World, October 29, 2006
• Printable PDF version of this 4-page Revolution pullout, October 29, 2006
• BOB AVAKIAN, On the Importance of World Can’t Wait and the October 5 Day of Mass Resistance, September 24, 2006
• Perseverance, and Inspiration: A Special Roster of Remembrance and Honor, August 27, 2006
• Two Excerpts from “Why We’re in the Situation We’re in Today…And What To Do About It: A Thoroughly Rotten System and the Need for Revolution”, from a talk by Bob Avakian, July 30, 2006
• The Basis, the Goals, and the Methods of the Communist Revolution, May 1, 2006
• Resistance, Revolution, and What Should — and Should Not — Be Supported, May 1, 2006
• Why Do People Come Here From All Over the World?, March 20, 2006
• The Need for Communists to be…Communists, March 12, 2006
• Views on Socialism and Communism: A Radically New Kind of State, A Radically Different and Far Greater Vision of Freedom, March 5, 2006
• A Note from Bob Avakian: On Montesquieu, Slavery and the U.S. Constitution, March 5, 2006
• Reform or Revolution: Questions of Orientation, Questions of Morality, January 29, 2006
• The Christian Fascists and the U.S. Military, January 22, 2006
• Polarization, Repolarization…and Revolution, January 15, 2006
• Statement on the Occasion of the Death of Willie "Mobile" Shaw, December 19, 2005
• On the newfound criticisms by some Democrats of aspects of the Iraq war, December 12, 2005
• On Christian Fascist Leader Pat Robertson’s Demand that Society Impose the Death Penalty in the Way Prescribed in the Bible, December 12, 2005
• Three Alternative Worlds, November 6, 2005
• The Deadly Illusion of the Swinging Pendulum, October 20, 2005
• Three Sentences On Democracy, September 18, 2005
• A Leap of Faith and a Leap to Rational Knowledge: Two Very Different Kinds of Leaps, Two Radically Different Worldviews and Methods, July 31, 2005
• The Fascists and the Destruction of the “Weimar Republic”...And What Will Replace It, July 24, 2005
• Not Being Jerry Rubin, Or Even Dimitrov, But Actually Being Revolutionary Communists: THE CHALLENGE OF DEFENDING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS -- FROM A COMMUNIST PERSPECTIVE, AND NO OTHER, June 27, 2005
• There Is No “They” ... But There is a Definite Direction to Things: THE DYNAMICS WITHIN THE RULING CLASS, AND THE CHALLENGES FOR REVOLUTIONARIES, June 26, 2005
• Bush I...Bush II...And Things Going to Extremes, June 19, 2005
• A Way To Understand What’s Going On, The Two Pats, And Andrew Sullivan... And Cornel West, June 12, 2005
• The Center -- Can It Hold? The Pyramid as Two Ladders, May 29, 2005
• On Mandates...Liars...And the Will of the People, May 22, 2005
• The Republi-Fascists...and the Republi-crats and Where Is the Real Alternative?, May 15, 2005
• Changes in the World and the “Clash of Civilizations” -- Within This Civilization, May 1, 2005
• The Danger of the Christian Fascists and the Challenges This Poses, April 24, 2005
• The Coming Civil War and Repolarization for Revolution in the Present Era, April 10, 2005
• [Q&A] Intellectual Ferment in the Party, March 27, 2005
• Do the Masses Need Bill Cosby’s Scolding or Do They Need Leadership to Put an End to Oppression?, March 20, 2005
• The Revolutionary Potential of the Masses and the Responsibility of the Vanguard, March 13, 2005
• History and Redemption, February 13, 2005
• Postinevitablist Marxism: Principles and the Real World: Vision and Viability, January 30, 2005
• Calculation, Classes and Categorical Imperatives, January 23, 2005
• Q&A: With Truth on Our Side: A Conversation with Bob Avakian, January 16, 2005

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