REVOLUTION Newspaper #510, September 30, 2017

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From the Department of Useless, Counter-Productive and Downright Harmful Criticism

September 27, 2017

Count on the New York Times to criticize a progressive work of art or a broad protest from the so-called left. Such was the case on September 26, when they ran “Protests Start a Dialogue, But About What, Exactly?”

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New Talk by Bob Avakian

The Problem, the Solution, and the Challenges Before Us

The following is an important talk given by Bob Avakian earlier this summer.

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Protesters #TakeAKnee on the Los Angeles 101 Freeway at Rush Hour

#TakeAKnee Against Trump’s White Supremacy—Stand Up to End the Nightmare November 4: the Trump Pence Regime Must Go!

September 26, 2017

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Photo: Peter Switzer

The Free Speech Movement

From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist, a memoir by Bob Avakian

Excerpt from Chapter Six, Your Sons and Your Daughters...” of Bob Avakian's memoir, From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist

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Earthquakes in Mexico, Floods in South Asia, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Now Maria:
Natural Disasters, Crises of the System

  • Mexico City earthquake
    Volunteers and professionals digging people out of Mexico City earthquake. Photo:AP

  • Houston, TX—Hurricane Harvey

  • Houston, TX—Hurricane Harvey

  • Katy, TX—Hurricane Harvey

  • Floods in Mumbai, India

  • Floods in Northeast India

  • St. Barthelemy—Hurricane Irma

  • Virgin Islands—Hurricane Irma

  • St. Maarten—Hurricane Irma

Floods in South Asia, Hurricane Harvey and Now Hurricane Irma: Natural Disasters, Crises of the System

Updated September 24, 2017

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Call for Correspondence

To our readers:

We need you. Send correspondence to revcom.us on what you know or can learn about what is happening in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and other places hit by earthquakes and hurricanes.

We urgently need to know what is happening in these places, and we need to let the world know.

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Some Key Principles of Socialist Sustainable Development

The following are some key principles of socialist sustainable development, from the revcom.us special issue on the environment.

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The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!

The Democrats, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, etc., are seeking to resolve the crisis with the Trump presidency on the terms of this system, and in the interests of the ruling class of this system, which they represent. We, the masses of people, must go all out, and mobilize ourselves in the millions, to resolve this in our interests, in the interests of humanity, which are fundamentally different from and opposed to those of the ruling class.

This, of course, does not mean that the struggle among the powers that be is irrelevant or unimportant; rather, the way to understand and approach this (and this is a point that must also be repeatedly driven home to people, including through necessary struggle, waged well) is in terms of how it relates to, and what openings it can provide for, “the struggle from below”—for the mobilization of masses of people around the demand that the whole regime must go, because of its fascist nature and actions and what the stakes are for humanity.

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Where Did This Fascism Come From...and How Do We Fight It?

Some Key Works by Bob Avakian

THE NEW COMMUNISM
by Bob Avakian

 

eBook of 
THE NEW COMMUNISM 

by Bob Avakian

NOW AVAILABLE!

Insight Press has announced that in addition to the print book, THE NEW COMMUNISM is now available as an eBook at Amazon, iBooks, Barnes and Noble and other retail and library websites, and at some sites as PDF. Tell your friends, teachers, students...everyone, about the book! Write a review on the sellers' websites! Spread the word!

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ABOUT THE BOOK, ORDER HERE

Excerpt from:

Working Back from “On the Possibility”—Another Application of “Solid Core with a Lot of Elasticity on the Basis of the Solid Core”

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Updated pre-publication PDF of this major work—now including the appendices—available HERE

READ THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW HERE

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SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION

On the Importance of Science and the Application of Science to Society, the New Synthesis of Communism, and the Leadership of Bob Avakian
An Interview with Ardea Skybreak

Excerpt from SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION

Why Is It So Important, and What Does It Mean, to Get Into BA?

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Getting Clearer on the Need for Revolution–Breaking With Wrong Ideas and Illusions

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I Want to Be Part of the Movement for Revolution—What Do I Do?

To start acting now, click HERE

To learn more about and get involved with the movement to prevent Trump from consolidating fascism, click HERE

To learn more about and work with the Revolution Club, click HERE

To learn more about the Revolutionary Communist Party, click HERE

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Questions and answers on getting organized for an actual revolution

 

Question: Who can join the Revolutionary Communist Party?

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Question: Why do we not initiate violence during this period when we are carrying out the “three prepares”—why do we not just “get it on,” and try to bring down this system, right now?

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Question: Aren’t Ferguson and Baltimore examples of the people initiating violence?

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A Radical Step into the Future

Find out more about the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America here.

Excerpt from The New Communism:

The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America—Solid Core with a Lot of Elasticity on the Basis of the Solid Core

Also in this Issue

There’s A Fire In the Living Room and the Basement Is Filled With Gasoline… “But Let’s Not Lose Our Heads”!

September 22, 2017

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Victory in the RNC 16 Case. Felony Charges Against Republican Convention Flag-Burners Dropped

September 17, 2017

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Stevie Wonder “Takes a Knee” at Global Citizens Festival

September 25, 2017

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Sparks of Outrage and Protest Against the Fascist Trump/Pence Regime

Updated September 15, 2017

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Voices of Conscience and Resistance in the Time of Trump/Pence

Updated September 28, 2017

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Contribute to get THE NEW COMMUNISM Everywhere, Including Into the Hands of Those Catching the Most Hell

From a former prisoner who is now an emancipator of humanity

November 28, 2016

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ABOUT THE BOOK HERE

Updated pre-publication PDF of this major work—now including the appendices—available here.

 

THE NEW COMMUNISM

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Of Continuing Interest

Bob Avakian on the pivotal role of the Black national question, the pivotal relation between national liberation and proletarian revolution, in the U.S.:

» Communism and Jeffersonian Democracy

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» "The Oppression of Black People & the Revolutionary Struggle to End All Oppression" 

April 25, 2016

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On "Principled Compromises," and Other Crimes Against Humanity

November 12, 2015

By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

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The Strategic Approach to Revolution and Its Relation to Basic Questions of Epistemology and Method

By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

August 4, 2014

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Why We Have Taken Up the Fight to Build Refuse Fascism and to Drive Out the Trump/Pence Fascist Regime

A Statement from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

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“Putting Forward Our Line—In a Bold, Moving, Compelling Way,” by Bob Avakian

Published in two parts in Revolutionary Worker:

» Part 1, #1177, December 1, 2002

» Part 2, #1178, December 8, 2002

More on Choices...And Radical Changes

by Bob Avakian

Comments from a discussion that went deeply into questions of why people oppressed under this system often get caught up in things like crime, who and what is fundamentally to blame for this, and what is the way forward out of this situation. Read here...

Important Publications and Media

BAsics from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian

"You can't change the world if you don't know the BAsics."

BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian is a book of quotations and short essays that speaks powerfully to questions of revolution and human emancipation.

 

Order the book HERE

Download the book in ePub format HERE

 

BA Speaks:
REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS!
Bob Avakian Live

In the fall of 2012, Bob Avakian gave a series of talks in different cities. This is a film of one of those talks.

Those this system has cast off, those it has treated as less than human, can be the backbone and driving force of a fight not only to end their own oppression, but to finally end all oppression, and emancipate all of humanity.

- Bob Avakian, from the film

 

Buy or order the DVD HERE

 

 

CONSTITUTION For The New Socialist Republic in North America
Authored by Bob Avakian, and Adopted by the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

Buy online here

or Send money orders or checks to:
RCP Publications
PO Box 3486, Merchandise Mart
Chicago, IL  60654

 

REVOLUTION AND RELIGION: The Fight for Emancipation and the Role of Religion

A Dialogue between CORNEL WEST & BOB AVAKIAN

A film of the Nov. 2014 Dialogue on a question of great importance in today's world between the Revolutionary Christian Dr. Cornel West and the Revolutionary Communist Leader Bob Avakian

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Break All the Chains

 

Break ALL the Chains! Bob Avakian on the Emancipation of Women and the Communist Revolution

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Birds Cannot Give Birth to Crocodiles, But Humanity Can Soar Beyond the Horizon

by Bob Avakian

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$9.99 retail
Publisher: Insight Press

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Part 1: REVOLUTION AND THE STATE

Part 2: BUILDING THE MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTION

Constitution, Law and Rights

 

Constitution, Law, and Rights—in capitalist society and in the future socialist society.

Selections from the writings of Bob Avakian and excerpts from the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America

View or download PDF here now

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Demarcations

DEMARCATIONS:
A Journal of Communist Theory and Polemic

"Ajith—A Portrait of the Residue of the Past"

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The Science of Evolution and the Myth of Creationism
Knowing What's Real and Why It Matters

In today's world, without the science of evolution there would be no science. Written for both the scientifically-minded as well as those who are not familiar with science at all, this book details the facts of the science of evolution.

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