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In Appreciation, and in Defense of, Bob Avakian: 

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The revolutionary leader Bob Avakian (BA) recently challenged the ugly rise of hateful immigrant-bashing among Black people in an uncompromising social media dispatch Revolution #73 titled “Black People Hating on Immigrants. Nonsense, and worse, from people who should know better.”

In response he has been the target of all kinds of lies, slander and character assassination from Black MAGA fascists and others.  Some of this poison has gone viral in the fascist internet echo chamber, with some things reaching beyond. Some of these anonymous online pigs have tagged federal police agencies. 

These attacks and lies aimed at Bob Avakian cannot be tolerated. This must be forcefully condemned by everyone who cares about a just future for people here and around the world. We know from the history of ugly attacks on revolutionary leaders where these kind of divisive counter-revolutionary threats can lead.

Below are statements from diverse voices speaking out in defense of Bob Avakian and expressing their appreciation for who he is and the leadership he is providing: 

From musician William Parker

William Parker

 

William Parker

My name is William Parker. Since 1972, I have been making "Black Revolutionary Music." (Playing and writing music to inspire human Revolution change through sound art, poetry, and dance. Hoping to sweep away this present reality of the individual.) Eventually, activating the beautiful strength of unity within the Black and Latin communities and acknowledging any legitimate movement devoting one's life to change significant increments or awareness that one of the keys is unity without giving up individuality. Now to Bob Avakian, the theoretician and founder of the Revolutionary Communist Party. I added some music behind his powerfully truthful words in a piece called 'All Played Out.'  His words were on point, powerful, and insightful. Bob Avakian has devoted his life to inspiring people, too. He is the real deal, totally committed to the enlightenment of the working class. The message is to Know who your real enemy is. Ultimately, it is the people who most honestly decide. They have to activate their power; a revolution must come; "things have to change," and it will not come from traditional methods. Brothers and Sisters, Know your enemy. It is not Avakian. Don't participate in your execution.

From Paul Blumberg, Cleveland, Ohio, September 16, 2024

Recently a group of thugs tried to break up a meeting in Chicago at the Revcom center on the southside. There were Black Trumpers. How sick and sad. Fascism comes in all colors. They tried to stop a public discussion of the work of Bob Avakian.

I have seen America’s long history of murdering anyone that stands up to the sick system we live under, Martin Luther King, Malcom X and Fred Hampton to name only a few. 

The decimation of the Black Panther Party comes to mind. The COINTELPRO, a creation of the FBI, was the driving force in the decimation of the Panthers and the murders of 28 of them.

Today Bob Avakian and the Revcoms are the uncompromising and leading force for revolution. Avakian’s message that the Revcoms were taking out in Chicago was that Black people hating on immigrants was a divisive dead end.

I add my voice in strongly condemning the attack by fascist bootlickers against our leader and pledge my deepest support for Bob Avakian and the Revcoms. A better world is in the making and will become an unstoppable force.

Much of that is due to Avakian’s breakthroughs in Marxist theory and the development of the New Constitution for a Socialist North America. He has been a steadfast and courageous leader for most of my life. He needs to be heard, followed and protected.

From a Health Professional

This is a short piece by Bob Avakian #73… but it's a BIG question because people haven’t yet spent the time on understanding they are being PLAYED.

It’s like you are in prison, or in a gang, and as Bob Avakian has pointed out, this system has you fighting each other, but there is a guard in the tower above you ready to shoot you both.  Bob is taking this on, and I give him Kudos for it.  Because this system of capitalism and white supremacy has been doing this shit forever.

Avakian writes about Blacks attacked by white mobs in cities and neighborhoods when the great migrations happened in the last century.  I myself, when I was growing up in the eastern U.S. had to confront angry whites who attacked us Black people because there was an effort to desegregate the schools. Now it’s some Black folks hating on immigrants who think they are a "higher tier"… it is as BA says, Nonsense!  But it's happening and it's the same game:  divide and conquer, a shell game and the system keeps doing it because it works.

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Trump and the MAGA fascists belong in insane asylums, talking about how immigrants eat pets, but there is conscious design to it.  We need largeness of mind - that is what BA is bringing.

I hear some of this is concentrated in Chicago… its not only Chicago, but in Los Angeles and other cities, big and small around the U.S.  With regard to Chicago, we should never forget what Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton did, and why it is the U.S. government cut him down.  At that time, Hampton had gained a basic understanding of this capitalist system as the problem, and was going to all the people to unite to fight the power structure, the real problem.  Hampton told people not to fight each other but let’s unite and go for revolution to take this entire system down—and that is one reason this system's armed enforcers assassinated Fred Hampton. COINTELPRO was all about pitting people and groups against each other and now we see this happening today.

Bob Avakian is now saying to Black people caught up in these attacks on immigrants—you are joining with forces that are oppressing you… instead let’s unite to go after the real enemy.  This is especially important now… when we are only weeks away from the 2024 election.  Let’s fight to bring a different and better future for everybody and not act like animals chasing breadcrumbs in a pen the powers got you locked up in.

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From a Black Educator in California

Bob Avakian a Racist? NONSENSE!

I found Bob Avakian as a young man, seeking a revolutionary analysis like what I read from George Jackson. I found an old article in the Revolutionary Worker magazine upholding the Panthers and George Jackson, written by BA.

Soon after I am introduced to BA in a clip speaking at a Black Panther Party rally in the 1960s.

From Ike to Mao and Beyond cover

 

If you need more, read the man's memoirs and his deep appreciation for the history, culture and revolutionary potential of Black people in America.  It's a cornerstone of his analysis.

I CHALLENGE ANYONE TO PRESENT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY.

From a longtime follower of BA 

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of living in this rotten-ass capitalist-imperialist system. The way it forces people to come at things in terms of “me, me, me.” Fighting for crumbs from this foul empire, crumbs derived from children mining coltan in Africa, made possible by bombing precious Palestinian babies. 

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I’m very tired since Bob Avakian taught me that we don’t have to live this way, showed me a revolutionary way out.  These attempts to suck Black people into hating on immigrants is one of many obstacles that will be placed in our path on the way to winning a real revolution. We need the historically great scientific leadership of BA to get past those obstacles. You better recognize—the imperialists do!—that’s why they’re attacking BA as he provides leadership against this Blacks-hating-immigrants bullshit.

More than have his back, we must form a wall between BA and the imperialists with the lofty spirit of “I am Spartacus!”—“I am Bob Avakian, y’all!”  It’s time, folks, if you want to live in a much better society and a much better world, then it’s time to stop talking shit.  Time to step up and start preparing for a real revolution. And a central part of that is to practice, promote, and protect Bob Avakian.  We need to do this as if our lives and our futures depending on it—because they do! 

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From a retired educator

Response to attacks on RCP and Brother Bob for calling out Africans who blame immigrants for economic problems in our communities.

I am not on social media so I cannot speak to the written attacks on Bob Avakian because he made the correct analysis that Africans blaming/bashing immigrants is shortsighted. However, I can comment on the UncleTomHouseNegroHandkerchiefHeadOreo scum that physically attacked a RCP meeting in Chicago.

First, I must be living in a bubble because I don't personally know any Africans who aren't clear that capitalism’s attacks on immigrants is a divide-and-conquer/divide-and-rule tactic. So to have to read about Africans touting Trump and attempting to shut down a RevCom store hurts my heart.

Second, given our history, Africans should be the most radical leadership. Of any people we should have learned the lessons of oppression and side with the oppressed no matter where and at all times. 

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Africans have stood against the long fascism going back to the counterrevolution of 1836 when Texas became a slaveholding republic against the laws of Mexico which had already smashed slavery decades before the US. We stood against the protofascist state of the slavocracy in the Confederate States of America. We stood against the reneging of Reconstruction, lynching and Jim Crow segregation. We stood against HUAC and went to the UN to claim, “We Charge Genocide!” against the US. We stood against apartheid in South Africa. We called for a United Front Against Fascism and started the National Committees to Combat Fascism across the US. We theorized racial capitalism and showed how fascism has never existed without anti-Blackness at its core. We exposed the school-to-prison pipeline and the prison-industrial-complex. Whether it was Ida B. Wells, Paul Robeson, Claudia Jones, WEB Du Bois, the Black Panther Party/the Black Liberation Army, Cedric Robinson, or Ruthie Gilmore, we led the way against fascism because we have been its main victims. So to have to see Africans stand with fascists is beyond disgusting.

Third, at the millennium California calculated that undocumented workers took out $7 billion in education, healthcare, etc, from state coffers throughout the 1990s. California also counted $12 billion that the same undocumented workers put into California through their labor and taxes. That’s a $5 billion surplus California got in the ‘90s from the very people that mainstream media and rightwing gaslighters have lied and said are “a drain on our economy.” I wish someone would “drain” my bank account like that! 

Finally, I am proud of RCP for fighting back and rallying the audience to stand up against their attackers. It's time for us to unite against fascism. The Revolutionary Communist Party and Bob Avakian are not afraid to take a stand against fascism in any color. May we all be so bold. 

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On the Lies and Attacks Against Bob Avakian and the Revcoms from Black MAGA Fascists

The revolutionary leader Bob Avakian (BA) recently challenged the ugly rise of hateful immigrant-bashing among Black people in an uncompromising social media dispatch titled “Black People Hating on Immigrants. Nonsense, and worse, from people who should know better.” Everybody knows of the racist lying rants, threats and actions from Donald Trump and his fascist MAGA movement viciously targeting migrants and asylum-seeking refugees. What many don’t know is how these fascists are organizing in Black communities and how way too many Black people are taking this poison up.

On September 8, these Black MAGA fascists and a crew of narrow, reactionary Black nationalists tried to violently break up a public discussion of Bob Avakian's messages at the Revcom Center on the South Side of Chicago. They tried to bum rush the front of the room by punching, shoving and threatening worse, but the revcoms united the audience to usher them out of the Revcom Center. In the days before this assault, these bootlicking Black Trumpers ranted at the local City Council meeting and demanded that official action be taken against the revcoms. And all this took place amidst a shitstorm online. Over the last few weeks and continuing to now, all kinds of lies, slander and character assassination has been spread against Bob Avakian, that he is some kind of "racist," with some posting outright threats. Some of this poison has gone viral in the fascist internet echo chamber, with some things reaching beyond. Some of these anonymous online pigs have tagged federal police agencies. 

These scurrilous bullshit attacks aimed at Bob Avakian cannot be tolerated. This must be forcefully condemned by everyone who cares about a just future for people here and around the world. We know from the history of ugly attacks on revolutionary leaders where these kind of divisive counter-revolutionary lies and threats can lead.

We call on people from all walks of life to defend Bob Avakian. Read more >>

See also:
An excerpt from Bob Avakian (BA)—Official Biography
GOVERNMENT ATTACKS AGAINST BA; GOING INTO EXILE
Bob Avakian - Official Biography book cover

 

Complete Bob Avakian Official Biography available at The Bob Avakian Institute.

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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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