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In This Issue… January 9, 2023

Welcome to REVOLUTION, the online weekly news source that lets you know what’s happening, why it’s happening, what it means for humanity… and how it relates to making revolution.

This site grounds itself in the work of Bob Avakian, BA, the architect of the new communism. To put it simply, there’s never been a leader like him in this country before, and there’s no other leader like him in the world today. You can read this short introduction to his leadership and his work to get a sense of why we follow him. The home page features BA’s seminal work of analysis and “roadmap” for this period, Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating: Profound Crisis, Deepening Divisions, The Looming Possibility Of Civil War—And The Revolution That Is Urgently Needed, A Necessary Foundation, A Basic Roadmap For This Revolution. And—very importantly—the home page features the incredibly illuminating and important interviews done with Bob Avakian this fall, Up Close and Personal with Bob Avakian, Heart and Soul & Hard-Core For Revolution. These interviews give you a sense of why this revolution is necessary, how it could actually come about in this period, and what it’s aiming for—and they give you a sense of the leader who has forged the road to that revolution, for over 50 years. The home page also features works written by BA over the past two years on a whole range of controversial and important questions.

On Sunday, January 8, a successful fund-raising livestream raised over $20,000—part of the goal of raising $100,000 to put Revolution on the Map in 2023! Watch (or re-watch) the livestream here. Learn more about (and be part of) this crucial fund drive here, including the voices of a broad range of people about why they are donating and going out to others to donate, and reports on creative and inspiring ways people are taking this up.

This website also works to apply the scientific method that BA has further developed to key events in the world around us. This week we feature:

* Bob Avakian Responds to a Basic Youth: "Common Sense" Is Often Wrong—A Scientific Approach Shows Revolution Is Possible, Especially In This "Rare Time"

* New statements from a range of people in response to the recent Interviews with Bob Avakian and accounts of experience in spreading them—including from Shekib Mosadeq, revolutionary internationalist artist from Afghanistan.

* Reporting, analysis and videos from the front lines of the struggle in Iran. These articles include:

* The “Toxic Combination” of Capitalism and Racism: Why the Buffalo Blizzard Killed Disproportionately High Numbers of Black People

* A Repressive, Suffocating Hell: Texas Becomes a Torture Chamber of Cruelty, Bigotry, and Hate, and a Launching Pad for Fascism Nationwide

* Biden Plans to Intensify Repression of Immigrants Along U.S.-Mexico Border

* A Clarification [on last week’s article] “The Two Big Things From Ukraine President Zelensky’s Speech to Congress”

* Alexis McGill Johnson Pisses Down the Backs of Girls and Women and Then Tells Them "It's Raining so Send Us Your Money," by Paul Street

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We are at a turning point in history. The capitalist-imperialist system is a horror for billions of people here and around the world and threatening the very fabric of life on earth. Now the election of fascist Trump poses even more extreme dangers for humanity—and underscores the total illegitimacy of this system, and the urgent need for a radically different system.

The website Revcom.us follows the revolutionary leadership of Bob Avakian (BA), the author of the new communism. Bob Avakian has scientifically analyzed that we are in a rare time when an actual revolution has become more possible in the U.S. He’s charted a strategy for making that revolution, and laid out a sweeping vision and concrete blueprint for “what comes next” in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America.

Revcom.us projects BA’s voice, leadership, and vision throughout society. It posts his timely leadership for the revcoms (revolutionary communists) and the whole movement for revolution, including his social media posts, and curates his whole body of work. 

Our website applies the scientific approach BA has developed to analyze major events in society and the world—why they are happening, how they relate to each other, how all this relates to the system we live under, where people's interests lie, how revolution is in fact the solution to all this, and what the goals of that revolution are.

Revcom.us acts as a guiding and connecting hub for the revcom movement nationwide: showing what’s being done, digging into what’s right and what’s wrong, and rapidly learning—and recruiting new people into what has to be a rapidly growing force. As part of this, revcom.us feature and promotes the weekly The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube.com. 

Put it this way: there will be no revolution unless this website not only “keeps going” but rises to a whole different level!

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