Revolution #302, May 1, 2013 Click for current front and back page

Celebrate May Day 2013

Humanity Needs Revolution

May Day is the revolutionary internationalist holiday of the exploited and oppressed and all those who hate the world as it is and who are fighting for a different future. Those of us in the U.S. have a crucial role to play in bringing this new world into being.

May 1st: Revolution and
Internationalism

From its beginning in 1886 to today, May First has been marked by revolutionary struggle.

May Day 1980, Detroit

Damián García at the Alamo, 1980

Proposed New Immigration Law

An Ominous Leap in Repression and the Need for Resistance

In recent years millions of people this system calls "illegals" have rallied to a movement demanding an end to deportations, and demanding reforms in immigration laws. The "bipartisan" proposal for a new immigration law presented by prominent senators on April 17 has nothing to do with helping immigrants, but will greatly ramp up repression.

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Film Showings

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A QUESTION SHARPLY POSED

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

NAT TURNER OR THOMAS JEFFERSON?

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From Carl Dix

A Proposal for Action to Stop Mass Incarceration Network and All Others Who Want to Fight the New Jim Crow

Support Prisoners' Struggle Against Torture

Prisoners in California have announced plans for a hunger strike to start this July if their demands for an end to torturous conditions are not met. We need to start NOW to build support for the prisoners' just struggle.

ABORTION ON DEMAND AND WITHOUT APOLOGY
National Campus Day of Action

Defend Noche Diaz, Revolutionary Fighter for the People

Noche Diaz has been at the front lines of the struggle to bring the NY Police Department's blatantly racist and illegal practice of stop and frisk to an end, and to safeguard people's rights. He is being targeted for political and legal persecution by the powers-that-be, and faces more than four years in prison.

Noche Diaz

Also in this issue

Taking the New Synthesis of Communism to the World Social Forum in Tunisia

A team of ardent advocates of Bob Avakian's new synthesis of communism and promoters of the document Communism: The Beginning of a New Stage—A Manifesto from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA attended the World Social Forum [WSF] held in Tunis from March 23 to 28.

U.S. Military Moves to Crush Guantánamo Hunger Strike

After weeks of minimizing the extent and seriousness of a hunger strike by most of the 130 men in Camp 6 at the U.S. Guantánamo prison camp, the authorities have moved to stop it by force.

Margaret Thatcher, Dead—Creature from the British Empire

Margaret "Maggie" Thatcher was Prime Minister of Britain during the 1980s. When she died on April 8, there was an outpouring of celebration among the people—in the UK and elsewhere—for the demise of this deeply hated reactionary.

Thatcher effigy

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Everything You've Been Told About Communism Is Wrong:
Capitalism Is a Failure, Revolution Is the Solution

Slightly edited excerpts of a speech by Raymond Lotta.

What we see in contention here with Jihad on the one hand and McWorld/McCrusade on the other hand, are historically outmoded strata among colonized and oppressed humanity up against historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system. These two reactionary poles reinforce each other, even while opposing each other. If you side with either of these "outmodeds," you end up strengthening both.

While this is a very important formulation and is crucial to understanding much of the dynamics driving things in the world in this period, at the same time we do have to be clear about which of these "historically outmodeds" has done the greater damage and poses the greater threat to humanity: It is the historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system, and in particular the U.S. imperialists.

BAsics 1:28

The New Pope: A "Humble Man of the People"… or Fascist Collaborator?

Mainstream media sources have poured praise on the new Pope, Francis I, for being a humble man of the people. But to truly understand this man, we should look at his role in Argentina during the Dirty War of 1976-1983.

BA Everywhere Fundraising Dinner in LA: Raising Funds and Coming Together

Chicago Fundraising Dinner and Celebration to Spread the Film: BA Speaks: REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS!

Free Lynne Stewart NOW!

by C. Clark Kissinger

At this writing, many thousands have signed an online petition to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons demanding a compassionate release for imprisoned people's lawyer Lynne Stewart, who is battling breast cancer.

Lynne Stewart

From a World to Win News Service

Heartless at Wounded Knee

Millions of people have read the story of the violent conquest of American Indian lands in historian Dee Brown's 1971 classic Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. But now the Oglala Lakota Sioux are being asked to buy what was stolen from them.

"Living Under Drones"
Interview with James Cavallaro on The Michael Slate Show

Transcript of an interview with co-author of a study titled "Living Under Drones." The interview was part of the show that aired on Pacifica radio station KPFK, Los Angeles, on January 25, 2013.

Listen to audio of interview

New and Breaking News...

Send reports and photos about revolutionary celebrations and activities on and around May Day, to revolution.reports[at] yahoo.com

Now available:

8.5x11" Flier (PDF) of "A QUESTION SHARPLY POSED, by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, NAT TURNER OR THOMAS JEFFERSON?
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