Revolution #303, May 12, 2013 Click for current front and back page

A QUESTION SHARPLY POSED

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

NAT TURNER OR THOMAS JEFFERSON?

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Letter From a Reader:

On the Importance of "A Question Sharply Posed: Nat Turner or Thomas Jefferson?" by Bob Avakian

The more I have studied and thought about "A Question Sharply Posed: Nat Turner or Thomas Jefferson?" by Bob Avakian and discussed this with others, the more sharply this piece and its importance becomes to me. And the more urgently I feel the necessity for the readers of this paper to take this issue of Revolution out boldly and broadly.

Report from the April 25 National Campus Day of Action for Abortion on Demand and Without Apology

At campuses in New York City, Berkeley, Chicago, and elsewhere, people took action in resistance to the attacks on abortion rights.

Fertile Ground for BA's Message

Reader writes on an experience in taking BA's new piece out to the lines for the movie The Company You Keep, which deals with the legacy of the '60s.

Guantánamo: The Hunger Strike and the Hellhole of Made-in-America Torture

The hunger strike at the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay will soon be entering its fourth month. One hundred and thirty prisoners are now refusing food, and prison officials have been force feeding at least 24 of the men. Forced feeding is a form of torture that involves strapping the prisoner into a chair and shoving a rubber tube into his nose, through his esophagus and into his stomach.

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600+ Die in Bangladesh Garment Factory Collapse

Imperialism, Profits and Global Factories of Death

More than 600 people died in Savar, Bangladesh, when a building housing five garment factories collapsed on April 24. Hundreds were killed instantly. Others lived their last, horrifying hours or days in a concrete tomb. This was not an accident. This was a crime of a criminal system.

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The Aftermath of the Boston Bombing...
And the Far Greater U.S. Crimes in Guatemala

On April 15, explosive blasts at the Boston Marathon killed three people, including an eight-year-old boy, and injured dozens, many seriously. At the same time as these events were being given pervasive all-out media coverage, the U.S.-backed former ruler of Guatemala—Efrain Ríos Montt—was on trial for horrific massacres and mass atrocities carried out against the civilian population of that country in the 1980s. That story was almost completely whitewashed by the mainstream U.S. media.

Mass Incarceration + Silence = Genocide: Act to STOP It Now!

A Dialogue between Cornel West and Carl Dix

Monday, May 20, 7:30 PM

Emergency Call! Join Us in Stopping Torture in U.S. Prisons!

Tens of thousands of people imprisoned in the U.S. are being subjected to torturous, inhumane conditions. A call has been issued for June 21, 22, and 23 Days of Solidarity With the Struggle to End Prison Torture.

May First 2013

Look for reports and pictures from revolutionary May First across the U.S.— here at revcom.us later in the week.

**High School Graduation—With a Real Future**

With the graduation season coming up, we want to draw readers' attention to a great report we received last year about a graduation ceremony at an L.A. high school where a fifth of the graduates wore buttons with a quote from Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:13.

Bangladesh: The Human Cost of Cheap Clothes

Bangladeshi garment workers have suffered yet another tragedy and outrage, this time in the industrial suburb of Savar, 30 kilometers outside of Dhaka. Those who first arrived on the scene could see mangled body parts amid the mangled metal and concrete and hear calls for help from those trapped in the ruins.

Migrant Labor Blood Running in the Veins of Greece's Crisis-Ridden Economy

On April 17 the story broke that Greek foremen had fired shotguns and pistols at 200 mostly Bangladeshi immigrant strawberry pickers in the village of Nea Manaloda who were demanding six months back wages. The fruit has been re-dubbed "blood strawberries", a reference to the "blood diamonds" of Sierra Leone.

The People Demand Justice for Trayvon Martin!

George Zimmerman, who shot Trayvon Martin dead in Sanford, Florida, on February 26, 2012 is set to go on trial on June 10. The people can't just sit back and hope that the "wheels of justice will turn."

"Stand with the LGBT comrades more firmly inside these walls and out"

A response to "A Challenge Around Marriage Equality from Carl Dix," which appeared recently in Revolution.

**Thoughts on Crucial Role of revcom.us and Revolution Newspaper**

A reader writes on how, as we push out in a big way with the film REVOLUTION--NOTHING LESS!, the website revcom.us and Revolution newspaper continues to play a crucial role.