The Shutdown, the Showdown, and the Urgent Need To Repolarize... For Revolution
Republicans and Democrats fight tooth and nail, unable to agree. Why? What is really being fought over? What stakes, if any, do masses of people—in the U.S. but, more important, all around the world—have in this? And what challenge does this pose to those who really want to see a better world?
18th National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation
Thinking Strategically: October 22 in a World of Upheaval
October 22 is the 18th annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and Criminalization of a Generation. This article grapples with some key questions involved in making this day as powerful and defiant as demanded by the situation, and for it to contribute to a revolution that does away with the system that creates this nightmare situation in the first place.
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MAKING REVOLUTION AND EMANCIPATING HUMANITY
PART 2: EVERYTHING WE ARE DOING IS ABOUT REVOLUTION
By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
The following section from Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity concentrates a seminal contribution of Bob Avakian to the science of communism. This short section concentrates a whole approach to revolutionary strategy, and it provides an excellent illustration of the method and approach at the heart of BA's work and contributions. We reprint it now for people to seriously dig into and reflect on, and to apply to understanding—and changing—reality.
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BA Everywhere
Announcing a New Feature Documentary Coming This Fall:
STEPPING INTO THE FUTURE
On the Occasion of the Publication of BAsics:
A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World
Two Professors on BA Speaks: REVOLUTION NOTHING LESS!
Statements from Juan Gómez-Quiñones, history professor at UCLA, and Dennis Loo, sociology professor at Cal State Pomona.
Voices from West Side Chicago Showing of BA Speaks: REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS!
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Demonstrating at the UN Against Rouhani and Obama
Hundreds of people streamed into the plaza across from the UN on September 24, the day Hassan Rouhani, recently elected president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and U.S. President Barack Obama spoke at the General Assembly. Among the many different signs from various groups, two banners reading "Down with the Islamic Republic of Iran! Down with U.S. Imperialism! WE NEED REVOLUTION!," signed by the Communist Party of Iran (MLM), could not be ignored.
From a World to Win News Service:
On the 25th Anniversary of the Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran
A statement from the 8 March Women's Organization (Iran-Afghanistan): "In honour of the martyrs of the 1980s we are not going to observe even a single minute of silence...."
Protest Against President of Criminal Regime of Islamic Republic of Iran!
A statement and call from Activists of the Communist Party of Iran (M.L.M.) in North America
What Can You Say About a System Like This? #2
Dissecting Obama's Speech at the UN:
The Truth Behind "Core Interests" and American "Exceptionalism"
Two themes stuck out in Obama's September 24 speech at the UN: He laid out certain U.S. "core interests" in the Middle East and claimed the right to use military force to defend those interests; and he asserted the U.S. is an "exceptional" country with exceptional rights.
Herman Wallace: Unrepentant Political Prisoner and Fighter for Justice
Herman Wallace, one of the group of political prisoners known as the Angola 3, has died—just a few days after he was released from Angola prison in Louisiana, where he was locked up in solitary confinement for 41 years.
Interviews from the March in Washington, D.C.:
Talking About the "Dream" and the "Nightmare"
On August 24, tens of thousands gathered in the capital, 50 years after the 1963 March on Washington. A crew of revolutionaries were there to bring out and challenge people's thinking around the history and present day reality of the oppression of Black people. Interviews by Revolution correspondent Li Onesto capture different views and responses.
Letter from a Prisoner:
This New Synthesis of Communism is the program that we need to be getting down with, otherwise we are screwed
November 2-6, Jackson, Mississippi
Stop Patriarchy Calls on You to Join in Defending Abortion Rights and the Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi
Anti-abortion fanatics are planning an extended protest against Jackson Women's Health Organization, the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi. A call has gone out to go to Jackson to support the clinic and demand Abortion on Demand and Without Apology.
From A World to Win News Service:
Why Rainforests Are Important for Our Planet—And Why the System Can't Save Them
Every year over 22,000 square kilometers of tropical rainforest worldwide are destroyed. Human activities—determined by the logic of the movement of capital and its insatiable hunger for profit—are the main cause of this destruction.
Opposing Keystone XL Pipeline—And Debating the Solution to Environmental Emergency
A crew of revolutionaries went to the Draw the Line Against Keystone XL Pipeline protest in Seattle on September 21. This was part of actions across the U.S. in over 175 different places called by 350.org, the environmental group founded by Bill McKibben.
A Tale of Two Cities... And a Lesson in Reformist Mayors
The legacy of one "reformer mayor"... and lessons for the people as a "reformer" candidate has become the favorite to become the next mayor of New York City.
Learning About and Struggling with Students Over What and How They Are Thinking
A report from Sunsara Taylor, who teamed up with a young revolutionary to go out to an elite university campus to talk to students and do social investigation.
New and Breaking News...
Destruction of the Environment, Nightmare of Mass Incarceration, and the Need to Sweep This Illegitimate System from the Pages of History
A letter from prison by Gregory Koger
October 9, 2013
To our readers: The current issue of Revolution/Revolución will not appear in a print edition in Spanish. It is being posted in Spanish online late Monday, October 7 at revcom.us. Please spread the word about this online edition among Spanish-speaking readers and organize forms and ways to get the Spanish content to those people without easy access to the Internet, especially our prisoner subscribers, through their families and other channels.
Academic Advancement Program at UCLA invites you to a screening of an excerpt from the film BA Speaks: REVOLUTION— NOTHING LESS!
October 17, 2013
5:30-8:30 pm
DeNeve Auditorium UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
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