Revolution #322, November 10, 2013 Click for current front and back page

Stepping into the Future: New Documentary Film and Big Plans for BA Everywhere

BA Everywhere

On a Mission to Raise Big Funds for BA Everywhere

A reader writes: "I was very excited by the editorial in last week’s Revolution newspaper, 'November and December: Time to Raise Big Funds for BA Everywhere,' about the major campaign to raise big funds to project Bob Avakian’s vision and works into every corner of society, and wanted to share what we’re doing in my city to apply it…"

Film Showings

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Statement by Carl Dix

Outrageous Ruling By Federal Court on Stop and Frisk

On October 31, a panel of judges on the federal appeals court in New York City delivered a slap in the face to the millions of people who have been harassed, disrespected and worse under the NYPD’s racist stop-and-frisk policy, to all the people who don’t want to live in a society where people are criminalized because of the color of their skin and to the tens of thousands of people who have marched and spoken out against stop-and-frisk.

Behind the Outrageous Ruling in the Stop-and-Frisk Lawsuit

Dispatch #2

Defending the Jackson, MS abortion clinic

Eating BBQ, Talking with Students, Standing Up for Abortion Rights

A Sharp Debate and Urgent Polemic: The Struggle for a Radically Different World and the Struggle for a Scientific Approach to Reality

We Appeal to All Who Care About Women: We Must Resist Now!

What's Driving the U.S. to Massively Spy on Billions of People?

The latest revelations based on the files leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden include reports that, for many years, the NSA listened in on the phone conversations of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the head of one of the U.S.'s closest allies.

"Stop Watching Us": 1,000 Rally and March in Washington, DC Against NSA Spying

The Need and Potential to Build Off Real Advances

This year, October 22 was marked by many youth from the neighborhoods coming out and manifesting their outrage – joined by many others of all nationalities and from different walks of life -- sick and tired of the whole way this system is carrying out a slow genocide of Black and Latino people through police murders, mass incarceration, and criminalization.

On the Significance of the October 22 Protest in Chicago

The most striking aspect of O22 in Chicago this year was the participation of youth from the oppressed neighborhoods, Black youth in their teens and early 20s… as many as 70 youth stamped the character of O22.

Brown University: Righteous Protest Shuts Down NYPD Head Raymond Kelly, Unapologetic Proponent of Stop-and-Frisk

About 100 Brown University students, along with people from the neighboring community in Providence, Rhode Island, prevented New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly from giving a speech on “Proactive Policing in America’s Biggest City.”

One Week Left in the Fall 2013 Drive to Financially Sustain revcom.us

For the past few weeks, we've been informing you, our readers, of the urgent situation revcom.us confronts—the need to have a sustained financial base in order not just to continue but to grow. Some have responded, but not enough.

Over $30,000 Raised in Revolution Books NYC Summer Fundraising: A Great Beginning

Lessons of the People's Struggles: The FBI and the Feds—Not Friends But Vicious Enemies

In these intense times, some people look to the federal government and even the FBI as the recourse of last resort to get some relief from the most blatant fascist laws and other attacks coming down on the people. But this is a dangerous illusion and there are bitter lessons from the history of the people’s struggle.

A "Welcome Back" for Gregory Koger

"Y' Ever Notice?"

Ever notice how some people are absolutely certain that you can't be sure that anything is true?

The Illegality, Illegitimacy and Immorality of U.S. Drone Strikes

The U.S. government steadfastly claims its drone strikes in various countries are "necessary, legal and just" and even "saves lives." A series of recent investigations by human rights groups, UN agencies and news organizations have exposed the brutal reality of U.S. drone warfare.

Santa Rosa, CA: Thousands March Against Police Murder…Andy Lopez Presente!

On October 29, some 1,000 to 2,000 people—mostly high school and junior high students—poured into the streets of Santa Rosa, north of San Francisco, in the latest in a string of marches and protests against the police murder of 13-year-old Andy Lopez.

Bangladesh Garment Workers Resist Intolerable Conditions

Check It Out: The Square

The documentary film The Square, by the filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, brings us inside the mass uprisings in Egypt—the courageous outpourings that toppled the decades-long, brutal U.S.-backed regime of Hosni Mubarak in the winter of 2011

"We Will Not Accept Slavery of Any Kind"

Brown U. Students Under Attack for Righteous Protest Against Chief Pig of Stop-and-Frisk

November 9, 2013

Note to readers:

The special revcom.us/Revolution newspaper issue on the real—liberating—experience of previous socialist revolutions will be out on the week of November 18 (not November 11). We encourage readers around the world to get ready for this issue!

Revolutionary Gregory Koger Released from Cook County Jail

November 7, 2013

An Evening of Beats, Rhymes and Rhythms Against the Slow Genocide of Mass Incarceration

Featuring Arturo O'Farrill and Friends
A Benefit for the Stop Mass Incarceration Network
November 22, Friday, 7 pm at National Black Theater, Harlem, NY