Revolution #327, January 19, 2014 Click for current front and back page

New York City:

The Mayor's New Clothes

New York City has a new mayor. A new face on the operation of this system of global nightmares.

BA Everywhere

New Year—New Efforts to Get BA Everywhere

Breaking Out with BA Everywhere on Campus

Getting BA’s New Year’s Message Out in an Inner-City ‘Hood and a Counter-Culture Community

Raising Funds for BA Everywhere from Recent Donors to the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride

"This is Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the
Revolutionary Communist Party,
with a New Year's message—

A Call To REVOLUTION..."

Correspondence:

Digging into the Science of Society: Discussion at Chicago Revolution Books on Raymond Lotta’s Polemic

A report on a recent get-together where several dozen people collectively dug into crucial questions of scientific epistemology in the article “On the ‘Driving Force of Anarchy’ and the Dynamics of Change. A Sharp Debate and Urgent Polemic: The Struggle for a Radically Different World and the Struggle for a Scientific Approach to Reality.”

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Announcing the Release of the Third Issue of Demarcations

The Winter 2014 issue of Demarcations, the online Journal of Communist Theory and Polemic, is now available.

Yes, Your Country Is a “Horror Show,” But the Problem Is Not “Two Americas”...It’s America

Raymond Lotta responds to a major talk given by David Simon, creator of the TV series The Wire and Treme, at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in December.

Also in this issue

A Call from the Stop Mass Incarceration Network:

HOODIES UP!
February 26, 2014
2 Years Since the Murder of Trayvon Martin

A Day of Outrage and Remembrance

March in Harlem February 2013 against the murder of Trayvon Martin

From The Michael Slate Show

The Police Murder of Tyler Damon Woods

Last November, 19-year-old Tyler Damon Woods was with friends in a car in Long Beach, California, when they were stopped by police. Tyler ran from the police; the cops cornered him, forced him to kneel, and then shot him dead. There is a fight to demand justice for Tyler.

Letter on a Lively Salon: Wrangling Over the “Anarchy/Organization Form of Motion”

The Tragedy of Jahi McMath and the Campaign to Promote Superstition and Anti-Science

A really horrible situation has unfolded in Oakland, California, in recent weeks around the situation of 13-year-old Jahi McMath, who was declared brain dead after suffering cardiac arrest.

Bastion of Enlightenment... or Enforcer for Imperialism: The Case of Israel

At the Supreme Court January 2013, Roe v Wade Anniversary

From Stop Patriarchy:

STAND UP AGAINST the March for “Life” and FOR Abortion on Demand and Without Apology!

Wednesday, January 22—
Supreme Court, Washington, DC
Saturday, January 25—
San Francisco

We encourage readers to read this special issue of Revolution and to get it out at the protests for abortion rights around the anniversary of Roe v Wade.

Don’t Forget This Is Not You (for Sahar Lotfi), 2010, Newsha Tavakolian. Photo: Reproduced with permission. Courtesy of the artist and East Wing Contemporary Gallery. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

She Who Tells a Story

Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Out of the cauldron of war, invasions, and occupations, Obama’s drones & the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism—out of resistance to Islamic theocracy in Iran, the Arab Spring and the subsequent military coup in Egypt—comes an exhibition of brave and insightful work by 12 photographers.

On Dennis Rodman’s “Basketball Diplomacy” and North Korea

Why "The Dream" Is a Dead End

In light of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 20, we are reposting this short polemic that appeared as part of the Revolution special issue "The Oppression of Black People, The Crimes of This System, and the Revolution We Need."

Looking at the World Differently, Scientifically

Thoughts on The Science of Evolution and the Myth of Creationism

Looking forward to Darwin Day, February 12, we are reposting an excerpt from a letter from a prisoner who writes that he found the book by Ardea Skybreak “very beautiful and enlightening.”

Blaming the Victims Doesn’t Solve the Baby Mamas/Baby Daddies Problem

Carl Dix brings revolutionary analysis to passionate conversation erupted on the Your Black World site about baby mamas, baby daddies and sisters raising children without a father in the picture.

The Truth About Fallujah: U.S. War Crimes, Not Marine "Sacrifices"

As 2014 began Sunni forces attacked and occupied the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi in Iraq, and the U.S. rushed to back the Iraqi government with more arms. A front-page article in the New York Times on these developments is an example of the drumbeat in the U.S. media to get people to think like Americans and see the world through the lens of the American empire.