REVOLUTION #330 Extra, February 17, 2014                    Click for current front and back page

BA Everywhere

Thoughts, Wranglings, Lessons and Getting Out into the World with BA Everywhere

Two thought-provoking letters that in different ways grapple with how raising funds to make Bob Avakian and the work he has done known throughout society can make a real difference in how people understand the world and how they can act together to change it.

  • House Party for BA Everywhere
  • Some Thoughts About BA Everywhere as "the Leading Edge…"

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Much more about the BA Everywhere campaign here

 

Break the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!
Fight for the Liberation of Women All Over the World!
March 8—International Women's Day

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For humanity to advance beyond a state in which "might makes right"—and where things ultimately come down to raw power relations—will require, as a fundamental element in this advance, an approach to understanding things (an epistemology) which recognizes that reality and truth are objective and do not vary in accordance with, nor depend on, different "narratives" and how much "authority" an idea (or "narrative") may have behind it, or how much power and force can be wielded on behalf of any particular idea or "narrative," at any given point.

BAsics 4:10

We ARE building a movement for revolution and building the party as its leading core.

Statement by Carl Dix on Mistrial in the Murder of Jordan Davis

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Mistrial of Michael Dunn: An Intolerable Injustice

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A Conversation with Carl Dix:

Why People Have To See 12 Years a Slave

Revolution talks with Carl Dix about the film 12 Years a Slave, an important film that came out last year which tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free Black living in the Northeast in the 1840s who was kidnapped and forced to spend 12 years in the network of concentration camps that was life for African Americans in the U.S. South.

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 Also in this issue

Thoughts on Reaching for the Heights and Flying Without a Safety Net: Expanding and Transforming the "We"

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Israel and Apartheid: It’s not a “Branding” Problem – It’s Reality

A response by Alan Goodman to a recent New York Times opinion piece that claims that Israel's occupation of Palestine is not the same as apartheid South Africa.

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Response to Bill Keller

America Is Not "On Probation"— The System's Time Is UP!

Li Onesto on what's wrong with the arguments by New York Times columnist Bill Keller about mass incarceration.

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News Flash: Illinois Prisoners on Hunger Strike Refuse Liquids

Prisoners in Menard, Illinois, have refused liquids as they entered the fourth week of a courageous hunger strike opposing their placement into administrative segregation in filthy conditions of severe isolation.

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Obama's Drone "Reforms"

More Assassinations, More War Crimes

Last May, Obama claimed that he was instituting new, more extensive legal "oversight" of U.S. drone strikes. Now, there are reports that the U.S. is considering putting another U.S. citizen on the "kill list" for assassination by drones.

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Attention Readers: Contribute Generously

A crew is heading to Jacksonville, Florida to cover events in the wake of the trial of the murder of Jordan Davis for revcom.us (see the statement by Carl Dix).

We are calling on our readers to contribute generously towards the costs of this and to support revcom.us. Now is the time!

Click here, or click the "Subscribe Donate Sustain" link at the top of this page, to donate online or to get information on donating by mail.

LATEST POSTS & BREAKING NEWS

On Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” Speech

February 28, 2014

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February 26, 2014—Two Year Anniversary of the Murder of Trayvon Martin: Nationwide Outpouring Against Police and Racist Murders of Black and Latino Youth

Updated Feb. 27, 2014

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A Message from Carl Dix on February 26

February 26, 2014

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Celebrate International Women's Day 2014

Updated 2/22/2014

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From the Stop Mass Incarceration Network:
February 26, 2014:
A Day of Outrage and Remembrance
for Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis

February 24, 2014

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Watch video of Carl Dix speaking at Revolution Books in New York:

"The Jordan Davis Case—Once Again Amerikkka Declares That Black Youth Are Permanent Suspects! WE MUST NOT, WE WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS OUTRAGE!"

February 24, 2014


We encourage readers of revcom.us—as you build for February 26, and at the protests themselves—to make the URL revcom.us highly visible everywhere: on signs, flyers, stickers, posters, and more.

Posted 2/23/2014


Cornel West and Carl Dix Say:
All Out for February 26—No More Murder of Black Youth!

Updated 2/23/2014

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Calling photographers and videographers— send pics and videos from February 26 to revcom.us at revolution.reports@ yahoo.com.

February 24, 2014

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What you can do to respond to the outrageous verdict in the murder of Jordan Davis:

» Read and spread this special online issue of revcom.us

» Circulate Statement by Carl Dix on Mistrial in the Murder of Jordan Davis everywhere— online and on the street

» Study and spread the special issue of Revolution The Oppression of Black People, The crimes of This System and the Revolution We Need

» BUILD FOR, ORGANIZE, AND GO TO EVENTS ON FEB 26: A Call from the Stop Mass Incarceration Network: HOODIES UP! 2 Years Since the Murder of Trayvon Martin A Day of Outrage and Remembrance

» Go to the Stop Mass Incarceration section of this site for more


The days when this system can just keep on doing what it does to people, here and all over the world... when people are not inspired and organized to stand up against these outrages and to build up the strength to put an end to this madness... those days must be GONE. And they CAN be.

From "The Revolution We Need… The Leadership We Have. A Message and Call from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA"


Demarcations: A Journal of Communist Theory and Polemic

Issue 3 (Winter 2014) is now available.

BA Speaks:
REVOLUTION— NOTHING LESS!

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The Special Issue on the History of Communist Revolution: What You Think You Know, What You Need to Know, and What Needs To Be Done
By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party


On the Great Importance of the Anarchy/Organization Analysis
by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party

Important analysis and reports on End Pornography & Patriarchy: The Enslavement and Degradation of Women

Updated February 27, 2014

New Reports on Building the Movement for Revolution

Updated February 24, 2014

 

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