Climate Emergency!
New UN Climate Panel Report
This Criminal System Is Destroying Our Planet!
On March 31 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on the dangers of climate change. It makes very clear that unless there are dramatic changes that happen very soon, there will be devastating and possibly even catastrophic impacts on the natural world and on human life from the warming of the planet and climate.
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From the Michael Slate Show:
Scientist Michael Mann on the New Climate Report: “This is a threat to us... here and now”
Photo: USGS
The Human Costs of Climate Change
One of the key “take home messages” from the latest IPCC report is the immense impact of climate change on human beings—now and even more so in the coming decades.
Stop Thinking Like Americans,
Start Thinking About Humanity
BA Everywhere
The work Bob Avakian, "BA," has done creates new possibility at an excruciating time for humanity—nothing less than an opening for a visionary and viable future. BA Everywhere is a major fundraising campaign to make Avakian's work and leadership known in every corner of society.
Climate Change and Changing the Whole Political Atmosphere
This is a moment when if you have your eyes open to the world, the stark reality of the wanton destruction of the planet stands out as so big, so criminal, so outrageously dangerous, that you just want to scream. This is a moment, a month, to reach out broadly with the full vision and understanding of the system that underlies all the problems humanity faces, and the liberating way forward and to find the ways to involve them in the BA Everywhere Campaign.
Get the latest on the BA Everywhere campaign here.
Updated April 7, 2014
National Meeting Held for October Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration
April 3-4 New York City. A great mix of people, old and young, of different nationalities, 90 people in all, came together from all over the country to discuss how to make October 2014 a month of powerful resistance.
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Download full version of Abortion Factsheet: PDF for print
Interview with Sunsara Taylor
"The right to abortion is hanging by a thread"
In an excerpt from a recent interview, Sunsara Taylor talks about the attacks on the right to abortion and the need to fight to turn the situation around.
» Information on April 11-12 Emergency Actions for Abortion Rights
We ARE Building a Movement for Revolution and Building the Party as Its Leading Core
Also in this issue
Particle Fever—Must-See Science Documentary Film
Particle Fever, the science documentary that opened in theaters across the country in March, is at once a spectacular presentation of the world's largest science experiment, a window into the lives of working scientists and what motivates them, and sub-atomic thriller with a climactic ending.
Albuquerque: Police Execute Homeless Man for Illegal Camping
Cold-blooded murder under the color of authority—that's what is made unmistakably clear if you watch the YouTube video of the killing of a homeless man by the police in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
From A World to Win News Service
Nixon, Kissinger and Bangladesh: Blood on Their Hands
The Blood Telegram—Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Princeton University professor Gary J. Bass unearths the sinister role played by then President Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1971 during Pakistan's nine-month slaughter of Bengali people in what was then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.
The High Price of Capitalist Calculation
Washington State Mudslide Kills 30
On March 22, a huge mud slide destroyed the town of Oso—30 people are dead, and at least 13 are still missing. An official claimed the disaster was "completely unforeseen." This was a bald-faced lie.
Interview with Carl Dix
Mass Incarceration and Criminalization of Youth in Amerikkka—and the Vision for October Month of Resistance
March 2014. The Crisis in Venezuela: Points of Orientation
Since early February, anti-government protests have rocked parts of Caracas and other cities in Venezuela. These points of orientation help set a basic framework for understanding and bringing a proletarian internationalist outlook to bear on the situation.
Check It Out
Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine
"The energy of hate in that place was palpable..."
Susan Cahill speaks out after the destruction of her Montana family clinic, which provided abortions.
The Boston Women’s Conference: What Interests Are Served by Trying to Shut Down Revolution?
Hundreds of people gathered for a recent conference on the women's liberation movement in the 1960s and '70s. It should have been an important site of vigorous discussion and ferment and a springboard for action, but some people tried to prevent Sunsara Taylor from putting forward the need for revolution.
From The Michael Slate Show:
Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Hubert Sauper
An earlier work of Hubert Sauper, Darwin's Nightmare, was nominated for an Academy Award. In the following interview on The Michael Slate Show, which aired on KPFK Pacifica radio on March 14 and March 21, Sauper discusses his latest work, We Come As Friends.
A Must-See Film!
You can't change the world if you don't know the BAsics.
BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian is a book of quotations and short essays that speaks powerfully to questions of revolution and human emancipation.
At the beginning of 2012, an in-depth interview with Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, was conducted over a period of several days by A. Brooks, a younger-generation revolutionary who has been inspired by the leadership and body of work of Bob Avakian and the new synthesis of communism this has brought forward.
Click the cover to read, print, or download a PDF of the interview.
Want to know how BA's new synthesis of communism would apply to organizing a new society?
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April 11, 2014
Protests tomorrow: Information on April 11-12 Emergency Actions for Abortion Rights.
Newly Posted at Demarcations: A Journal of Communist Theory and Polemic:
The (new) Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist and the Crossroads Facing the International Communist Movement
Read it here
April 7, 2014
Carl Dix and Cornel West on the October Month of Resistance and the Need to Act Against Mass Incarceration
Opening talks to the strategizing meeting
April 7, 2014
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New PDF version of the Revolution special issue on the environment, with color photos.
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April 10, 2014
Important analysis and reports on End Pornography & Patriarchy: The Enslavement and Degradation of Women
Updated April 10, 2014
New Reports on Building the Movement for Revolution
Updated April 6, 2014
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