April 5 Marches and Protests Across the U.S. Demand:
"Two Million, Too Many— Not 1 More Deportation!"
Thousands of people in more than 50 cities marched, rallied, held press conferences and vigils, launched hunger strikes, and acted in other ways to demand a stop to the massive deportation of immigrants. The day of action was timed to coincide with the two millionth deportation under Obama.
High School Students Speak Out Against Deportations: "It's unfair, it's not right... it's wrong"
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Photo: Michael Fleshman
American Lives
Are Not More
Important Than
Other People's Lives!
Bob Avakian
BAsics 5:7
Get Ready for May Day 2014!
May 1st, 2014—a time to raise your voice and fight to end this modern day horror billions around the world live every day.
WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT SLAVERY IN ANY FORM HERE AND AROUND THE WORLD!
FIGHT THE POWER, AND TRANSFORM THE PEOPLE, FOR REVOLUTION!
Internationalism—The Whole World Comes First!
Bob Avakian, BAsics 5:8
WE SAY NO MORE!
A Call for a Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
Call Issued for Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration in October 2014
In early April a strategizing session in New York City brought together people from all over the country, and a call for a Month of Resistance was issued at this session.
Carl Dix and Cornel West on the October Month of Resistance and the Need to Act Against Mass Incarceration
Opening remarks by Carl Dix and Cornel West at the April 3-4 meeting to strategize about the October 2014 Month of Resistance.
Photo: AP
We ARE Building a Movement for Revolution and Building the Party as Its Leading Core
BA Everywhere
The work of Bob Avakian, "BA," 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
All those who recognize the urgency of addressing climate change and the wanton destruction of our planet need to be able to learn about, discuss, and debate the revolutionary solution to this and all the other forms of suffering that this system brings down on people—a way forward for humanity that is concentrated in the new synthesis of communism developed by the revolutionary leader, Bob Avakian—BA.
To all who are taking up the BA Everywhere Campaign:
A Few Points on Reaching Out Now: the Environmental Emergency and BA Everywhere
Get the latest on the BA Everywhere campaign here.
April 11-12:
Actions Across the U.S. Take on the Attacks on Abortion and the War on Women
Abortion rights in the U.S. are in a state of emergency and headed for disaster. On April 11-12, there were events and actions across the country to stop this war on women.
» Watch the video of the April 11 abortion rights emergency webcast
» Pledge to Defend Abortion Rights and Defeat the War on Women
Also in this issue
From The Michael Slate Show:
Scientist Michael Mann on the New Climate Report: “This is a threat to us... here and now”
Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University and director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center, speaks on the significance of the latest report on global climate change from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
NEW—
eBook from Insight Press, available at Amazon.com and other retailers.
Successful Lotta Speaking Tour in LA
Some Key Principles of Socialist Sustainable Development
These principles concentrate an orientation that enables socialist society to begin to tackle the environmental emergency, with a global and internationalist perspective.
Check It Out:
Your Inner Fish—the TV Series
A new science series, based on Neil Shubin's best-selling book, brings alive the story of Tiktaalik, a creature that lived 325 million years ago that was an intermediate between fish and land-living animals, and important concepts about evolution.
Atlanta, April 5:
Hundreds Rally and March Against Deportations
Ukraine: Intensifying Dangers, Dangerous Lies
The situation in Ukraine continues to be tense, dangerous, and unpredictable. Whether or not this particular conflict erupts into open warfare, nothing good will come from any of these clashing reactionary forces, regardless of how many people are misguided into allying under the banner of these forces at any particular time.
From The Michael Slate Show
Author Lisa Bloom on the Trayvon Martin Case: "People are going to look at this case as the Emmett Till case of the early 21st century"
Chicago: The Police Murder of Raason Shaw and the Anger in the Streets
From a reader:
On the Film Cesar Chavez: History Is Made One Step at a Time
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?
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 at demarcations-journal.org
April 7, 2014
Now Available:
New PDF version of the Revolution special issue on the environment, with color photos.
Get it at the Special Issues page.
April 10, 2014
Important analysis and reports on End Pornography & Patriarchy: The Enslavement and Degradation of Women
Updated April 13, 2014
New Reports on Building the Movement for Revolution
Updated April 7, 2014
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