BA Everywhere
Ring in the New Year with BA Everywhere!
On the first minute of the new year, Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA—BA—sent out a message of revolution, and ended with a challenge. Let's begin meeting that challenge, now.
The Harlem-Bronx Bake Sale for BA Everywhere
"The goal is to get BA's name and viewpoints heard globally"
In December, a group of people from Harlem and the Bronx in New York City teamed up to raise money for the BA Everywhere campaign. They made and sold sweet potato pies and cookies during the holidays and raised $700. Revolution talked with several of the people involved to learn more about the effort.
Much more on
the BA Everywhere campaign here
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"This is Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the
Revolutionary Communist Party,
with a New Year's message—
A Call To REVOLUTION..."
Everyone's Talkin' About Inequality—Let's Talk About the System Causing It
Lesson from Bangladesh
On April 24, 2013, the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing over 1,100 people and maiming many others for life. Millions around the world looked at this horrific incident and what it says about the gross inequalities in the world. What is really needed, to get at the problem AND the solution, is a lot more discussion and understanding about WHY capitalism, by its very nature, HAS TO generate such inequality and impoverishment and can only lead to horrors like what happened in Rana Plaza.
Photo: AP
We ARE Building a Movement for Revolution and Building the Party as Its Leading Core
Also in this issue
The System Killing Detroit
When a judge ruled on December 3, 2013, that Detroit could not pay its debts, the place best known for making cars and soul music became the largest U.S. city to declare bankruptcy. The judge also decided that as part of restructuring its debt, the city could cut pensions, affecting some 23,000 municipal workers.
Photo: AP
Prisoners Write on the Importance of PRLF Donations
Two recent letters from prisoners highlight the importance of people donating to the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund.
Reader writes on Shining Light of Revolution into Prisons
Stop Mass Incarceration!
Mass Incarceration + Silence
= Slow Genocide
Cheers for Trayvon Martin Nativity Scene
A church in Claremont, California included a representation of a bleeding Trayvon Martin in their nativity scene this year.
Photo: Laura Hanifin
After Years of Outrage and Protest People's Lawyer Lynne Stewart Released
Pushed by outrage from all over the country and not wanting to have Lynne Stewart die while in their custody, the federal courts in a sudden about-face freed Stewart on New Year’s Eve.
Parents and Families Against Police Brutality Condemn Mayor-elect de Blasio’s Choice of New Police Commissioner William Bratton
A statement issued on December 15, 2013, two weeks before de Blasio's inauguration as New York City mayor.
Photo: Jenna Pope
Ishmael Reed's "The President of the Cool" Is Really the Precedent of the Fool...Or Perhaps an Audition to Be the Empire's Resident Tool
It is foolish to mistake style for substance. When this is done not merely by mistake, but on purpose, and further, when this is done in the service of the most vicious and murderous empire in all the history of the world, this is an act in the service of that empire. In other words, to do so is to act as the empire's tool. Unfortunately, this is exactly what Ishmael Reed has done in his December 18, 2013 New York Times op-ed.
Behind the Racist, Anti-Gay, Patriarchal Rantings on Duck Dynasty
Background to the observation by Bob Avakian on "the crude and venomous rantings of Phil Robertson, 'patriarch' of the 'Duck Dynasty.'"
The Controversy About the Washington "Redskins"—
A Celebration of White Supremacy, an Ugly Example of Current Culture
Growing numbers of people are demanding that the Washington "Redskins" pro football team change its name, denouncing the name as racist. A reader offers thoughts on the controversy.
Letter:
Why I'm A Godless Communist and Why You Should Be One Too!
Letter from a reader:
Discussing "Could We Really Win...Really?"
Pope Francis Wins Successful Rebranding Magazine “Person of the Year” Award
When Pope Francis assumed leadership of the Catholic Church, he took on one of the greatest rebranding challenges in recent history. Pope Francis has turned out to be what the church’s adherents would call a “godsend” to a brand that had been in serious crisis.
The Continuing Terror of U.S. Drone Strikes
Thoughts on Rereading BA's Memoir
From a reader: "I am in the middle of rereading BA’s memoir From Ike to Mao and Beyond and I really want to recommend doing so..."
New and Breaking News...
Announcing the Release of the Third Issue of Demarcations, A Journal of Communist Theory and Polemic
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Correspondence on Getting into Raymond Lotta's "On the 'Driving Force of Anarchy' and Dynamics of Change..."
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January 6, 2014
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