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The Problem, the Solution, and the Challenges Before Us
The following is an important talk given by Bob Avakian earlier this summer.
The RNC16 at the Republican National Convention, July 20, 2016.
From a reader:
Some thoughts on the RNC 16 and what to do to support them
September 9, 2017
As Repression Against Dissent Grows…
Two Protesters Face Felonies for Burning Flag at Republican National Convention
September 3, 2017
Oakland, CA, September 9, 2017.
Photo: Special to revcom.us
The Fascist Attacks on DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), and the Resistance
Updated September 9, 2017
Voices from a DACA Protest: “We’re not going back into the shadows”
September 9, 2017
Floods in South Asia, Hurricane Harvey and Now Hurricane Irma:
Natural Disasters, Crises of the System
Houston, TX—Hurricane Harvey
Houston, TX—Hurricane Harvey
Katy, TX—Hurricane Harvey
Floods in Mumbai, India
Floods in Northeast India
St. Barthelemy—Hurricane Irma
Virgin Islands—Hurricane Irma
St. Maarten—Hurricane Irma
A call to all our readers to contribute to our coverage of Hurricane Harvey.
Floods in South Asia, Hurricane Harvey and Now Hurricane Irma: Natural Disasters, Crises of the System
Updated September 9, 2017
Click here for our coverage and new updates
- Donald Trump brays at oil refinery—
Yes, This Arrogant VICIOUS Ignoramus Heads a Fascist Regime in the World’s Most Powerful Country... - U.S. in the Caribbean: Good Neighbor, Helping Hand, or Imperialist Predator? Here’s a Brief History, You Decide
- Florida Sheriff Issues Potential Death Sentences for Outstanding Warrants
- A History of Colonialism and Imperialism in the Caribbean: Setting the Stage for a "Natural" Disaster
Hurricane Irma in Saint Barthélemy. Photo credit: twitter/Carole Greaux.
Hurricane Irma, Thursday: Devastation in the Caribbean… Heading Toward Florida
September 7, 2017
Where Did This Fascism Come From...and How Do We Fight It?
Some Key Works by Bob Avakian
This Summer Chicago Will Become Known for Revolution
From Revolution Club, Chicago:
Defend the RNC 16!
Meet the heroes facing prison and jail for standing with the people of the world and sounding the alarm on Trump’s fascism.
Sunday, September 10, 2 pm
Revolution Club Organizing Center
1857 E.71st St., Chicago, IL 60649
The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!
The Political Battles on the Campuses
The Issue is NOT “Free Speech”—The Issue Is Fascism!
By Sunsara Taylor
Bob Avakian: “Balance” Is the Wrong Criterion—And a Cover for a Witch-hunt—What We Need Is the Search for the Truth: Education, Real Academic Freedom, Critical Thinking and Dissent.
7 Talks (2006)
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The Democrats, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, etc., are seeking to resolve the crisis with the Trump presidency on the terms of this system, and in the interests of the ruling class of this system, which they represent. We, the masses of people, must go all out, and mobilize ourselves in the millions, to resolve this in our interests, in the interests of humanity, which are fundamentally different from and opposed to those of the ruling class.
This, of course, does not mean that the struggle among the powers that be is irrelevant or unimportant; rather, the way to understand and approach this (and this is a point that must also be repeatedly driven home to people, including through necessary struggle, waged well) is in terms of how it relates to, and what openings it can provide for, “the struggle from below”—for the mobilization of masses of people around the demand that the whole regime must go, because of its fascist nature and actions and what the stakes are for humanity.
THE NEW COMMUNISM
by Bob Avakian
eBook of
THE NEW COMMUNISM
by Bob Avakian
NOW AVAILABLE!
Insight Press has announced that in addition to the print book, THE NEW COMMUNISM is now available as an eBook at Amazon, iBooks, Barnes and Noble and other retail and library websites, and at some sites as PDF. Tell your friends, teachers, students...everyone, about the book! Write a review on the sellers' websites! Spread the word!
ABOUT THE BOOK, ORDER HERE
Excerpt 2 from:
Methods of Leadership, the Science and the “Art” of Leadership
See more excerpts HERE
Updated pre-publication PDF of this major work—now including the appendices—available HERE
SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION
On the Importance of Science and the Application of Science to Society, the New Synthesis of Communism, and the Leadership of Bob Avakian
An Interview with Ardea Skybreak
Excerpt from SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION
Why Is It So Important, and What Does It Mean, to Get Into BA?
Getting Clearer on the Need for Revolution–Breaking With Wrong Ideas and Illusions
See more excerpts HERE.
I Want to Be Part of the Movement for Revolution—What Do I Do?
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Questions and answers on getting organized for an actual revolution
Question: Who can join the Revolutionary Communist Party?
Question: Why do we not initiate violence during this period when we are carrying out the “three prepares”—why do we not just “get it on,” and try to bring down this system, right now?
Question: Aren’t Ferguson and Baltimore examples of the people initiating violence?
A Radical Step into the Future
Do you know anyone else—any person or organization—that has managed to bring forth an actual PLAN for a radically different society, in all its dimensions, and a CONSTITUTION to codify all this? — A different world IS possible — Check out and order online the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal). Authored by Bob Avakian, and adopted by the Central Committee of the RCP.
Find out more about the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America here:
Excerpt from The New Communism:
The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America—Solid Core with a Lot of Elasticity on the Basis of the Solid Core
Also in this Issue
Indictments of the Trump/Pence Regime as a Powerful New Pamphlet
September 1, 2017
“I can only imagine what Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, and Charleena Lyles felt.”
Michael Bennett, an NFL player who refuses to stand for the national anthem, had a pig in Las Vegas threaten to “blow my fucking head off.”
September 6, 2017
Monstrous Floods Kill over 1,000 in South Asia: The Global System Behind the Misery
August 30, 2017
Case #61: Monuments to the Confederacy Across the United States
September 3, 2017
U.S. War Threats vs. North Korea: Trump Puts World in Crosshairs of Nuclear War This Must Be Opposed Everywhere!
Updated September 9, 2016
If It's Just A Few "Bad Apples," Then How Do You Explain THIS?
September 5, 2016
Michael Slate Interview with Matt Ruskin, Writer/Director of New Film Crown Heights
The Story of One Man Unjustly Imprisoned for 20 Years—and the Human Toll of Millions Incarcerated
September 4, 2017
Contribute to get THE NEW COMMUNISM Everywhere, Including Into the Hands of Those Catching the Most Hell
From a former prisoner who is now an emancipator of humanity
November 28, 2016
ABOUT THE BOOK HERE
Updated pre-publication PDF of this major work—now including the appendices—available here.
ORDER HERE
Comments on the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America from a Supporter
September 4, 2017
Sparks of Outrage and Protest Against the Fascist Trump/Pence Regime
Updated September 8, 2017
- The March to Confront White Supremacy Arrives in DC, Convenes at “Impeachment (Farragut) Square”
We just crossed into D.C. hundreds strong to demand Trump be removed from office and that the country confront white supremacy. #Cville2DC pic.twitter.com/vEFYvxcJ2U
— Cville 2 DC March (@cville2dc) September 6, 2017
Voices of Conscience and Resistance in the Time of Trump/Pence
Updated September 6, 2017
- Munroe Bergdorf, L’Oréal’s First Trans Model Fired for Calling Out White Supremacy
- Messages of Resistance at the MTV Video Music Awards
- Punk Rock Band Anti-Flag: Time to remove “all monuments to the Confederacy and the racism for which they stand”
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Of Continuing Interest
Bob Avakian on the pivotal role of the Black national question, the pivotal relation between national liberation and proletarian revolution, in the U.S.:
» Communism and Jeffersonian Democracy
» "The Oppression of Black People & the Revolutionary Struggle to End All Oppression"
April 25, 2016
On "Principled Compromises," and Other Crimes Against Humanity
November 12, 2015
By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
The Strategic Approach to Revolution and Its Relation to Basic Questions of Epistemology and Method
By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
August 4, 2014
Why We Have Taken Up the Fight to Build Refuse Fascism and to Drive Out the Trump/Pence Fascist Regime
A Statement from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
More on Choices...And Radical Changes
by Bob Avakian
Comments from a discussion that went deeply into questions of why people oppressed under this system often get caught up in things like crime, who and what is fundamentally to blame for this, and what is the way forward out of this situation. Read here...
A QUESTION SHARPLY POSED
by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
Originally published April 14, 2013
Freedom and Necessity, and Proceeding from a Strategic Standpoint: Some Thoughts on Methods and Leadership
by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
Important Publications and Media
BAsics from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian
"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.
Order the book HERE
Download the book in ePub format HERE
BA Speaks:
REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS!
Bob Avakian Live
In the fall of 2012, Bob Avakian gave a series of talks in different cities. This is a film of one of those talks.
Those this system has cast off, those it has treated as less than human, can be the backbone and driving force of a fight not only to end their own oppression, but to finally end all oppression, and emancipate all of humanity.
- Bob Avakian, from the film
Buy or order the DVD HERE
Order the book HERE
Download the full interview in PDF format HERE
SOME EXCERPTS
A New Theoretical Framework for a New Stage of Communist Revolution
What is New in the New Synthesis?
Some Thank Yous That Need To Be Said Aloud
"Serious Engagement With the New Synthesis–The Difference It Could Make"
THE NEW SYNTHESIS OF COMMUNISM: FUNDAMENTAL ORIENTATION, METHOD AND APPROACH, AND CORE ELEMENTS—AN OUTLINE
by Bob Avakian,
Chairman, Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, Summer 2015
Updated with links
Six Resolutions of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
Published January 1, 2016
CONSTITUTION For The New Socialist Republic in North America
Authored by Bob Avakian, and Adopted by the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
or Send money orders or checks to:
RCP Publications
PO Box 3486, Merchandise Mart
Chicago, IL 60654
REVOLUTION AND RELIGION: The Fight for Emancipation and the Role of Religion
A Dialogue between CORNEL WEST & BOB AVAKIAN
A film of the Nov. 2014 Dialogue on a question of great importance in today's world between the Revolutionary Christian Dr. Cornel West and the Revolutionary Communist Leader Bob Avakian
Break ALL the Chains! Bob Avakian on the Emancipation of Women and the Communist Revolution
Birds Cannot Give Birth to Crocodiles, But Humanity Can Soar Beyond the Horizon
by Bob Avakian
Order the eBook.
$9.99 retail
Publisher: Insight Press
Read online:
Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World (Insight Press, 2008)
by Bob Avakian
Buy the book HERE
Excerpts available:
The Bible Belt Is the Lynching Belt:
Slavery, White Supremacy and Religion in America
Religion, Patriarchy, Male Supremacy and Sexual Repression
Religious Fundamentalism, Imperialism and "The War on Terror"
Why Is Religious Fundamentalism Growing in Today’s World—And What Is the Real Alternative?
Constitution, Law, and Rights—in capitalist society and in the future socialist society.
Selections from the writings of Bob Avakian and excerpts from the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America
View or download PDF here now
Order book here
DEMARCATIONS:
A Journal of Communist Theory and Polemic
"Ajith—A Portrait of the Residue of the Past"
The Science of Evolution and the
Myth of Creationism
Knowing What's Real and Why It Matters
In today's world, without the science of evolution there would be no science. Written for both the scientifically-minded as well as those who are not familiar with science at all, this book details the facts of the science of evolution.
Order book here
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