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Revolution #258, February 5, 2012
- BOB AVAKIAN ON "TEBOW-MANIA," "HIGHER POWERS" AND "AMERICA'S GAME"
- TIM TEBOW AND THE "TUCK RULE"
by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA - TIPS FOR TIM TEBOW
by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA - DOWNLOAD POSTER OF THIS ARTICLE (PDF, 17x22")
- BA Everywhere—and the Importance of Distributing BAsics Far and Wide
- BAsics Bus Tour Departing from Los Angeles on February 7
- Everything You've Been Told
About Communism Is Wrong:
Capitalism Is a Failure,
Revolution Is the Solution - A Call for Marches and Protests for March 10 & 11 to Mark International Women's Day 2012
- This information is from The World Can't Wait:
Saturday, February 4
Day of Mass Action to Stop a U.S. War on Iran
NO war! NO sanctions! NO intervention! NO assassinations! - MASS INCARCERATION +
SILENCE = GENOCIDE
Revolution Books New York City Presents:
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 4 PM - Newt Gingrich and the Genocidal General Andrew Jackson
- Hundreds Arrested as Police Attack Occupy Oakland
- "...officials in some states study the
reading scores of
fourth-grade boys in the inner city to know how many prison cells to build."
From a reader
- The notion of a god, or gods, was created by humanity, in its infancy, out of ignorance. This has been perpetuated by ruling classes, for thousands of years since then, to serve their interests in exploiting and dominating the majority of people and keeping them enslaved to ignorance and irrationality.
Bringing about a new, and far better, world and future for humanity means overthrowing such exploiting classes and breaking free of and leaving behind forever such enslaving ignorance and irrationality.
Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
BAsics 4:17
Revolution #257, January 29, 2012
- What is the American Way of War?
The Obscene Acts of Unjust War - DOWNLOAD PDF POSTER (17x22")
- A Call for Mass Action Against the Suppression of the Occupy Movement
- Partial List of Signatories
- Update on Beginning Plans for "A Call for Mass Action Against the Suppression of the Occupy Movement"
- Download PDF of this Call/Signatories
- Everything You've Been Told About
Communism Is Wrong:
Capitalism Is a Failure,
Revolution Is the Solution - Donate to the BAsics Bus Tour
- "BA Everywhere" Hits the Airways on L.A.'s Hip-Hop Mega Station—Power 106
- "...in gratitude to my wonderful Revolutionary Family..."
- Of Pendulums, Pits and Getting Free
- "Sex-Positive" Feminism and Sasha Grey;
No Defense for Porn
by Sunsara Taylor - A Call for Marches and Protests for March 10 & 11 to Mark International Women's Day 2012
- Saturday, February 18,
4 pm at Revolution Books NY
Mass Incarceration Plus Silence Equals Genocide - December 2011
Hunger Strike at Corcoran Prison
by the Bay Area Revolution Writers Group - Keeping Up the Heat in the Fight to STOP "Stop & Frisk"
- January 11 Protests Demand: Shut Down Guantánamo!
- The Land of Blood and Honey...
and Deadly Self-Deception
An Open Letter to Angelina Jolie - From A World to Win News Service:
- "Occupy Nigeria" Takes on Nigeria's Occupiers
- "It's not personal," Godfather Michael Corleone explained. "It's just business."
- Breast
Implants: Profit Drive Plus Patriarchy = Women in Peril
- The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism-imperialism and political structures to enforce that capitalism-imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.
Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
BAsics 1:3
Revolution #256, January 15, 2012
- January 2012:
Stand Up for Abortion and Birth Control! - Download as Flier (PDF)
- Abortion Clinic Burned on New Year's
Morning—Into the Streets for Abortion Rights on Anniversary of Roe v. Wade!
by Sunsara Taylor - BA Everywhere—Looking Forward to 2012, Summing Up the Lessons of the First 6 Weeks
- Chicago New Year's Party Raises $800 for BAsics Bus Tour
- On Leadership—Vanguards and Individual Leaders
Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party - CALL TO ACTION
End Pornography and Patriarchy: the Enslavement and Degradation of Women - From
A World to Win News Service
Breast Implants: Profit Drive Plus Patriarchy = Women in Peril - Vilifying
Communism and Accommodating Imperialism
The Sham and Shame of Slavoj Žižek's "Honest Pessimism"
by Raymond Lotta - Sanctions: Not a "Diplomatic Alternative" to War, but Mass Murder of Civilians
- And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
by Toby O'Ryan - A Talk by Colin Dayan at NY Revolution Books
- Occupy the Rose Parade
- Note to Readers
- Of Pendulums, Pits and Getting Free
- What we see in contention
here with Jihad on the one hand and McWorld/McCrusade on the other
hand, are historically outmoded strata among colonized and oppressed
humanity up against historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist
system. These two reactionary poles reinforce each other,
even while opposing each other. If you side with either of these
"outmodeds," you end up strengthening both.
While this is a very important formulation and is crucial to understanding much of the dynamics driving things in the world in this period, at the same time we do have to be clear about which of these "historically outmodeds" has done the greater damage and poses the greater threat to humanity: It is the historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system, and in particular the U.S. imperialists.
Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
BAsics 1:28
Revolution #255, January 8, 2012
- U.S.-Israeli Assault on Iran Escalates
Danger of War Grows
by Larry Everest - Now Available Online:
Carl Dix-Cornel West Dialogue at UC Berkeley - Note to readers
- And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
by Toby O'Ryan - Occupy the Rose Parade
- "A New Generation of
Revolutionary Leaders"
BOB AVAKIAN ON THE ESSENCE OF COMMUNIST LEADERSHIP, AND BRINGING FORWARD NEW LEADERS
From the Talk: Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About - Getting BA's Vision and Works Into Every Corner of Society
- Supporting the BA Everywhere Campaign: A Reflection and a Challenge
- Announcing the 2012 Kick-Off of the BA Everywhere Bus Tour
- Should a Woman Feel
Sad About Her Abortion?
Fuck No!
By Sunsara Taylor - January 2012: Stand Up for Abortion and Birth Control!
- A Call for Marches and Protests for March 10 & 11 to Mark International Women’s Day 2012
- A Call to Get the Declaration for Women's Liberation Out Widely
- Download at revcom.us/a/158/Declaration-en.html.
- A Lesson About Liars
- PDF Poster of Centerfold (17x22")
- The National Defense Authorization Act:
An Act of Infamy for Congress and for Obama
by Dennis Loo - To the Occupy Protesters:
Which of these people will NOT try to corral you into voting for Obama? - A Talk by Colin Dayan at NY Revolution Books
- The following information
is from worldcantwait.org:
10 Years Too Many:
National Day of Action Against Guantánamo! Events in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco and beyond - Durban Platform Climate
Agreement—A Criminal Charade
by Orpheus Reed - It is not uncommon to hear these days, from government officials and others, that only 1 percent of the population is in the U.S. military but that this 1 percent is fighting for the freedom of the other 99 percent. The truth, however, is this: That 1 percent, in the military, is in reality fighting for the other 1 percent: the big capitalist-imperialists who run this country—who control the economy, the political system, the military, the media, and the other key institutions—and who dominate large parts of the world, wreaking havoc and causing great suffering for literally billions of people. It is the "freedom" of these capitalist-imperialists—their freedom to exploit, oppress, and plunder—that this 1 percent in the military is actually killing and sometimes dying for.
Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
BAsics 1:5
Revolution #254, December 25, 2011
- Occupy at a Crossroads
A Call for Mass Action Against the Suppression of the Occupy Movement - BAsics: from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian
You can't change the world if you don't know the BAsics - BA Everywhere
Imagine the difference it could make
A GREAT BEGINNING... EXCITING STEPS TO COME - Download PDF Poster of this article
- Supporting the BA Everywhere Campaign: A Reflection and a Challenge
- Uprisings, Clashes Shake North Africa and the Middle East
- 2011: Inspiring Outbreaks—Crucial Challenges
- Protests,
Repression and Resistance
Fighting the New Jim Crow of Mass Incarceration - Chile, Greece, England, Spain
- A Lesson About Liars
- December 14, 2011
U.S.-Israeli Assault on Iran Escalates, Danger of War Grows
by Larry Everest - Coming Soon!
C-SPAN Broadcast of Carl Dix—Cornel West Dialogue at UC Berkeley - BAsics for Prisoners:
GIVE THE GIFT THAT GIVES! - Letter from Prisoner on Occupy Oakland
- West Coast Occupy Port Shutdowns
- Call for volunteers to
transcribe interviews for the film,
Occasioned by the Publication of BAsics:
A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World
- On Choices... And Radical Changes
First, people don't make choices in a vacuum. They do it in the context of the social relations they're enmeshed in and the options they have within those relations—which are not of their own choosing. They confront those relations, they don't choose them.
Two, if people feel for whatever reasons that they want to choose to harm themselves and others, we're going to struggle with them—but we're not going to blame them. We're going to show them the source of all this in the system, and call on them to struggle against that system, and transform themselves in the process. Just because a youth "chooses" to sell drugs, or a woman "chooses" to commodify herself sexually, doesn't mean that they chose to have those choices. And there is no other way besides fighting the power, and transforming the people, for revolution that all this will change for the better. Blaming the masses for bad choices just reinforces the conditions that they are oppressed by.
In sum, people do make choices—but they make them enmeshed and confined within social relations that are not of their choosing. We have to bring into being different social relations and conditions so that masses of people can act differently and relate differently to each other. Fundamentally, that takes a revolution which is aiming for communism.
Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
Revolution #253, December 18, 2011
- A Call To Our Readers
- U.S. Threatens Another War
Who Is the REAL Aggressor in the Middle East? - Centerfold PDF Poster (17x22)
- Sources
- Communism and
Jeffersonian Democracy
Dictatorship Does Not Mean Unchallengeable Power
by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA - BA EVERYWHERE...
IMAGINE THE DIFFERENCE IT COULD MAKE
A Mass Campaign to Raise Big Money to Get BA's Vision and Works Into Every Corner of Society - Watch and spread this VIDEO from Sunsara Taylor on why you should help fund the film Occasioned by BAsics: A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World. Show this at house parties, to friends, and online.
- Film Concept
Occasioned by the Publication of BAsics: A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World - See this VIDEO FROM CARL DIX AND CORNEL WEST calling on people to fund this film.
- READ why some people are contributing
- Sample Phone Script (Download Word Document)
- We made the goal and then some!
$25,002 raised to fund the film Occasioned by the Publication of BAsics: A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World - From the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund:
700 BAsics Sent to Prisoners, Donate to Send 1,300 More - The Cornel West –
Carl Dix Dialogue at UC Berkeley:
Thousands Turn Out For Unprecedented, Transformative Evening
by the Bay Area Revolution Writers Group - A Talk by Colin Dayan at NY Revolution Books
- Stories from Harlem
Life in the Projects: Prison-Like Conditions Outside of Prison
by Li Onesto - State Gives Up Attempt to
Legally Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal
by C. Clark Kissinger - From the
Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund:
A Shout-out and Thank You to All Prisoner Subscribers and Correspondents - From
A World to Win News Service
Shell and the Other Oil Companies: Serial Killers
- The interests, objectives, and grand designs of the imperialists are not our interests—they are not the interests of the great majority of people in the U.S. nor of the overwhelming majority of people in the world as a whole. And the difficulties the imperialists have gotten themselves into in pursuit of these interests must be seen, and responded to, not from the point of view of the imperialists and their interests, but from the point of view of the great majority of humanity and the basic and urgent need of humanity for a different and better world, for another way.
Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
BAsics 3:8 - Color PDF - 11x17"
- Color JPG for posting on web
Revolution #252, December 11, 2011
- The American Enterprise—Property and Slavery
Peculiar Notions of "Freedom" and Profound Contradictions
by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA - Occupy LA Eviction: Determined Resistance Up Against Deceit and Repression
- BA EVERYWHERE
Succeeding with the goal: $23,000 by December 12 for Occasioned by BAsics: A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World - Watch and spread this NEW VIDEO from Sunsara Taylor
- Film Concept
Occasioned by the Publication of BAsics: A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World - See this VIDEO FROM CARL DIX AND CORNEL WEST calling on people to fund this film.
- SUCCEEDING WITH THE GOAL
$23,000 by December 12 for Occasioned by BAsics: A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World - READ why some people are contributing
- Sample Phone Script (Download Word Document)
- A REFLECTION ON THE "OCCUPY" MOVEMENT:
AN INSPIRING BEGINNING...AND THE NEED TO GO FURTHER
By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA - Deadly Inequalities...
in a World of
Capitalist Exploitation
and Oppression
- Centerfold Poster (PDF, 17x22)
- Sources
- Getting Out BAsics on "Black Friday"
- Are Corporations and Banks Corrupting the System, or Is the Problem the System of Capitalism?
by Raymond Lotta - New York: Student Action to STOP "Stop and Frisk"
- Durban Climate Talks:
Criminal Inaction and the Imminent Danger
by Orpheus Reed - Thousands Come Out for Carl Dix and Cornel West Dialogue at UC Berkeley
- EGYPT 2011: MILLIONS HAVE
HEROICALLY STOOD UP...
THE FUTURE REMAINS TO BE WRITTEN
A Statement By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA- 11"x17" Centerfold Poster (PDF)
- 8.5"x11" for printing (PDF)
- Also in Spanish, French, Arabic (PDF), and German
- Revolution newspaper received the following press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 29th, 2011
2011 Bull Connor Award delivered to Ray Kelly by students at Columbia University, Stop Mass Incarceration Network (Stop "Stop & Frisk"), and Occupy Wall Street protesters. - From A World to Win News Service
India: CPI(Maoist) leader Kishenji murdered - A Great Injustice for 30 Years—Mumia Must Be Free!
- Call for Interns/Volunteers to work on Revolution newspaper project:
Mass Incarceration in the USA:
The history behind it… what it means today… the struggle to put an end to it
- Some Principles for Building A Movement for Revolution
At every point, we must be searching out the key concentrations of social contradictions and the methods and forms which can strengthen the political consciousness of the masses, as well as their fighting capacity and organization in carrying out political resistance against the crimes of this system; which can increasingly bring the necessity, and the possibility, of a radically different world to life for growing numbers of people; and which can strengthen the understanding and determination of the advanced, revolutionary-minded masses in particular to take up our strategic objectives not merely as far-off and essentially abstract goals (or ideals) but as things to be actively striven for and built toward.
The objective and orientation must be to carry out work which, together with the development of the objective situation, can transform the political terrain, so that the legitimacy of the established order, and the right and ability of the ruling class to rule, is called into question, in an acute and active sense, throughout society; so that resistance to this system becomes increasingly broad, deep and determined; so that the "pole" and the organized vanguard force of revolutionary communism is greatly strengthened; and so that, at the decisive time, this advanced force is able to lead the struggle of millions, and tens of millions, to make revolution.
Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
BAsics 1:22 - Color PDF - 11x17"
- Color JPG for posting on web
Revolution #251, November 27, 2011
- BA Everywhere...
Imagine the Difference It Could Make!
A Mass Campaign to Raise Big Money to Get BA's Vision and Works Into Every Corner of Society - Three versions of Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund (PRLF) holiday gift cards
- Sample Fundraising Letter for
"Occasioned by the Publication of BAsics:
A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World." - From a Reader
Holiday Fund-raising for the BA Everywhere Campaign - Spanish materials available now
- BA Everywhere Campaign:
$23,000 to be raised for the film:
Occasioned by the Publication of BAsics: A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World By Monday, December 12 - A REFLECTION ON THE "OCCUPY" MOVEMENT:
AN INSPIRING BEGINNING...AND THE NEED TO GO FURTHER
By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA - 8.5x11 B&W Flyer (PDF)
- 11x17 Poster (PDF)
- Two-Month Anniversary of
Occupy Wall Street
Resistance Up Against Nationwide Attacks
by Andy Zee - THE NEXT SIX WEEKS...
having an impact, growing the movement, building up our muscles. - Want the alternative to capitalism?
Get the BAsics!
$20 buys a copy, and another for a prisoner - DOWNLOAD PDF POSTER
- From the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund (PRLF)
Two new flyers - 20 Freedom Fighters Arrested
STOP "Stop and Frisk" Hits Queens, NY - William Parker Quintet Performs Excerpts from "Blueprint for a Cultural Revolution"
- Now Available: BAsics e-Book Edition
- New Threats of
U.S.-Israeli Aggression Against Iran
by Larry Everest - A DIALOGUE BETWEEN
CORNEL WEST AND CARL DIX
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2nd, 7PM
Pauley Ballroom,
University of California Berkeley - SUCCEEDING WITH THE GOAL
$23,000 by December 12 for Occasioned by BAsics: A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World - ANNOUNCING MATCHING DONOR DRIVE
Two generous donors will MATCH every dollar given to fund the film Occasioned by BAsics: A Celebration of Revolution & The Vision of a New World up to $1,500 total. The deadline for doubling your tax-deductible donation is midnight Saturday, December 3. - READ why some people are contributing
- Sample Phone Script (Download Word Document)
- Call for Interns/Volunteers
to work on Revolution
newspaper project:
Mass Incarceration in the USA: The history behind it… what it means today… the struggle to put an end to it - Chicago, December 2:
Political Disobedience vs. Revolution: An Exchange and Debate on the Significance and Implications of the Occupy Movement between Bernard Harcourt and Raymond Lotta - ALL OUT FOR MUMIA
- Report from One Area:
Getting Out BAsics on "Black Friday" - Note to Our Readers:
As of Monday night, November 28, the Los Angeles police have arrested a number of people at Occupy L.A. at City Hall Park and are threatening to evict the encampment completely. Check regularly at revcom.us and in the next print issue of Revolution for coverage of these developments. - Readers Correspond on the Occupy Movement
- From A World to Win News Service
Egypt: Still out of control - From RW #592, February 10, 1991
Communism: Imagine...In Living Color
by Bob Avakian - Three Prisoners from Hunger Strike Die—Prison Officials Withhold Information
- From A World to Win News Service
Report from Egypt:
A Complex and Difficult Situation—for Both the People and Their Enemies - Correspondence from Hawai`i
Marching Against the APEC Summit - Attacks on Occupy—Week of November 12-17
- Update - Chicago Occupy
- In a world marked by profound class divisions and social inequality, to talk about "democracy"—without talking about the class nature of that democracy and which class it serves—is meaningless, and worse. So long as society is divided into classes, there can be no "democracy for all": one class or another will rule, and it will uphold and promote that kind of democracy which serves its interests and goals. The question is: which class will rule and whether its rule, and its system of democracy, will serve the continuation, or the eventual abolition, of class divisions and the corresponding relations of exploitation, oppression and inequality.
Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
BAsics 1:22 - Color PDF - 11x17"
- Color JPG for posting on web
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