Wed. Livestream: 60th Anniversary of "Wretched of the Earth"

 

From Revolution Books - NYC: The 60th Anniversary of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth - Featuring Dr. Cornel West and Andy Zee   LIVESTREAM:  Wed., September 29, 2021 4 pm PT; 7 pm ET Watch at YouTube.com/RevolutionBooks1 or Facebook.com/RevBooksNYC Revolution Books New York in partnership with the Brooklyn Book Festival: The Wretched of the Earth was one of the most influential radical texts of the second half of the 20th century. Scholar-activist Cornel West has written a new introduction for the 60th anniversary edition. He will be in conversation with Andy Zee of Revolution Books and the Revolution Nothing Less Show. A central question: what is the content of national liberation and revolution in today's world? As conditions in the global south cry out more than ever for revolutionary transformation... As acute divisions in the US heighten revolutionary possibility... the Sept 29 program with Cornel West, trenchant radical democratic philosopher and activist, and Andy Zee, advocate for The New Communism developed by Bob Avakian, promises to be a critical and engaged conversation.

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SUNDAY - Come to the Revolution Club Mass Meeting to Make Plans for Oct. 2 Abortion Rights March

 

From Revolution / revcom.us: This Sunday, September 26 @ 3 PM Come to a REVOLUTION CLUB MASS MEETING Revolution Club Organizing Center Parking Lot 2716 S. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles The Revolution Club is organizing now for an actual revolution in a rare time when revolution is possible. This system of capitalism-imperialism can't be reformed, it must be overthrown! Read the Declaration and Call from the revcoms to Get Organized Now for a Real Revolution. Find out about the Revolution Club. Dig into why capitalism and patriarchy are completely bound together, and why you can't end one without ending the other. Talk with others about why the Republicans are moving to lock in a fascist future... why the Democrats have no answer... and why this is a rare time when a real revolution becomes possible. Make plans for October 2, and the Break the Chains Contingent: Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution! MATERIALS FOR THE  BREAK THE CHAINS Contingents! Unleash The Fury Of Women As A Mighty Force For Revolution  At the October 2 Marches for Abortion Rights SIGN UP HERE to be part of a Break The Chains Contingent: Unleash the fury of women as a mighty force for revolution! in LA, NY, Chicago or the Bay Area.  Or sign up to organize your own!  No Going back - No Surrender! Abortion On Demand & Without Apology! Forced Motherhood Is Female Enslavement! Christian Fascist Theocrats - Get Your Laws And Vigilantes Off Our Bodies! Patriarchy And Capitalism: You Can’t End One Without Ending The Other— Revolution, Nothing Less!

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MONDAY: Emergency Fund Drive to Support the Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour and The RNL Show - Organizing Break the Chains Contingents!

 

From Revolution / revcom.us: Emergency Fund Drive to Support the Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour and The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show Organizing the Break the Chains Contingents! At the October 2 Marches for Abortion Rights. Unleash the Fury of Women As A Mighty Force For Revolution! Contribute and Be Part of Raising $15,000

Tune in Monday, September 27, 5 pm PDT/8 pm EDT for a Special One Hour Fundraising Livestream  YouTube.com/ therevcoms Facebook.com/ therevcoms Venmo: “@RevolutionTour” CashApp: $revtour Send a check or money order, payable to RCP Publications, memo line: National Revolution Tour. Mail to: RCP Publications Box 3486, Merchandise Mart Chicago, IL 60654-0486 Write in to  getorganizedforrevolutiontour (at) gmail.com, let us know if you are taking up collections, or to send statements

Recognizing that this Texas abortion ban is a stop-everything-moment, the revcoms are providing urgently needed orientation, understanding and a call to act—in determined resistance against this fascist assault AND getting organized for an actual revolution to overthrow this whole system, in a rare moment when this is possible. ** The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show has been sounding the alarm about why this fascist assault is happening, exposing the larger dynamics it's a part of, the extreme dangers for women and all of society... and even more, the positive potential that can be wrenched out of this extreme situation now for revolution, for the emancipation of women as a part of the emancipation of all humanity. Bringing a diversity of voices about the stakes of this fight, along with a depth of analysis from revcom.us and the revolutionary leader and architect of the new communism, Bob Avakian—this show is speaking to this question like nothing else in the world right now! It needs to be supported and further projected. ** The National Revolution Tour, rooted in and spreading the Declaration and Call to Get Organized for a Real Revolution, is working with Revolution Clubs and others across the country to organize Break ALL the Chains Contingents at the October 2 marches for abortion rights. These contingents are calling for “all those who see the need for uncompromising resistance in the streets against these horrible laws AND who hunger for a whole new world” to come together and plant a determined revolutionary pole.  Now is not a time for one-day symbolic protest. Contribute to the force bringing this urgent and necessary revolutionary message—to these marches and throughout society to build for these marches, and to build for revolution: No Going Back—No Surrender! Abortion On Demand & Without Apology! Forced Motherhood Is Female Enslavement! Christian Fascist Theocrats—Get Your Laws And Vigilantes Off Our Bodies! Patriarchy And Capitalism: You Can’t End One Without Ending The Other—Revolution, Nothing Less! Funds are needed for: ** MASSIVE amounts of materials to distribute and spread literature, banners, signs to have a major impact with this revolutionary message, influencing how people broadly understand the stakes of this fight and what's needed ** production costs and promotion of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show's coverage ** support for the volunteers on the National Revolution Tour who are dedicating themselves tirelessly to the work to organize forces now for a real revolution

Mobilize everyone you know to donate and help raise the funds to meet the $15,000 goal!   Take this call, along with flyers for the Break ALL the Chains contingents: Unleash the fury of women as a mighty force for revolution! on October 2 wherever people are gathered—farmers' markets, festivals, busy intersections.  Email it out widely—to professors, medical professionals, lawyers, pastors—and follow up with phone calls. Reach out to everyone who is fed up with the longstanding passivity on this question, who is agonizing about the future and needs to know about this revolutionary message, and how they can support this impacting society.  Take out big fundraising buckets and signs everywhere you go... starting now and in a major way, at the October 2 marches themselves. Talk to friends about organizing yard sales, bake sales and other projects to raise funds. Spread the word through social media and get everyone you know to tune in on Monday, September 27, 5 pm PDT/8 pm EDT YouTube.com/therevcoms Facebook.com/therevcoms

Saturday: Heroism for Our Times - Free Iran's Political Prisoners NOW - An Afternoon of Solidarity and Resistance

From Revolution / revcom.us:

The International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners and Revolution Books in Harlem and Berkeley present

 

Heroism for Our Times
Free Iran's Political Prisoners NOW -
An Afternoon of Solidarity and Resistance

Saturday, September 25, Noon PT; 3 pm ET

Live-streamed:  FB @revolutionbooksnyc | 
youtube.com/RevolutionBooks1

In person at Revolution Books

4737 Malcolm X Blvd @ 132nd, Harlem, NY10037

Speakers include:

Mariam Claren – Daughter of Iranian political prisoner Nahid Taghavi (by zoom)

Kave Milani – Burn the Cage/Free the Birds Movement, Europe (by zoom)

Raymond Lotta – Revolution Books

Solidarity Statements /Film Clips / More TBA‍

The Islamic Republic of Iran has responded to righteous mass rebellion and protest with a brutal wave of arrests, torture, and executions targeting human rights and women's activists, dissident intellectuals and artists, protestors and revolutionaries.

 

Political prisoners held by the Islamic Republic of Iran.   

This vicious repression has been met with courageous resistance, including from within Iran’s dungeons, and a global movement to free Iran’s political prisoners. But the lives of hundreds now incarcerated remain in mortal danger.

Hear from global activists from the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran's Political Prisoners who will discuss the latest developments in the regime’s brutal crackdown and the resistance, including the powerful full-page ad in the Summer issue of the New York Review of Books, endorsed by over 2,700 people including Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, Gloria Steinem, Ariel Dorfman, Jody Williams, Dan Ellsberg, Judith Butler and many other prominent voices. The September 25th program will discuss how to carry forward the worldwide struggle to free Iran’s political prisoners and its importance for humanity.

Stand in solidarity. Oppose U.S. threats and intervention

The governments of the U.S. and Iran act from their national interests. And, in this instance, we the people of the U.S. and Iran, along with the people of the world, have OUR shared interests, as part of getting to a better world: to unite to defend the political prisoners of Iran. In the U.S., we have a special responsibility to unite very broadly against this vile repression by the IRI, and to actively oppose any war moves by the U.S. government that would bring even more unbearable suffering to the people of Iran.  

— From the International Emergency Appeal

Suggested donation for events $5-10 | Proof of vaccination required to attend inside. Outdoor audience will view event on a large screen and participate in Q&A with outdoor mike.

Also view livestream at

Revolution Books, Berkeley (12 pm PDT)
2444 Durant Ave, Berkeley, CA
(510) 848-1196

Show your solidarity by sending statements or videos that may be part of, or help build for this program.

‍Revolution Books, Harlem, NYC
revolutionbooksnyc.org | 212-691-3345
Reserve ahead here.

International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners

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FB: @IranPrisonEmerg

Email:  FreeIransPoliticalPrisonersNOW@gmail.com.

Tuesday - Town Hall on Abortion Rights Emergency

 

From Revolution / revcom.us and RefuseFascism.org: All urged to join: Town Hall on the Abortion Rights Emergency Tuesday September 21 4:00 - 6:00 PM  PST; 7:00 - 9:00 pm EST Streamed on WBAI.org / WPFW.org; @RefuseFascism on Facebook, Youtube & Instagram Hosted by Sunsara Taylor, writer for revcom.us, host and producer of We Only Want the World on WBAI and WPFW, and co-host of The RNL -- Revolution, Nothing Less -- Show. Featuring: Legal break-down on Texas SB8 by Dahlia Lithwick, who writes about courts and the law for Slate and hosts the podcast Amicus. Message from the courageous abortion provider Dr. Warren Hern. Round-table with:           Sam Goldman, RefuseFascism.org Editorial Board, host of the Refuse Fascism Podcast           Toni Redtree, writer for Revcom.us; follower of the revolutionary architect of the New Communism, Bob Avakian           Michelle Xai, member Los Angeles Revolution Club; organizer of the Break the Chains contingents at the October 2 marches for reproductive rights.

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On October 2, MARCH in the BREAK THE CHAINS CONTINGENT:UNLEASH THE FURY OF WOMEN AS A MIGHTY FORCE FOR REVOLUTION!

 

From Revolution / revcom.us: ON OCTOBER 2, MARCH IN THE BREAK THE CHAINS CONTINGENT: UNLEASH THE FURY OF WOMEN AS A MIGHTY FORCE FOR REVOLUTION! No Going back—No Surrender! Abortion on Demand & Without Apology! Forced Motherhood Is Female Enslavement! Christian Fascist Theocrats—Get Your Laws and Vigilantes Off Our Bodies! Patriarchy and Capitalism: You Can’t End One Without Ending The Other—Revolution, Nothing Less! On October 2, the Women’s March and other groups have called for powerful demonstrations all over the country in defense of abortion rights. These rights are under relentless attack—and since September 1 have been effectively taken away in Texas. This is the future that the fascist Republican Party and the courts they increasingly dominate are nailing down—a future that is not yet being resisted and opposed anywhere near firmly or defiantly enough. Everyone who cares about the emancipation of the half of humanity that is female should be at one of these marches on October 2 and make this a turning point in building relentless in-the-streets resistance. The Revcoms are forming a contingent to march on that day of all those who see the need for uncompromising resistance in the streets against these horrible laws AND who hunger for a whole new world. If you are sick and tired of women being treated as less than full human beings... if you agonize about the “handmaid’s tale” future that is no longer science fiction but is now real and upon us... if you recognize that there can be no compromise with Christian fascists and unjust laws that enforce female enslavement... and most of all, if you see the need to dig up the roots of this and every other form of oppression and exploitation and bring in a whole new emancipatory world... then you need to be part of this contingent. Bob Avakian, the revolutionary leader who we revcoms follow, has said this: You cannot break all the chains, except one. You cannot say you want to be free of exploitation and oppression, except you want to keep the oppression of women by men. You can't say you want to liberate humanity yet keep one half of the people enslaved to the other half. The oppression of women is completely bound up with the division of society into masters and slaves, exploiters and exploited, and the ending of all such conditions is impossible without the complete liberation of women. All this is why women have a tremendous role to play not only in making revolution but in making sure there is all-the-way revolution. The fury of women can and must be fully unleashed as a mighty force for proletarian revolution. —BAsics 3:22 Join us in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Oakland-San Francisco-Berkeley, and elsewhere... or start your own contingent. Mass meetings to learn more, plan, and get organized will be held on the weekend of September 25-26. @The Revcoms     YouTube.com/TheRevcoms     www.revcom.us

WATCH AND SHARE  Episode 69 of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show And tune in today at 5 PM PST for Episode 70!

WATCH: The 20th Anniversary of the September 11th Attacks...20 Years of the U.S.' War OF Terror

 

From Revolution / revcom.us: Episode 69 of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show: The 20th Anniversary of the September 11th Attacks... 20 Years of the U.S.' War OF Terror Plus: Texas Abortion Ban – Women Are NOT Baby-Making Machines!   Concerned about the morality of this society, the government policies since 9/11, and where things are headed? WATCH: RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show Watch and subscribe at: youtube.com/therevcoms

In Episode 69, you'll find: ** A unique revolutionary analysis of the 911 anniversary and the U.S.'s war of terror which has left millions dead, an entire region devastated, and only strengthened reactionary Islamic fundamentalism. American Lives Are NOT More Important Than Other People's Lives! ** A detailed and living analysis of the Texas Abortion Ban, a leap in establishing fascist theocracy. Plus, hear from front-line defenders of the last abortion clinic in Mississippi. Forced Motherhood Is Female Enslavement! ** A concrete vision of what is needed – a real revolution – and what that revolution is all about, and the emancipating society that it would bring into being. A Better World IS Possible!

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Texas Effectively Bans Abortion—and the Silence Is Deafening: WE CAN’T LET THIS GO DOWN! WE CAN’T LET THEM HAVE THE FUTURE!

 

From Revolution / revcom.us: Three Main Points on the Texas Abortion Law Texas Effectively Bans Abortion—and the Silence Is Deafening: WE CAN’T LET THIS GO DOWN! WE CAN’T LET THEM HAVE THE FUTURE! September 1, 2021 | revcom.us   1. On September 1, abortion became effectively illegal in Texas. Women who had appointments for today or in coming days to terminate a pregnancy cannot do that now—because the law empowers any fanatic or woman hater anywhere to use the power of the state to sue anybody that assists women in getting an abortion. Imagine if you were one of those women with an appointment for today... you want to go to college and continue your education... you’re already struggling with making ends meet and can’t possibly raise a new baby... you’re a victim of rape and became impregnated... or you just don’t want to raise a child... for whatever reason, you want and need to terminate the pregnancy—and now find the door slammed in your face. We need to call this fascist Texas law for what it is: Forced motherhood is enslavement of half of humanity! 2. As Bob Avakian said many years ago, and as is even more directly true today: The whole question of the position and role of women in society is more and more acutely posing itself in today’s extreme circumstances—this is a powderkeg in the U.S. today. It is not conceivable that all this will find any resolution other than in the most radical terms and through extremely violent means. The question yet to be determined is: will it be a radical reactionary or a radical revolutionary resolution, will it mean the reinforcing of the chains of enslavement or the shattering of the most decisive links in those chains and the opening up of the possibility of realizing the complete elimination of all forms of such enslavement. As we revcoms have said in our Declaration and Call To Get Organized Now For A Real Revolution, “There is a way to a world and a future that is worth living, and is worth fighting for right now: revolution—a real revolution, not playing around with a few changes that leave this system in place and in power, while benefitting only a small number.” To make that real you, and many people like you, need to find out about this revolution and its leadership, Bob Avakian and learn about “why an actual revolution is necessary, what such a revolution involves, and what kind of society this is aiming for.” Because as the Declaration and Call also states: “Society is being ripped apart. Those who rule are locked in a bitter fight among themselves, and they cannot hold things together in the way they have in the past. Although there are a lot of bad things connected with this and it could lead to something really terrible, it is also possible that we could wrench something really positive out of it—revolution, to put an end to this system and bring something much better into being.” 3. We CANNOT allow this to go down. The streets across the country should be filled with furious and massive outpourings of women and everyone else who feels in their bones that to deny women the right and ability to control their own reproduction is condemning them to slavery... people who are determined to STOP this from happening and dare to act in ways commensurate with the urgent situation. All of society needs to be mobilized to stop this fascist law and all the other attacks on women—and to look deeply into the nature of the society that would allow women to be enslaved in this way. And growing numbers need to lift their sights to and get organized into the only real and tremendously liberating alternative to this system and its intensifying horrors: an actual revolution! Hot off the press:  The Revcom Recruiters on a Campus in a Stop Everything Moment @The Revcoms     YouTube.com/TheRevcoms     www.revcom.us

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