3/4 EMERGENCY FORUM ON UKRAINE: Where do the interests of humanity lie? Livestream

EMERGENCY FORUM: WAR IN UKRAINE What is happening?...Why is it happening?... Where do the interests of humanity lie?... AND WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH THE REVOLUTION HUMANITY SO URGENTLY NEEDS?                                                          Friday, March 4, 7pm EST; 4 pm PST                            In-person and live streamed—                                             Watch                 Proof of vaccination upon entry and mask-wearing Come hear Andy Zee, host of the Revolution-Nothing Less show and spokesperson for Revolution Books in dialogue with Raymond Lotta, a political economist who writes for the revcom.us website. Come with your questions on the underlying causes and dangers of this war, the actual history of Ukraine, the role of the U.S. in all this—and our role, as people living within the US, the main oppressor in the world today. ‘[T]he essence of the conflict between the U.S. and countries like Russia and China is not one between “democracy” and “authoritarianism,” but is a matter of rivalry among imperialist powers, all of which are monstrous oppressors of masses of people, and none of which represent or act in the interests of humanity. What is called for, and urgently now, is to oppose all imperialist marauders and mass murderers, and all systems and relations of oppression and exploitation, while giving particular emphasis to opposing “our own” imperialist oppressors who commit their monstrous crimes “in our name” and seek to rally us to support them on the basis of a grotesque American chauvinism, which we must firmly reject and fiercely struggle against.’ [read the whole article here.] from Shameless American Chauvinism: “Anti-Authoritarianism” as a “Cover” For Supporting U.S. Imperialism by Bob Avakian Watch Bob Avakian refute the GTF — the Great Tautological Fallacy of American chauvinism: the disgusting notion that America and Americans are better and more important than everybody else. Free Yourself from the GTF! Sponsored by the Revolution Books Educational Fund, a 501(c)3 in the State of New York. Donations tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the law. The RNL - Revolution Nothing Less Show New episode on Youtube every Thursday 8pm EST, 5pm PST.

As Russia invades Ukraine and the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to overturn abortion rights...

 

As Russia invades Ukraine and the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to overturn abortion rights... The RNL Show cuts through the chaos, lying politicians and media mouthpieces, with the deep analysis & revolutionary leadership you need to understand what's happening, why it's happening, where do the interests of humanity lie, and what is to be done now. You won't get this from the superficial social media "hot takes," the TikTok "influencers," 280 characters on twitter, and 60 seconds on Instagram Reels... but you WILL get it on the RNL Show! Watch and share Ep. 90 premiering TODAY / Thursday, Feb. 24 5pm PT/ 8pm ET @ youtube.com/therevcoms.   From Revolution / revcom.us: February 24, 2022 In a heinous act dripping with hypocrisy, Vladimir Putin announced he was sending in his army to “demilitarize and de-Nazify” Ukraine. This is nothing but grotesque imperialist bullshit to justify a move to protect the capitalist-imperialist interests of Russia. In words which were even more hypocritical, American political players from Biden on down self-righteously deplored this move—while conveniently ignoring the U.S.’s own history of doing exactly the same kind of thing, except qualitatively more frequently and on a much more horrendous scale. And, of course, Biden very conveniently covered over the ways in which the U.S. and NATO have goaded this on. In order to understand what is really going on, we urge you to read “As Ominous Events Unfold in Ukraine, a Basic Orientation” and “While Russian Troops Mass on the Ukraine Border, U.S. Provocations Escalate Danger of War”; to tune into The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less—Show today, Thursday, at 8 pm EST, 7 pm CST, and 5 pm PST; and to come back to this site later today, as we add materials that can explain this. In the meantime, keep this in mind: 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, BAsics 3:8)   Follow: @TheRevcoms Read: www.revcom.us Watch: youtube.com/TheRevComs

Timely analysis of the situation we face AND how to move to change it

February 21, 2022 What You Need to Know and Engage This Week About the World and Revolution Revcom.us is where you come to get into the thinker who has brought forward the new communism—Bob Avakian, or BA. It’s where you come to get his most up-to-date analysis, his latest commentary, and the whole body of work he’s brought forward in forging the new communism. Revcom.us is also where you come to get into a scientific materialist analysis of the week’s events, their connections to each other and how all of that relates to the revolution humanity so urgently needs.  And, in another dimension, revcom.us is a toolkit—one with the tools that enable you to understand, and go to work on transforming, the world and the people in it… for REVOLUTION. This week we continue to feature BA’s extremely important and timely analysis of the situation we face and  how to move to change it: SOMETHING TERRIBLE, OR  SOMETHING TRULY EMANCIPATING: Profound Crisis, Deepening Divisions, The Looming Possibility Of Civil War—And The Revolution That Is Urgently Needed. A Necessary Foundation, A Basic Roadmap For This Revolution. The title itself gets at its importance. It’s a necessary foundation for understanding the tumult, upheaval and sometimes seemingly astounding events of today. Nothing else digs anywhere near as deeply nor as unsparingly and accurately as this does in penetrating the dynamics driving today’s world; nothing else even tries to reveal how a revolution is not only the only solution but what could make that revolution possible; and nothing else maps out how to get to work on making that revolution. In this issue, we are particularly applying that roadmap to one of the most important current political conflicts in this country. The Supreme Court right now is “on track” to rule on a case that could be used to overturn the constitutionally recognized right to abortion. THAT “TRACK” MUST BE REVERSED! Doing that will require intense and massive struggle in the streets. It will mean raising hell around this question in unprecedented ways between now and June, when the announcement is likely to happen. Whether the thousands and then millions turn out to rise up in this way around this right will profoundly affect, for better or worse, whether we will go further down the road toward “something terrible”… or make an important, possibly major, step down the road toward “something truly emancipatory.” The first steps to this are next Sunday, February 27, when Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights has called a bold action at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City at 1:30 pm, at which some people will be engaging in civil disobedience; and then this will be followed by mass demonstrations on March 8 at as many locations as possible around the country. Together, these two days will impact with a message of fierce resistance and begin to set a different dynamic in motion. We are including important analysis of why this is happening, what it will mean, where do the interests of humanity lie, and how we must act in the face of that. We’re featuring the video and text of a powerful speech last week by Sunsara Taylor—“Forced Motherhood Is Female Enslavement—We REFUSE to Let the Supreme Court Decimate Abortion Rights!”—that laid all this out to people. We’re highlighting works by Bob Avakian on the emancipation of women that put this battle in its largest context. We’re including powerful first-hand testimonials from women on the importance of this right and what it would mean to lose it (here and here). Click for the video or text  And we’re including important tools for organizing. These include: the entire episode of the last RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show, which is provocatively framed on the foundation of Bob Avakian’s link between epistemology—how you understand reality—and morality, and the relation of that to this struggle; a link to the mass committee Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights and to the Revolution Club web page on this site—these sites include sample flyers and memes and videos, ways to get organized, accounts of experience in trying to organize, and a new “frequently asked questions” feature; stories and materials that relate to an important building action set for next Sunday, February 27, that will politically target the misogynistic Roman Catholic Church, an institution which in many ways has been the backbone and battering ram of the struggle over the past 49 years to steal this basic and fundamental right—this necessity—away from women. We’re covering other fronts as well. We get to the reality behind the rush of the Democratic Party to back up and promote the vicious repressive program of “ex”-pig Eric Adams, the new Black mayor of New York City. This includes a short piece calling this out—"Two Critical Truths on the Situation in New York”—as well as an interview with Akeem Browder, the brother of Kalief Browder, whose story will not only tear your heart out but give you a living sense of the inhuman racist oppression this pig Adams aims to not only preserve but intensify. Relatedly, at a time when those on the desperate edge of society are—again—being demonized by Republi-fascist and Democrat alike and the calls ring out to “lock them up,” we urge you to read a sampling of the letters we get from prisoners (here and here) who have begun to truly “rehabilitate” themselves by reading materials from this site, focusing on the work of Bob Avakian, and changing their world outlook in the process. And hardly least, as the war drums beat over Ukraine, and as no end of mystification, distortion and sensationalism pours out from the capitalist-imperialist media, we cut through it with a basic article, which along with earlier coverage, answers the basic questions of what is happening, why is it happening, and where do the interests of humanity lie? So read these, and read the other stories and features as well… and let’s get to work! “...we have two choices: either, live with all this — and condemn future generations to the same, or worse, if they have a future at all — or, make revolution!” —Bob Avakian START AT HOME PAGE BOB AVAKIAN: A RADICALLY DIFFERENT LEADER—A WHOLE NEW FRAMEWORK FOR HUMAN EMANCIPATION Learn more about Bob Avakian and the new communism The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show A weekly YouTube show about ACTUAL revolution, based on Bob Avakian’s new communism What Is the Revolution Club? Who Should Check Out the Revolution Club, Run with It and Join? What Does It Mean To Join? And How Do I Get Started? What do I do first? Wherever you are, sign up. Spread the word. Find out more about Revolution Club » Unbelievable as it may seem, in the 21st century there are still people—including people in positions of power and authority—who are determined to force women to bear children, regardless of the situation, the feelings, and the better judgment of those women themselves. That is a way of enslaving women to the dictates of an oppressive male supremacist, patriarchal system; and that is what the cruel fanatics who are determined to deny women the right to abortion are really all about. — Bob Avakian   FEATURED: BOB AVAKIAN January 2021 NEW YEAR’S STATEMENT BY BOB AVAKIAN A New Year, The Urgent Need For A Radically New World — For The Emancipation Of All Humanity From Bob Avakian—Revolutionary Leader, Author of the New Communism: THIS IS A RARE TIME WHEN REVOLUTION BECOMES POSSIBLE— WHY THAT IS SO, AND HOW TO SEIZE ON THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY FEATURED: NEWS FROM THE REVCOMS (REVCOM.US): A DECLARATION, A CALL TO GET ORGANIZED NOW FOR A REAL REVOLUTION Reposted from RiseUp4AbortionRights.org: On the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, as the right to abortion that was established through that Supreme Court decision faces unprecedented threat, join in declaring: No Going Back! No Surrender! ABORTION ON DEMAND & WITHOUT APOLOGY!

3 weeks til International Women's Day

February 14, 2022 What You Need to Know and Engage This Week About the World and Revolution: In This Issue On the Importance of Moving to Make March 8 an Outpouring of Protest to Defend the Right to Abortion   We post today three weeks before March 8, International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day comes this year when the fascist U.S. Supreme Court is moving to rip away women’s constitutional right to abortion, the right to decide whether or when to have a child. The revolutionary leader and author of the new communism, Bob Avakian (BA), wrote two weeks ago in “The Fight For Abortion Rights And The Emancipation of Women”: “The attack on the right to abortion is a move to further intensify the already horrific oppression of women, denying them control of their lives and their very bodies, reducing them to breeders of children, cruelly subordinated to men and a patriarchal male-supremacist society. Forced motherhood is in fact female enslavement.” Let’s put this attack in context. BA has in this period brought forward a major new work titled “Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating: Profound Crisis, Deepening Divisions, The Looming Possibility of Civil War—And The Revolution That Is Urgently Needed. A Necessary Foundation, A Basic Roadmap For This Revolution.” This work provides crucial leadership to understand the whole situation we face right now, and to transform it—to wrench something “Truly Emancipating” out of this madness, as the title says. But the attempt to deprive women of this basic right concentrates a major prong of the assault of the “Something Terrible” that is not just looming in the distance but barreling down on humanity…unless it is massively resisted and defeated—and that bears heavily on whether there will be a real revolution, the only fundamental and lasting way to end not just the oppression of women but all exploitation and oppression. Should this attempt succeed, as it is right now on track to do, it will be truly terrible and unbelievably negative not just for those who immediately suffer from this but for all women and indeed all of humanity. BUT really massive and uncompromising resistance against this attack, growing in the days before International Women’s Day and then on the day itself, could not only beat back the assault on the right to abortion but in so doing serve as a key part of the crucible out of which a revolutionary people, first in the thousands and then in the millions, could be forged to change “the terms of how masses of people see things and how every institution has to respond.”1 The identification of this question—of the centrality of the right to abortion, of the fact that forced motherhood IS female enslavement—and the practical ways in which the revcoms have fought around this question up to today are hallmarks of the leadership of Bob Avakian. Go here to get into what BA has brought forward on this question. And as part of carrying forward overall leadership, Bob Avakian has contributed two new articles to the site this week that get into big questions of how that leadership is provided and how it is to be correctly understood. The first is “What Motivates My Works And How This Relates to Basic Objectives, Methods and Principles” and the second is “Bob Avakian Speaks To ‘Cult’: A Ridiculous, Ignorant, and Irresponsible Accusation…We Are Applying a Scientific Method and Approach To Understanding, and Transforming, the World To Emancipate Humanity.” Together these give insight into how to understand the relationship between leadership, and initiative and ferment coming from those who are being led, and how this is carried through in the new communism—and these articles wage sharp struggle in the process against wrong and, in some cases, highly irresponsible misunderstandings. The Urgent Need for Massive, In-the-Streets, Determined Protest To return to the attack on abortion rights, it has to be said: With the stakes outlined here, the alarm must be raised in all of society and the streets must be filled with people from many different viewpoints and walks of life in resistance. People must be shaken awake. Yet the so-called “pro-choice” or “reproductive rights” movement has been silent—or worse. Some call for hunkering down for a 40-year-fight to “take back” state legislatures through elections while others talk of helping a few women with this or that stop-gap measure as millions will face the prospect of forced motherhood with no way out. And the “women’s movement” itself has been so infected with “wokeness” that many won’t even speak of how this will intensify the oppression of women as women, in the name of gender-neutral “inclusion” of trans men and nonbinary people who may also need abortions. These responses don’t just fall short, they lead away from what must be done. As BA went on to say in the piece quoted above: Anything which waters down or distracts from this essential truth is objectively aiding this fundamental attack on the half of humanity that is female—is undermining the fight for their emancipation, and the emancipation of humanity as a whole from any form of oppression and exploitation. At this point, the only serious opposition to this attack is concentrated in the statement from Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights and what they’re calling for. Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights (RU4AR) has boldly called for everyone—every individual, every organization, every institution concerned with this right and opposed to the direct immediate threat against it—to join in major outpourings on International Women’s Day. These outpourings in turn must be seen as stepping stones to a massive, relentless, in-the-streets movement determined to beat back this attack. Go here to find out more on RU4AR, here to find out more about these International Women’s Day actions, and here for news of a bold protest being planned earlier in New York City, leading up to the Day. Even as we fight to unite all who can possibly be united in this broader mass struggle, including people who disagree with our revolutionary outlook and goals, we revcoms take these actions up as part of making an actual revolution, a revolution getting to a whole different—to an emancipated—world. BA has insisted, as a cornerstone of the new communism he’s brought forward, that 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) Again—read these works, and watch these films (here and here), that go deeper into why this is so and what this revolution is all about—on this question, but on the whole new world that must be brought into being. What Must Be Done—NOW? So what must be done by those who see the need to defend this right and to turn people out on March 8 in defense of this right and FOR the liberation of women, as part of emancipating all humanity? Go out among the masses now, among different sections of the people, and raise hell! Shake things up and shake people awake. Wage fierce struggle among them to see what is going down and act accordingly… and wage another kind of struggle against the fascists driving to eviscerate this right and the theocratic, patriarchal lunatics they have organized. On that basis, unite all who see—or who can be won through struggle to see—the need to defend women's fundamental right to abortion. Do all this while bringing forward and organizing people around the only real solution—revolution—and infusing them with the scientifically grounded hope that this revolution can not only emancipate humanity but that the possibility for that revolution is present in the very conditions we face now… if we dare to seize it, through sharp ferocious struggle. In short apply what is in Bob Avakian’s new talk, "Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating," and as you are applying it, make it known and engaged all over. To that end, we are giving you analysis, orientation and information relevant to International Women’s Day, and we are sharing reports from revolutionaries who are working to apply the “foundation and roadmap” in "Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating."  As part of that necessary ferment and initiative—and as a part of getting going the process we urgently need to set in motion—we are including “field” reports from revcoms who are carrying forward in “fighting the power, and transforming the people, for revolution,” on a number of fronts. And go here to the revcom page devoted to building powerful outpourings on March 8. In addition, we are covering other critical events in the world as well as including new correspondence from one of the two million prisoners now being held in America’s hellhole dungeons... and news from the struggle to free political prisoners in Iran. Get into the table of contents below and make sure to get the whole picture. Think the System Is “Listening to People’s Outrage About Police Murder”? THINK AGAIN!! The Monsters in the White House and the Starving Children in Afghanistan: Biden Administration Acts Decisively… to Intensify Crisis and Suffering The So-Called “Truckers’ Protest”: A Major Initiative by Canadian—and International—Fascist Forces Ukraine: Troop Mobilizations and Diplomacy Ratchet Up the Danger of a Humanitarian Crisis The Bitter Irony of America’s Claim to Defend Minority and Muslim Rights: U.S. Nails Gold Medal In Shameless Hypocrisy Prisoner Writes On: Appreciating Revcom.us Coverage of Environment and Abortion, and the Leadership of Bob Avakian February 7-11: As Islamic Republic Marked 43rd Anniversary of Reactionary Rule, IEC and Radio Pooya Teamed Up for Week of Programming to: “Free Iran's Political Prisoners Now!” _______________ FOOTNOTES: 1. This is from BA’s “Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating.” The full sentence reads: Everything depends on bringing forward a revolutionary people, from among the most bitterly oppressed, and all parts of society, first in the thousands and then in the millions, as a powerful revolutionary force, organized from the start and consistently with a country-wide perspective, impacting all of society and changing the terms of how masses of people see things and how every institution has to respond. Everything must be focused now on actually bringing forward and organizing this revolutionary force.   Follow: @TheRevcoms Read: www.revcom.us Watch: youtube.com/TheRevComs “...we have two choices: either, live with all this — and condemn future generations to the same, or worse, if they have a future at all — or, make revolution!” —Bob Avakian START AT HOME PAGE BOB AVAKIAN: A RADICALLY DIFFERENT LEADER—A WHOLE NEW FRAMEWORK FOR HUMAN EMANCIPATION   Learn more about Bob Avakian and the new communism The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show A weekly YouTube show about ACTUAL revolution, based on Bob Avakian’s new communism What Is the Revolution Club? Who Should Check Out the Revolution Club, Run with It and Join? What Does It Mean To Join? And How Do I Get Started? What do I do first? Wherever you are, sign up. Spread the word.   Find out more about Revolution Club »