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!