June 6, 2022 A Guide to This Issue of Revolution What You Need to Know and Engage This Week About the World and Revolution |
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If you are reading REVOLUTION, you may be one of those “who can’t stand this world the way it is ... who is sick and tired of so many people being treated as less than human ... who knows that the claim of “liberty and justice for all” is a cruel lie ... who is righteously enraged that injustice and inequality go on, and on, and on, despite false promises and honeyed words from people in power (or those seeking power) ... everyone who agonizes about where things are headed and the fact that to be young now means being denied a decent future, or any future at all ... everyone who has ever dreamed about something much better, or even wondered whether that is possible ... everyone who hungers for a world without oppression, exploitation, poverty, and destruction of the environment ... everyone who has the heart to fight for something that is really worth fighting for.” |
That is taken from “A Declaration, A Call To Get Organized For A Real Revolution.” And it appears in a crucial talk from Bob Avakian, BA, the revolutionary leader and architect of the new communism, “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.” At the end of the passage quoted above, this challenge is boldly put: You need to be part of this revolution. If you feel that challenge in your bones, you have come to the right place. But if you are one of the many more who yearns for radical change, but wonders if it is possible, if you feel discouraged by how so many who should know better don’t seem to care or else to care about all the wrong things, then here is the challenge: these next few weeks could be a crucial time in determining the shape of the future and beginning to challenge the kind of thinking that holds so many back. On the one side, a “leaked” draft of a Supreme Court decision has revealed that the Republi-fascist majority of that court is determined to overturn the right to abortion. IF THEY SUCCEED, THIS WILL THRUST WOMEN BACK INTO A QUALITATIVELY MORE SUBJUGATED STATE. On the other side, the Democratic Party and the “official" women’s movement and pro-choice organizations tied to the Democratic Party have surrendered in advance and decided not to mobilize and fight to stop the Supreme Court from overturning Roe v. Wade, but instead urge people to vote for the Democrats as part of their program of adjusting to a “post-Roe” America. |
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Taking the Brooklyn Bridge |
Yet there has emerged a force in this society that is determined to not just fight, but to defeat this outrageous attack. RiseUp4AbortionRights has organized women, men and differently-gendered people over the past several months to mount a series of walkouts, die-ins, and marches in the streets that have begun to bring forward the massive, determined and sustained movement needed to defeat this attack. This issue of revcom.us focuses on the orientation we need to go forward now, with a crucial excerpt from The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show. This accompanies crucial guidance in clarifying the issues and sorting out right and wrong ways of understanding what this attack is all about, why it is happening, and how we must proceed in fighting it, in two very important articles by Bob Avakian “The Supreme Court Moves to End Abortion Rights: ‘Taking to the Streets,’ And Refusing to Let This Go Down. Bob Avakian Speaks to This Critical Juncture in the Fight for Abortion Rights, the Road Forward, and Avoiding Dead Ends” and “THE CRUCIAL FIGHT FOR ABORTION RIGHTS AND ENDING ALL OPPRESSION: Broad Unity and Necessary Struggle.” This issue also features some “sights and sounds” from a few of the latest actions from RiseUp4AbortionRights and others. We are featuring a photo essay on the struggle for abortion rights in Latin America. |
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Argentine women in green for abortion rights. Photo: AP |
In addition to what we have listed above, The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube has covered this battle week after week over the past few months as part of its overall mission. The RNL Show recently released its special 100th episode. As host Andy Zee said in that episode: Our 100th show is an invitation and a challenge to watch this program and think about what difference this show makes and what greater difference and impact it could have on the whole society and for the future of people here and around the world if it had an audience geometrically larger than it does today. Today’s special expanded program is not only an invitation and challenge, it is a guide and a tool for you to be a part of changing the world by expanding our audience. The RNL Show brings the hard, real truth—a scientific understanding of the outrages and crimes that the system that dominates the world today, the capitalist/imperialist system, rains down on people. We dig deep: to the roots of all that oppresses humanity today so that like poisonous weeds they can be pulled up and thrown on to the compost pile of history. The RNL Show brings to you the way out of the killing madness of this system to birth a radically new and far different, far better society free from the life stealing, spirit crushing capitalist system. A new kind of economic and political system that would enable people to work and struggle together to overcome all forms of oppression and exploitation. There is a roadmap, a strategy to do something as bold, as daring, as big as this real total revolution. There is the vision and a blueprint for a new society that revolution would make possible—an actual Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America. And there is the leader who has developed this road in Bob Avakian (who we call BA), a revolutionary leader whose work and leadership we bring to you on The RNL Show. And through the course of today’s 100th show you will experience what a difference he makes. |
Yet all too few people know that such a show even exists. If you have not watched this show before, watch it now—and you can do it by clicking on the newest episode at this site. But whether you’ve previously watched it or not, help spread it by getting this 100th episode out way beyond those who are viewing it now. This episode will be shown on Saturday nights June 11 and 25 on cable access TV in Chicago (CAN TV channel 19). |
1981—Death squad victims in San Salvador, El Salvador. In a 12-year war beginning in 1980, right-wing governments backed by the U.S. killed and tortured more than 70,000 people, in a country with a population of about six million. |
| “...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 |
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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 |
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