August 29, 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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A Better World IS Possible!
Every week this website goes for the truth—getting behind the most significant events in society to scientifically draw out why they are happening and where the interests of humanity lie. And we bring something else, as part of that—the solution. This site wields science, to get to the truth; and it offers hope, rooted in that truth. We bring the vision of a different world—a far better world, an emancipating world—based on the new communism brought forward by Bob Avakian, and concretized in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, which he authored. We bring the strategy to make the revolution we need to get to that world—in the major work 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, a talk that lays bare why and how a revolution could possibly be wrenched out of the agonizing situation humanity finds itself in and shows concretely how to go to work on that. This week we cover—and “get underneath”—some crucial events now going on. These include: - the vicious horror show run by the governor of Texas, who is snatching up thousands of desperate refugees and “shipping” them to New York and DC;
- the explosively developing situation in the U.S.-Russia proxy war in Ukraine;
- the needless, system-caused deaths of nearly 2,000 people, majority of them Black people, that went down 17 years ago this week in the New Orleans region, during Hurricane Katrina—now highlighted in a new TV mini-series;
- a translation of a talk by a member of OSAYAN (a group of Iranian and Afghan women who are the voice of women’s rebellion to express the determination, and to serve the struggle, against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Taliban), at a Zoom with revcom Toni RedTree, along with a reprint of RedTree’s talk, focused on the oppression of women and the path forward; and
- the much-hailed but much-worse-than-useless climate bill passed by Congress (in a preview of a larger article coming soon).
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Getting to the truth—getting behind and underneath the distorting terms, the crucial cover-ups and omissions, and the often outright lies of the media—is critical, if you want to change this world. But the largest, most important truth is this: the suffering and oppression we expose is needless. There IS a solution. So this week, we want to especially highlight the Interview with Bob Avakian from the spring of this year. Like the Constitution which BA has authored, the Interview is both sweeping and concrete—and this particular interview goes into great depth on how a new revolutionary state power would handle the environmental disaster, the plight of immigrants, and a wide range of other problems and questions that face humanity. But it does much more: it gives a living sense of a different method, a different outlook, rooted in different—emancipatory—aims and objectives. This interview with Bob Avakian compares and contrasts what could really be if we make revolution with the dynamics and demands of the capitalist-imperialist system humanity now suffers under, and in the process BA uses science to expose the lying phrases of justification and the non-solution “solutions” pumped at us 24/7. Get into this. If you’re already familiar with it, get back into it—each time reveals something new. Go deep, into this as well as other works like the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America. Reflect, and talk with others if you can. And then? Get back into the material on this site diving into how we can, together, make this revolution: Something Terrible, OR Something Truly Emancipating, Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points, and the many other works on this site bearing on those questions. Go back and forth between these different works… linking the world we are fighting for with the world we are fighting in, and using this website as a guide in doing that. We also want to call your attention to an excerpt from the 2004 book Marxism And The Call To The Future, Conversations on Ethics, History, and Politics, by Bob Avakian and Bill Martin. In this excerpt BA discusses the evolution of the Revolutionary Communist Party’s understanding of the question of homosexuality, or same-sex relations, from its inception up to the time of this dialogue. There are important lessons in method and approach gone into by BA in this excerpt, and it also stands as a refutation of some of the distortions on this history that have been part of the recent onslaught against BA and the revcoms, which we have previously covered here and here. |
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Above: Relatives of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa teachers' college students on the one-year anniversary of the students' disappearances in Chilpancingo, Mexico, September 26, 2015. (Photo: AP) |
There are as well other important features in this issue, including the latest developments in the forced disappearance of 43 youths in Ayotzinapa, Mexico eight years ago (see here and here); and the latest edition of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show, including Andy Zee’s framing commentary on science and revolution, some great clips from Bob Avakian’s Dialogue with Cornel West On Revolution and Religion (these go into the need for science, and how security forces under socialism would handle things so differently than they are now), a hard-hitting interview with the journalist and historian Paul Street, and a featured song from the future-rock group Outernational on the Ayotzinapa disappearances, with an interview with Outernational lead singer Miles Solay. The whole show is here, as well as clips. |
* 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 * Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points * Bob Avakian: A Radically Different Leader—A Whole New Framework for Human Emancipation * Bob Avakian on Methods, Principles and Standards: excerpts from What Humanity Needs: Revolution, and the New Synthesis of Communism, an Interview with Bob Avakian * Interview with Bob Avakian * "Sexuality and Homosexuality," excerpt from Marxism and the Call of the Future: Conversations on Ethics, History, and Politics, by Bob Avakian and Bill Martin * Fascist Governors Bus Immigrants to East Coast, Repression and Conflict Intensify Along the Border: This System Has No Humane Response to Enormous Human Suffering * War in Ukraine * Hurricane Katrina * Oppression of Women and the Path Forward * Ayotzinapa |
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* The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show |
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