Buffalo Blizzard, Capitalism & Racism | Iran Uprising, 17th week | Successful Fundraising Livestream

 

In This Issue… January 9, 2023 Welcome to REVOLUTION, the online weekly news source that lets you know what’s happening, why it’s happening, what it means for humanity… and how it relates to making revolution. This site grounds itself in the work of Bob Avakian, BA, the architect of the new communism. To put it simply, there’s never been a leader like him in this country before, and there’s no other leader like him in the world today. You can read this short introduction to his leadership and his work to get a sense of why we follow him. The home page features BA’s seminal work of analysis and “roadmap” for this period, 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. And—very importantly—the home page features the incredibly illuminating and important interviews done with Bob Avakian this fall, Up Close and Personal with Bob Avakian, Heart and Soul & Hard-Core For Revolution. These interviews give you a sense of why this revolution is necessary, how it could actually come about in this period, and what it’s aiming for—and they give you a sense of the leader who has forged the road to that revolution, for over 50 years. The home page also features works written by BA over the past two years on a whole range of controversial and important questions. On Sunday, January 8, a successful fund-raising livestream raised over $20,000—part of the goal of raising $100,000 to put Revolution on the Map in 2023! Watch (or re-watch) the livestream here. Learn more about (and be part of) this crucial fund drive here, including the voices of a broad range of people about why they are donating and going out to others to donate, and reports on creative and inspiring ways people are taking this up. This website also works to apply the scientific method that BA has further developed to key events in the world around us. This week we feature: * Bob Avakian Responds to a Basic Youth: "Common Sense" Is Often Wrong—A Scientific Approach Shows Revolution Is Possible, Especially In This "Rare Time" * New statements from a range of people in response to the recent Interviews with Bob Avakian and accounts of experience in spreading them—including from Shekib Mosadeq, revolutionary internationalist artist from Afghanistan. $100,000 Fund Drive to Put Revolution on the Map in 2023! Watch the livestream that aired January 8 here: $59,236 raised as of January 8 Goal: $100,000 * Reporting, analysis and videos from the front lines of the struggle in Iran. These articles include: Iran Uprising Enters Its 17th Week: Protest and Resistance Continues in the Face of Regime’s Executions, Desperate and Depraved Crackdown “The Iranian people have issued a call, not to the governments but to the peoples of the world: Take this struggle up as your own” — New Year’s Message from Colombia Protest in Iran, January 7, 2023   From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now (IEC): Protest at Iranian Embassy in Colombia “The Islamic Republic is a reactionary force and the Yankees are even worse. We choose another way and we struggle for it” * The “Toxic Combination” of Capitalism and Racism: Why the Buffalo Blizzard Killed Disproportionately High Numbers of Black People * A Repressive, Suffocating Hell: Texas Becomes a Torture Chamber of Cruelty, Bigotry, and Hate, and a Launching Pad for Fascism Nationwide * Biden Plans to Intensify Repression of Immigrants Along U.S.-Mexico Border During the Buffalo blizzard, at least 25 people camped out in a school cafeteria.   Photo: Office of Governor Kathy Hochul * A Clarification [on last week’s article] “The Two Big Things From Ukraine President Zelensky’s Speech to Congress” * Alexis McGill Johnson Pisses Down the Backs of Girls and Women and Then Tells Them "It's Raining so Send Us Your Money," by Paul Street Up Close and Personal With Bob Avakian Heart and Soul & Hard-Core For Revolution A Rare Appearance on The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Go here to join efforts to spread the word, find out what people are saying, keep in touch, donate, and get materials for broad distribution >> Optional Spanish subtitles are available. Also available here with Farsi subtitles. WWW.REVCOM.US/REVOLUTION NEWSPAPER brings alive a scientific analysis of major events in society and the world—why they are happening, how different events and developments relate to each other, how all this relates to the system we live under, where people's interests lie in relation to all this, how revolution is in fact the solution to all this and what the goals of that revolution are, how different viewpoints and programs relate, positively or negatively, to the revolution that is needed, and how people can move, and are moving, to build toward that revolution. Revcom.us/Revolution is the guide, the pivot, the crucial tool in drawing forward, orienting, training, and organizing thousands, and influencing millions—fighting the power, and transforming the people, for revolution—hastening and preparing for the time when we can go for the whole thing, with a real chance to win. 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