Jan. 8 Livestream | Zelensky speech to Congress | Iran front lines 100 days +

In This Issue… January 2, 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. 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: * Articles on the War in Ukraine. These include: The Two Big Things From Ukraine President Zelensky’s Speech to Congress VIDEO: Bob Avakian on Biden, Putin and Xi Jinping: Imperialist Gangsters and the Need for Revolution! The Russian, American, IMPERIALIST Way of War Shameless American Chauvinism: “Anti-Authoritarianism” as a “Cover” for Supporting U.S. Imperialism, by Bob Avakian USAF airmen push over 8,000 pounds of 155 mm shells onto a C-17 cargo aircraft bound for Ukraine, April 29, 2022.   Photo: USAF * Reporting, analysis and videos from the front lines of the struggle in Iran. These articles include: Iran, 100 Days and Counting: Righteous Mass Uprising Against Patriarchy and Oppression Rocks Fascist Theocracy The Revolutionary Path Forward and the Great Significance of the Communist Party of Iran (MLM) Urgent: People in U.S. and Around World Need to Stand with the Iranian People, NOW! From the IEC: Break Through Barriers and Borders to Free Our People’s Rapper Toomaj Mahsa Amini, 22, died from brutality and torture in the custody of Iran's "morality police."   * The crisis around the border, including: Title 42 and the Ongoing “Border Crisis”: Razor Wire, Drones, Humvees, and Gun-Toting Troops Confront Asylum Seekers The Extension of Title 42… and the Intensification of the “Border Crisis” Interview with Bob Avakian (spring 2022): Part Three: MIGRATION AND REFUGEES Excerpt from Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America: Article II. Section 3. H. Immigrants, Citizenship and Asylum.   Under Title 42, the government used a health measure to turn back all migrants and refugees seeking asylum in the U.S. Here immigrants who crossed the Rio Grande are stopped by Border Patrol, May 22, 2022.  Photo: AP * The Buffalo Blizzard Killed Disproportionately High Numbers of Black People. WHY? (Article will be posted during the week) * LA juvenile halls: Terror in LA Juvenile Halls... Hope In Getting Organized to Overthrow This System  “Unsuitable for Youth Habitation” We also try in every issue to show how the movement for revolution is moving in relation to key events in society to build toward the revolution humanity so urgently needs. In this issue, that includes: The message the Revolution Club took to these youth, and their loved ones, in actions taken at Juvenile Hall and Twin Towers Jail over the holiday season Editorial: Sunday, January 8, 2023: Livestream Fundraiser A FIRST BIG STEP IN PUTTING REVOLUTION ON THE MAP IN 2023 What People Are Saying… And Doing (about the new Interviews with Bob Avakian) Reflections on the Interviews with Bob Avakian and the Goal of Revolution A Message to the Revcoms and Everyone Else Yearning for a Better World: THIS Is A “Game-Changer”: The Bob Avakian Interviews (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4) 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 >> Finally, we’re running two readers’ comment on the new art gallery opened last year in Riverside, California by the actor and comedian Cheech Marin. $37,313 Raised! Thanks to everyone who donated, we exceeded our end-of-the-year goal of $35,000! — first step in our $100,000 Major Fund Drive to raise what is needed to start putting revolution on the map in 2023. Tune in to our Livestream event on Sunday January 8 where the next phase of the fund drive will be launched! Meet revolutionaries on the ground putting revolution on the map. Hear what people are doing to get the Interviews with Bob Avakian on The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show out into the world. Find out what plans are being made to take the movement for revolution to a much higher level of impact and growth in this rare and extremely crucial time. And how YOU can be part of all this, including helping to raise the needed funds. Gather everyone who is or can be won to be part of this fund drive and tune in! Spread the word and join: Fund Drive Livestream, January 8 youtube.com/TheRevComs—5 pm EST, 4 pm CST, 2 pm PST   January 1 Goal: $35,000 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.   Subscribe to revcom.us | Donate to/Sustain revcom.us | Send your correspondence to revolution.reports@yahoo.com AP photos are copyright 2023 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.