No nuclear war! It’s *this system*, not humanity, that needs to become extinct!

 

In This Issue… February 27, 2023 Welcome to the February 27, 2023 issue of Revolution. We strive to ground all the coverage on this website in the science, strategy and vision brought forward by Bob Avakian, BA, the most important thinker and leader in the world today. The method and approach developed by BA enables us to analyze the underlying dynamics and driving forces of events, to go up against and lay bare the false paths that are out there, and to lay the foundations of the revolution humanity so urgently needs. The race against time we face is one of bringing forward millions for revolution in the next few years to meet the challenge of making revolution in these times. The keys to this are laid out by BA in a number of critical works, especially 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 now, in the recent Bob Avakian Interviews on The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube. Without grounding yourself in and returning to these works, along with other critical works for this whole period, you won’t really know what’s going on or why—with all the horrors today—revolution is actually more possible. And you won’t know how to go to work on realizing that possibility.  Table of Contents: No nuclear war! It’s this system, not humanity, that needs to become extinct! Message from the Revcoms on the One-Year Anniversary of the Ukraine War (video and text) [new] Strengthening Alliances and Raising Stakes: U.S./NATO vs. Russia War in Ukraine Begins Year Two, Enters Zone of Extreme Danger [new] Sean Penn Shills for Imperialist War Sean Penn’s Delirious Madness and the Danger of Nuclear War, by Bob Avakian A Brief Word on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin My Ukraine War Reflection: One Year In, Paul Street [new]   International Women’s Day Protest at Supreme Court against overturning of Roe v. Wade.   Women in Iran dance and burn their hijabs.   Women in Argentina protest against violence against women, and for the right to abortion.  Photo: EPA International Women’s Day 2023: Unleash the Fury of Women’s as a Mighty Force for Revolution! International Women's Day March 2023 [updated to include manifestations across the country] BECAUSE… [new] Capitalism and Patriarchy — You Can't End One Without Ending the Other [from The RNL Show] March 1 program at Revolution Books NYC: The Industrialization of Sexual Exploitation and Global Capitalism OR Why “Sex Work” Is not “Agency” but Degradation and Nightmare… and Why We Need Revolution 4 Points of Clarification and Controversy: On “Sex Work” and the Oppression of Women, by Raymond Lotta [new] STOP The Patriarchal Degradation, Dehumanization, and Subjugation of All Women Everywhere, and All Oppression Based on Gender or Sexual Orientation! [resource page] These articles from BA, written nearly 2 years ago, are even more relevant today I’m So Sick of This Whole “Identity Politics” and “Woke” Thing. REVOLUTION AND EMANCIPATION—NOT PETTY REFORM AND REVENGE: On Movements, Principles, Means and Ends Bob Avakian on Fascist Lunacy and “Woke Folk” Insanity: A New “Two Outmodeds”   The Courageous Uprising in Iran From Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Women’s Uprising in Iran Is the Voice of Women in the World! For International Women's Day, March 8, 2023 [new] IEC Update, February 26, 2023: Executions, Extrajudicial Killings and Beatings Target Iran’s Oppressed Regions Crackdown, Threats Fail to Stop Mass Protests in Baluchistan [new]   $100,000 Fund Drive to Put Revolution on the Map in 2023 How We Raised $100,000: Big Success and Lessons to Go Forward [new] The Revcoms Go to Frieze: Raising Funds for the Revolution at a Major Art Event in Los Angeles [new]     Other Featured Crisis in Biodiversity — Life Support Systems of the Planet in Danger! The System IS the Problem... Revolution Urgently Needed!, by the Environment Writers Group, revcom.us [new] The Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania, shown here, is under threat from pressure for uranium mining.   From Aurora Roja, Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Organization (OCR), Mexico: Long Live March 8—International Women’s Day! Fight for a revolution that will truly liberate women and all of humanity!   Follow: @TheRevcoms Read: www.revcom.us Watch: youtube.com/TheRevComs Your financial support for revcom.us makes a world of difference The revolutionary leader Bob Avakian (BA) has analyzed that this is one of those rare times when revolution and getting to a whole different world becomes more possible—and revcom.us plays a crucial role in preparing the ground for revolution. This is the only website that shines a light on the deeper reality behind what people confront and connects people with the revolutionary alternative; it is the only website that features the work and leadership of BA. Your financial support makes that possible. Over $100,000 was raised in the recent fund drive to put revolution on the map in 2023.  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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