U.S./China conflict | Fascists and Black History | Murder of Tyre Nichols | Mexico, Colombia, Iran & more

 

In This Issue… February 6, 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 follows the leadership of Bob Avakian, BA, the architect of the new communism. Here is where you can find the body of work of BA as well as important articles on who he is and how he leads. This is the site where you can dig into key current works of BA that analyze not just why revolution is needed and what that revolution needs to be about, but the real prospects and possibilities for making revolution in these times and the key questions that need to be addressed. BA has analyzed that these times in which the very conditions that pose the prospect of something really terrible for humanity also contain the potential out of which something truly emancipating could be wrenched… if we make revolution. In the incredibly important 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, BA analyzes the times we live in, the challenges we face and how we could meet and surmount those challenges. In recent articles (“AMERICA: Truly a Model—of DEPRAVED RACIST GENOCIDE. How can any decent person deny that we need a revolution to overthrow this system?” and “‘Common Sense’ Is Often Wrong; A Scientific Approach Shows Revolution Is Possible, Especially In This ‘Rare Time’”), BA very succinctly gets into why nothing short of revolution is needed and how you can’t begin to see the possibilities for this revolution if you rely on “common sense” rather than science. Most important right now are the “up close and personal” interviews with Bob Avakian done this past fall—interviews which give a living sense of this revolution and reach both your head and your heart. Go here to watch the interviews, and here for some of the responses from those who’ve watched them and been moved by them. Oh, and for those who say “why do you follow just one leader,” go here for a really good short explanation of the relationship between leadership and led and the kind of leaders this movement is working to bring forward. This site works to apply the method and approach brought forward by Bob Avakian to the events of the world every week. This week we analyze the increasingly intense conflict between the U.S. and China ("Entering the 'Red Zone': U.S. Steps up Military, Diplomatic, And Economic Warmongering Against China" and "U.S. Launches Full-Court Press at China" ); we include reports and analysis on the sharp expressions of the oppression of Black people in this country—the murder of Tyre Nichols by Memphis pigs, the fascist attempt to suppress and distort the teaching of Black history in Florida, and other examples as well; and we’re including articles on the oppression of women in Latin America from comrade organizations in Mexico and Colombia.  Revolution has also been covering the inspiring rebellion in Iran and this week includes an excerpt of a new article by the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninst-Maoist) on the direction forward for the struggle there, as well as some cultural correspondence about Jafar Panahi, an Iranian film-maker persecuted by the government. We also include an essay on the illusions in a recent Op-Ed by novelist Richard Powers in the New York Times. This site gives you ways to be part of building a movement to change all this, to bring into being a whole new world. Go here to read about the fund drive to raise $100,000 to support the movement for revolution and how new people are being organized through that drive. And go here to find out about an upcoming livestream for that drive. Go here to read about a recent program at Revolution Books in New York after the murder of Tyre Nichols—a program that drew a sharp line between reform and revolution. Go here to read about how revcoms challenged people at an artistic event on the war in Ukraine. And go here for the controversy stirred up by the revcoms at Columbia University in New York. So, welcome to that and more. Follow: @TheRevcoms Read: www.revcom.us Watch: youtube.com/TheRevComs Everyone is talking about “systems” of policing. But the 1st Black History Month episode of The RNL Show reveals the SYSTEM behind murdering, brutalizing, racist police. How long will this go on? How long are people going to put up with anything less than what's really going to put an end to this?   Watch The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show. Share it.   DONATING to the $100,000 fund drive makes it possible to produce the RNL show and to spread the Bob Avakian Interviews produced by the show.      As of February 7 -- Raised: $70,669 -- Goal: $100,000   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