Because We Don’t Have to Live This Way

 

In This Issue… March 13, 2023 Welcome to the March 13, 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: Celebrate International Women’s Day: Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!   A fierce, joyous, revolutionary IWD breaks through the clouds on Venice Beach [new] Because We Don’t Have to Live This Way (video / text) [new] International Women’s Day 2023—United States [new] International Women's Day 2023 Around the World [new] From The RNL Show: International Women’s Day 2023 [new] “Free Women”—from the revolutionary band Outernational [new] VIDEO: Bob Avakian on Why You Can’t Break All the Chains Except One... [excerpt from The Bob Avakian Interviews] Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights actions on IWD From the 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 From 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! From the Revolutionary Communist Group, Colombia: To Free Women from Centuries of Oppression, as Part of Freeing Humanity from All Forms of Oppression, We Need Revolution, Nothing Less! STOP The Patriarchal Degradation, Dehumanization, and Subjugation of All Women Everywhere, and All Oppression Based on Gender or Sexual Orientation! [resource page] Waging the Struggle Against Fascist Lunacy and Woke Madness The RNL Show Interview with Raymond Lotta on the Industrialization of Sexual Exploitation and Global Capitalism [new] VIDEO: Raymond Lotta: The Industrialization of Sexual Exploitation and Global Capitalism OR Why “Sex Work” Is NOT “Agency” but Degradation and Nightmare… and Why We Need Revolution [new] Raymond Lotta on Why “Sex Work” Is Oppression, Not “Agency” - An Important, Wild, and Heartfelt Program at Revolution Books [new] Heighten Vigilance, Be Prepared! Access to Abortion Medication in the Hands of a Fascist Judge Walgreens Refuses to Provide Mifepristone No nuclear war! It’s this system, not humanity, that needs to become extinct! Leaflet for Sunday, April 2 protests—download the PDF. [new] The U.S. and NATO—Partners in Imperialist Crime Message from the Revcoms on the One-Year Anniversary of the Ukraine War (video and text)  Challenge to Hollywood [new] Resource page on war in Ukraine These articles from BA, written nearly two 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” Courageous Uprising in Iran Wave of Chemical Attacks Sickens, Hospitalizes Thousands of Iranian School Girls: Regime Did Nothing for Months… Now Arrests Those Exposing and Protesting This Crime [new] On IWD, U.S. Rulers “Honor” Women and Girls of Iran— By Giving Them an Award Named for a War Criminal! [new] Check It Out: COUP 53—Old Secrets Cast Long Shadows [new] Parents protest the poisoning of Iranian students, mainly girls, March 2023.  Photo: Human Rights Activists in Iran Other Featured As End of “Title 42” Nears: Biden Administration Gears Up Repressive Anti-Immigrant Machinery [new] A Note on the Bitter Conflict—and Fundamental Unity—Between the Democrats and the Republi-Fascists Around Immigration… and the Possibility for Revolution Black Giuliani Claims Divine Mandate: ERIC ADAMS’ GOD TALK IS DANGEROUS BULLSHIT! [new] State-Sponsored Settler Terror and Death Against Palestinians in Huwwara: An Israeli Kristallnacht  [new] Atlanta: Forest Defenders Opposing “Cop City” Are Hit with More “Domestic Terrorism” Charges [new] 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. 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