📺 WATCH RNL Show special episode, Friday May 26: "Woke" Lunacy vs. Real Revolution

 

Special Episode of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show   Featuring Sunsara Taylor's speech filmed at UCLA: "Woke" Lunacy vs. REAL Revolution Watch online at youtube.com/therevcoms Friday, May 26 – 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET Watch an excerpt HERE Watch with others: See listing of local showings below “Woke” is a destructive force in the political, intellectual, artistic and ethical life of society Bizarre and capricious rules enforced by cancel culture threats. Puffed-up unscientific claims to “represent the marginalized.” Insisting that people “stay in their lanes” in fighting oppression. “Woke” lunacy manifests much that is harmful with the capitalist-imperialist system and its dominant culture, furthering the nightmare of humanity! “Woke” once meant righteous awareness of racial oppression but has long since morphed into fanatical lunacy and vicious mob mentality. A bloodlust to target and tear into individuals, while cowardly ducking, and often, actively obstructing the real and needed fight against the system, especially its overthrow through an actual revolution! Woke Lunacy and the fascist steamroller moving through society are in a deadly dance, mutually opposing, while fueling and feeding off the other. Fascism is by far the greater danger, but in this dynamic, brazen white supremacy and misogyny feast on and defeat the brittle bravado of “woke.” At a time of unprecedented change—as the “powers that be” clash and as cohering norms of the U.S. are ripping—there is a much greater chance to bring this whole oppressive edifice down. We have a chance to aim for something radically different; we have a responsibility to fight for something actually liberating. We must seize this chance and rise to this responsibility. Read more In the words of Bob Avakian, revolutionary leader and author of the new communism: Instead of “staying in your lane,” and “going for self,” while this system is moving to even more decisively crush any hope for a world worth living in, people need to be looking at the bigger picture, focusing on the greater interests of humanity and the possibility for a far better world—and acting to make this a reality.... Instead of snarking and sniping at each other, and being divided by “identities,” people should be working to unite everyone, from every part of society, who can be united in the fight against oppression and injustice, with the goal of putting an end to this system that is the source of this oppression and injustice. WATCH THE SPECIAL EPISODE TOGETHER WITH OTHERS: Berkeley: Friday, May 26, 5pm Revolution Books Berkeley, 2444 Durant Avenue, Berkeley 510-848-1196 New York City: Tuesday, May 30, 7pm Revolution Books NY, 437 Malcolm X Blvd (at 132nd St), New York 212-691-3345 Chicago: Saturday, May 27, 3pm‑5pm Unity Lutheran Church Community Center, 1212 W. Balmoral, Chicago (Use red door entrance on Balmoral) Revolution Club Chicago 312-804-9121 @RevClubChi Houston: Friday, May 26, 7pm Austin: Saturday, May 27, 12pm (noon) Location shared upon request via contacting: revolutionhtown@yahoo.com DONATE TO THE ‘WOKE’ LUNACY vs. REAL REVOLUTION TOUR “Through your donation to the ‘Woke’ Lunacy vs. Real Revolution speaking tour, you can have a huge impact in waking young people and others to fight for and win the future humanity deserves. Please give generously.” —letter from Sunsara Taylor Earmark your donation: “WOKE VS. REV.”   Revcom.us—where you go to scientifically understand and radically change the world... Go to www.revcom.us every day.

Sunsara Taylor speaks on "Woke" Lunacy vs Real Revolution - Wed. May 24th at UCLA

 

“WOKE” LUNACY VS. REAL REVOLUTION A SPEECH FROM SUNSARA TAYLOR May 24, Wednesday, 6:30 pm University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Boelter, 3400 Download Flyer On college campuses across the country, sexual assault, depression, anxiety, and suicide are at all time highs. In Black and Brown neighborhoods, the police act like an occupying army, murdering more people than ever last year... while Biden declares “Fund the police!” On the southern border, desperate asylum seekers are robbed, hunted, or burned alive, dying by the thousands in the desert, while Democrats double down on Trump’s immigration policy. Around the world, this capitalist-imperialist system is pushing humanity to the brink of climate catastrophe and World War 3 between the U.S. and Russia and China. Across the country, Republi-fascists are banning books, slamming back LGBT people, and snatching away women’s rights to control their own bodies... while trigger happy white supremacist, Christian-fascist, MAGA mobs get ready for civil war to wipe out all those they hate. In the face of all this people (and especially students!) need to wake up, stand up, and seek out real solutions. But “woke” identity politics—which gets more unhinged from reality by the day—stands as a major obstacle to that. While the fascist lunacy poses by far the greater danger, this “woke” idiocy does incalculable damage and ends up actually helping the fascists. “Wokeness” and cancel culture pose as the answer to this system’s injustice, to white supremacy and gender oppression. But this is a FRAUD! Sunsara Taylor will rip the veil off this whole framework, showing how it evades, misdirects, and does great harm to the struggle that is urgently needed. She will dissect its theoretical premises and bring first hand experience, as a leader in the fight for abortion rights, of its toxic effects. Sunsara Taylor, who bases herself on the new communism developed by Bob Avakian, will speak about why this capitalist-imperialist system must be overthrown in order to uproot and abolish all forms of oppression, why “inclusion” and “safe spaces” within this system are NOT the answer, and why YOU need to be part of this revolution. Masses of people are being brutalized and savaged, the world is burning (literally as well as figuratively) and you are preoccupied with changing the faces of those who preside over these horrors, and spitting on people if they don’t use nouns and pronouns that you approve of, or in some other way violate the constantly mutating standards of “wokeness.” —Bob Avakian

From Sunsara Taylor: Donate to “‘Woke’ Lunacy vs. Real Revolution” Campus Speaking Tour Read and download the PDF

U.S. Ushers in a New Era of Border Repression

 

In This Issue… May 15, 2023 $100,000 Summer Solstice Fund Drive! Taking the “We Are the Revcoms” Proclamation Out into the World Waging the Struggle Against Fascist Lunacy and Woke Madness Down With the Persecution of Immigrants! NYC Subway Lynching of Jordan Neely and more... Welcome to the May 15, 2023 issue of Revolution. We strive to ground all the coverage at revcom.us 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: WE ARE THE REVCOMS: WE ARE WORKING FOR A REAL REVOLUTION AND A WHOLE NEW, EMANCIPATING WAY TO LIVE Read the text of proclamation issued May 1, 2023 Get PDFs of the broadsheet for printing:            Cover/Back/Centerfold   $100,000 Summer Solstice Fund Drive! Raising $100K by June 21, 2023 to put revolution on the map Week 2 of the $100,000 Summer Solstice Fund Drive: TWO KEY THINGS TO DO [new] Take out this leaflet to raise funds: half-page | full page [new] From Sunsara Taylor: Donate to “‘Woke’ Lunacy vs Real Revolution” Campus Speaking Tour [new] DONATE U.S. Constitution: An Exploiters’ Vision of Freedom—Added Notes (and Brief Introduction), by Bob Avakian The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show VIDEO: Subway Lynching; Refugees Terrorized; Humanity Doesn’t Have to Live This Way—Get with the Revolution. Episode 147, premiered May 11. [new] From Bob Avakian… BAsics 3:1 Enough of “woke folk” who act as if it is actually oppressed people who are fragile beings… Everything Depends… Without Confronting the Very Real Horror… Taking the “We Are the Revcoms” Proclamation Out into the World Tuesday, May 16, 7 pm, Revolution Books NYC: Andy Zee in a discussion and Q&A on We Are the Revcoms Revcoms Write on the We Are the Revcoms Broadsheet [new] From a Reader: On Bob Avakian’s “The U.S. Constitution: An Exploiters’ Vision of Freedom—Added Notes (and Brief Introduction)” [new] Waging the Struggle Against Fascist Lunacy and Woke Madness Announcing a special RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on Friday, May 26 featuring Sunsara Taylor's talk titled “Woke Lunacy vs. Real Revolution” [new] “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution at a College in Southern California: Report on the second stop of a speaking tour with Sunsara Taylor  VIDEO: Sunsara Taylor Speaks at UCSD on Woke Lunacy vs. Real Revolution “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution in Berkeley: A Report on the First Stop of a Speaking Tour with Sunsara Taylor VIDEO: 4 Points on Privilege (excerpt from The RNL Show) VIDEO: From the Bob Avakian Interviews: Woke Is a Joke, a Bad Joke Down With the Persecution of Immigrants! We Don’t Have an Immigration Problem, We Have an Imperialism Problem VIDEO: As Title 42 Ends... We Say: We Don't Have an Immigration Problem, We Have an Imperialism Problem [new] U.S. Imperialism Perpetuates Its Monstrous Crimes Against Humanity: Title 42 Ends… A New Era of Border Repression Begins [new] Democrats and Republi-fascists—Fundamental Agreement, Intense Conflict Over the System’s “Border Crisis”… and the Possibility for Revolution [new] When It Comes to Persecuting and Repressing Immigrants… Here’s How Biden Out-Trumps Trump [new] Down with the Biden/Trump Persecution of Immigrants! No Human Being Is Illegal! We don’t have an immigration problem, we have an imperialism problem. This SYSTEM Must Go! Now’s the Time to Get Organized for an Actual Revolution!  PDF for flyer PDFs for poster: B&W | color Taking the message from revcoms into the streets: This System Has No Answer to the Refugee Crisis, WE DO [new] Excerpt from the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, on Immigrants, Citizenship and Asylum From Why We Need an Actual Revolution and How We Can Really Make Revolution, by Bob Avakian: The Demonization, Criminalization and Deportation of Immigrants and the Militarization of the Border [new] Revolution Club Chicago: Stop Attacks on Immigrants! Stop Falling for the System’s Divide-and-Conquer Game! Unite for Real Revolution and the Emancipation of Humanity NYC Subway Lynching of Jordan Neely VIDEO: The NYC Subway Lynching of Jordan Neely... and Capitalist Dictatorship [new] Update on the Subway Killing of Jordan Neely by a White Vigilante: Protests, Charges, and Slanders [new] On the Subway Lynching of Jordan Neely… Another Black Life Snuffed Out by This System… Enough! Time to Get Organized for a Real Revolution, by Carl Dix No Nuclear War! It’s This System, not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct! Belligerent Threats, Massive Military Buildup: U.S. Ups the Ante, Raises the Tension in East Asia Confrontation with China Resource Page on the War in Ukraine and U.S. Threats Against China Time to Fight for Abortion Rights Alert! Abortion Pill Case Continues in Federal Court, May 17 Legal Abortion on Demand and Without Apology—Nationwide! Forced Motherhood = Female Enslavement VIDEO: Sunsara Taylor Interview with Mark Joseph Stern (from The RNL Show)  The Courageous Uprising in Iran New Wave of Accelerated Executions in Iran: Lives of Political Prisoners Truly Hang in the Balance: WE MUST ACT NOW! [new] From Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: If There Is to Be a Revolution, a Revolutionary Situation Must Be Created! Follow: @TheRevcoms Read: www.revcom.us Watch: youtube.com/TheRevComs 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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