State of Emergency: Chains on People Who Desperately Need To Be Free, a message from Bob Avakian

 

In This Issue… August 14, 2023 By Bob Avakian: >>REVOLUTION: A REAL CHANCE TO WIN—Part 3: Civil War and Revolution >>STATE OF EMERGENCY: CHAINS ON PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY NEED TO BE FREE Operation Saturation: Put Revolution on the Map by Putting It on the Walls Andy Zee: The Indictments of Trump and the Rare Time Coming to a School Near You: Patriotic Christian Fascist Indoctrination The Righteous Clash in Montgomery, Alabama and more... Welcome to the August 14, 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: Major Declaration from the Revcoms: WE NEED AND WE DEMAND: A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE, A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM In the name of the people… In the name of humanity… We Declare and Demand: The Existing Capitalist-Imperialist System And Institutions Of Government In This Country Must Be Abolished And Dismantled—And Replaced By A New, Socialist System Based On The CONSTITUTION FOR THE NEW SOCIALIST REPUBLIC IN NORTH AMERICA Read the full declaration Order bundles and distribute everywhere Read the text of proclamation issued May 1, 2023 Get PDFs of the broadsheet for printing: Cover/Back/Centerfold Up Close and Personal With Bob Avakian Heart and Soul & Hard-Core For Revolution A Rare Appearance on The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show  A Message to Revcoms and Everyone Else Yearning for a Better World: THIS Is a “Game-Changer”: The Bob Avakian Interviews  (Part 1/Part 2/Part 3/Part 4) Two Systems. Two Constitutions. Two Futures. U.S. Constitution: An Exploiters’ Vision of Freedom—Added Notes (and Brief Introduction), by Bob Avakian (Download PDF pamphlet) Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America  VIDEO: From The RNL Show: Bob Avakian on Why He Wrote the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America  From Bob Avakian: REVOLUTION: MAJOR TURNING POINTS AND RARE OPPORTUNITIES Or... Why did Lenin talk about World War 1 as a “stage manager” of revolution?... And why did Mao say, We should thank Japan for invading China? by Bob Avakian REVOLUTION: A REAL CHANCE TO WIN Part One: We Are Serious Part Two: A Scientifically Based Strategy Part Three: Civil War and Revolution [new] REVOLUTION IS POSSIBLE THIS RARE TIME MUST BE SEIZED Important excerpts from “Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating” STATE OF EMERGENCY: CHAINS ON PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY NEED TO BE FREE A message from Bob Avakian, revolutionary leader, author and architect of a whole new framework for human emancipation: the new communism [new] Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points   Three Articles from Bob Avakian GOD, PREJUDICE, OPPRESSION, TERROR AND THE WAY OUT OF THIS MADNESS (download PDF) EXPLOITATION: WHAT IT IS, HOW TO PUT AN END TO IT  SUPREME COURT: CHRISTIAN FASCISTS STEALING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD  SCIENTIFIC COMMUNIST THEORY AND THE PROBLEM WITH “MASS LINE”, by Bob Avakian ANTI-SCIENTIFIC “ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM”: Serving American Imperialism and Promoting American Chauvinism, by Bob Avakian (Download PDF pamphlet) Reality and Distortions of Reality—Objective Truth and Subjective Influences, by Ardea Skybreak The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show VIDEO: Watch the latest weekly episode: Trump Indictment, Mississippi Goon Squad, O’Shae Sibley, “Woke” Is a Joke… We Need Revolution! [new] “Woke” Is a Destructive Force “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution: A speech by Rafael Kadaris, and Q&A, Tuesday, August 15, 7 pm, Revolution Books NYC Join the Revcoms at the Sociology Conference in Philly! VIDEO: From the Bob Avakian Interviews: “Woke” is a joke, a bad joke [new] A Seven Point Indictment: “Woke” is a destructive force in the political, intellectual, artistic and ethical life of society VIDEO: “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution, a speech by Sunsara Taylor (a special episode of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show) From Sunsara Taylor: Donate to “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution Campus Speaking Tour Special page: Get involved with the Sunsara Taylor Campus Speaking Tour Bob Avakian on Opposing “Woke” Madness and Obstructions Operation Saturation VIDEO: OPERATION SATURATION — Putting Revolution on the Map [new] Operation Saturation: Put Revolution on the Map by Putting It on the Walls [new] Featured VIDEO/TEXT: Andy Zee commentary on The RNL Show: The Indictments of Trump and the Rare Time; The Sharpening Volatile Divide and the Responsibility and Potential to Act for a Real Revolution [new] Full Announcement: THE RAYMOND LOTTA FALL CAMPUS SPEAKING TOUR: You’ve Been Lied To! The First Communist Revolutions Were Liberating… The NEW Communist Revolution Will Be Far Better [new] Robert F. Kennedy Jr…. Quackery and Conspiracy… Unconventional Ideas and a Scientific Approach, by Bob Avakian (new: now available as pamphlet PDF)  Grieving the Loss of Lives from the Maui Fires… and Angry at the System [new] Reprinted from San Antonio Current: Bad Takes: Jason Aldean's claims of patriotism and victimhood both ring hollow [new] VIDEO: BARBIE?!? Stop Play-Acting with Patriarchal Toys. Unleash the Fury of Women for Revolution VIDEO: Raymond Lotta Speaking on “Robert Oppenheimer Served America’s Empire: We Have the Responsibility and Possibility to End This Horror, and Bring a Far Better World Into Being.” VIDEO: O’Shae Sibley: Murdered for Being Gay — We Say NO MORE! [new] VIDEO: Mississippi Pigs Terrorize and Torture Two Black Men — What Kind of Sick System Is This!? [new] Border Update: Two More Immigrant Deaths From “Operation Lone Star,” Fascist Governors Send Reinforcements to Texas [new] Reflections from a Reader about Rodriguez, and the Film Searching for Sugar Man That Tells His Story [new] Turning What Were School Libraries Into Detention Centers: The Fascist Transformation of the Houston School District [new] Coming to a School Near You: Patriotic Christian Fascist Indoctrination [new] Bringing “We Need and We Demand” and “We Are the Revcoms” to a Rally Against the Fascist Takeover of Houston’s School District [new] Lessons Learned from Broad Outreach Outing at Farmer’s Market on Hiroshima Day Weekend [new] Snapshot: Chicago Hiroshima Day at the Logan Square Market [new] Houston Snapshot: Watching Raymond Lotta’s Talk on Robert Oppenheimer [new] The Righteous Clash in Montgomery… And Being Able to Bury Amerikkka & the Capitalist System It Was Founded on… for Good, by Toni RedTree [new] No Nuclear War! It’s This System, not Humanity, That Needs to Become Extinct! Ukrainian Offensive Escalates Against Dug-In Russian Army: Wake Up People! A Hellish Imperialist War Is Imperiling the World War in Ukraine: Frequently Asked Questions  “DON’T WORRY ABOUT NUCLEAR WAR—IF THERE IS ONE, RUSSIA WILL LOSE!” The Dangerous Demagoguery of Timothy Snyder on Behalf of U.S. Imperialism and Its Proxy War in Ukraine, by Bob Avakian  Ukraine: World War 3 Is the Real Danger, Not a Repeat of World War 2, by Bob Avakian Piercing the Lies, Digging Beneath the Surface: The Larger Dynamics of the World Imperialist System Driving the War in Ukraine... And a Lesson from When There Was a Genuinely Socialist Soviet Union, by Raymond Lotta Resource Page on the War in Ukraine and U.S. Threats Against China Booklickers Gallery VIDEO: Bootlicker of the Week: KRS-One… or should we say KRS-Five-O Nominations Now Open for Booklickers Hall of Shame From Bob Avakian LIBERALS… LIAR, LIAR: In honor of Daniel Ellsberg: who was willing and determined to face, to speak—and to urge others to speak out about—crucial truths about the crimes of this American empire and the dangers it poses to the people of the world and the very existence of humanity  [including video] About Bill Maher— A Further Observation on American Chauvinism And Parasitic Individualism  Raising Funds to Put Revolution on the Map News and Statements from Donors The Courageous Uprising in Iran From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now: Somayeh Kargar Speaks at the Festival Soleil d’Iran in Paris, France [new] Iran’s Theocrats Stiffen Hijab Laws Ahead of Mahsa Amini Uprising Anniversary: Universities a Focus of Repression and Potential Hotbeds of Resistance From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now: Global Outcry Needed: No Bans! No Jail Time! No Executions! From Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist: If There Is to Be a Revolution, a Revolutionary Situation Must Be Created! Capitalism-Imperialism Is Destroying the Planet... Only Revolution Gives Humanity a Real Chance to Save It Special Environmental Crisis Resource Page The Revolution Club Fighting for… Getting Organized for… REVOLUTION. Find out more about the Revolution Club here. Follow: @TheRevcoms Read: www.revcom.us Watch: youtube.com/TheRevComs Donate to put revolution on the map. To everyone who can’t stand this world the way it is... who is sick and tired of so many people being treated as less than human... who knows that the claim of “liberty and justice for all” is a cruel lie... who is righteously enraged that injustice and inequality go on, and on, and on, despite false promises and honeyed words from people in power (or those seeking power)... everyone who agonizes about where things are headed and the fact that to be young now means being denied a decent future, or any future at all... everyone who has ever dreamed about something much better, or even wondered whether that is possible... everyone who hungers for a world without oppression, exploitation, poverty, and destruction of the environment... everyone who has the heart to fight for something that is really worth fighting for: YOU need to be part of this revolution. (From WE ARE THE REVCOMS…) Donating is a critical way you can be part of this revolution: 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.