A statement from Bob Avakian: NOTHING LESS!

NEW from Revolution/revcom.us: A statement from Bob Avakian, revolutionary leader, author and architect of the revolutionary new communism To all those who have risen up so powerfully and are demonstrating to say “No More!” after the murder of George Floyd, and all the other cold-blooded murders by police. To all those who have drawn inspiration from this righteous uprising. To all those who have had the blinders forced from their eyes and have been provoked to think anew about what kind of country it is that we live in. This has raised the biggest questions about what is needed for people everywhere to live fully as human beings: AN END TO INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM AND MURDER BY POLICE—NOTHING LESS! AN END TO ANY WAY PEOPLE ANYWHERE ARE USED, ABUSED, AND BRUTALIZED—NOTHING LESS! We need a world without white supremacy and male supremacy—a world where no one is regarded as “alien”—a world without war, where people from all over the globe, with a beautiful flowering of diversity, act together for the common good and are truly caretakers of the earth. THIS IS NOT JUST A DREAM. The possibility for this is being powerfully demonstrated in this uprising of the people, of all different races and genders, from all parts of the world—refusing to remain silent or stay passive while all this oppression and brutality goes on. TO MAKE ALL THIS REAL WE NEED: REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS! A strategic plan for how to make this revolution, and a sweeping vision and concrete blueprint for a radically different and much better world, where all this can become possible—can be found in the work I have done, including the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America. You can learn more about this revolution and become part of making it a reality by going to revcom.us and joining with the revcoms. We do not need to live in this world where so much of humanity suffers so unnecessarily under this system of capitalism-imperialism that cannot exist without exploiting and degrading people, suffocating their humanity and killing them without mercy. We can do much better! Don’t listen to talk about how “it can never happen.” Look around you—what seemed impossible yesterday is happening right now! Revolution, why should we settle for anything less?

Bob Avakian: Police Murder and a Murderous System

The RevComs from the Front Lines in Minneapolis

Plus, read and share these three new brief statements from BA:   VIOLENCE? IT’S THE POLICE by Bob Avakian June 1, 2020 | revcom.us Hey!—those of you in the media, and politicians, who want to talk about violence in the protests, instead of keeping the focus where it should be—on the murder of George Floyd, on top of all the other murders by police: Why don’t you go preach to the police about violence? They’re the ones brutalizing, terrorizing and murdering people time after time! And how about arresting all these killer pigs and charging them with what they are guilty of: murder of the most depraved kind!   SOUNDING LIKE SOUTHERN SEGREGATIONISTS: IT’S NOT JUST TRUMP—IT’S DEMOCRATS TOO by Bob Avakian June 1, 2020 | revcom.us Here’s Donald Trump echoing white supremacists in the South during the 1960s, with his tweet about shooting people protesting the murder of George Floyd (“when the looting starts, the shooting starts”). Trump called the protesters “thugs” to justify shooting them. Every decent person condemns Trump. But remember when Obama called the youth in Baltimore “thugs” when their anger boiled over after the murder of Freddie Gray by police? And what about those Democratic Party politicians now, like the governor of Minnesota, and all these other officials, who speak honeyed words about “justice” but then impose “emergency police powers” and call out the National Guard to attack the people’s protests against outrageous injustice? Some of these Democratic Party politicians are not even ashamed to “sample” southern segregationists from the days of the civil rights movement—talking about “outside agitators” coming in and causing trouble with protests! All this is yet more proof that this whole system has to go!   Bob Avakian on BLACK TRUMP SUPPORTERS: WHAT IF JEWS HAD SUPPORTED HITLER?! June 1, 2020 | revcom.us All this fuss about whether Joe Biden has the “right” to say Black people who support Trump “ain’t Black” misses the mark. Yes, Black “conservatives” who support the white supremacist fascist Trump are obviously technically Black—but let’s face it, their support for Trump is a despicable act of bootlicking, as revolting as if Jews had supported the NAZIs! So what do you have to say about that, Candace Owens?! Read much, much more of the new weekly issue of revcom.us.