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From revcom.us: TODAY / Friday, June 18, 5pm PT 8pm ET: Watch Episode 57 of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less—Show!   Featuring Reportage of June 12 Marches to Show the World: We Are Getting Organized Now for Revolution, Nothing Less! Tune in. And spread the word! youtube.com/therevcoms From the RNL Crew: This week, our new episode will air on Friday instead of the usual Thursday—and it will be a really important and excellent episode. We'll report on the march that took place on June 12 in Los Angeles, with important support marches in New York City as well as Chicago, to “Show the World: We Are Getting Organized Now for Revolution, Nothing Less!” These marches were a major effort by the revcoms to apply the orientation and carry out the strategy put forward in A Declaration, A Call to Get Organized NOW for a Real Revolution. The truth is: we've never had so much footage of so many powerful revolutionary speeches, chants, disciplined marching, interviews and bystander reactions to sift through. This is without question the biggest editing job we've ever undertaken. We intend to bring you something really good, so it is going to take an extra day. Fortunately, we designed last week's episode – Episode 56 – to be a good introduction to everyone who just got involved in or met the revolution through the June 12 marches, as well as deep grounding and guidance for all returning viewers. So we encourage you to use today to rewatch that episode. Then, be sure to come back to youtube.com/therevcoms on Friday, June 18, at 5 pm Pacific/8 pm Eastern, for the new episode. Remember to subscribe and hit the notification bell to catch every episode at youtube.com/therevcoms. Follow @TheRevcoms on social media  Donate and become a patron at patreon.com/therevcoms  Like, Share, and Subscribe: YouTube.com/therevcoms

Juneteenth—June 19—is the day on which the emancipation of Black people from chattel slavery is celebrated. It took a civil war to end it—a civil war in which Black people fought and died out of proportion to their numbers in the population. And yet, in basic terms, Black people are still not free. The white supremacy poured into the foundations of this society still remains woven deeply into its fabric. But there IS an answer: revolution. There is the potential for something of unprecedented beauty to arise out of unspeakable ugliness: Black people playing a crucial role in putting an end, at long last, to this system which has, for so long, not just exploited but dehumanized, terrorized and tormented them in a thousand ways—putting an end to this in the only way it can be done—by fighting to emancipate humanity, to put an end to the long night in which human society has been divided into masters and slaves, and the masses of humanity have been lashed, beaten, raped, slaughtered, shackled and shrouded in ignorance and misery. —Bob Avakian, from The New Communism To learn more about the revolution we need and the leadership we have, go to revcom.us. Read “Racial Oppression Can Be Ended—But Not Under This System,” by Bob Avakian. Juneteenth celebration in Los Angeles, 2020. Photo: AP Download and print (PDF)