The Bob Avakian Institute is a nonprofit institute organized for educational purposes. Its mission is to preserve, project, and promote the works and vision of Bob Avakian with the aim of reaching the broadest possible audience.
New Audio
Listen to Bob Avakian Remarking on the Current Elections, and the Illegitimacy of this System
These brief excerpted remarks provide a scientific understanding, orientation, and approach to the moment.
Testimonials
A great occasion to explore how revolutionary Marxism and radical Christianity may find common ground in articulating the hope for transformation.
If humanity is to survive and thrive we all know that there must be radical and fundamental change. The rule of avarice and violence is destroying the lives of myriads and indeed the very planetary basis for life. Two forces for this fundamental transf…
Ted Jennings
A discussion on the role of religion in the struggle for material and spiritual emancipation of the human has never been so necessary.
The gap of wealth and power between the have and the have-not nations of the earth and the social haves and have-nots within each of the nations, is deepening and widening daily, with the irony that the haves, between and within nations, depend on the resources of…
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
If we really want fundamental change…look at fundamental questions—“Revolution and Religion” is as fundamental as it gets.
What kind of world do we live in? A world where Michael Brown’s murderer still walks free while we’re told to have a “conversation” about race, where oil companies rush to grab up the new oil fields exposed by the melting polar ice cap while “world leaders” make me…
David Zeiger
Two people with differences about how to resolve our quest for a moral way of being… having a principled discussion.
Both Cornel West and Bob Avakian say we are moral people with responsibility to look at what is really happening in this world and to decide what is right and wrong and to act accordingly. This is very different than the view of people whose religious faith is shaken that without a…
Carol Downer
I strongly support the Dialogue
When you consider that religion influences the majority of humanity in one way or another, the Dialogue between Cornel West and Bob Avakian can be extremely important—particularly if it encourages religious leaders and their followers to develop a strategy that plays a major role in the struggle for emancipation. With this in mind, I strongly support the Dialogue.
Richard Brown
I do look forward to the results of this Dialogue on questions of such vital importance to humanity.
The Dialogue between Cornel West and Bob Avakian of the Revolutionary Communist Party will hold anyone of care in fascination and examination. My initial probing is to ask BA, a man of sensitivity, courage, and caring, what he explicitly means by “revolution.” I agree that we must “rise up and fig…
Rev Cecil L. Murray
Let The People Decide
As a young Southern black woman I was deeply impressed and changed, in the Sixties, by the appearance in our local communities of SNCC, members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, whose mission was to transform the Apartheid/Jim Crow South. They were the first activists of color, with their white allies, that I saw who respectfully listened to poor black peopl…
Alice Walker