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The Moral Blind Spot of Supporters of Israel Who Criticize Hamas—and Hamas Alone—for Murdering Children

Yes, There Can Be No “Equivalence” Between Israel and the Palestinians—But the Reality Is the Reverse of What Supporters of Israel Insist

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Archive for September, 2017

 

  • A QUESTION, A CHALLENGE FOR PAUL KRUGMAN,
    AND ALL THOSE CONCERNED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY

    by Bob Avakian Paul Krugman, a Nobel prize winning economist who regularly publishes commentary in the New York Times, recently wrote (in a September 11, 2017 column “Conspiracies, Corruption and Climate”) that with Donald Trump in the White House, “know-nothing, anti-science conservatives are now running the U.S. government.” And here is the very sobering statement with which he concluded this column: The bottom line is that we are now ruled by people who are completely alienated not just from the scientific community, but from the scientific idea—the notion that objective assessment of evidence is the way to understand the world. […]

     

  • A Country Ruled By White Supremacists—Since When Is That Acceptable?

    by Bob Avakian Jemele Hill, a commentator at ESPN, tweeted that Donald Trump is a white supremacist, whereupon White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders called for Hill to be fired. (She has not been fired but had to issue an apology, saying she should not have implicated ESPN in her comments.) And then there is the comprehensive and compelling case made by Ta-Nehisi Coates, in the current issue of the Atlantic, that Trump’s defining ideology is white supremacy. Here it must be sharply raised: What does it mean, and what does it require people to do, if an overt white […]

     
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  • The Problem, the Solution, and the Challenges Before Us

    A Talk by Bob Avakian The following is the text of a talk given by Bob Avakian (BA) to a Party working group in the summer of this year (2017). Download talk as a PDF. Listen to an audio of the talk. Touching on Essential Questions Concerning the Actual History of this Country, The Nature of the Capitalist-Imperialist System We Live Under, The Consequences of This for Humanity, The Way Forward to a World Free of the Unnecessary Suffering and Horrors Bound Up With All This, and the Breakthroughs That Must Be Made Now Part 1: Breaking with American Chauvinism […]

     

  • Constitution, Law, and Rights

      View or download PDF here now. Order information below. Read from the Introduction: This compilation of selected writings from Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, including excerpts from the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal) authored by Bob Avakian and adopted by the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA brings a truly unique perspective to a subject that is of critical importance for all those concerned with social justice: Constitution, law, and rights.  Bob Avakian has spent decades summing up the positive and negative experience of the communist revolution so far and drawing on […]

     
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