Archive for May, 2020
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BOB AVAKIAN ON
COVID-19 AND THE OPPRESSION OF WOMENMay 18, 2020 In The Deadly Illusion of “Normalcy” and the Revolutionary Way Forward, I pointed to this basic fact: In the context of this current [coronavirus] crisis, the exploitative and oppressive relations built into this system are asserting themselves in a pronounced way, within this country and internationally, just as they have in previous crises…. Even as broad swaths of the population will be hit by the coronavirus, this inequality will once again have its effect in this country in relation to the current crisis—as immigrants, prisoners, the homeless, people in poor communities, particularly among the oppressed nationalities, and others […]
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Bob Avakian On
EMANCIPATION
FROM MENTAL SLAVERY AND ALL OPPRESSIONMay 4, 2020 In 1863, mid-way in the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln finally issued the Emancipation Proclamation and, as a result of the Civil War, Black people were formally freed from literal, physical slavery. But today the question is: When, and how, will Black people finally be free from all forms of slavery and oppression? And this poses straight-up this big question: When will Black people finally emancipate themselves from the mental slavery of religion?! We have seen the possibility of a world without oppression powerfully expressed in the not-too-distant past, during the radical upsurge that took place within this […]