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Open letter to academics on fighting fascism and the importance of Bob Avakian’s work (with video interview).
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TRUMP/MAGA FASCISM
What We're Really Facing, Why and What Must Be Done to Defeat It Before It's Too Late
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The Bob Avakian Interviews, 2025
Part 1: Fascism, Capitalism, & the Way Out of the Madness
Part 2: The New Communism: A Whole New Way to Live, a Fundamentally Different System
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REVOLUTION #115
The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go—NOW—before it is too late!
From Bob Avakian, revolutionary leader, author of the new communism
A Challenge to Katherine Stewart
REVOLUTION 114
Defeating Trump/MAGA fascism: Looking to some future elections... or working now to mobilize millions around this powerful unifying demand: The Trump fascist regime must go!
REVOLUTION 113
The Trump MAGA fascists would have been on the side of the Confederacy in the Civil War, fighting to maintain, and expand, slavery.
REVOLUTION 112
Trump’s fascist rule, like Hitler’s before him, is a regime of horrors—and is completely illegitimate.
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2025: A New Year—Profound New Challenges—And a Profoundly Positive Way Forward in the Face of Very Real Horror.
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Open letter to academics on fighting fascism and the importance of Bob Avakian's work
Greetings
I am writing to you from the trenches of the besieged halls of academia – one of the few realms in this society where critical thought, free inquiry, the life of the mind, the contestation of ideas, the challenging of established ideas and authorities, and the dogged pursuit of the truth are valued, fostered and can at least partially flourish. All of this is under attack from the most powerful office in human history, at breakneck pace, with utter contempt for both the rule of law as well as the cherished norms of intellectual integrity and scientific commitment. A key plank of the Trump’s fascist agenda, like the fascist regimes before him, is to fundamentally remake higher education in its own image, as a site of blind allegiance to power, where research, inquiry, and teaching that challenge America-first chauvinism, Christian fundamentalist obscurantism, and the dictates of ruthless, planet-destroying capitalist plunder are attacked and suppressed.
In these dark times, we are called upon to resist these attacks as part of preventing the full consolidation of MAGA fascism. This will require collective struggle, self-sacrifice, determination, and some serious courage. But we must also ask, and debate in a spirit of broad-mindedness and intellectual curiosity, some big questions. From where did this movement of xenophobic cruelty, dark ages morality, and unthinking allegiance come? Why are millions of people in this country among its ranks? And what is it going to take to reach the other millions, those sickened by what they are witnessing and hungry for real change, and not a “return to normal”? Is there not only a way out, but a way through – to a wildly daring yet eminently possible new world? (Continue reading)
In Defense of Bob Avakian and the Revcoms
[The articles below by Paul Street, historian and author, originally appeared in January 2024 at The Paul Street Report.]
Dear readers: This and my next two Paul Street Reports address the work of Bob Avakian and the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (the “Revcoms”) and the sadly vicious, slanderous, ignorant and reactionary response of much of “the left,” whatever “the left” is anymore, to Avakian and the Revcoms.
• In Defense of Bob Avakian and the Revcoms, Part 1 of 3
• Part 2: Against Neo-McCarthyism and More
• Part 3: Against More Left Slander and Stupidity.