Archive for May, 2015
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from Warrior Woman for the Revolution
When I first was introduced to BA’s teachings, I was very shocked that this white boy was very real and knew a lot about Black life. Listening to BA, I felt that he knew just what I was going through and up against day after day. I was very interested in what he had to say and I wanted to find out more about this man who I heard and seen on video. I observed a lot of things that was not right about this society and he did too. He caught my attention when he actually spoke on the […]
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from a BAsics Bus Tour Volunteer:
I was once ignorant of the society that has surrounded me. Not long after getting out of the service, I became an Occupier. I had the experience of having many of the world’s problems laid out in front of me, and for the first time having a voice to speak out against them. This was very exciting and uplifting. I was also out looking for so many answers to why the world is the way it is. Then I met the revolution. Listening to Bob Avakian for the first time in the midst of sleeping in a park, and spending […]
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“I had to wake up and deal with cold reality when I met up with BA and the Revolutionary Communist Party. I also learned that there is a way out of this madness.”
My grandson was fourteen years old when he entered the most dangerous prison in Texas. My grandson was put into prison with adult men. He was scared and put up a brave front. He was often involved in fights and one time he was cut from his ear to his throat. He received no visitors because his family resides across the country. We, his family reacted like most families when he went to prison. We thought if he did the crime he must serve the time. How wrong we were. My relationship with my grandson is practically non-existing. I feel […]
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BA’s New Synthesis of Communism
“Communism? Great idea, but it’ll never work. And besides, you could never make a revolution in a country like this anyway.” Ever heard that? No doubt—and maybe it’s what you think. After all, it’s the conventional wisdom. But in a time when the future on offer from capitalism is increasingly bleak… when the heartless machinery of empire grinds and crushes people all over the world… when political institutions have no answers—or at least no answers that lead anywhere good… maybe the conventional wisdom really isn’t so wise, after all. As a matter of fact, it’s dead wrong. Bob Avakian is a revolutionary […]