Archive for May, 2022
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THE CRUCIAL FIGHT FOR ABORTION RIGHTS AND ENDING ALL OPPRESSION
Broad Unity and Necessary Struggle by Bob Avakian May 24, 2022 The ongoing fight for the right to abortion has become especially crucial now, with the very clear indication that the “conservative” (really fascist) majority on the Supreme Court is poised to tear away this right (by overturning Roe v. Wade, the legal ruling and precedent which established—and for 50 years, until now, has maintained—the right to abortion nationwide). At this crucial time, the fight to defend the fundamental right to abortion needs to become an even more massive, sustained, determined resistance aimed at preventing the Supreme Court from overturning Roe v. Wade. Uniting All Who […]
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WORKING WITH BLACK PANTHERS,
WORKING FOR REVOLUTION—
NOT “WOKE IDENTITY” BULLSHITby Bob Avakian May 25, 2022 During the years when I worked closely with the Black Panther Party and its leadership, in its revolutionary days in the 1960s, when there were discussions, and at times disagreements, they did not say to me: “Who are you, as a white man, to talk about the liberation of Black people and revolution—who are you to disagree with us about this?” No—things were never based on “identity,” but on what was true and not true. That’s what we were all trying to figure out. This was the case when I first encountered Huey Newton, at an […]
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THE WAR IN UKRAINE
AND THE INTERESTS OF HUMANITY:
A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH VS. HARMFUL CONFUSION AND CHAUVINIST DELUSIONBob Avakian RespondsTo People Who Should Know Better (and Maybe Once Did) May 9, 2022 Recently, the article of mine “Ukraine: World War 3 Is the Real Danger, Not a Repeat of World War 2” was sent to a number of former members of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), which developed into a major radical movement during the 1960s that strongly opposed the U.S. imperialist war in Vietnam. In response, several people raised arguments in opposition to my article—arguments which reflect the thinking today of all too many people in this country with “liberal,” “progressive” and “social democratic” views.1 While […]
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The Supreme Court Moves to End Abortion Rights:
“Taking to the Streets,” And Refusing to Let This Go DownBob Avakian Speaks to this Critical Juncture in the Fight for Abortion Rights, The Road Forward, and Avoiding Dead-Ends May 9, 2022 With the leaking of the draft Supreme Court decision, making clear the intent of the “conservative” majority on the Court to abolish the right to legal abortion, there is an outpouring of righteous outrage from masses of women, and people generally who hate injustice. But there is also a louder and louder drumbeat, from politicians of the Democratic Party (and those who are slavishly dependent on them), insisting that any meaningful opposition to this must be funneled (once again) […]
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