What follows on these pages is aimed at highlighting key and timely works from Bob Avakian. BA’s extensive body of work includes more than a hundred films, books, articles, and audio recordings. You can find a more complete listing at revcom.us. 

Internationalism—The Whole World Comes First.” —BAsics 5:8

“If you can conceive of a world without America—without everything America stands for and everything it does in the world—then you’ve already taken great strides and begun to get at least a glimpse of a whole new world. If you can envision a world without any imperialism, exploitation, oppression—and the whole philosophy that rationalizes it—a world without division into classes or even different nations, and all the narrow-minded, selfish, outmoded ideas that uphold this; if you can envision all this, then you have the basis for proletarian internationalism. And once you have raised your sights to all this, how could you not feel compelled to take an active part in the world historic struggle to realize it; why would you want to lower your sights to anything less?”

—Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:31

Bob Avakian on Imperialism and Internationalism... The Whole World Comes First—NOT America First

Would Mexico and Central America still be the U.S. backyard after the revolution? Q&A with Bob Avakian

On Exploitation

On Palestine, Israel, Imperialism: War, The Danger of Even Greater War—And Revolution

To put it in basic terms, Israel is a colonial-settler state which was imposed on the region of the Middle East, at the cost of great suffering for the Palestinian people (and the people of the region more broadly), Israel could not have come into being without the backing of imperialism, and it acts not only in its own interests but as an armed garrison and instrument of enforcement for U.S. imperialism.

On the Oppression of Women and the Revolutionary Struggle to Emancipate ALL Humanity

You cannot break all the chains, except one. You cannot say you want to be free of exploitation and oppression, except you want to keep the oppression of women by men. You can’t say you want to liberate humanity yet keep one half of the people enslaved to the other half. The oppression of women is completely bound up with the division of society into masters and slaves, exploiters and exploited, and the ending of all such conditions is impossible without the complete liberation of women. All this is why women have a tremendous role to play not only in making revolution but in making sure there is all-the-way revolution. The fury of women can and must be fully unleashed as a mighty force for proletarian revolution.

—BAsics 3:22

Bob Avakian: Break ALL The Chains

An excerpt from The Bob Avakian Interviews, 2022

From A TALK BY BOB AVAKIAN, FALL 2009, UNRESOLVED CONTRADICTIONS, DRIVING FORCES FOR REVOLUTION

The New Synthesis and the Woman Question: The Emancipation of Women and the Communist Revolution—Further Leaps and Radical Ruptures

Bob Avakian: Break the Chains, Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!

Why does private ownership of the means of production result in oppression of women?

Q&A With Bob Avakian

On the Oppression of Black People and the Revolutionary Struggle to End All Oppression

Bob Avakian for the Liberation of Black People and the Emancipation of All Humanity

Liberating Revolution, Not Lifeless Reformism

Opposing “Woke” Distractions and Obstructions

Bob Avakian: Woke is a Joke, a Bad Joke

On Liberals and Parasitic Imperialism

On the War In Ukraine

On Sports and Big Questions

On Religion

AWAY WITH ALL GODS
Unchaining the Mind
and Radically Changing the World

REVOLUTION AND RELIGION:
The Fight For Emancipation and the Role of Religion
A Dialogue Between CORNEL WEST and BOB AVAKIAN

A film of the November 2014 historic Dialogue on a question of great importance in today's world between the Revolutionary Christian Cornel West and the Revolutionary Communist Bob Avakian.