A Timeline and Bibliography
October 17, 2025
Recently, in Bob Avakian’s (BA’s) social media message, REVOLUTION #141—“The Time Is Urgently Upon Us Now—To Drive Out The Trump Fascist Regime!,” BA made the following sobering assessment:
Over the past 30 years, I have analyzed how the Republican Party has been moving in a fascist direction since the 1960s, with further leaps since then to becoming more and more openly fascist. And now, with the “second coming” of the Trump regime, this fascism is on an unrestrained rampage.
It would have been far better—we would very possibly not be faced with the terrible situation we are now forced to confront—if this analysis, sounding the alarm about very real fascism, had not been so often ignored, or met with stubborn resistance and cheap accusations of being dishonestly “alarmist.” In a number of critical situations over the past decades, those of us who have recognized this developing fascism for what it is, have called for massive mobilization to defeat it—but, although some responded to this call, the millions who should have taken it up did not do so. So, now, here we are. And, while we should not “live” in the past, we definitely should learn from it.
Below is a timeline of selected talks and writings by Bob Avakian over the past 30 years that warned of the rise of fascism in the U.S.; exposed its roots in the soil of this country; addressed its accelerating development and expanding atrocities; and most recently, emphasized the urgency and the stakes of driving out the Trump fascist regime.
Most of the works listed below can be found at BA’s Collected Works at revcom.us, or through the website’s search function, as well as @BobAvakianOfficial Substack page.
For a “comprehensive overview” of BA’s analysis and discussion of Trump fascism in particular, see The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In The Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America. A Better World IS Possible. This is a film of a talk given by Bob Avakian in 2017. These can be found in the Collected Works of BA at revcom.us.
1996
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Preaching From a Pulpit of Bones...We Need Morality....but not Traditional Morality (Essays written in 1996; published as a book in 1999)
- Preaching From a Pulpit of Bones: The Reality Beneath William Bennett's “Virtues”
- Putting an End to “Sin”
1997
- Communism and Religion—Part 2: Christianity—Being Good Without God
- Major Transition and Upheaval—The Impact on Women
1998
2004
2005
- A Way To Understand What's Going On: The Two Pats, And Andrew Sullivan... And Cornel West
- Bush I...Bush II...And Things Going to Extremes
- Changes in the World and the "Clash of Civilizations"—Within This Civilization
- Questions And Answers: Dictatorship And Democracy, And The Socialist Transition To Communism
- RELIGION AND UNITY-STRUGGLE-UNITY WITH PROGRESSIVE RELIGIOUS FORCES
- The Bible and Baby-Killing, The Right to Abortion and the Whole Direction of Society
- The Center—Can It Hold? The Pyramid as Two Ladders
- The Danger of the Christian Fascists and the Challenges This Poses
- The Deadly Illusion of the Swinging Pendulum
- The Fascists and the Destruction of the “Weimar Republic”...And What Will Replace It
- The Foolishness of Confusing Religion With Fundamentalist Fascism
- The Republi-Fascists... and the Republi-crats And Where Is the Real Alternative?
2006
- Bringing Forward Another Way
- Conservatism, Christian Fundamentalism, Liberalism and Paternalism... Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton... Not All “Right” But All Wrong! Track 1, Track 2, Track 3
- More on “The Coming Civil War”: Out of What Could This Civil War Arise?
- The Christian Fascists and the U.S. Military
- The New Situation and the Great Challenges
2007
- Christian Fascism and Genocide (Excerpt from Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World)
- Christian Fundamentalists, Christian Fascists (Excerpt from Away With With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World)
- Religious Fundamentalism, Imperialism and "The War on Terror" (Excerpt from Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World)
- MAKING REVOLUTION AND EMANCIPATING HUMANITY—PART 2: EVERYTHING WE’RE DOING IS ABOUT REVOLUTION
2009
2010
- Birds Cannot Give Birth to Crocodiles, But Humanity Can Soar Beyond the Horizon (Part 1: Revolution and the State; Part 2: Building the Movement for Revolution)
2017
- THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In The Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America. A Better World IS Possible A Film of a Talk by Bob Avakian (Available as film and text.)
2019
- “What Is Fascism—Statements from Bob Avakian”
- Fascists and Communists: Completely Opposed and Worlds Apart
2020
- A Statement from Bob Avakian—Nothing Less!
- BOB AVAKIAN ON “BARGAINS WITH THE DEVIL”—TRUMP FASCISM, “OBAMANATION,” AND THE SYSTEM THEY SERVE
- Donald Trump—GENOCIDAL RACIST-—10 Part Series (webpage/pamphlet PDF)
- DONALD TRUMP ISN’T “TOUGH,” HE’S A BLOATED BAG OF FASCIST FECES
- FASCISTS TODAY AND THE CONFEDERACY: A DIRECT LINE, A DIRECT CONNECTION BETWEEN ALL THE OPPRESSION
- “OH, NOW THEY’RE SAYING”—IT’S FASCISM!
- On The Immediate Critical Situation, The Urgent Need To Drive Out The Fascist Trump/Pence Regime, Voting In This Election, And The Fundamental Need For Revolution
- VICE PRESIDENT PENCE—FUNDAMENTALIST FANATIC, CRUCIAL FORCE IN THE FASCIST REGIME
- VOTING WILL NOT BE ENOUGH—WE NEED TO TAKE TO THE STREETS, AND STAY IN THE STREETS DEMANDING TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW!
Part 1: The Democrats Can’t Fight Trump the Way He Needs to Be Fought
Part 2: Trump Is Already Stealing the Election and Threatening Even More Violence to Stay in Power
Part 3: Trump’s Fascism—More Blatant and Dangerous Every Day: How a Determined Fight and Massive Mobilization Could Defeat This (Long Version—The Larger Canvas and Fuller Picture; Short Version—The Basic Picture and Essential Vision)
2021
- SOMETHING TERRIBLE, OR SOMETHING TRULY EMANCIPATING: Profound Crisis, Deepening Divisions, The Looming Possibility Of Civil War—And The Revolution That Is Urgently Needed, A Necessary Foundation, A Basic Roadmap For This Revolution
- Bob Avakian On Fascist Lunacy and “Woke Folk” Insanity—A New “Two Outmodeds"
2022
- Yes, Someone Did See This Coming: Bob Avakian: 30 Years of Calling Out the Fascist Attacks on Abortion Rights
- Shameless American Chauvinism: “Anti-Authoritarianism” as a “Cover” for Supporting U.S. Imperialism
2023
- ANTI-SCIENTIFIC “ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM”—Serving American Imperialism and Promoting American Chauvinism
- SUPREME COURT: CHRISTIAN FASCISTS, STEALING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
2024
- FASCISM AND THE WHOLE SYSTEM—Why the “Mainstream” Representatives of This System Cannot Fight the Fascists the Way They Need to Be Fought—and Why This Fight Needs to Be Waged as Part of Fighting to Abolish This Whole System
- REVOLUTION #31—More disgusting hypocrisy: The biggest bigots, the blatantly racist Trumpite fascists, are now posturing as opponents of anti-Jewish bigotry! And they are doing this to “justify” vicious repression against people actually opposing terrible injustice and atrocity.
- REVOLUTION #59—The Ten Commandments—a weapon of Christian Fascists.
- REVOLUTION #60—The Fascist Supreme Court Backs Up Fascist Donald Trump.
- REVOLUTION #96—Fascism Can Be In The Interests of An Oppressive Ruling Class—But Never in the Interests of The Oppressed.
- REVOLUTION #102—“Two Countries” Within This Country—And The Whole Damn System’s Got To Go! This is not a time for demoralization and despair—it is a time for righteous anger and revolutionary determination.
- REVOLUTION #104—How can I talk seriously about a revolution when the fascist Trump just got elected?
- REVOLUTION #105—NO: Accepting, and Refusing To Resist, This Trump/MAGA Fascism, Will NOT Make Things “OK!”
- REVOLUTION #106—Defend the Rights and Lives of People Targeted by Trump/MAGA Fascism. Take the Offensive in Opposition to This Fascism And The System That Has Given Rise to This Fascism.
- REVOLUTION #107—This is Bob Avakian—REVOLUTION, number 107—a special holiday message, 2024: God-Damn the Trump/MAGA Fascists, Every One! And God-Damn Everyone Who Tells Us to “Get Along” And “Play Nice” With These Fascists!
- REVOLUTION #111—We revcoms are serious—and all decent people need to be serious—about actually defeating this Trump/MAGA fascism.
2025
- 2025: A New Year—Profound New Challenges—And a Profoundly Positive Way Forward in the Face of Very Real Horror.
- TRUMP/MAGA FASCISM What We’re Really Facing, Why and What Must Be Done to Defeat It Before It’s Too Late, Volume 1
- TRUMP/MAGA FASCISM What We’re Really Facing, Why and What Must Be Done to Defeat It Before It’s Too Late, Volume 2
- REVOLUTION #112—Trump’s fascist rule, like Hitler’s before him, is a regime of horrors—and is completely illegitimate.
- 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 #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 #115—The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go—NOW—before it is too late!
- REVOLUTION #116—Black People Should Be Among the Front Ranks in the Fight to Defeat Trump/MAGA Fascism
- REVOLUTION #117—Trump/MAGA fascists—cruel, demented, dark ages oppressors—who twist reality inside-out to “justify” their lawless tyranny
- REVOLUTION #118—This system has brought forth Trump/MAGA fascism: People, in their millions, must put an end to this fascist regime—NOW—before it is too late!
- REVOLUTION #119—Democratic Party politicians may contribute to the crucial struggle against Trump/MAGA fascism—but the Democratic Party will not, and cannot, lead the struggle where it needs to go.
- REVOLUTION #120—Opposing the enemy within in the fight to defeat Trump/MAGA fascism
- REVOLUTION #124—Donald Trump’s whole fascist regime is caught in a contradiction of its own making: his continual Big Lies
- REVOLUTION #125—Not the courts, and not the Democratic Party: Decent people, mobilizing massively and relentlessly, are the force that must be relied on to defeat Trump/MAGA fascism.
- REVOLUTION #130—Blatant racism, overall fascism—not “fighting crime”—is the basic reason why Trump is illegally using the military to occupy cities and terrorize people.
- REVOLUTION #131—Crime is a real problem. But fascism is not the answer to crime—fascism is itself a monstrous crime.
- REVOLUTION #133—Yes, this Trump/MAGA fascism really is that bad. And, if it is not driven from power soon, it will get far worse.
- REVOLUTION #134—“Play by the rules” and lose—succumbing to a fascist horror, far beyond even the worst of today—or, do what needs to be done to drive out this fascist Trump regime.
- REVOLUTION #135—Now the MAGA maniacs are openly proclaiming that they are fascists!
- REVOLUTION #136—Truth is Truth, Fascism is Fascism—and why there is “no version of Charlie Kirk” on the “left”—part one.
- REVOLUTION #137—Deeper reasons why there is no “left” version of Charlie Kirk—and why the Democratic Party will not, and cannot, do what needs to be done to drive out the Trump fascist regime. Part 2
- REVOLUTION #139—Yet more genocidal racism from Donald Trump!
- REVOLUTION #140—Blatant racism and undisguised fascism are openly and officially celebrated—and people opposing this are threatened, attacked, hounded and sacked!
- REVOLUTION #141—The Time Is Urgently Upon Us Now—To Drive Out The Trump Fascist Regime!