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Dreams in Dark Times: A Benefit for The Bob Avakian Institute at Revolution Books


Rolling Stone Disguises Intellectual Cowardice as “Journalism”
A Challenge to Engage Bob Avakian’s Work and Think Outside the System


The Elephant in the Room: Avakian Derangement Syndrome and Rolling Stone’s Creepy, Curiously Timed Attack on Refuse Fascism


85 Down, I Still Have 15 to Go... but Trump Has to Go Now
A note from C. Clark Kissinger, on the occasion of his 85th birthday


Documentary Filmmaker David Zeiger: Response to Kristofer Goldsmith [concerning an unprincipled attack on Refuse Fascism, the revcoms and Bob Avakian]


UPDATED MAY 2024
Bob Avakian Official Biography

 

LATEST WRITINGS & OTHER WORKS

A MAJOR NEW TALK:
HUMANITY ON THE BRINK:
A Forced March Into the Abyss,
or Forging a Way Forward Out of the Madness?


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A MAJOR STATEMENT BY BOB AVAKIAN
REVOLUTION #141:
The Time Is Urgently Upon Us Now—To Drive Out The Trump Fascist Regime!


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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


REVOLUTION #132
The whole point of principle…


REVOLUTION #124
Donald Trump’s whole fascist regime is caught in a contradiction of its own making: his continual Big Lies


More latest writings & works >>


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BA Works

 
  • A year-end gathering to watch the film of Bob Avakian’s talk:

    THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In The Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America, A Better World IS Possible On the day before New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles, 30 people gathered to watch the film of a talk by Bob Avakian: THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In The Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America, A Better World IS Possible. The Bob Avakian Institute sponsored the event, which brought together a diverse group. Students home for the holidays heard about it on Facebook and a number of activists with Refuse Fascism attended. Several people […]

     
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  • Why do people come here from all over the world?

    “Why do people come here from all over the world?” – clip from Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About, a film of a talk by Bob Avakian given in 2003 in the United States. Bob Avakian is the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. This talk, followed by questions and answers, is a wide-ranging revolutionary journey, covering many topics. It breaks down the very nature of the society we live in and how humanity has come to a time where a radically different society is possible. It is full of heart and soul, humor and […]

     
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  • A Question of Basic Stand and Orientation

    By Bob Avakian SUPPORT AND SPREAD THE FURY AGAINST SEXUAL ABUSE The phenomenon of sexual harassment and sexual assault—including (but not limited to) the sexual abuse of women by men who hold positions of power over them—is long-standing and widespread throughout this male supremacist society and is reinforced by the putrid culture it has spawned. The outpouring of outrage against this sexual abuse and the all too commonplace institutional cover-ups and complicity with it, and the demand for a radical change in the culture—which has made a major leap in relation to the accusations against Harvey Weinstein and has now […]

     
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  • A QUESTION, A CHALLENGE FOR PAUL KRUGMAN,
    AND ALL THOSE CONCERNED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY

    by Bob Avakian Paul Krugman, a Nobel prize winning economist who regularly publishes commentary in the New York Times, recently wrote (in a September 11, 2017 column “Conspiracies, Corruption and Climate”) that with Donald Trump in the White House, “know-nothing, anti-science conservatives are now running the U.S. government.” And here is the very sobering statement with which he concluded this column: The bottom line is that we are now ruled by people who are completely alienated not just from the scientific community, but from the scientific idea—the notion that objective assessment of evidence is the way to understand the world. […]

     
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  • A Country Ruled By White Supremacists—Since When Is That Acceptable?

     
  • The Problem, the Solution, and the Challenges Before Us

     
  • Constitution, Law, and Rights

     
  • A Challenge: Getting Clearer on the Need for Revolution–

     
  • Breaking with “Self” in a Culture of “Me”

     
  • “There can be no communist revolution without communists.”