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From the Bob Avakian Institute: TRUMP/MAGA FASCISM: What We're Really Facing, Why and What Must Be Done to Defeat It Before It's Too Late, Vols. 1 and 2. Available as a PDF for printing in English and Spanish here.
Open letter to academics on fighting fascism and the importance of Bob Avakian’s work (with video interview).

UPDATED MAY 2024 Bob Avakian Official Biography

 

OUR MISSION

The Bob Avakian Institute is a nonprofit institute organized for educational purposes. Its mission is to preserve, project, and promote the works and vision of Bob Avakian with the aim of reaching the broadest possible audience.

 
 

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.”