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NEW: An Appreciation for Bob Avakian's Article, FASCIST CRUELTY AND ATTACK ON EMPATHY VS. THE NEW COMMUNIST VIEW OF EMPATHY 


An Appreciation of, and Call to Study, Internalize, and Wield Bob Avakian’s “Communism: A Whole New World and the Emancipation of All Humanity – Not ‘The Last Shall Be First, and the First Shall Be Last’”


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


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?
Can now be found online at Google Books and The Internet Archive.


Why There Is “No Lincoln” Now, and What That Has to Do With the Possibility of Emancipation
FASCISM, PROFOUND CRISIS AND THE FUNDAMENTAL REVOLUTIONARY SOLUTION


FASCIST CRUELTY AND ATTACK ON EMPATHY VS. THE NEW COMMUNIST VIEW OF EMPATHY


Mutual Aid—For What, As Part of What: Reform or Revolution?


WHY BLACK PEOPLE FLOODED INTO THE UNION ARMY IN THE CIVIL WAR...
AND WHAT THAT HAS TO DO WITH NOW


THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (And Related Questions): INVENTIONS AND DISTORTIONS OF REALITY AND HISTORY—IN THE SERVICE OF REAL AND REPEATED ATROCITY. 
Part 1: Profound  Inequality, Brutal Oppression—and Crude Distortion of the Actual Foundation and Nature of this Country.
Part 2: Rights Are Not "Endowed" by "God," and "To Secure These Rights" Is Not the Reason Governments Are Established. 
Part 3: NO to a Celebration of Slavery, Capitalist Exploitation and Worldwide Plunder—This Is a Time for a New, Urgently Needed, Truly Emancipating Revolution

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  • WHY WE NEED AN ACTUAL REVOLUTION
    AND HOW WE CAN REALLY MAKE REVOLUTION

    A speech by Bob Avakian This speech is in two parts. Watch here: “…we have two choices: either, live with all this—and condemn future generations to the same, or worse, if they have a future at all— or, make revolution!” —Bob Avakian Watch the Trailer here. Watch Clips from Speech and Q&A Listen to Full Audio of Speech and Q&A Read/download text of speech Palmcards to promote speech In the summer of 2018, Bob Avakian gave a speech in several cities, now available online. There has never been a speech like this on these questions… until now. If you are […]

     
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  • 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

     
  • 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”