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SAVE THE DATE:
Tuesday, February 3
Dreams in Dark Times
A benefit for The Bob Avakian Institute
at Revolution Books, NYC
437 Malcolm X Blvd/Lenox Ave (at 132nd Street)
Performing: William Parker & Matthew Shipp
Tickets now available.


NEW: 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]


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.

 
 

Programs

 
  • Dreams in Dark Times
    A Benefit for The Bob Avakian Institute

    Performing: William Parker & Matthew Shipp February 3, 7 pm at Revolution Books, NYC 437 Malcolm X Blvd/Lenox Ave (at 132nd Street) New York, NY 10037 Tel: 212-691-3345. Tickets: $25 General Admission | $100 Special Reception (details TBA) We are now at the point where it is more and more urgently necessary to move beyond this whole monstrous system—beyond a situation where people are forced to struggle just for individual survival, with everyone compelled to be in competition and conflict with others, and the masses of people everywhere are chained down by outmoded oppressive relations, while the future, and the […]

     
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  • Suggested readings for The Bob Avakian Institute Program Series

    OVERALL READINGS: *  THE NEW COMMUNISM: The science, the strategy, the leadership for an actual revolution, and a radically new society on the road to real emancipation by Bob Avakian (Download as PDF or order from Insight-Press.com) * SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION: On the Importance of Science and the Application of Science to Society, the New Synthesis of Communism and the Leadership of Bob Avakian, An Interview with Ardea Skybreak (Download as PDF or order from Insight-Press.com) * The New Synthesis of Communism: Fundamental Orientation, Method and Approach, and Core Elements by Bob Avakian READINGS FOR PROGRAM TOPICS Readings for First […]

     
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  • The Bob Avakian Institute Program Series

    At a time when the world cries out for a radical and fundamental alternative to the current order… There is a NEW Communism…and this could change everything. [twocol_one]Millions flee from country to country, drowning or shot down or starving as they run… genocides and the threat of genocide in every corner of the planet… the trajectory toward environmental destruction accelerates… and fascist regimes consolidate themselves all over the planet, including within the U.S. Even in the face of struggle and protest—the oppression of Black and other oppressed peoples, of women, of immigrants, of LGBTQ people intensifies, with threats of much, […]

     
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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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  • The BA Institute Leads a Discussion on the Film The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!

     
  • Syllabus for Study and Discussion

     
  • Carl Dix at UCLA – September 7

     
  • UCLA Panel: Science and Revolution