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On October 18, in Berkeley:
60th Anniversary of the Free Speech Movement: “standing against injustice… with largeness of mind and generosity of spirit”


A new compilation from The Bob Avakian Institute Cover of Reflections on the Free Speech Movement from Bob Avakian
Reflections on the Free Speech Movement from Bob Avakian


UPDATED MAY 2024
Bob Avakian Official Biography

 

LATEST WRITINGS

NEW
FASCISM AND THE WHOLE SYSTEM


NEW
YOU WAKE UP WITHOUT THE NEED FOR ANY GOD


NEW:
A profound fight for the soul of Black people: a defeated people - or, a revolutionary people


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PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION
Part 1: Objective reality and truth, in opposition to paltry yet poisonous opportunism—perversions of communist theory in the name of proletarian/communist revolution
and
Part 2: More on Marxist “reflection theory,” the importance of communism as a scientific approach to understanding and transforming reality—and refutation of opportunist attacks on this by phony “communists”


THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “TOTALITARIANISM”
“Totalitarianism” is a thoroughly unscientific—or, really, anti-scientific—“theory” concocted and promoted by intellectual apologists of this system of capitalism-imperialism.


2024 SCENARIOS (A SKETCH), AND THE CHALLENGES


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Testimonials

 
  • from a former Peace Corp volunteer and environmental activist:

    500 Years from Now… Five hundred years from now, about the same amount of time that has elapsed since Columbus invaded what his class of exploiters call the “New World” and began a genocide of its native peoples, future humans, if there are still any, will look back on this time—our time—as one of the most critical in human history. Our planet is now literally teetering on the brink of environmental catastrophe, yet our so-called “leaders,” of this capitalist-imperialist system we all live under, do nothing. In fact, they are even accelerating the crisis. It was just reported that last […]

     
  • Why Non-Communists (You and I) Should See the Film BA Speaks: Revolution—NOTHING LESS!

      Here’s what I have to say. Feel free to use it. I have just seen the first two hours, of six, of BA Speaks: REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS! It was like plunging into a very blue, very icy pool. I got out shivering, sad, angry, and very worried. About my life and all of our lives. Two wildly strange things came into my mind during the hours afterward. The first is from John 8:32: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” The second is Plato’s allegory of the cave, in which Socrates describes a group […]

     
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  • from Erin Aubry Kaplan, journalist and author:

    I hope he gets number one Amazon.com. We need to get this kind of word, this kind of conversation out into—it needs to be disseminated, it needs to be in the mainstream more. We got to stop thinking that this kind of stuff just belongs at the very, very fringe of society… Everyone should hear it, you don’t have to necessarily agree with it but, my god, it needs a place at the media table… Read more… A lot of say Black people are still vested in integrating into the mainstream, they’re still very trained on that, that’s what they […]

     
  • from Warrior Woman for the Revolution

    When I first was introduced to BA’s teachings, I was very shocked that this white boy was very real and knew a lot about Black life. Listening to BA, I felt that he knew just what I was going through and up against day after day. I was very interested in what he had to say and I wanted to find out more about this man who I heard and seen on video. I observed a lot of things that was not right about this society and he did too. He caught my attention when he actually spoke on the […]

     
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  • from a BAsics Bus Tour Volunteer:

     
  • “I had to wake up and deal with cold reality when I met up with BA and the Revolutionary Communist Party. I also learned that there is a way out of this madness.”

     
  • After the Dialogue Alice Walker

     
  • Ardea Skybreak, On Attending the Dialogue Between Bob Avakian and Cornel West