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The latest from @BobAvakianOfficial on Substack:
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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
Documentary Filmmaker David Zeiger: Response to Kristofer Goldsmith [concerning an unprincipled attack on Refuse Fascism, the revcoms and Bob Avakian]
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HUMANITY ON THE BRINK:
A Forced March Into the Abyss,
or Forging a Way Forward Out of the Madness?By Bob Avakian March 2, 2026 The Problem: Capitalism-Imperialism—Confining and Force-Marching Humanity to Disaster In The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels refer to historical experience where the struggle between contending classes—between oppressor and oppressed groups in society—has led at times to the victory of one or the other, but also, at times, to the “common ruin of the contending classes.” (There are many striking examples of this in the new book Goliath’s Curse, by Luke Kemp.) Today, the prospect of “common ruin”—not just of contending classes and social forces, but of humanity as a whole—is a real and terrible prospect, as a result […]
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Dreams in Dark Times: A Benefit for The Bob Avakian Institute at Revolution Books
Over 60 people gathered in Revolution Books in Harlem on Tuesday, February 3 to have their sights and spirits lifted. The event was Dreams in Dark Times: A Benefit for The Bob Avakian Institute at Revolution Books, with the prominent jazz musicians William Parker and Matthew Shipp. The audience was diverse including fans of the musicians who’d never heard of Bob Avakian to Revolution Books regulars. As people came in, they were given more information about The Bob Avakian Institute and a complimentary copy of a biography of Bob Avakian: a revolutionary leader and thinker, and architect of the new […]
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The Elephant in the Room
Avakian Derangement Syndrome and Rolling Stone’s Creepy, Curiously Timed Attack on Refuse Fascism Paul Street Feb 05, 2026 Reposted from The Paul Street Report on Substack. If it looks like fascism, sounds like fascism, acts like fascism, dresses like fascism, talks like fascism, kills like fascism and lies like fascism, brothers and sisters, it’s fucking fascism. It’s here, it’s now. It’s in my city. It’s in your city, and it must be resisted, protested, defended against, stood up to, exposed, denounced, ousted, overthrown, and driven out! —Tom Morello, benefit concert in Minneapolis, January 30, 2026 The most important aspect of [a […]
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Rolling Stone Disguises Intellectual Cowardice as “Journalism”
A Challenge to Engage Bob Avakian’s Work and Think Outside the Systemfrom Annie Day, Director, The Bob Avakian Institute February 2, 2026 The article in this month’s Rolling Stone, “The Anti-Fascist Group Fighting Trump—And Some Critics on the Left,” by David Peisner is a lazy and dishonest distortion of the work of Bob Avakian, the revolutionary leader and architect of the new communism. Relying on unthinking anti-communism, it serves as a justification for ignoring the challenge in Avakian’s work to confront what we are facing with Trump/MAGA fascism, to seriously examine the fact that this fascism has its roots in U.S. capitalism-imperialism, and to act commensurate with the urgent dangers we […]
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