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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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WHY BLACK PEOPLE FLOODED INTO THE UNION ARMY IN THE CIVIL WAR…
AND WHAT THAT HAS TO DO WITH NOWBy Bob Avakian June 15, 2026 “Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating” speaks to this decisive question: Why did so many Black people (nearly two hundred thousand) join the Union Army fighting against the southern Confederacy during the Civil War in the 1860s?1 Throughout the hundreds of years of enslavement in North America, and specifically during the nearly 100 years of slavery in the USA after its founding, there was continued resistance of various kinds by those who were enslaved—smaller scale resistance, as well as organized and spontaneous escapes, punctuated at times by major slave rebellions. Yet, despite heroic efforts—in the face of […]
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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (And Related Questions): INVENTIONS AND DISTORTIONS OF REALITY AND HISTORY—IN THE SERVICE OF REAL AND REPEATED ATROCITY.
by Bob Avakian June 8, 2026 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 This is Part 3 of a series of articles under the title “THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (And Related Questions): INVENTIONS AND DISTORTIONS OF REALITY AND HISTORY—IN THE SERVICE OF REAL AND REPEATED ATROCITY.” Part 1 is “Profound Inequality, Brutal Oppression—and Crude Distortion of the Actual Foundation and Nature of this Country.” Part 2 is “Rights Are Not ‘Endowed’ by ‘God,’ and ‘To Secure These Rights’ Is Not the Reason Governments Are Established.” This July (2026), we […]
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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (And Related Questions): INVENTIONS AND DISTORTIONS OF REALITY AND HISTORY—IN THE SERVICE OF REAL AND REPEATED ATROCITY
by Bob Avakian June 1, 2026 Part 2: Rights Are Not “Endowed” by “God,” and “To Secure These Rights” Is Not the Reason Governments Are Established. This is Part 2 of a series of articles under the title “THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (And Related Questions): INVENTIONS AND DISTORTIONS OF REALITY AND HISTORY—IN THE SERVICE OF REAL AND REPEATED ATROCITY.” Part 1 is “Profound Inequality, Brutal Oppression—and Crude Distortion of the Actual Foundation and Nature of this Country.” Part 3 is NO to a Celebration of Slavery, Capitalist Exploitation and Worldwide Plunder—This Is a Time for a New, Urgently Needed, Truly Emancipating Revolution The title of […]
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An Observation:
I TOLD YOU NICKI “MIRAGE” WAS NO FUCKING GOOD!*May 25, 2026 What else is there to say, when Nicki Minaj has now fully made the leap: from acting the fool, and doing real harm, to Black people and others, in spreading anti-scientific garbage against COVID vaccines—to where she is now openly embracing the Anti-Science Lunatic, White Supremacist, Anti-Immigrant, Male Supremacist, Anti-LGBT, Deranged War Criminal Donald Trump and his MAGA Fascism. ____________ FOOTNOTES * In 2021, during the height of the COVID pandemic, in response to Nicki Minaj spreading disinformation that discouraged people from getting COVID vaccines, Bob Avakian wrote the following (which has been posted at TheBobAvakianInstitute.org and at revcom.us). For Nicki “Mirage” and Others […]
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