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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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  • REVOLUTION: A REAL CHANCE TO WIN

    Part 2: A Scientifically Based Strategy by Bob Avakian August 7, 2023 “REVOLUTION: A REAL CHANCE TO WIN” is being published in a series. Part 1: We Are Serious was published July 31, 2023. Part 2: A Scientifically Based Strategy was published August 7, 2023.Part 3: Civil War and Revolution was published August 14, 2023.Part 4: Hard Core Youth and the Revolution was published August 21, 2023.Part 5: Winning and Winning was published August 28, 2023. Introduction:  Some people have argued that an attempt to make an actual revolution, to overthrow the ruling system of capitalism-imperialism in this country, up against the powerful armed forces of this […]

     
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  • REVOLUTION: A REAL CHANCE TO WIN

    Part 1: We Are Serious by Bob Avakian July 31, 2023 “REVOLUTION: A REAL CHANCE TO WIN” is being published in a series. Part 1: We Are Serious was published July 31, 2023. Part 2: A Scientifically Based Strategy was published August 7, 2023.Part 3: Civil War and Revolution was published August 14, 2023.Part 4: Hard Core Youth and the Revolution was published August 21, 2023.Part 5: Winning and Winning was published August 28, 2023 Introduction: Some people have argued that an attempt to make an actual revolution, to overthrow the ruling system of capitalism-imperialism in this country, up against the powerful armed forces of this system, […]

     
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  • GOD, PREJUDICE, OPPRESSION, TERROR
    AND THE WAY OUT OF THIS MADNESS

    Oppressed people who are unable or unwilling to confront reality as it actually is, are condemned to remain enslaved and oppressed. by Bob Avakian July 24, 2023 Recently, a report on carrying out revolutionary work in Harlem referred to the fact that some people there were coming out with a lot of “Anti-LGBTQ bullshit”—like “god gave men a penis and women a vagina, so that’s how it should be.” It is heartbreaking, and infuriating, to hear this “Anti-LGBTQ bullshit” from people, like those in Harlem quoted above, who have been so terribly oppressed under this system and should be uniting with others […]

     
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  • SUPREME COURT: CHRISTIAN FASCISTS STEALING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD

    by Bob Avakian July 24, 2023 Some time ago, there was an R&B song “Stealing in the Name of the Lord.”  And that is exactly what, in this time, the Christian Fascist majority on the Supreme Court is doing: using religion as a weapon to rob people of basic rights. In its last session, this Supreme Court rendered a number of outrageous decisions, including the reversal of affirmative action in education, signaling a determination to roll back any concession to the struggle against the whole history of horrific oppression, and the continuing systematic discrimination, against Black people in particular.   Here I […]

     
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  • EXPLOITATION: WHAT IT IS, HOW TO PUT AN END TO IT

     
  • About Bill Maher—
    A Further Observation on American Chauvinism And Parasitic Individualism

     
  • LIBERALS… LIAR LIAR

     
  • ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR… QUACKERY AND CONSPIRACY… UNCONVENTIONAL IDEAS AND A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH

     
  • REVOLUTION: MAJOR TURNING POINTS AND RARE OPPORTUNITIES

     
  • SCIENTIFIC COMMUNIST THEORY AND THE PROBLEM WITH “MASS LINE”