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From the Bob Avakian Institute: TRUMP/MAGA FASCISM: What We're Really Facing, Why and What Must Be Done to Defeat It Before It's Too Late, Vols. 1 and 2. Available as a PDF for printing in English and Spanish here.
Open letter to academics on fighting fascism and the importance of Bob Avakian’s work (with video interview).
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FOUR WORDS FOR LIBERALS WHO LOVE AMERICA
And Some Basic Questionsby Bob Avakian April 4, 2022 These four words are: POSTCARDS OF THE LYNCHINGS. If you don’t know, find out. Don’t look away, or make excuses. Answer these basic questions: When was this country ever a “great democracy” and “shining light of freedom”? During the long period of slavery? During the 100 years after that of lynching—and postcards of the lynchings? Or now?—since the1960s more Black people killed by police than all those lynched in the 100 years before. When will you face the truth?
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PARASITIC IMPERIALISM,
TERRIBLE EFFECTS ON BASIC PEOPLE—
AND THE REVOLUTIONARY WAY OUTby Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Leader, Author of the New Communism April 4, 2022 Previous writings of mine, and other important works available at revcom.us, have shined a light on the ways that the parasitism of U.S. imperialism—its domination of countries throughout the Third World (Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia) and super-exploitation of masses of people in those countries, including more than 150 million children—has provided a certain standard of living, and relatively stable conditions of life, particularly for the “middle class” in this country.1 One manifestation of this is a significant growth of the Black middle class. But, at […]
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THE FOG OF WAR, THE CLARITY OF WAR
by Bob Avakian April 1, 2022 The “fog of war” refers to the fact that, in a situation of warfare, many things become obscured. To put it simply, it is often difficult to tell exactly what is happening. Related to this is the fact that war, once begun, has its own dynamics: things often do not go the way that the people who started a war, or became involved in it, expected them to go. This has very heavy meaning in the current war in Ukraine, which involves not just Russia and Ukraine but also the imperialist alliance (NATO), headed […]
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Reform or Revolution Questions of Orientation, Questions of Moralityby Bob Avakian March 28, 2022 Editors’ note: The following are excerpts from the essay that is a supplement to Chapter 1 of BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian. Now, when you come up against the great gulf that often, and even generally, exists between the conditions and the suffering of the masses of people, on the one hand, and what you are able to do about that at any given point—when you run up against that repeatedly, everyone feels a definite pull which expresses itself in moral terms: how can you stand by and not do something […]
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