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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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Bob Avakian Answers
Accusations of “Cult”:
IGNORANCE, AND COWARDICEJune 22, 2021 In my writings and talks, I have repeatedly emphasized the importance of seeking the truth by scientific means, and following the truth wherever it leads—applying the scientific method to continually learn about reality, from many different sources, including people who disagree with what we are all about—in order to transform reality in a positive way, in the interests of humanity. We revcoms are always anxious to learn about any real problems or shortcomings in what we are doing, so that we can do even better in working for the revolution that is so urgently needed. We are […]
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WEAPONS OF OPPRESSION,
AND THE HEART TO FIGHT TO END OPPRESSIONby Bob Avakian June 8, 2021 This system has two big weapons it uses to maintain masses of people in a situation where they are oppressed, brutalized, degraded, and demoralized. The first weapon is the murderous armed force of this system—which, along with all its other atrocities, continually hunts down and kills Black, Brown, and Native American people in the most depraved ways. The second weapon is the way this system messes people up and gets them thinking and acting in messed up ways—and especially how this system denies the youth a decent future, forcibly confines so many in miserable conditions and gets them caught up in fighting and killing […]
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LEE EVANS, BLACK LIBERATION, AND THE REVOLUTION THAT IS URGENTLY NEEDED TO EMANCIPATE ALL HUMANITY
by Bob Avakian May 27, 2021 Reading the “Remembrance from a Reader” about Lee Evans (“Lee Evans—Track Great and Humanitarian”)* not only heightened my own sense of sadness in learning about Lee Evans’ death, but also took me back again to the times when Lee Evans was part of a very broad radical upsurge that swept the world in the late 1960s/early 1970s. As that “Remembrance” points out, Lee Evans was a world-class track athlete. For a number of years, he held the world record for the men’s 400 meters. He was the men’s 400 meter champion at the famous […]
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THE RACIST TULSA MASSACRE—
PART 2: SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AND A DEFINITE CONCLUSIONby Bob Avakian June 2, 2021 With the 100th anniversary this year of the Tulsa massacre in 1921, in which armed mobs of racist white people, including many police, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, slaughtered hundreds of Black people, terrorized thousands, and burned down a thriving Black community, with its churches, hospitals, homes, schools, libraries, and businesses—these questions cry out: How many politicians at the time, of either the Republican or Democratic Party, condemned this racist massacre? In the face of this massacre, and everything it was part of and concentrated, how many of these politicians did not continue proclaiming: “This is the greatest country in […]
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