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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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A NECESSARY AND FITTING COMMENTARY ON JULY 4TH
by Bob Avakian Any country which began with its foundation in slavery (and genocide against the native peoples); which maintained, and expanded, slavery (on land stolen from native peoples and Mexico) for nearly 100 years after its founding; which for another 100 years after the Civil War carried out thousands of lynchings of Black people, with mass celebrations of this, including the selling of postcards of lynchings throughout the country; which still has thousands of monuments to the Confederacy and white supremacy; and which today continues racist oppression in every dimension of society, enforced by continuing police terror—any such country […]
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FASCISTS TODAY AND THE CONFEDERACY
A DIRECT LINE, A DIRECT CONNECTION BETWEEN ALL THE OPPRESSIONby Bob Avakian Recently there has been an uproar at Liberty University, in Lynchburg (!) Virginia, over the fact that its president, Jerry Falwell Jr., who (like many other Christian fundamentalists) had been refusing to wear a mask, then posted a picture of himself wearing a mask with a “blackface” image. This was actually a photo of Ralph Northam (Democratic governor of Virginia) in “blackface” during his college days, and Falwell’s apparent purpose was to use this to ridicule Northam (and, by extension, Democrats, “liberals,” and other enemies of Christian fascists like Falwell). Falwell was apparently “tone deaf” (as the […]
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POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER:
CONSENT DECREES WON’T STOP THIS—WE NEED A REVOLUTION!May 9, 2020 Editors’ Note: The following is the transcript of a question posed to Bob Avakian (BA), and BA’s answer, in Chicago in 2018, after BA’s presentation of the speech Why We Need An Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution. Question: As Fred [Hampton] used to say, “And the beat goes on.”1 They just recently passed last week a new Consent Decree in Chicago. What are your thoughts on that? BA: What’s the content of it? Q: Police brutality. BA: This is what the Chicago Police Department is supposed to “not” do? Is that kind of […]
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BARACK OBAMA & “CANCEL CULTURE”
by Bob Avakian Since “canceling” individuals—instead of working for the actual revolution that is needed to do away with this whole oppressive system—seems to be all the rage among certain people, here is a question that could be posed, if one were to apply the perverted logic of this cancerous “cancel culture”: Given that Barack Obama—who has been the chief executive and “commander-in-chief” of this monstrous system—is guilty of committing horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity, should all those people who have supported Obama be “canceled”?!
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