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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


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


Documentary Filmmaker David Zeiger: Response to Kristofer Goldsmith [concerning an unprincipled attack on Refuse Fascism, the revcoms and Bob Avakian]


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?


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A MAJOR STATEMENT BY BOB AVAKIAN
REVOLUTION #141:
The Time Is Urgently Upon Us Now—To Drive Out The Trump Fascist Regime!


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The Bob Avakian Interviews, 2025
Part 1: Fascism, Capitalism, & the Way Out of the Madness
Part 2: The New Communism: A Whole New Way to Live, a Fundamentally Different System


REVOLUTION #132
The whole point of principle…


REVOLUTION #124
Donald Trump’s whole fascist regime is caught in a contradiction of its own making: his continual Big Lies


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  • Full Audio of the Speech and Q&A:
    Why We Need An Actual Revolution and How We Can Really Make Revolution

    From the Summer 2018 Speaking Tour With Bob Avakian  The Bob Avakian Institute is pleased that we can share with you the full audio of the Q&A from the summer 2018 speaking tour with Bob Avakian, posted November 5, 2018 at revcom.us. We are also sharing their introduction below: Today, we are releasing the full audio of the Q&A from the summer 2018 speaking tour with Bob Avakian (BA). The Q&A was based on people having heard a speech in two parts: Why We Need An Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution. We are posting the audio of this […]

     
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  • Some thoughts on responses to the film

    Some thoughts on responses to seeing the film Why We Need An Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution From a reader of revcom.us/Revolution newspaper: (courtesy of revcom.us/Revolution) At the film showing in Los Angeles, “several people commented that Part 1 presented an ‘airtight, irrefutable’ argument for why this system can’t be reformed—but that Part 2 was going to be ‘uphill.’ However, they were thinking about real revolution in the U.S. in ways they had never considered before. A Latino organizer and activist responded, ‘WOW! This is just on a whole other level. Avakian went to a whole other place. Wow.’” […]

     
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  • Clips from the Speech and Q&A Sessions

    Why We Need An Actual Revolution and How We Can Really Make Revolution The Five Stops: Why This System Can’t Be Reformed In this concise and compelling 35-minute clip from the film WHY WE NEED AN ACTUAL REVOLUTION AND HOW WE CAN REALLY MAKE REVOLUTION, Bob Avakian lays out why the things you care most about cannot be solved under this system. From the Q&A Sessions following the speech

     
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  • Letter from a Prisoner (2018)

    “BA makes it clear that it does not have to be this way” Comrades, I just finished watching the new film by Bob Avakian, the architect of the new synthesis of communism: Why We Need An Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution, this film made me realize that the situation that humanity is in right now is not something we should aspire to continue for generations to come, but it not only points out the dire consequences of this capitalist-imperialist system, but BA makes it clear that it does not have to be this way. There is a […]

     
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  • A Special Night In Harlem

     
  • A Call From The Bob Avakian Institute

     
  • An Open-Air Showing of BA Film at Marcus Garvey Park

     
  • The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!

     
  • UCLA Screening of the Film of a Talk by Bob Avakian:

     
  • UCLA Screening of The Trump-Pence Regime Must Go!