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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’”
From a volunteer with The BA Institute June 28, 2026 “Communism: A Whole New World and the Emancipation of All Humanity—Not ‘The Last Shall Be First, and The First Shall Be Last’” is a two part audio talk from Bob Avakian from 2006 (click these links to listen to Part 1 and Part 2). Like a great and expansive work of art, or play, or concerto, this talk deserves and rewards repeated listens. It is also in my view a criminally underappreciated and underutilized part of BA’s expansive body of work. Stumbling across it is like discovering a lost studio […]
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Mutual Aid—For What, As Part of What: Reform or Revolution?
By Bob Avakian June 22, 2026 How do we revolutionary communists, based on the new communism, regard the approach of “mutual aid” that is a political trend among certain forces these days? The answer is that such “mutual aid” could, as a secondary dimension of things, contribute to building for an actual revolution, as the fundamental thing that is needed to deal with the outrages that masses of people are continually subjected to under this system. But, as a “thing unto itself,” this “mutual aid” has definite limitations—and as something posed as a substitute for, or in opposition to, the revolution that is […]
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WHY BLACK PEOPLE FLOODED INTO THE UNION ARMY IN THE CIVIL WAR…
AND WHAT THAT HAS TO DO WITH NOWBy Bob Avakian June 15, 2026 “Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating” speaks to this decisive question: Why did so many Black people (nearly two hundred thousand) join the Union Army fighting against the southern Confederacy during the Civil War in the 1860s?1 Throughout the hundreds of years of enslavement in North America, and specifically during the nearly 100 years of slavery in the USA after its founding, there was continued resistance of various kinds by those who were enslaved—smaller scale resistance, as well as organized and spontaneous escapes, punctuated at times by major slave rebellions. Yet, despite heroic efforts—in the face of […]
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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (And Related Questions): INVENTIONS AND DISTORTIONS OF REALITY AND HISTORY—IN THE SERVICE OF REAL AND REPEATED ATROCITY.
by Bob Avakian June 8, 2026 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 This is Part 3 of a series of articles under the title “THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (And Related Questions): INVENTIONS AND DISTORTIONS OF REALITY AND HISTORY—IN THE SERVICE OF REAL AND REPEATED ATROCITY.” Part 1 is “Profound Inequality, Brutal Oppression—and Crude Distortion of the Actual Foundation and Nature of this Country.” Part 2 is “Rights Are Not ‘Endowed’ by ‘God,’ and ‘To Secure These Rights’ Is Not the Reason Governments Are Established.” Order the pamphlet here.
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