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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?
Can now be found online at Google Books and The Internet Archive.


NEW: WHY BLACK PEOPLE FLOODED INTO THE UNION ARMY IN THE CIVIL WAR...
AND WHAT THAT HAS TO DO WITH NOW


THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (And Related Questions): INVENTIONS AND DISTORTIONS OF REALITY AND HISTORY—IN THE SERVICE OF REAL AND REPEATED ATROCITY. 
Part 1: Profound  Inequality, Brutal Oppression—and Crude Distortion of the Actual Foundation and Nature of this Country.
Part 2: Rights Are Not "Endowed" by "God," and "To Secure These Rights" Is Not the Reason Governments Are Established. 
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


An Observation:
I TOLD YOU NICKI “MIRAGE” WAS NO FUCKING GOOD!*


ANSWERING IGNORANT AND IDIOTIC IDEAS
Part 1: Yes—There Is Objective Truth—and It Is Possible To Know What Is True.
Part 2: Only with Revolutionary Socialist State Power Can a Truly Emancipating Society Actually Exist


More latest writings & works >>


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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

    August 30 Outdoor Showing of Film of BA’s Talk: THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In The Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America. A Better World IS Possible Reprinted from revcom.us It was a special night in Harlem, this August 30. A heat wave had broken, the clouds held back an expected rain, and as the daylight sky gently darkened, people took their seats at the amphitheater of Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. They had come to watch the film of Bob Avakian’s talk THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In The Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a […]

     
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  • A Call From The Bob Avakian Institute

    In the aftermath of the Kavanaugh hearings and protests – spread Bob Avakian’s vision and work… a radically different Constitution for a radically different and far better world… A fascist regime in power is breaking up the ruling norms of American society… violating the Constitution, concentrating inordinate power in the executive branch.  Many who oppose this are told the best thing to do is desperately cling to those norms while the ground is being ripped out from under us. But what are these norms?  Where do they come from?  And is a better world, with different ruling norms, possible? [twocol_one][button […]

     
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  • 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!

     
  • The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!

     
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