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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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  • After the Dialogue Alice Walker

    Revolution and Religion: a Dialogue Between Cornel West and Bob Avakian ©2014 by Alice Walker If the murder of our youth is considered insignificant to those in American society who make the laws, those of us who love the children, and their parents, and ourselves, must awaken to the reality that the political system we find ourselves prisoners of must be abandoned. What is to be done? This question is approached with courage, dignity, and clarity in this conversation between Cornel West, a Christian revolutionary, and Bob Avakian, a Communist revolutionary. The way will not be easy, but when has […]

     
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  • Before the Dialogue

    from a Black businessman A Revolutionary Meeting of Two Extraordinary Minds!!! A revolutionary meeting of two extraordinary minds!!! Plus you get to see Bob Avakian live and in person. It’s worth it just for that. I’m interested to see what’s going to come out of this conversation. ~~~~~ from Jed Stone, Criminal Defense Attorney, October 24, 2014: “I Recognize the Power and Perils of Belief” I have struggled for years with issues of faith. As an agnostic I recognize the power and perils of belief. Bob Avakian and Cornel West are to be lauded for their efforts to bring struggle […]

     
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  • Basics Bus Tour

    Volunteers came from across the country to join the BAsics Bus Tours traveling in a boldly decorated RV – capturing the imagination of and engaging with people over BAsics on college campuses, art scenes, and neighborhoods of the oppressed. In 2012 The Bob Avakian Institute was a major funder of BAsics bus tours to the Southern U.S. and the New York/New Jersey area. BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian is a book of quotations and short essays that speaks powerfully to questions of revolution and human emancipation. BAsics concentrates more than 30 years of Avakian’s work. Watch this video from the BAsics bus […]

     
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  • BA Speaks: Revolution – Nothing Less

    In the fall of 2012, Bob Avakian gave a series of talks in different cities. This is a film of one of those talks, produced by The Bob Avakian Institute in 2013. “Those this system has cast off, those it has treated as less than human, can be the backbone and driving force of a fight not only to end their own oppression, but to finally end all oppression, and emancipate all of humanity.” —From the film See the complete film, trailer and excerpts at revcom.us. “My dear brother Bob Avakian… is the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party…. He […]

     
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