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The latest from @BobAvakianOfficial on Substack:
FEATURED:
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
Documentary Filmmaker David Zeiger: Response to Kristofer Goldsmith [concerning an unprincipled attack on Refuse Fascism, the revcoms and Bob Avakian]
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BA’s New Synthesis of Communism
“Communism? Great idea, but it’ll never work. And besides, you could never make a revolution in a country like this anyway.” Ever heard that? No doubt—and maybe it’s what you think. After all, it’s the conventional wisdom. But in a time when the future on offer from capitalism is increasingly bleak… when the heartless machinery of empire grinds and crushes people all over the world… when political institutions have no answers—or at least no answers that lead anywhere good… maybe the conventional wisdom really isn’t so wise, after all. As a matter of fact, it’s dead wrong. Bob Avakian is a revolutionary […]
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Nationwide Premiere Screenings and Online Launch
REVOLUTION AND RELIGION: The Fight for Emancipation and the Role of Religion A Film of a Dialogue Between CORNEL WEST & BOB AVAKIAN Saturday, March 28 New York 4 pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Blvd. @ 135 St. Harlem, New York Tickets: $25, general admission; $10, low income; $100, premium Media sponsor is WBAI For more info and tickets: Revolution Books 146 W. 26 St., NY, NY 212-691-3345 revolutionbooksnyc.org or BA Everywhere Committee ba.everywherenyc@gmail.com 347-835-8656 Los Angeles 2-7 pm (doors open at 1:30 pm) The Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC) 514 South Spring St. […]
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Bob Avakian Timeline
TIMELINE— Political Activism and Revolutionary Leadership of Bob Avakian (BA), During the 1960s-1970s, and Continuing to the Present Time Editors’ Note: In response to frequently asked questions about the history of Bob Avakian as a radical political activist and his development as a revolutionary and communist leader, the following Timeline has been assembled. This is drawn from BA’s memoir From Ike to Mao, and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist (Insight Press, 2005) and some additional information provided by BA. While this is not intended to include all the many different events and elements that have gone into BA’s […]
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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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