As an Institute who works for the broad awareness of and discussion about the substance of Bob Avakian’s work, we play an important role in setting the record straight when it comes to distortion or inaccuracies in the representation of Avakian’s vast body of work – which speaks to urgent questions of politics, history, philosophy, law and whether a better world is possible.  In our capacity as an independent Institute, we are also a third-party resource which provides factual information about Bob Avakian’s work.

Here, we are sharing statements of fact about Avakian’s work in response to inaccuracies or distortion.

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Rolling Stone Disguises Intellectual Cowardice as “Journalism”
A Challenge to Engage Bob Avakian’s Work and Think Outside the System

from Annie Day, Director, The Bob Avakian Institute

February 2, 2026

The article in this month's Rolling Stone, "The Anti-Fascist Group Fighting Trump—And Some Critics on the Left," by David Peisner is a lazy and dishonest distortion of the work of Bob Avakian, the revolutionary leader and architect of the new communism.

Relying on unthinking anti-communism, it serves as a justification for ignoring the challenge in Avakian's work to confront what we are facing with Trump/MAGA fascism, to seriously examine the fact that this fascism has its roots in U.S. capitalism-imperialism, and to act commensurate with the urgent dangers we face. This includes being willing to have your fundamental assumptions challenged and your sights raised beyond this horrific system. Instead, Peisner disguises intellectual cowardice as "reportage": go nowhere near Avakian's work and do not work with the revolutionaries who advocate for this work—if you do you will be deemed ineffectual and sidelined.

With the future hanging in the balance amidst accelerating fascism, climate catastrophe, genocide and the danger of nuclear war, no one should accept this cynical dismissal of the most burning questions confronting humanity: whether a radically different, and far better, society is possible. This is what Bob Avakian's work concentrates, and why it demands serious engagement. Read more.

The Elephant in the Room
Avakian Derangement Syndrome and Rolling Stone’s Creepy, Curiously Timed Attack on Refuse Fascism

Paul Street
Feb 05, 2026
Reposted from The Paul Street Report on Substack.

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There’s more than a little dark irony in Rolling Stone’s recent, largely negative, Bob Avakian-bashing piece on Refuse Fascism (RF), the organization that has stood out for nine-plus years for its dead-on understanding of and militant opposition to Donald Trump, Trumpism, and the Trump regime(s).1 Titled “The Antifascist Group Fighting Trump—and Some Critics on the Left,” the article was published just as terrible events in Minnesota including the extra-judicial execution of two peaceful protesters by Trump’s masked “immigration enforcement” gendarmes made it yet more undeniably clear that RF’s core slogans are well-matched to the current American and world historical moment:

• “In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America!”

• “The Trump fascist regime must go now!”   Read more.

A demand to remove defamation of Bob Avakian in a youtube video

October 14, 2025

Attention Maxine Kwiatkowski,

I am writing as the Director of The Bob Avakian Institute.  I am writing specifically about a dishonest and defamatory statement you make in Part 5 of your video series in which you manufacture a false conspiracy among Bob Avakian and various activist groups for the purpose of embezzlement.  This is defamatory and false.  In this defamation, you lump together various groups as Avakian’s “clique of cronies” which would include The Bob Avakian Institute. Read more.

We are reprinting the following statement from revcom.us:

A Typically Crude Attack on Bob Avakian and the Revcoms—and the Critical Need for Higher Standards and Principled Methods

by The Revcoms
June 2, 2025

A recent article by Hannah Zeavin in the journal n+1 resorts to typically unprincipled—and at the same time ludicrous—methods in an attack on Bob Avakian (BA) and the revcoms (revolutionary communists) he leads. On one level, this article itself is hardly worth responding to. But, in some significant ways, it does represent a concentration of the unprincipled methods of opportunist attacks that need to be clearly refuted and firmly repudiated. Despite—or, rather, because of—the low level on which they operate, attacks of this kind do real harm: distracting from the big questions people need to be seriously engaging, and undermining principled relations among those who need to be actively uniting in the urgent struggle to defeat and remove the fascist Trump regime. Read more.

Go here for statements taking on the slanderous lies and attacks launched by various opportunist forces and media outlets in summer 2022 against Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, on the role of the Revcoms and Sunsara Taylor in it—and especially targeted against Bob Avakian.