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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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
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.