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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


More latest writings & works >>


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  • Paul Street, historian and author

    Dear readers: This and my next two Paul Street Reports address the work of  Bob Avakian and the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (the “Revcoms”) and the sadly vicious, slanderous, ignorant and reactionary response of much of “the left,” whatever “the left” is anymore, to Avakian and the Revcoms. • In Defense of Bob Avakian and the Revcoms, Part 1 of 3 • Part 2: Against Neo-McCarthyism and More • Part 3: Against More Left Slander and Stupidity.

     
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  • Statement from Somayeh Kargar, former Iranian political prisoner

    “Let’s participate in these important and special screenings of selections from the Bob Avakian Interviews”* We have a chance to live in a time that a leader like Bob Avakian has put forward the highest level of the understanding of the science of communism, the New Synthesis of Communism, and gives us the possibility by basing ourselves on that science with the real hope of gaining victories. Avakian says to lead a revolution you need science and art. If borders would have allowed me, I would have participated with joy, to learn and apply this science as much as I […]

     
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  • Statement from Oakland lawyer on The Interview

    What I liked most about the interview with Bob Avakian was the warmth, humor, and directness of the real human being. Not the incisive philosopher and revolutionary—though he is marvelously both—but this person, with a past, with passions, with flaws, with modesty.

     
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  • Dr. Reynaldo F. Macías

    I am donating [to the $100,000 Fund Drive to Put Revolution On The Map in 2023] because the work that Bob Avakian and the revcoms are doing in scientifically analyzing our current oppressive conditions is important and needs to be put center stage of discussions about what is happening in this country and this world.

     
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  • From Shekib Mosadeq, revolutionary internationalist artist from Afghanistan

     
  • From a filmmaker

     
  • From the Revolution Club, LA

     
  • From a Kurdish immigrant from Iran

     
  • From a life-long activist

     
  • From a Tribal Scholar