Arizona Freedom Summer—We Are Here. Join Us
Arizona Freedom Summer has hit the ground running, taking out the Revolutionary Communist Party’s (RCP’s) Message and Call, bringing to people the “Revolution We Need… The Leadership We Have,” and building broad and defiant resistance to SB 1070. This is the law that will go into effect on July 29 that targets immigrants with no papers and, in essence, legalizes racial profiling. Our slogans are: We are all Illegals! We don’t gotta show no stinkin’ papers! We don’t have an immigration problem, we have a capitalism problem! No more troops! Demilitarize the border!
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The following are some key principles of socialist sustainable development, which appeared as part of the special issue of Revolution newspaper on the environment (Issue #199, 4/18/10, revcom.us/environment). These principles, though not exhaustive, concentrate an orientation that enables socialist society to begin to tackle the environmental emergency with a global and internationalist perspective. In putting these principles before people today, we hope to open up debate and discussion that can contribute towards raising understanding of what we are confronting—and raise sights about the viability and desirability of communist revolution.
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Israel's Killing of Humanitarian Activists:
"After the Holocaust, the worst thing that has happened to Jewish people is the state of Israel." - Bob Avakian, Bringing Forward Another Way
Books by Bob Avakian
Who is Bob Avakian?
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Communism and Jeffersonian Democracy
Bob Avakian
This work builds on the post 1960's serious historical research into the reality of slavery in the USA and ties it into Jefferson's own outlook. While many fans of Jefferson focus on his criticisms of slavery, the fact is that he died a slave owner! In fact, he had a whole theoretical justification about how the US could be so much more inclusive in its democracy than England because "everyone" could be included -- if you think of "non-white" people (as well as women) as outside of the "everyone," that is.
But Avakian goes much farther, showing how the basic premises of "democratic" capitalism among "equals" will always lead to the development of ever-increasing inequalities, even in the most ideal circumstances.
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AWAY WITH ALL GODS!
Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World
Bob Avakian
"What most distinguishes Avakian's Away With All Gods from other much publicized books of this kind, such as those by Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, is the direct connection Avakian makes between combating religious fundamentalism and promoting a radical political agenda. Avakian is also to be commended not only for combining his religious freethinking with an endorsement of the modern Enlightenment tradition, but also for providing a sober warning against 'the smug arrogance of the enlightened.' Anyone who has read any of the other books mentioned above should also take the time to read this one."
—Allen Wood, author of Karl Marx and Kantian Ethics
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Observations on Art and Culture, Science and Philosophy
Bob Avakian
This provocative collection of reflections and observations by Bob Avakian on art, culture, science and philosophy offers a rare treat. Excerpted from formal talks as well as more informal discussions and conversations, many of the texts in this collection allow the reader to experience firsthand the freewheeling Bob Avakian—in the process of developing his thinking and reenvisioning the communist project on a wide range of controversies, from the dictatorship of the proletariat to discussions of truth, beauty, science and imagination. This collection will provide the reader with important, fresh, and provocative insights and provoke further creative and critical thinking on art, culture, science, philosophy... and revolution.
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From Ike to Mao and Beyond
My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist
a memoir by Bob Avakian
"Bob Avakian is a long distance runner in the freedom struggle against imperialism, racism and capitalism. His voice and witness are indispensable in our efforts to enhance the wretched of the earth. And his powerful story of commitment is timely."
— Cornel West
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For A Harvest of Dragons
On the "Crisis of Marxism" and the Power of Marxism Now More Than Ever
Bob Avakian
This book excellently refutes all the hoopla over the "death" of Marxism. It gets into dialectical and historical Marxism (and how it's not just a philosophy but a science), as well as Leninism and Mao Tsetung-Thought; and why Marxism is true and that the only thing dying is phony communism (the USSR) and imperialism (the U.S.). Bob Avakian is without a doubt one of the most important thinkers of this century.
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Preaching From a Pulpit of Bones
We Need Morality But Not Traditional Morality
Bob Avakian
This provocative book includes a scathing refutation of the reality behind conservative Christian fundamentalist morality, a critical look at the limitations of "liberation theology," including a discussion of Jim Wallis's book, The Soul of Politics, and an inspiring look at morality from a revolutionary perspective. This work is even more timely today as it was when it was published in 1999. Bob Avakian says in the Prologue that "From whatever vantage point one looks, it is unmistakable that there is what could be called a 'moral crisis' in America. There has been, to a significant degree, 'a breakdown of traditional morality.' But the answer to this—at least the answer that is in the interests of the majority of people in the U.S. and the overwhelming majority of humanity—is not a more aggressive assertion of that 'traditional morality' but winning people to a radically different morality, in the process of radically transforming society and the world as a whole."
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