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www.demarcations-journal.org Celebrate the Third Issue of Demarcations FEB 1 Saturday 4-7 pm at Revolution Books  Join us for a lively celebration and informal discussion aroundDemarcations. Drop by for refreshments, meet new people at a cafe setting who are coming from different perspectives and grappling with these themes and questions.  Everyone is welcome.  There will be brief opening remarks on the main themes and questions, helping people appreciate why this journal matters. Learn from the international communist movement, from Egypt, the Arab Spring and upsurges halfway around the world.  If you are new to these questions and are checking it out, or have been engaging these issues for sometime, come by, learn more about this movement for revolution and explore Bob Avakian's new synthesis of communism.   Egypt, Tunisia and the Arab Spring: How the Revolts Came to an Impasse and How to Get Out of It  by Samuel Albert  "In the space of a few short years, what seemed like all-powerful regimes have collapsed, uprisings and revolutionary hope have surged again and again, often only to tumble into deeper, paralyzing despair. A bloody civil war has emerged in Syria and threatens to spread, pitting religious and ethnic groups against each other. The article provides a framework of analysis for the impasse faced today in these countries, indicating the deeper material roots, what is fundamentally needed in terms of a real revolutionary alternative, and what this would look like." (read more)  Egypt 2011: Millions Have Heroically Stood Up...The Future Remains To Be Written  A Statement By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA "A public statement from Bob Avakian, released weeks after the fall of Mubarak in Egypt. Avakian hails the upsurge of the people of Egypt and its shattering of the notion that things can never change, and calls for communist leadership to be forged in the midst of and through this uprising to lead the process for the real revolutionary transformation of society and genuine liberation. Recent events have brought the need and relevance of this into even sharper relief." (read more)

Also in DEMARCATIONS Letter to Participating Parties and Organizations of the  Revolutionary Internationalist Movement The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (read the article) The New Synthesis of Communism and the Residues of the Past  The Revolutionary Communist Organization, Mexico (OCR, Mexico) (read the article) Reviewing the Differences Between Our Party and the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan  The Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist)(read the article) On the "Driving Force of Anarchy" and the Dynamics of Change  by Raymond Lotta  (read the article) revcom.us