Tune in on Facebook Live
at Facebook.com/RefuseFascism
with Coco Das from the RefuseFascism.org Editorial Board on the urgent need for resistance in the name of humanity and the immediate removal of this regime.
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Received from Refuse Fascism
Tune in on Facebook Live
at Facebook.com/RefuseFascism
with Coco Das from the RefuseFascism.org Editorial Board on the urgent need for resistance in the name of humanity and the immediate removal of this regime.
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Received from Revcom.us/Revolution
The RNL Show—Revolution, Nothing Less!
Tune in to Episode 2 — Thursday, April 2, 9pm cst
The RNL Show is a new weekly YouTube show rooted in the new communism forged by the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian that launched on Thursday, March 26. It is hosted by Andy Zee along with other members of the Revolution Tour. The world is a nightmare for the masses of people worldwide, but it doesn’t have to be. Revolution and a whole better world IS possible.
Thanks to everyone who tuned to the premier of the Revolution Nothing Less show. It was a great first episode! There were a few technical glitches, but we're just getting started and these things will be smoothed out going forward. This version will be repaired and replaced soon, but in the meantime you can catch it here. Comment with your thoughts. Share it with friends. Subscribe to the channel. Let's grow this community.
Monday, March 30, 2020
Received from Revcom.us/Revolution
Communiqué #4 from the Revcoms:
We Need a Whole Different World
How the Revolution Would Deal with Epidemics
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Right now, horrifying scenes are happening all over.
In New York, sick people stack up in emergency rooms. Many die because
there are no ventilators to help them breathe when their lungs can’t function. Doctors, nurses, and hospital workers get sick and even die because they don’t have the basic protective gear that they need. In the slave-ship prisons and immigrant detention centers, where people are packed like sardines, the virus looms like a hurricane. Millions in America have lost their jobs and children go hungry.
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| People wait in line to get into Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York, last week. The people who run this system knew in advance that something like the coronavirus pandemic could happenany time. But they did nothing, because of the nature of their system. (Photo: AP) |
Billions more, around the world, face a choice of starvation or repression, with very little protection against the disease or access to health care if they get it.
The rulers of the world, and of America, fight between themselves, with no real answers – while the masses suffer horribly.
But it does not have to be this way! We are organizing now for an actual revolution – an overthrow of this system, not a facelift. We are fighting for a whole new state power – the New Socialist Republic in North America. And here is what THAT socialist society would do:
One. The revolutionary power would prepare for disasters like this, not leave society defenseless.
The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, authored by Bob Avakian, states the following:
Research and other work will be done to anticipate, as much as possible, and to prevent to the greatest degree possible, outbreaks of disease and epidemics, and to detect and treat such outbreaks and epidemics as quickly and effectively as possible where and when they cannot be prevented.
Just compare that to what the current system did. The government knew for years that a virus like this could easily hit. They even did studies that told them what they would need: extra hospital beds for emergencies. Research to prepare new vaccines. Protective equipment like masks and emergency machines like ventilators. Planning ahead how to tide people over in emergency without millions going hungry or worse. But very little of that was done.
Why? Because the system we live under – capitalism-imperialism – is NOT set up to meet people’s needs. It is a system of cutthroat competition between those who own the means of creating wealth, a system in which nothing happens unless someone can profit off it. Planning for emergencies, stockpiling critical supplies, and producing vaccines that may be needed in the future are just not “profitable” in the short term. And instead of Trump and the Democratic governors competing for resources like we see today, the socialist state would coordinate resources and response nationally—with an economy oriented towards people’s needs, NOT profit.
Two. The new socialist state would draw on the knowledge of scientists and ordinary people all over the world to defeat the epidemic. To again quote the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America:
In keeping with a scientific approach, as well as an internationalist orientation, research and development, and practical developments, in the field of medicine shall be shared, as fully as possible, with people in this (and related) fields in other parts of the world, and cooperation shall be promoted and effected in detecting, combating and preventing outbreaks of diseases and epidemics…
But look at what this system we are under now is doing: companies hoarding knowledge to use for profit, imperialist powers fighting to get a new vaccine first and use it against its rivals… and meanwhile people will die for lack of a vaccine.
Three: The masses of people will not only be truthfully informed of the whole situation, their intelligence, creativity and spirit of self-sacrifice will be brought to bear. Again, from the future Constitution:
In the treatment of disease, and in other aspects of medicine, the sensibilities, as well as the experience and knowledge, of patients, and of the people broadly, shall be taken into account and drawn on fully as a basic requirement and a basic resource in the practice of medicine and the development and application of medical science.
Compare that to the system we live under now, where most people are kept ignorant of science and kept passive during a crisis like now.
Last, but hardly least – because social production would be geared to meet people’s needs, and not for the profit of this or that capitalist, necessities could be stockpiled in advance and shared in an equitable way when a disaster like this DID strike. Compare that to this system, when millions don’t have the money for rent, or even groceries, and will either go homeless or hungry.
The world envisioned in this Constitution is possible. But to bring that world into being we need an actual revolution. There is the leadership for that revolution, in Bob Avakian, BA. And there is a strategy he has developed which, through hard struggle, can get us there.
The fact that we have such a leader and the vision and strategy is a huge plus. What is needed, right now more than ever, is YOU!
Learn about, and be part of, this movement. Get into BA. Go to our website at revcom.us and find out more. Tune into our YouTube program The RNL Show. And follow us on social media.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020
From the National Tour to Get Organized for an Actual Revolution
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Sunday, March 15, 2020
Received from Refuse Fascism Chicago
Webinar
Dialogue: What Can STOP Fascism?
Date: Thursday, March 19
Time: 7 pm Central
Here's the facebook event link
Good news. As social space shuts down, an urgent necessity to curb the spread of COVID-19, we aren't shutting down our work to build the movement that answers this even more urgent question: What Can STOP Fascism?
"The hour is late. If we do not intervene now, we cannot ask how the German people accepted the horrors of the Nazi regime. What we allow is not just what we condone…it is what we become."
When we soberly recognize what we face - American Fascism - it becomes clear that the national conversation is deeply deluded. It's near impossible to change what we don't understand. With the Refuse Fascism Statement of Conscience (linked below) we are both projecting a clear picture of the problem and solution out widely into the world, and carving out space to deeply engage in the problems of urgently changing this situation with anyone who is willing to rise to the challenge. If you are willing, join us this Thursday, for a dialogue concerning this statement and to discuss how to make this movement a reality: https://refusefascism.org/2020/02/27/refuse-fascism-statement-of-conscience/
When we soberly recognize what we face - American Fascism - it becomes clear that the national conversation is deeply deluded. It's near impossible to change what we don't understand. With the Refuse Fascism Statement of Conscience (linked below) we are both projecting a clear picture of the problem and solution out widely into the world, and carving out space to deeply engage in the problems of urgently changing this situation with anyone who is willing to rise to the challenge. If you are willing, join us this Thursday, for a dialogue concerning this statement and to discuss how to make this movement a reality: https://refusefascism.org/2020/02/27/refuse-fascism-statement-of-conscience/
"See" you on Thursday!
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Received from Revolution Club Chicago
Celebrate International Women's Day With Us:
Open Mic
Sunday March 8th
3pm to 5pm
1857 E 71st Street
Bring your poetry, spoken word, music. Let's celebrate together and together fight for a world without exploitation and oppression for all humanity.
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Watch the video here...Get Inspired before coming
to the open mic on Sunday by watching this clip from Bob Avakian. Part of making a revolution is creating a culture that doesn't degrade, exploit, and oppress others but actually celebrates humanity and inspires others to act in the interest of humanity. |
From the Revolution Tour in Los Angeles Sunday, March 8, 1pm
International Women's Day
Break ALL the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women As a Mighty Force for Revolution!
STOP the Patriarchal Degradation, Dehumanization, and Subjugation of All Women Everywhere, and Oppression Based on Gender or Sexual Orientation
In the name of humanity, we REFUSE to accept a fascist America.
The Get Organized For An Actual Revolution tour is back in L.A. and they'll be leading people who hate in a powerful march to call out this system for its crimes against women and LGBTQ people. People will bring symbols of the oppression of women that you want to see done away with.
This is a call to everyone who will not accept a world where women are subordinated, dominated, degraded, battered, mutilated and murdered to keep them in their place; to everyone who wants to rise up with the women taking to the streets from Chile to Mexico, India and Italy to demand an end to sexual assault and femicide—the murder of women for being women. This is a call to stand with the LGBTQ people in Brazil marching in the face of physical assaults; a call to rejoice in the women throwing off their headscarves in Iran.
To everyone who rejects the Dark Ages future being set in place by the fascist Trump/Pence regime; everyone who refuses to go back, who refuses to see the right to abortion overturned and contraception taken away, who refuses to accept lives of inequality and torment; everyone who rejects the Christian theocracy that Pence, Devos, Barr and Pompeo are nailing into law and everyone who is nauseated by the pussy-grabber in Chief and the vile objectification of women celebrated by these same self-righteous liars and peddlers of ignorance in the service of imperialist empire. Read more
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