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The International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners and Revolution Books in Harlem and Berkeley present
Heroism for Our Times
Free Iran’s Political Prisoners NOW –
An Afternoon of Solidarity and Resistance
ON OCTOBER 2, MARCH IN THE BREAK ALL THE CHAINS CONTINGENT:
UNLEASH THE FURY OF WOMEN AS A MIGHTY FORCE FOR REVOLUTION!
No Going back—No Surrender! Abortion on Demand & Without Apology!
Forced Motherhood Is Female Enslavement!
Christian Fascist Theocrats—Get Your Laws and Vigilantes Off Our Bodies!
Patriarchy and Capitalism: You Can’t End One Without Ending The Other—Revolution, Nothing Less!
Check It Out: What the U.S. Did to Women in Afghanistan’s Countryside
The defeat of the U.S. in its war against Afghanistan has had a complex effect. On the one hand, it is very good that America was defeated in its attempt to further impose its imperialist domination and plunder in the Middle East and Central Asia. On the other hand, the force which defeated it and has now come to power—the Islamic theocratic Taliban—will impose its own form of reactionary domination, including an extremely oppressive form of patriarchy. This painful dilemma and dynamic is captured in Bob Avakian’s description:
From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners
SPECIAL APPEAL TO THE LEGAL COMMUNITY: JOIN THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE TO FREE IRAN’S POLITICAL PRISONERS AND THEIR LAWYERS
The Lives of Iran’s Political Prisoners Hang in the Balance— We Must ACT Now
A Call to Sign the Emergency Appeal
Statement of the Communist Party of Iran (MLM) on Political Prisoners Nahid Taghavi, Mehran Raouf and…
We received this important statement from the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) regarding the situation of several political prisoners in Iran. We want this to be made known to our readers, and all those who are concerned about the situation of the political prisoners in Iran today. This translation is from revcom.us, and any unclarities or errors are our responsibility.
U.S. Pullout from Afghanistan
Three Lessons and Two Basic Points of Orientation
In 2001, fanatical Islamic fundamentalists hijacked several airplanes and flew them into the World Trade Center, a massive office building in New York. The center was destroyed and nearly 3,000 people were killed. They also attacked the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Defense Department. In response, the U.S., under Republican President George W. Bush, declared war against the government of Afghanistan, which had allowed the group that had done this—al Qaeda—to stay in their country. The Afghanistan government was headed by a fanatic and repressive Islamic fundamentalist group, the Taliban.
Oppressive, Parasitic Workings of Capitalism-Imperialism Continue Needless COVID-19 Horrors
Part 1
A number of articles posted previously at revcom.us have exposed how the workings of capitalism-imperialism have led to needless horrors under the COVID-19 pandemic. ALL OF THIS has not only continued but gotten even more horrific. Part 1 of this article will examine how the pandemic has exacerbated poverty and hunger, especially in poor Third World countries; and will look at the ways already existing inequalities have been deepened with COVID-19.
Dual Nationals Nahid Taghavi, Mehran Raouf Sentenced to nearly 11 years in Iranian Prison
Political prisoners Nahid Taghavi and Mehran Raouf have been sentenced to 10 years and 8 months each: ten years for “membership in an illegal group” and 8 months for “propaganda against the regime.”
Their sentences were handed down August 3 in a Tehran court behind closed doors, with no court hearing nor any measure of due process resembling a trial. It is unclear if the defendants were even present.
Sentences of six years and eight months were also issued for Somayeh Kragar and Bahareh Soleimani, and three years and four months was imposed on Nazanin Mohammadnejad.
July 29 Update from the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners
Full Page Appeal in NY Review of Books
Calls for Freeing Iran’s Political Prisoners
COVID Outbreak Endangers Women Prisoners, Nahid Taghavi
Watch Episode 64 of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less—Show
Why This Is
A RARE TIME WHEN
REVOLUTION BECOMES POSSIBLE
A Talk by Andy Zee
The Flames of Khuzestan’s Anger and the Spreading Shouts of “Death to the Islamic Republic” (of Iran)
Since July 15, the sustained rebellion by the people of Khuzestan, Iran has continued and is still spreading to small towns and large cities all over Iran. The uprising was precipitated by a lack of water and electricity rooted in the discrimination and oppression of Khuzestan’s minority Arab population. As of July 28, the daily and often militant mass marches and protests have spread to more than 40 cities. It has also drawn the support of very broad sections of Iranian society.
Episode 63 of The RNL—Revolution. Nothing Less—Show!
Bob Avakian on American Slavery & Genocide;
Plus “Critical Race Theory” & Forget the Alamo
The “Industrialization” of Sexual Exploitation, Imperialist Globalization, and the Descent Into Hell
by Raymond Lotta
This research paper was spurred by analysis by Bob Avakian of major global socio-economic changes and social struggles over the last 50 years influencing shifts in class structure and political-ideological developments, especially the rise of fascism. My particular point of departure is from a section of that broader analysis:
From Bob Avakian—Revolutionary Leader, Author of the New Communism:
THIS IS A RARE TIME
WHEN REVOLUTION BECOMES POSSIBLE—
WHY THAT IS SO, AND HOW TO SEIZE ON THIS
RARE OPPORTUNITY
Episode 58 of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less Show,
put out by the Revcoms
A Future Worth Fighting for: Revolution, Nothing Less!
FROM THE REVCOMS (REVCOM.US):
A DECLARATION,
A CALL TO GET ORGANIZED NOW
FOR A REAL REVOLUTION
Let’s get down to basics: We need a revolution—nothing less! To everyone who can’t stand this world the way it is … who is sick and tired of so many people being treated as less than human … who knows that the claim of “liberty and justice for all” is a cruel lie … who is righteously enraged that injustice and… Read more »
DONATE NOW to Publish the Emergency Appeal to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners
To all who stand for justice and yearn for a better world,
It is urgent that our Campaign’s Emergency Appeal be published online as soon as possible. We have a plan to do so, and you are needed to help raise the $5,000 needed.
JUNE 12—Marches that Announced to the World: There Is an Emerging Force Organizing NOW for a Real Revolution—and Moving Forward
Watch Episode 57 of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less—Show
Reflections on June 12th Marches
June 12 Marches in Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago
Announcing to the World: There Is an Emerging Force Organizing NOW for a Real Revolution
From a member of the National Revolution Tour
June 14 UPDATE from the
Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners
WEAPONS OF OPPRESSION,
AND THE HEART TO FIGHT
TO END OPPRESSION
by Bob Avakian
Bob Avakian On
Fascist Lunacy and “Woke Folk” Insanity:
A New “Two Outmodeds”
A number of years ago, drawing from the title of a book by Benjamin Barber, I referred to one of the main confrontations taking place in the world as Jihad vs. McWorld/McCrusade. (“Jihad” here refers to Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, and “McWorld/McCrusade” to increasingly globalized western imperialism, infused with a poisonous sense of “the superiority of Western Christian Civilization.”) Read more »
RNL Show Episode 56
To Everyone Who Can’t Stand This World the Way It Is:
Welcome to the Revolution!
Kamala Harris Slams Door in Face of Desperate Guatemalan
Immigrants: “DO NOT COME!”
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Guatemala on June 7 to deliver a stern warning to people desperately seeking refuge in the U.S. from hunger and violence: “Do not come! Do not come! The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our borders. If you come to our border, you will be turned back.”
Watch The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less—Show, put out by the Revcoms every Thursday, 5pm PT, 8pm ET
Episode 51: Revolution: The Possibility is Real! Getting Org’d Now, Bob Avakian on the New Society, May 1 2021
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Episode 50 of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less—Show!
May 1st, 2021 & Getting Organized for Revolution;
Internationalism; 50th Anniversary of Dewey Canyon III
Biden’s Climate Summit Chicanery:
Poisoning the Planet and Deceiving the People
by Raymond Lotta
The global Earth Day summit convened by Biden was a cruel imperialist deception, a slap in the face for anyone who cares about the fate of the planet. A summit that showcased pledges and proposals that fly in the face of what science tells us about the urgency of the environmental crisis and the scale of action needed. Greta Thunberg, the global climate activist, righteously called out the summit for what it was: “bullshit.”