Part 3: What IS “Critical Race Theory”? What does it get right, and where does it fall short?

by Rafael Kadaris

Heroism for Our Times
Free Iran’s Political Prisoners NOW –
An Afternoon of Solidarity and Resistance

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!

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:

SPECIAL APPEAL TO THE LEGAL COMMUNITY: JOIN THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE TO FREE IRAN’S POLITICAL PRISONERS AND THEIR LAWYERS

A Call to Sign the Emergency Appeal

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.

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.

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.

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.

Full Page Appeal in NY Review of Books
Calls for Freeing Iran’s Political Prisoners

COVID Outbreak Endangers Women Prisoners, Nahid Taghavi

Why This Is
A RARE TIME WHEN
REVOLUTION BECOMES POSSIBLE

A Talk by Andy Zee

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.

Bob Avakian on American Slavery & Genocide;
Plus “Critical Race Theory” & Forget the Alamo

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:

THIS IS A RARE TIME
WHEN REVOLUTION BECOMES POSSIBLE—
WHY THAT IS SO, AND HOW TO SEIZE ON THIS
RARE OPPORTUNITY

A Future Worth Fighting for: Revolution, Nothing Less!

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 »

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.    

Watch Episode 57 of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less—Show

“Hope breaking free” … “Embryo of an alternative culture”

Announcing to the World: There Is an Emerging Force Organizing NOW for a Real Revolution

From a member of the National Revolution Tour

“Unconditional Release Is the Right of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience”

Iran’s Islamic theocrats are criminals, not the political prisoners

by Bob Avakian

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 »

To Everyone Who Can’t Stand This World the Way It Is:
Welcome to the Revolution!

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.”

Episode 51: Revolution: The Possibility is Real! Getting Org’d Now, Bob Avakian on the New Society, May 1 2021

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May 1st, 2021 & Getting Organized for Revolution;
Internationalism; 50th Anniversary of Dewey Canyon III

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.”