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The role of the police is not to serve and protect the people. It is to serve and protect the system that rules over the people. To enforce the relations of exploitation and oppression, the conditions of poverty, misery and degradation into which the system has cast people and is determined to keep people in. The law and order the police are about, with all of their brutality and murder, is the law and the order that enforces all this oppression and madness.

Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:24

BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian

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Right out of the gate, boom, BA went after religion! I thought, Oh no, he’s going to go there... I really respect him because he is not going to compromise, and I can see why Cornel really respects him, too. I can’t say I agree with all of what he says, but this guy is really honest.

—Latino professor

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We also need to be aware of the positive—and in significant ways “subversive of the system”—potential of the assertion of gay “identity” and gay rights, even with the very real contradictions in this, including the narrowing tendencies of “identity politics” as well as conservatizing influences related to traditional marriage, and, for that matter, the campaign to be allowed to be part of the imperialist military while being openly gay. Even with all that, in its principal aspect this has, and can to an even greater degree have, a very positive, “subversive of the system” effect. This is a contradiction which, in the society overall, is “out of the closet.” It could be forced back into the closet, and underground, with not only the stronger assertion of the kind of fascist movement that is being supported and fostered by powerful ruling class forces in this period, but with the actual assumption of a fascist form of bourgeois dictatorship. But the struggle against the oppression of gay people is not going to be easily suppressed. We should understand the potential of this as well, and the need to relate correctly to this, to foster the further development of its positive potential and its contribution to the movement for revolution.

Bob Avakian
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Same-Sex Marriage, Texas, and Thoughts from a Reader on the Coming Civil War and Repolarization

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Of Continuing Interest

 

Letter from a reader

WORKING ON THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE REVOLUTION: reflections on bringing forward a revolutionary people and organizing for an actual revolution

April 27, 2015

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In Defense of Cornel West: Is Barack Obama Right, or Has Michael Eric Dyson Lost His Mind?

April 22, 2015

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A QUESTION SHARPLY POSED

by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

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Freedom and Necessity, and Proceeding from a Strategic Standpoint: Some Thoughts on Methods and Leadership

by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

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Excerpts from Away With All Gods! by Bob Avakian:

Religious Fundamentalism, Imperialism and "The War on Terror"

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Why Is Religious Fundamentalism Growing in Today's World

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Some Points of Orientation, Principle, and Method Regarding the Accusations Against Bill Cosby

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Statement by Carl Dix
Outrage in Charleston—This IS America!

June 18, 2015

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QUESTION: WHY THE FUCK IS THAT GODDAMN SLAVEHOLDERS' RAG STILL FLYING AT ALL ABOVE THE CAPITOL OF SOUTH CAROLINA? And what does the fact that it is have to do with the atrocity carried out there this week?

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»  Yes, this society was NOT designed to give Justice to Black and Latino people. But why is that so—And what must be done about it?

»  Communism and Jeffersonian Democracy, by Bob Avakian

»  The Oppression of Black People, The Crimes of This System and the Revolution We Need

If you are angry or hurt or agonizing over the atrocity in Charleston, if you burn for and dream of human emancipation and an END to all oppression and oppressive divisions… if you think about revolution and want to learn more… then be with us this weekend!

What kind of society IS this? How long must we put up with it? What can we do to end this madness and emancipate humanity? More

The time for healing is once the disease has been diagnosed and rooted out, not while it is still raging. More

What happened in Charleston is not about gun control or mental illness—it is about racism. And the violent insanity that marks this society flows from the genocidal, slavemaster roots of American capitalism and the predatory gangsterism that enforces U.S. imperialism around the world. More

Who Benefits from the Wall-to-Wall Coverage of Rachel Dolezal?

June 17, 2015

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STOP THE ASSAULT
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BREAK ALL THE CHAINS
THAT ENSLAVE WOMEN!
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Thursday, June 25  
7-9:30 pm NYC

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Plans for a Revolutionary Summer Solstice, June 20-21:
Bringing BA to the Start of What Could Potentially Be “A Long, Hot Summer”

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A benefit for the Revolution Club in the battle for Justice for Freddie Gray

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WOMEN ARE FULL HUMAN BEINGS

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STOP police brutality and mass incarceration

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Announcing the publication of Demarcations Number 4

From the Editors of Demarcations

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New Indian Printing of Bob Avakian's Democracy: Can't We Do Better Than That?

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