Revolution #328, February 2, 2014      Click for current front and back page

The Special Issue on the History of Communist Revolution:

What You Think You Know, What You Need to Know, and What Needs To Be Done

by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party

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"This is Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the
Revolutionary Communist Party,
with a New Year's message—

A Call To REVOLUTION..."

A Reader Responds to "What’s Wrong With History by Memoir?"

"Think about it: How often, in the course of talking with people about communism—and more generally in the academic and societal discourse about communism—are individual memoirs and personal accounts from those who lived in past socialist societies cited as definitive 'proof' that these societies were nightmares and disasters?"

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Letter from a Reader:
Call for Darwin Day Celebration, February 12, 2014

A "radically simple proposal" for celebrating Darwin Day, marking the birth of the scientist who, in the 1850s, discovered how all life on planet Earth evolved from common ancestry and the earliest forms of life.

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We ARE Building a Movement for Revolution and Building the Party as Its Leading Core

BA Everywhere

Important Comments from Bob Avakian, Reports from the Field, and a Call to Go Forward

A Call from the Stop Mass Incarceration Network:

HOODIES UP!
February 26, 2014

2 Years Since the Murder of Trayvon Martin

A Day of Outrage and Remembrance

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Bring the Revolution into Actions on the Anniversary of the Murder of Trayvon Martin

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The New York Times Sounds the Alarm on the War on Women, Then Promptly Sends Everyone Back to Sleep

Or...

Why We Must Not Rely on the Courts, the Legislatures or the Ballot Box

A polemic by Sunsara Taylor on a recent New York Times editorial on abortion.

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 Also in this issue

Statement by Carl Dix:

Not Again!

North Carolina Cops Claim Handcuffed Teen Committed Suicide

Yes again. Cops in Durham, North Carolina, claim that Jesus Huerta committed suicide on November 19, 2013, by shooting himself while his hands were cuffed behind his back in the back seat of a police car.

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UCLA "Black Bruins" Video Hits Raw Nerve:

Outcry Against Re-segregation of Education "Goes Viral"

Since appearing on YouTube in November, over 1.7 million people have viewed a poetic, angry, and moving five-minute spoken word piece about the increasing exclusion of Black men from UCLA, one of this country's elite public universities.

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Why "Strong Families" Are Not the Answer

A response to people who say, "The basic reason for the problems of Black people has been the breakdown of the Black family."

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Dangerous Trial Starts in Chicago

On January 22, opening arguments began in a Chicago courtroom in the trial of three young men facing state terrorism and conspiracy charges. This case is the first use of the Illinois Terrorism Statute passed after September 11, 2001. The defendants’ arrests took place in the days leading up to the NATO war criminals summit in May of 2012.

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Only a Savagely Cruel System Sentences Youth to Life Without Parole

America is the only country in the world that sentences youth to die in prison without any hope of release.

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"They Murdered My Son and Got Away with It"

The Murderers of Kelly Thomas—Once Again, Killer Cops Walk Free

On January 13, a jury declared two cops from Fullerton in southern California "not guilty" on second degree murder and other charges in the killing of Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man.

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Letter from a Reader:

Friday Night Tykes Is Child Abuse

After watching the first two episodes of Friday Night Tykes on the Esquire Channel on Tuesday nights, I became sick to my stomach. Friday Night Tykes is a multi-week series that chronicles the teams, players, and families with 8- and 9-year-old kids in a tackle football league in San Antonio, Texas.

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Vicious Food Stamp Cuts From a Heartless System

Almost 50 million people had their food stamp allotments cut on November 1 when Democrats and Republicans in Congress allowed an extension in SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) to expire.

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Beneath the Surface of the de Blasio Election in NYC

Reader writes with reflections on what was revealed by de Blasio's election as New York City mayor.

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Cheers to Lupita Nyong'o

Cheers to the actor featured in the vitally important movie 12 Years a Slave for her remarks in accepting the award for best supporting performance at the recent Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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One Billion Rising for Justice: Forging a Worldwide Community of Resistance to Women's Oppression

One Billion Rising for Justice is a very positive international manifestation against the abuse of women. It takes place on February 14 this year.

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Rising From the Pit: Illinois Prisoners Join National Upsurge of Resistance to Torture and Dehumanizing Conditions of U.S. Prisons

Prisoners at the "High Security Unit" at Menard state prison in southern Illinois—known as "The Pit"—have begun a hunger strike to oppose their placement into inhumane conditions of isolation.

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Richard Sherman and “Thug” as the New “N” Word

Reader writes on the controversy around the comments made by Seattle Seahawk player Richard Sherman after the January 19 National Football League playoff game.

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From A World to Win News Service:

The inquest verdict on Tottenham’s Mark Duggan

On the “Lawful Killing” of an unarmed man, and the impossibility of reforming a system.

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Photo: AP


From A World to Win News Service

France: Ugly jokes and an uglier system

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From A World to Win News Service

Israel's Sharon, Sharon's Israel

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