YOUR BEAUTIFUL ILLUSIONS

For those of you who are crying about trump and wanting obama back, you're a fucking idiot. So many stupid asshole "liberal" types are intentionally blind to obama's war crimes, while screeching about trump. Well guess what assholes, you love them both, so fuck you. 

Obama’s War Crimes in Afghanistan—A Simple and Quick Reminder

March 25, 2019 | revcom.us

On 9/11, in 2001, the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon came under attack. The U.S., under George W. Bush, attacked Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, and then invaded and occupied the country. After declaring “victory” in 2004, Bush was forced to steadily increase troop levels as the overthrown Taliban grew stronger partly due to the brutal, oppressive nature of the U.S. occupation.

It was Barack Obama, who had encouraged people to delude themselves into thinking he was a peace candidate, who carried out one of the biggest and bloodiest escalation of the entire Afghan war. Starting in 2009 Obama tripled troop levels from 30,000 to 100,000, and implemented a new strategy to defeat Al Qaeda,¹ reverse the Taliban’s momentum, and build up the oppressive Afghan government, particularly its military forces. The heart of this new strategy was a brutal “counterinsurgency” campaign aimed at holding key areas and killing more Taliban: it included stepped-up bombings, drone strikes, nighttime raids, assassinations, and detentions.

Under Obama, U.S. air attacks skyrocketed. In his first five years, the U.S. dropped 21,000 bombs and missiles—six and a half times the number dropped in Bush’s last five years.² Obama convinced many that U.S. air strikes were “exceptionally surgical and precise.”³ In reality, some of the war’s worst atrocities and war crimes took place under his command. Between 2009 and 2014, over 1,000 civilians were killed by U.S. air strikes,⁴ which obliterated homes, wedding parties, and villages, and thousands more in ground assaults and targeted assassinations:⁵

• In May 2009, between 26 and 140 Afghan civilians, mainly women and children, “perished in the blink of an eye,” in the villages of Shiwan and Granai, in western Afghanistan when their homes were destroyed by U.S. bombs.⁶
• In February 2010, U.S. Special Operations Forces murdered five Afghan civilians celebrating a birth in the village of Gardez, then tried to cover up their crimes by removing the bullets from the dead bodies.⁷
• In October 2015, the U.S. destroyed a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 19, and wounding dozens of patients and staff.⁸

Under Obama, U.S. forces and their Afghan clients stepped up dead-of-night house searches and detentions in the U.S.’s network of more than 36, often secret, prisons and detention centers, which terrorized whole swaths of the population. Since the war began at least 15,000 Afghans have been detained on little or no evidence, brutally beaten, tortured, and sometimes killed.⁹

After Obama withdrew most U.S. ground forces in 2014 and bragged about ending the war, he continued U.S. drone and air attacks, with U.S. forces dropping 1,337 bombs, missiles and other munitions in 2016 alone—a 40 percent increase over 2015,¹⁰ and forged a strategy of drone warfare in Afghanistan that reduced the risk of U.S. casualties but still led to murderous “collateral damage,” i.e., assassinations of civilians not linked to any “terrorist” related activity, a broad catchall categorization to include any and all of the U.S.’s enemies at any given time—between 65 and 105 deaths in 2016 alone.¹¹

“Turns out I’m really good at killing people,” Obama bragged in a cold-blooded moment of candor. “Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”¹²

The U.S. promised to improve life for the Afghan people, but over half Afghanistan’s 35 million people remain impoverished, a quarter of them severely, constantly facing hunger. Chronic malnutrition has stunted the growth of a staggering 60 percent of Afghanistan’s children under five. Over 98 percent of the working population makes less than $3.10 a day.¹³

For all their bombings, killings, torture, and atrocities, the U.S. and its allies were never able to defeat the Taliban (which was aided by Pakistan¹⁴) or get control of Afghanistan. Instead, their war crimes and imperialist occupation fueled the growth of the oppressive Islamist forces they were fighting. At this writing, the U.S. is negotiating with the Taliban for an end to the war, a negotiation which could well return the Taliban to power. This is a stark illustration of how imperialism and Islamic fundamentalism are both reactionary forces, which reinforce each other, even as they clash.¹⁵

In this situation, Barack Obama played a key role in continuing—and legitimizing among a wide swath of the U.S. population—the overall U.S. “war on terror” even as U.S. rulers felt compelled to scale back some of their grandest ambitions. Obama continued and escalated the war in Afghanistan in order to attempt to preserve U.S. global credibility, defeat the Taliban, and maintain U.S. imperialist dominance in the Middle East and Central Asia. He returned U.S. forces to Iraq when ISIS emerged as a major force, and he greatly expanded the number and breadth of the overall U.S. drone war across the region—launching 10 times as many strikes on Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia as Bush had.¹⁶ And he did all this while claiming the U.S. was winding down its wars, and that the actions it was taking were surgically targeted against enemy forces.

Obama is nothing less than a war criminal, and far too many liberals continue to delude themselves and engage in willful denial.

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1. Al Qaeda is the reactionary Islamic jihadist organization founded by Osama bin Laden, which has had camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. [back]

2. “War-related Death, Injury, and Displacement in Afghanistan and Pakistan 2001-2014,” Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, May 22, 2015 [back]

3. “Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes than Bush,” The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, January 17, 2017 [back]

4. According to a 2016 article in the Atlantic magazine, “Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent… this counting method may partly explain the official claims of extraordinarily low collateral deaths… The absurdly low figures cited by Obama administration figures were lies.” “Obama's Weak Defense of His Record on Drone Killings,” Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, December 23, 2016. [back]

5. “War-related Death, Injury, and Displacement in Afghanistan and Pakistan 2001-2014,” Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, May 22, 2015 [back]

6. Bob Dreyfuss, “Mass-Casualty Attacks in the Afghan War,” The Nation, September 19, 2013; “Afghanistan: The MASSACRE and The LIES,” revcom.us, May 17, 2009 [back]

7. Larry Everest, “Made in America: The Gardez Massacre,” revcom.us, April 4, 2010 [back]

8. “Massacre at Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan-U.S. Bombs Send a Bloody Message to the World,” revcom.us, October 3, 2015. See also, “The Massacre in Kandahar, Afghanistan And the Terror of U.S. Occupation,” revcom.us, April 1, 2012 [back]

9. “Pentagon Seeks to Overhaul Prisons in Afghanistan,” New York Times, July 19, 2009. There have been widespread reports that U.S. forces tortured and abused hundreds of detainees at firebases or other installations, and that the CIA has operated secret detention centers holding Aghost prisoners@ (detainees who are not given any legal rights or access to counsel and who are likely not reported or seen by the International Red Cross). [back]

10. Jeremy Scahill, Dirty Wars – The World Is A Battlefield (Nation Books 2013), pp. 328-330. Obama began to slowly withdraw most U.S. forces from Afghanistan in 2011 claiming the U.S. was meeting its goals. In December 2014, the U.S. formally ended combat operations, but continues to carry out air and drone attacks and engage in combat along with Afghan security forces. “War-related Death, Injury, and Displacement in Afghanistan and Pakistan 2001-2014,” Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, May 22, 2015 [back]

11. “Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes than Bush,” The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, January 17, 2017. Because of the U.S.'s misleading categorizations and disinformation, independent observers have had difficulty determining exact estimates of collateral deaths. We are in the midst of sorting through such estimates and will keep readers posted. [back]

12. Micah Zenko, “Obama’s Final Drone Strike Data,” Blog Post, Council on Foreign Relations, January 20, 2017 [back]

13. United Nations Human Development Report, 2018: Country Profiles, Composite Index; “10 Facts About Hunger In Afghanistan,” United Nations World Food Programme, November 2015 [back]

14. See, Steve Coll, Directorate S – The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Penguin Press 2018): starting around 2005, Directorate S went back into action, this time not to defeat the Soviets, but to undermine the American project in Afghanistan. [back]

15. See, “Under Peace Plan, U.S. Military Would Exit Afghanistan Within Five Years,” New York Times, February 28, 2019; “700 Afghan Women Have a Message: Don’t Sell Us Out to the Taliban,” New York Times, February 28, 2019 [back]

16. “Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes than Bush,” The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, January 17, 2017

SAME OLD SHIT

I don't think that too many people who read this or read revcom.us regularly really believe the power structure would indict one of it's bloody handed defenders. I mean, it happens sometimes, but overall, not nearly as often as it should. Fuck the system and fuck the police. Read this.

Crossroads in Sacramento: Four Straight Answers to Four Big Questions

From the Revolution Club, LA

March 18, 2019 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

Two weeks ago, the DA in Sacramento refused to file charges against the pig who murdered Stephon Clark. At the Republican DA’s despicable press conference, she dragged up all this demeaning and completely irrelevant shit to smear Stephon Clark’s character and make it seem like he wanted to commit “suicide by cop.” Two days later, the Democratic attorney general, Xavier Bacerra, also announced there would be no indictment from the state level. Unlike the Republican, he emphasized what a “devastating loss” it is, how much he values “the sanctity of human life” and feels the pain of Stephon’s family. These crocodile tears don’t mean squat: Both the Democrat and the Republican agree on the end result—that the pigs who chased unarmed Stephon Clark into his grandmother’s backyard, gunned him down in a hail of bullets and left him to die while they turned off their body cameras to get their story straight, were justified!

So, question one: What does it tell you that the Democrat and Republican sang the same song of “we’re not gonna indict,” in two-part harmony? It tells you that this system has no answers to the murder and criminalization of our youth. This oppression is knit deep into the fabric of the system of American capitalism-imperialism, and it can only be dealt with by overthrowing that system.

Right now a lot of different forces are trying to focus everything toward changing some law. That this is gonna be the answer, what people should be pouring their energies into. So, question two: What does it tell you that there are states that have no such laws like California, there are all kinds of cities that now require minicams on their pigs, there are the community review boards that stretch from Seattle to Sarasota and these places, too, have rampant murder by pig? Come on! This won’t answer shit! So, again, it tells you that you can reform this system all you want, but until you get to the root cause—which, again, is American capitalism-imperialism, which requires white supremacy—nothing will ever change for real.

Third point: seems like everyone, including some so-called militants, are now preaching for people to go to their “safe space” and cool down on the fighting back. What does that tell you? It tells you that those who are doing this are scared of you standing up and raising your heads and going further. Right now we have the system on the defensive. Now is not the time to retreat to “safe spaces”; now is the time to build the revolutionary understanding, determination, and organization of this struggle, to spread it, and to make it part of building toward the time when millions can be led to go all-out, against this system, with a real chance to win. And we, the Revolution Club, have the science, the strategy and leadership, in Bob Avakian (BA), the architect of the new communism and the leader of the revolution, to do that. Don’t let them tell you to go into retreat—and don’t fall for it.

And that leads to point four: revolution means something very specific. To quote the statement that we run on our website, revcom.us:

An actual revolution is a lot more than a protest. An actual revolution requires that millions of people get involved, in an organized way, in a determined fight to dismantle this state apparatus and system and replace it with a completely different state apparatus and system, a whole different way of organizing society, with completely different objectives and ways of life for the people. Fighting the power today has to help build and develop and organize the fight for the whole thing, for an actual revolution. Otherwise we’ll be protesting the same abuses generations from now!

Conclusion: If you DON’T want to fight these abuses generations from now, if you DO want to find out more about the way out of this madness and participate in actually bringing a new world into being, then get with the Revolution Club... and get into BA.

PC MORONS AND THE FIGHT TO ACTUALLY END OPPRESSION

Carving out a "safe space" for yourself while leaving the system intact is only playing into the hands of the imperialists. You are accomplishing nothing. This is not fighting oppression or creating revolution in any way shape or form. Pull your head out of your fucking ass.

Response to FEM Magazine:

Trying to Censor Revolutionaries in Safe Spaces of Empire

By Tala Deloria, Revolution Club, LA

March 15, 2019 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

After The Word on Wednesdays (an open mic poetry venue at UCLA) censored a revolutionary’s poem, we challenged the people attending to a debate about where the framework of intersectionality leads. They did not come to debate, but a contributor to FEM magazine wrote an article about the incident. This is a response to help bring clarity to the contention.

What we have here is two opposing models in contention. One aiming to sweep away oppression and exploitation throughout the planet, and the other aiming to curate the positions of oppressed people within this system—dictating who owns what oppression, and what stories can be told by whom—all of which leaves the world as it is.

The problem, according to this contributor, was that revolutionaries “colonized” their “safe space” by reading a poem dealing with global violence against women, and that a white man should not have read that poem because he has never experienced the trauma it detailed.

If you apply this criterion, even queer women of color living in imperialist countries couldn’t have read the poem! By this logic, it would’ve had to have 23 authors to be legitimate and politically correct. This is farcical and worse, as it can only lead to the stories and experiences of people in oppressed nations going untold. How convenient it is for this system when we can only speak from our own experience, never stepping out of our lanes to empathize with those on whose backs we are living, and instead censoring the telling of their stories in the name of preserving a safe space. A “safe space” which, by the way, you are able to carve out BECAUSE of the imperialist position of the U.S. in the world; a “safe space” which in the face of this incident, you enforced by calling the repressive force of the state—the pigs (UCPD)!

Further, if you think what happened at The Word was “colonization,” please go study what King Leopold and friends did to the Congolese people, what Cortez did throughout Latin America, what the British did in India. Your comparison would almost be funny if it wasn’t so insulting.

A white man empathizing with and reading a poem about violence against women is not violence just because it triggered your narrow worldview and made you uncomfortable. Comparing THIS to what the U.S. does all over the world—dropping drone bombs on babies, using rape as a tool of war, plundering the people and the planet in its search for riches and power—trivializes ACTUAL colonial and imperialist violence. The only way you can consider this a legitimate comparison is if you’re stewing in American chauvinism. So please, pick yourself up out of that BS and get real!

This isn’t to say artists shouldn’t have spaces to express themselves, but let’s set different standards here, and ironically, applying your criteria would mean the end of art! Think about it.

If we really want to end oppression, we need EVERYONE to speak out about the experiences of the people of the world. We must welcome everyone who wants to join the fight because that’s what it’s going to take to get free—uniting everyone who can be united in a revolutionary movement to overthrow the system that enforces relations of masters and slaves, exploiters and exploited, to get beyond this dynamic once and for all.

The second thread of the argument is that: “Only a white man’s worldview could select class and imperialism as the only relevant axes of oppression; only a white man could fail to understand that race, gender, and sexuality are the raw material for our capitalist and militaristic institutions.”

Underlying the distortions peddled in this sentence is a dismissal of a scientific understanding of the problem as the worldview of a “white man,” which you see as the main enemy.

Reality is not a compilation of narratives, some of which have dominance over others. We live in a global system of capitalism-imperialism which has integrated and made indispensable pre-existing social antagonisms—white supremacy, patriarchy, etc. This is true not only with regards to the divide between oppressed nations and imperialist countries, but also the oppression this system carries out in this country—the genocidal trajectory of mass incarceration and police terror against Black people, the demonization and persecution and incarceration of immigrants, and the list goes on.

We are in the “school of Bob Avakian” because as part of his breakthrough in human thought, he has brought forward a scientific understanding of the relationship between these social antagonisms and the underlying mode of production. It’s not that everything boils down to class as an identity or a position in the distribution of wealth in society—it’s that capitalism-imperialism with its underlying mode of production has the violent enforcement of oppressive inequality built into its operation, and it will continue to regenerate social antagonisms and oppressive ideas on a world scale and prevent you from fundamentally abolishing them unless and until we overthrow the system.

This understanding is not something you can come to by proceeding solely from the experiences or “narratives” of oppressed peoples. As our polemic on intersectionality states, “Without science and a scientific approach to get at the root causes, what is needed to uproot this and set up a radically different system and society, ALL resistance and struggles are channeled back into the very same system that is the source of this oppression in the first place.”

Trauma is real, and the stories and experiences of oppressed people should be and must be heard IN THE CONTEXT OF fighting to make a revolution and bringing into being a radically new state wherein people have the right to direct society toward the eventual abolition of classes and all the antagonistic divisions between human beings throughout the world, not to “get mine” or get atop a “woke” world!

This brings me to the paltry vision of “revolution” put forward in the article: “I think [my vision of revolution] looks like queer people of color sharing poetry on Wednesday nights. Many small, beautiful revolutions.”

Though I love poetry, as any real communist does, to call poetry readings by queer people of color revolution amounts to nothing but wielding your American privilege to keep the world as it is. You carve out a safe space within, and on the basis of, empire and you think the most radical thing we can do is to “assert [our] lived experiences as worthy of attention and validation in public discourse.” This is just a sad worldview with horizons so limited that they prevent you from seeing beyond this system.

There’s a way out of this madness. This is what we were bringing into The Word that day. A strategy for how we can make an actual revolution, which means an OVERTHROW of this system, meeting and defeating their forces of repression (the military, police, etc.) when the time is right. We are preparing now for that time. Because of the work Avakian has done, we have a strategy to go up against this imperialist beast with a real shot to win, and we have a constitution which sets a foundation for a society on the road to emancipating all of humanity. This is what anyone who really wants to get free needs to raise their sights to engage.

I myself, am honored to be in the school of Bob Avakian

NOT POLITICAL

This is one of the few posts/reposts that is definitely NOT overtly political, but will mean something to people who come to our shows and/or read this thing. Jake Phelps was the editor of Thrasher Magazine, and a larger than life public personality of the skateboarding world. He will be missed by everyone involved in that community. Rest in peace, Mr. Phelps.

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By Patrick O'Dell; photos by Patrick O'Dell

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Mar 16 2019, 11:32am

RIP Jake Phelps

The longtime 'Thrasher' editor dedicated his life to skateboarding, and it won't be the same without him.

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There will never be anyone like Jake Phelps. He loved skateboarding more than anyone I've ever met. He dedicated his life to it. Though I would sometimes cross the street to avoid him, I can remember so much of what he said to me. A lot of calls I got from him, from a phone number that was 415-666-something, struck fear in me to answer. But I always walked away from the call telling people quotes from the conversation: “what are you doing still asleep? You better have been up late last night with Jason Dill and the generators.” (The name of my future band if I have one).

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That I worked for him and Thrasher for a few years is probably the line in my resume I’m most proud of, the thing I never leave out when asked about my career. Thrasher, the logo, the name is known worldwide. It's authentic and trusted. It never sold out when it could have, and it changed my life. And a lot of that comes down to Jake. He started in the shipping room. According to lore Phelps went to founding editor Kevin Thatcher’s office after he had ripped out every page of the mag he didn’t like and said, "here’s the magazine." Kevin said, "if you think you can do better give it a try."

In some ways Jake wasn't really the editor when I worked there. He was more like the Glenn O’Brien-coined "editor at large." If I needed film I’d call Luke Ogden. If I spelled something wrong, Ryan Henry. Michael Burnett was filling most of the magazine with his photos and writing. Jake didn’t even have a computer on his desk. He didn’t have an email address. His voicemail wasn’t set up. He called you and you better not miss it. He held court in his office like some kind of skate Svengali or clairvoyant, telling you who he liked and who he didn’t. Often the statements seemed harsh or wrong and only with time would you look back and think, he was right about that. People always had conspiracies about Thrasher and Jake, and would trade stories and whispers. People would tell me that Jake took away their subscription, or dissed them in a caption. Who is banned? Does Jake pick Skater of the Year or is it voted on?

Skateboarding could have turned into anything. It was a fad for children. It could have been ballet, or a jock sport, or freestyle, slalom, it could have remained a surfing side hobby. We credit people like Tony Alva, Mark Gonzales, Eric Dressen, and Lance Mountain as the ones who influenced what riding a skateboard looks like. And it was people like Craig Stecyk, Glen Friedman, Spike Jonze, Stacey Peralta, and Grant Brittian who showed us what covering, photographing, and talking about skateboarding looks and sounds like. But out of all the writers, photographers, and editors, Jake Phelps had one of the most distinct voices—certainly the loudest.

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When I worked on Epicly Later'd I would run through a mental checklist: Will Jake think this is rad?, What does Jake think about skateboarding in the Olympics?, Do I have to roll in? Agree with him or not, Jake is one of those voices that skateboarding is measured by. He’s the guy passing down the lore and the unwritten rules. Now that he’s gone do we all have license just to kook everything? Who’s gonna keep track?

I will admit that eulogizing Jake Phelps is tricky. He was a deeply difficult person. Someone you respect but avoid if you can. Someone who could do and say shitty things to people, an asshole. I’ve heard stories and he’s shocked me many times. But sometimes he would shock me by caring, not just about skateboarding but about me, and tons of other skaters like me.

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INTERCONNECTED HATRED

The horrific massacre in new zealand only goes to show that this shit is everywhere, and waiting for the next election is complete and utter bullshit and failure. That motherfucker and everyone like him needs to go, including trump and any other asshole politician who encourages and supports this shit.

On the Vicious Murders in New Zealand

March 18, 2019 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

Last week an internet-white-supremacist-fascist invaded two mosques in New Zealand, murdering 50 people. He live-streamed the murders on Facebook, aiming to incite other fascists and racists and to terrorize the masses. (This broadcasting of a racist massacre is reminiscent of the role that “postcards of the hanging”—that is, postcards made out of pictures of lynching victims and then spread around the country—played in terrorizing the Black masses during the days of Jim Crow.) The accounts of parents trying to shield their children from the mayhem are as heartrending as the vicious racist arrogance of the murderer is infuriating.

This follows the massacre of nine Black people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2016 by another internet racist, and a slaughter of 11 Jews at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last November by someone who also appears to be a fascist.

The original comment of Donald Trump when asked if he thought that “white nationalism”—that is, white supremacist fascism—is a significant problem was to say, “I don’t really. I think it’s a small group of people.” As a matter of fact, it is a HUGE problem—for humanity. There is an open and unapologetic white supremacy that feeds into and drives forward today’s fascism in countries which were historically white-majority or white-colonial regimes. Trump’s election gave a boost to this, and he can always be “counted on” to objectively give backing to this. So this vicious and intentional show of indifference (and actual objective support) is outrage on top of outrage.

It is also worth noting that just a few days earlier, in an interview with the fascist Breitbart News Network, in reference to congressional investigations into different possible illegalities involving Trump and the regime, he noted that: “I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough—until they [that is, Trump’s opponents] go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.” This is a bald threat that if these investigations—and by implication, any other form of resistance from either within the ruling class or “from below” come to pose a serious obstacle to the fascist juggernaut—he will call out the dogs, both official and unofficial.

From the outrageous murders to the backing and threats from Trump, these are all manifestations of a fascism that is contending around the world. This promises a world where people of the “wrong” religion, people who are not white, women, LGBTQ people, and others will be subordinated and worse, where basic political rights are trashed, and those who oppose the established order are dealt with by an openly violent repressive form. This fascism is the product of capitalism-imperialism. It is one form of rule—one option—that capitalist ruling classes (or sections of those rulers) may feel compelled to resort to when they confront extreme contradictions, as they do today. We strongly recommend that people go from this article to the film of the talk by Bob Avakian, THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America. A Better World IS Possible. And also check out the new clip of Bob Avakian's answer to a questioner last summer on the rise of fascism around the world as well as other important international phenomena.

Those other forces in the ruling class who oppose Trump—these Democrats, whose leaders have just spoken strongly against even impeaching Trump—have no answers to this fascism beyond maintaining and entrenching the nightmare system that gave rise to it. They have no answers to the sharp contradictions of the system and themselves participate fully in the persecution and demonization of immigrants, the genocidal mass incarceration and police murder of Black and other oppressed nationalities, the degradation and oppression of women and all the other forms of gender oppression, the wars for empire, and the plunder of the environment. To confine your thinking to the choice between these two futures is to consent to keeping yourself, and the rest of humanity, locked within that nightmare.

Humanity needs a whole different and far better future—one beyond all forms of exploitation and oppression, and all the antagonistic relations between people. This revolution is being prepared today, concentrated now in the Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour.

One important part of that struggle is the actual battle to drive out the Trump/Pence fascist regime, uniting very broadly on the basis of bringing out strongly what humanity actually needs: an emancipatory revolution.

NOT GOOD, BUT STILL AWESOME

There was a dismal turnout for last Friday's show, bit it somehow still ended up being a great time. It was worth it just to get to see Car 87 again, and Surrounded By Idiots rocked the fucking house. If you missed out, you missed out. Good day.

THE MASSACRE AND THE MOTIVE

After the new zealand Mosque massacre , people are questioning the gun laws but not first and foremost why some sick fuck would feel the need to justify and do this in the first place. No doubt he has and will collect more supporters , and there may even be copycat  assholes out there. The system and it's media are constantly portraying anyone Islamic as a jihadi baby killing motherfucker, when it would seem that certain christians are no fucking different. This asshole deserves a painful and slow death, and nothing less. Fuck him and everyone who thinks like him.
Read about him here .