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"Feminist" porn? "Anarchist" porn? WTF are you talking about?! Here's a much needed REALITY CHECK from Annie Day 💯
“The half of humanity that’s female is more important than what ‘turns you on’”
Watch the full interview on RNL Show Ep. 87 (3 February 2022): https://youtu.be/9O4DAIXh4Hw
kites-journal.org 1 April 2024 After consulting a tarot card reader while on a sojourn to his old stomping grounds in the Bay Area, Californ
kites-journal.org | 1 April 2024
After consulting a tarot card reader while on a sojourn to his old stomping grounds in the Bay Area, California for insight into the possible political scenarios that could manifest in the US in November 2024, Bob Avakian has set to work on a new book to be published in the run-up to the upcoming presidential election. Democracy: We Can’t Do Better Than That promises to rationalize why preventing Trump from taking office must be the strategic priority of communists in the US, even as under the Biden administration life has arguably gotten worse for the masses of people in the US, the CDC started inventing total nonsense in relation to COVID-19 (such as the five-day rule), and the US funded and supported a genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
But more than just explaining the RevCom’s current strategy of imagining a revolutionary crisis occurring around the 2024 elections and hinging all their political work around that prediction, Democracy: We Can’t Do Better Than That will justify Avakian’s reversal of correct verdicts on the history of the international communist movement. Chapter 2 of the book will rehabilitate the Comintern’s united front against fascism of the late 1930s, arguing that the defense of bourgeois-democracy against fascism supersedes the need for proletarian revolution. Chapter 3 will refashion some of Earl Browder’s ideas for the 21st century and explain the spiral-like development of Avakian’s “new communism” as a re-synthesis of the old communism of the late-1930s CP (but without the mass following) that Avakian previously insisted must be discarded. Chapter 4 will explain why proposed policies in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America that Avakian authored sound more like bourgeois-democratic parliamentary procedures than the practices of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in socialist China. In the conclusion of Democracy: We Can’t Do Better Than That, Avakian will rationalize how tailing the liberal petty-bourgeoisie and flattening all political work into the fight against Trumpian fascism can serve revolutionary objectives.
Followers of Avakian had mixed reactions to the announcement of his forthcoming book. Some were glad that he was actually sitting down to write a book instead of just doing another lengthy talk that is subsequently transcribed and published. Others wondered if they could stomach the possibility that, after decades of dedicating their lives to revolution, Avakian might once again tell them to vote for Biden in order to stop Trumpian fascism. Most, however, were unfortunately too brain dead after years of doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result each time to think critically or question a capitulationist political line. A standout among Avakian’s followers was Andy Zee, who was ecstatic about the upcoming release of Avakian’s Democracy: We Can’t Do Better Than That. On the Revolution Nothing Less YouTube show, Zee explained that “I’ve gotten pretty good over the last couple decades at being a sycophant, arguing for whatever Avakian’s latest ideas are even if it meant a 180-degree flip from what I was saying a week ago. That is, after all, why I was made the host of this show.”
Amber Alert: Russia is Kidnapping Ukrainian Children rally - 02.04.2023 by Strannik45 Via Flickr: More photos here
The rally was organized by Chicago's Ukrainian community to bring attention to the issue that earned Russian President Vladimir Putin an arrest warrant - what Russia has been doing in Ukrainian kids in the occupied territories.
As with many things happening in the Ukrainian War, there are several things going on. First, Russian forces have been taking kids that were orphaned (or whose next of kin couldn't be found right away, or whose next of kin aren't in the occupied territories) and sending them to Russia to be adopted. And, if there is any question about the ultimate goal of this, Russian government recently gave grants to "help children embrace to their new homeland."
There is also the part where several kids in occupied areas (mostly Kherson Oblast) who were taken to summer camps in Russia, and when the territories were liberated, Russians weren't exactly willing to give those kids back. And families have no way of getting in touch with them. And if that sounds like a nightmare - congratulations, you have a conscience.
The rally was scheduled to kick off at the Old Water Tower, then proceed down Michigan Avenue toward Millennium Park, culminating at the Cloud Gate/the Bean. Now, what I don't think the organizers realized was that the Revolutionary Communist Party was going to have a rally at the northwest corner of the Millennium Park, also at 2:00 PM. It was on my radar, but I wasn't sure, given the timing, if the twain shall meet.
Well, RevComm noticed them as they were arriving, and decided to preach their mission of how everyone should stop the "US/NATO Proxy War." I'm not entirely sure if they got to other parts of their spiel, like that Maidan protests were a NATO scheme, that NATO expansion provoked Putin and, oh, that Russia hasn't been Communist since 1950s and that Stalin was a communist "who made a lot of mistakes." But, suffice to say, the Ukrainians were not amused. Chants of "Commies Go Home" got thrown around.
Still, given the vast disparity in numbers, the communists did ultimately leave, and the rally was finished as planned.
daily reminder that communism is the way
don't be an armchair revolutionary, join up with an actual irl org
There's nothing honorable in service to the blood-soaked American Empire!
The US military is a machinery of death, torture & destruction. Only thing honorable is refusing orders or speaking out!
We don't say Thank You For Your Service, we say Fuck You For Your Service!
“Pornography expresses an impoverished view of sex—it is a reflection of a callous, woman-hating, and viciously inhumane world. While the physical positions, “races,” ages, and levels of violence may vary, the sex in porn is always the same. It portrays “I-own-you” sex. Overwhelmingly this is men dehumanizing and degrading women, but it also gets mirrored in gay porn and other porn. This is a truly impoverished view of sex and intimacy. It is a reflection in the intimate sphere of the larger relations in the world today where the U.S. invades and viciously exploits countries in the Third World, where men brutalize and dominate women, where human beings are treated like commodities, and where people are pitted against each other in a desperate scramble to get ahead—or just to survive.”
—Sunsara Taylor, What Makes Sex “Good”?—And Why Porn Is NOT
In 1991, the police in Los Angeles were caught on video brutally beating a Black man, Rodney King, after a traffic stop. 30 years ago, on April 29, 1992, people in LA rose up in a beautiful, righteous rebellion when these pigs were acquitted. Earlier this month, police in Grand Rapids, Michigan killed an unarmed Black man, Patrick Lyoya, after a traffic stop. Protest after protest, even heroic rebellion—yet the system’s oppression goes on and on... and is being geared up for something even worse. Reforms cannot stop it. Protest and rebellion are absolutely needed, but on their own they don’t go far enough.
30 years after the heroic 1992 LA Rebellion, the revcoms say: WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT THEIR FUTURE, WE ARE GETTING ORGANIZED FOR A REAL REVOLUTION
Get with the revcoms on May 1, 2022, 2 pm at corner of Wilshire & Alvarado near Westlake/MacArthur Park Metro Red Line station
https://revcom.us/en#mayday2022
THROWBACK THURSDAY
Revolutionary Worker #195 — Vol. 4, #43, March 4, 1983
“Break the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mightly Force for Revolution!”
