l.a. writers collective

Revolution newspaper is coming soon . . .

Revolution newspaper is coming this May 1st!! I'm so excited about this.

The editors of the newspaper wrote a message that the name is being changed from the Revolutionary Worker to Revolution because it's a name that more fully reflects our communist ideology and politics and the enriched vision of a tribune of the people that has been pioneered by Bob Avakian.

I'm always amazed at the quality of our newspaper and the way that it is both an organizing tool that currently does and has tremendous potential to organize networks of people and keep these networks connected to the Revolutionary Communist Party and Bob Avakian. It analyzes things as they are developing in the world and it also gives us food or thought and inspires us to discuss and wrangle over what communism is and the road to get there. There are amazing articles about science and art-- topics that the masses of people have been locked out of and need to know about. These articles are so special for many reasons--partly because the Christian Fascists want to do away with all this-- but also because human beings need to understand basic things about how the world works and they need to be amazed!

In thinking about how essential the revolutionary press is I've been giving some thought to what Bob Avakian has written about this:

"In What Is To Be Done , Lenin emphasizes that the way the masses must and do develop proletarian class consciousness is by being enabled and trained to respond to all major social questions and world events, and how these find expression among all different strata; and they have to be trained to do this from a class-conscious proletarian point of view, and no other . They have to be trained to see not only how they come into confrontation with the ruling class in the more narrow and immediate sphere of their economic relations with their employers (or with their immediate exploiters and oppressors), and so on, but in the broader sense in which the proletariat as such comes into conflict with the ruling class. And they have to learn to make what Lenin calls a `materialist analysis and a materialist estimate' of all major social questions and world events and how this finds expression among different classes and strata--and therefore to recognize and distinguish the nature and interests of all different classes and strata in society."

Our revolutionary press is truly something to celebrate and promote in a HUGE way. The L.A. Writers Collective is looking for ideas to promote Revolution newspaper in the week leading up to and the week of May 1st! We want to break through in a big way and get this into the hands of tens of thousands of people.

-- Luciente

posted by Luciente Zamora @ 4:55 PM