Obama, Trump & Why We Cannot Rely on the Democratic Party

From a talk given 2017 with a powerful lesson for today.

The suppression of dissent under capitalism vs. the fostering of dissent under socialism.

See REVOLUTION no. 129: Irresponsible opportunist distortions should not be allowed to sabotage…
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Why the Democrats have no spine? It’s not an anatomical problem

From the 7 Talks, “Why We’re in the Situation We’re in Today... And What to Do About It: A Thoroughly Rotten System and the Need for Revolution” (2006).

Truth does not depend on who says it...

–excerpt from Part 2 of the January interview, “The New Communism, A Whole New Way to Live, a Fundamentally Different System.”

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#ChuckSchumer & WHY the Democrats don’t fight. From 2018 and still true today!

📖 Democratic Party politicians may contribute to the crucial struggle against Trump/MAGA fascism—but the Democratic Party will not & cannot, lead this struggle where it needs to go

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“an executive order to further ‘unleash’ and militarize the police—and bring them more directly under the command of the Trump fascist regime... to establish that there will be no limit or restraint on Trump’s fascist tyranny”

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Civility with fascists?!
Video clip from a Q&A in 2018.

Take up the Call initiated [email protected] and open to all: “The Time has come for...THE FALL of the TRUMP FASCIST REGIME, Beginning November 5, 2025, Washington DC.”

Call this what it is: Christian FASCISM!

Join the historic Call to action, initiated by @RefuseFascism, and open to all, which begins: “The Time has come for...THE FALL of the TRUMP FASCIST REGIME, Beginning November 5, 2025, Washington DC.”

#Nov5 #TrumpMustGoNOW

Not the courts, and not the Democratic Party: Decent people, mobilizing massively and relentlessly, are the force that must be relied on to defeat Trump/MAGA fascism.

“The Time has come for...THE FALL of the TRUMP FASCIST REGIME, Beginning #Nov5, 2025, Washington DC.”

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“Where people have committed real crimes and outrages they should be held accountable; but there is also the need to look at the arc of someone’s life...”

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The Dangerous Notion that Trump Fascism Is “More of the Same” for Black People

Excerpt from the 2017 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

Excerpt from an important message from Bob Avakian
2025: A New Year—Profound New Challenges—And a Profoundly Positive Way Forward in the Face of Very Real Horror

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Why I, a revolutionary communist, see the need to unite broadly with people from different perspectives in Refuse Fascism

Excerpt from Q&As following the 2017 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

No future worth living in unless we unite all fights for justice and millions of decent people to drive out the fascist regime beginning November 5, DC.

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“Why DC? Because that is the seat of government” –Excerpt from REVOLUTION #141:
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Flood DC beginning November 5. Join the call for a nonviolent uprising to drive this regime from power, initiated by @refusefascism.bsky.social and open to all

What is the answer to ending the nightmare of oppression for the Palestinian people by the U. S. and Israel?

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“The Republicans have become a fascist party—a party based on open and aggressive white supremacy, male supremacy and other oppressive relations…”

—Excerpt from a 2021 speech by Bob Avakian, “SOMETHING TERRIBLE, OR SOMETHING TRULY EMANCIPATING…” (revcom.us)

At Universities: don’t comply with the lie that anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism. The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go!

Excerpt from REVOLUTION #138: Accusations of “Anti-Semitism”—The New McCarthyism—a vicious weapon of the Trump fascist regime.