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Theoretical Journals

      Since its founding in October 1975, the RCP has had three different theoretical journals: The Communist [1976-1978], Revolution [1975-1994], and Demarcations [2009-  ]. Our goal is to post all the issues of each of these three journals here. At present we are working on scanning and posting the early newspaper format issues of Revolution.

      If you know of other issues or relevant documents which should be made available here, contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net

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The Communist (1976-1978)

        [“Theoretical Journal of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA”. Only 5 issues appeared. These were first made available online by other websites.]

• The Communist, Volume 1, #1, October 1976   PDF format, 124 pages [69 printed sheets], 8,250 KB. Includes these articles:
  • “Commodities, Capitalism, Class Divisions—and their Abolition with the Achievement of Communism”, by Owen Natha [Bob Avakian?]
  • “Soviet-Imperialism and Social Democracy, Cover-Up of Capitalism in the USSR (or How Martin Nicolaus and the October League Have ‘Restored’ Socialism in the Soviet Union)”, by C.R.
  • “Some Preliminary Thoughts on Bourgeois Democracy and the U.S. Working Class”, by J. Werner
  • “On the Character of World War 2”, by John B. Tyler
  • “Bourgeois Right, Economism, and the Goal of the Working Class Struggle”, by Matt Butler and Lee Korsznecki
• The Communist, Volume 1, #2, May 1, 1977   PDF format, 169 pages [90 printed sheets], 10,601 KB. Includes these articles:
  • “On the Relationship Between the Forces and Relations of Production and the Base and Superstructure”, by Owen Natha [Bob Avakian?]
  • “Communism Not Pan Africanism Is the Guide to Socialist Revolution and Black Liberation”, by John Henry
  • “Reformist and Revolutionary Views of Capitalist Crisis: A Critique of ‘New Marxism’”, by M.F.Z.
  • “Anatomy of a Puerile Leftist Sect: The Religious Disorder of the Workers Viewpoint Organization”
    • “WVO: Undaunted Dogma from Puffed Up Charlatans”, by Owen Natha [Bob Avakian?]
    • “WVO’s Opportunism in Theory and Practice”, by John B. Tyler
  • “Living Socialism and Dead Dogmatism: The Proletarian Line and the Struggle Against Opportunism on the National Question in the U.S. (Reprinted from Red Papers 6, published by the Revolutionary Union, June 1974)”
• The Communist, Volume 2, #1, Fall/Winter 1977   PDF format, 173 pages [89 printed sheets], 9,546 KB. Includes these articles:
  • “On the Origins of World War 2”, by John B. Tyler
  • “Against Sweezy’s Political Economy: Reformist and Revolutionary Views of Capitalist Crisis, Part 2”, by M.F.Z.
  • “Marxism, Nationalism and the Task of Party Building: History and Lessons of the National Liaison Committee”, by D.B.
• The Communist, Volume 2, #2, Fall/Winter 1977   PDF format, 202 pages [104 printed sheets], 10,181 KB. Includes these articles:
  • “Against Pragmatism: Bourgeois Philosophy ‘Made in U.S.A.’”, by J.S.
  • “On the Outcome of World War 2 and the Prospects for Revolution in the West”, by C.R.
  • “On the Mensheviks’ Views of Crisis: ‘Capitalism Works After All’”, by R. Lotta
  • “The ‘Tarnished Socialism’ Thesis: Some Recent Publications in Defense of Soviet Capitalism”, by C.R.
• The Communist, Number 5, May 1979   PDF format, 241 pages [126 printed sheets], 13,968 KB. Includes these articles:
  • “Beat Back the Dogmato-Revisionist Attack on Mao Tsetung Thought: Comments on Enver Hoxha’s Imperialism and the Revolution”, by J. Werner
    Separate French translation of this one article: “Riposter a l’attaque Dogmato-Revisionniste sur la Pensée Maotsetoung”, (Chicago: RCPUSA, 1979), 114 pages.   Searchable PDF format (5,712 KB)
  • “Some Notes on the Study of What Is to Be Done? and Its Implications for the Struggle Today”, by J.P.
  • “Plato: Classical Ideologue of Reaction”, by J.S.
  • “China, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Professor Bettelheim (or How Not to Criticize Revisionism)”, by C.R.

Revolution [Theoretical Journal] (1975-1994)

        [Founded as the monthly “Organ of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA”, in October 1975, and as the continuation of the monthly newspaper of its main predecessor organization, the Revolutionary Union. During the first three years this was the national newspaper of the RCP, and included theoretical articles and polemics as well as commenting on the views and activities of the Party and the events of the day. Starting with volume 4 in January 1979, it switched to magazine format, and became a more focused theoretical journal. Note that this is not the same publication as the current weekly newspaper by the same name which the RCP has published since 2005.]

• Revolution, Vol. 3, #1, October 1977, 22 pages in English, 6 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [16,239 KB]   Articles include:
    • “1500 Unite at Convention: Fighting Workers Organization Founded”
    • “Plan Should Be Upheld: Reaction Erupts Over Chicago Busing”
    • “History and Lessons of the National Liaison Committee: Marxism, Nationalism and the Task of Party Building”
    • “Youth Set Agenda for Convention” [About upcoming founding convention of a national Communist youth organization]
    • “Marcos Manuevers: Philippine Struggle Forges Ahead”
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [4,444 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 3, #2, November 1977, 16 pages in English, 4 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [11,987 KB]   Articles include:
    • “Killer Cops Walk Free, Houston Masses Fight Back”
    • “60th Anniversary of Bolshevik Revolution: Learning From October: The High Road to Revolution”
    • “Message to the Communist Part of China on October 1, 1977”
    • “Some Comrades’ Experience: The Fight to Grasp Theory”
    • “Actions Coast to Coast: Bakke Case Under Heavy Fire”
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [3,091 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 3, #3, December 1977, 16 pages in English, 4 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [11,991 KB]   Articles include:
    • “Revolutionary Communist youth Brigade Founded!”
    • “5000 Battle SAVAK, Cops: Anger Explodes as Shah Visits Carter”
    • “Revolutionary Potential: Veterans a Key Force in Class War”
    • “Miners Struggle at a Crossroads”
    • “Jobs Campaign Moves Forward: NUWO Leaders Meet to Plan Strategy”
    • “Old Age Under Capitalism: Crisis Endangers Social Security”
    • “2000 March in Mesabi Mine Strike”
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [3,064 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 3, #4, January 1978, 18 pages in English, 6 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [13,698 KB]   Articles include:
    • “Strike Chokes Off Coal Production: Capitalists Hit Hard by Miners Strike”
    • “Editorial: Repudiate the Call for Menshevik Unity!” [Nominally against the CP(ML), but probably primarily directed against rightists then in the process of splitting from the RCP.]
    • “Driven Under—Farmers Rebel”
    • “U.S.-Sadat-Zionist Collusion: Palestinians Attack ‘Peace Plan’”
    • “Communism—Road Forward for Youth”
    • “Book Review: Who Should Play God?”
    • “Militant Demonstrations Slam Krugerrand”
    • “Pullman Strikers Picket Wall St.”
    • “Steel Workers Fight for Every Job”
    • “2000 Plus Attend ISA Convention” [Iranian students]
    • “AFL-CIO Backs Carter Attacks”
    • “Ohio Klan-Busters Acquitted” [3 NUWO members]
    • “Federal Reserve & Finance Capital: Carter Axes Arthur Burns”
    • “Free José Maria Sison! Philippine CP Leader Arrested”
    • “Frame-up of Filipina Nurses Overturned”
    • “Lockheed Workers Wage 84 Day Strike”
    • “NCOB Refuses to Unite: Professionals Meet on Bakke Case”
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [4,513 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 3, #5, February 1978, 23 pages in English, 5 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [17,950 KB]   Articles include:
    • “Miners Press On Despite Sellout Attempt: Support Struggle in the Coalfields!”
    • “RCYB Consolidates on Correct Line: Arrogant Clique Suffers Defeat” [Related to rightist split-off from RCP]
    • “Jan. 21 Unemployment Demo: 250 March in California”
    • “Party of Proletariat Strengthened: How Bolsheviks Defeated Mensheviks” [Relevant to current RCP internal struggle.]
    • “Editorial: First Time Tragedy, Second Time Farce” [Related to hostile “left” newspaper coverage of rightist split-off from RCP]
    • “Summing Up Advanced Experience: The High Road in Vets’ Work”
    • “Crisis Grips Auto Giants”
    • “Chrysler Strikers Regain Jobs”
    • “District 65 Hacks Exposed: NYC Steelworkers Wage Militant Strike”
    • “Chile Election Hoax Meets Resistance”
    • “Youngstown Steel Shutdown: ‘Worker Ownership’ Dead End Scheme”
    • “Important Analysis of Revisionism and Capitalist Restoration”
    • “J.P. Stevens Union Drive”
    • “Wilmington Ten Frame-up Continues”
    • “U.S. Cries Foul in Trade Wars: But ‘Free Trade’ Still Main Banner”
    • “HHH [Hubert Humphrey]: Happy Warrior for the Bourgeoisie”
    • “UAW Int’l Sells Out Essex Strikers”
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [3,952 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 3, #6, March 1978, 20 pages in English, 4 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [15,599 KB]   Articles include:
    • “Miners’ Struggle Confronts Capitalist State: Down with Taft-Hartley! Down with Federal Seizure!”
    • “U.S. Scurries for Comeback: Horn of Africa: Soviet Forces Roll”
    • “Wrong Line on ‘Carter’ Offensive: Reject Revisionism in Unemployment Work”
    • “The Paris Commune: First Proletarian Dictatorship”
    • “International Women’s Day: Why the Proletariat Celebrates IWD”
    • “Smith, Black Collaborators Connive: Sham ‘Majority Rule’ for Zimbabwe”
    • “Mighty Upsurge of Struggle in Iran”
    • “People Rise Up Against Somoza”
    • “CP(ML) Tells Masses ‘Let’s Go Backwards’: Two Lines in Hawaii Eviction Fight”
    • “D.C. Jobs Gathering: Reformism—Key Link in CP(ML) Campaign”
    • “Support Grows Nationwide: Rank & File Actions in Coalfield Battle”
    • “NUWO Defeats Wreckers” [About role of Mensheviks who split from RCP]
    • “How to View Results of I-Hotel Struggle”
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [3,268 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 3, #7-8, April-May 1978, 26 pages in English, 6 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [20,844 KB]   Articles include:
    • “2nd Party Congress Deepens Victory: Opening Remarks at Congress”
    • “2nd Party Congress: Communique”
    • “Party Routs Revisionist Clique: The High Road vs. the Well-Worn Rut”
    • “Mao Tsetung’s Immortal Contributions: Part I: Revolution in Colonial Countries”
    • “Opportunists Let Enemy Off Hook: 15,000 Hit Bakke Decision”
    • “Call Attacks Dictatorship of Proletariat: Mao’s Line Offends CP(ML)”
    • “Fight Imperialism and National Oppression from the USA to the USA: African Liberation Day”
    • “Miners, All Workers Advance in Strike: Contract Itself Stinks”
    • “Panama Canal Treaties: New Face Lift for Colonialism”
    • “Masses Hit Shah, U.S. Imperialism: Uprising Spiral in Iran”
    • “Neutron Bomb—A Phony Delay”
    • “UWOC Reaffirms Fighting Stand: Hold Nat’l Meeting in St. Louis”
    • “Mass Support Key in I-Hotel 10 Victory”
    • “Holocaust Promotes Zionism: Masses Blamed for Nazi Genocide”
    • “No Tears for Italy’s Aldo Moro: Revisionists Fret for Class Brother”
    • “Japanese Farmers, Workers, Students Unite: Militant Struggle Halts New Airport”
    • “Spanish CP Dumps Lenin”
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [4,966 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 3, #9, June 1978, Section I: 17 pages in English, 3 pages in Spanish; Section II: 9 pages in English, 7 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part of Section I:   Searchable PDF image format   [15,023 KB]   Articles include:
    • “Capitalists Hit Back With Heavy Charges: Mass Uprising In Houston Against Police Terror”
    • “Imperialists Claw at Zaire”
    • “Uprisings Intensify in Iran: General Strike in Tehran”
    • “Chicago Cops Bust 173 Iranian Students”
    • “Two-Line Struggle Deepens Understanding: Sharpen Weapon of the Party’s Press”
    • “Mensheviks Teach by Negative Example: RCP Coalfield Work Advances in Struggle”
    • “May Day Charts Revolutionary Course”
    • “CPML Takes Side of Houston Police: Denounces ‘Adventurists’”
    • “‘Blue Collar’ Movies Do O.T. for Bourgeoisie: Some Call Them ‘Proletarian’”
    • “Soviet Aggression Against China”
    • “1500 Rally at Kent State on May 4 Anniversary”
    • “2nd Congress Drives CPML to Frenzy”
    • “Soviet/Cuban Troops Aid Mengistu: New Offensive Launched Against Eritrea”
    • “King Legacy: Reformism and Capitulation: Opposed Black Liberation Struggle”
  • Entire English part of Section II: Mao Tsetung’s Immortal Contributions, “Part 2: Revolutionary War and Military Line”   Searchable PDF image format   [7,333 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part of Section I:   Searchable PDF image format   [2,415 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part of Section II: Las Contribuciones Immortales de Mao Tsetung, “Primera Parte: Revolución en Países Coloniales”   Searchable PDF image format   [6,050 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 3, #10, July 1978, Section I: 24 pages in English, 4 pages in Spanish; Section II: 7 pages in English, 9 pages in Spanish. (Note: The English edition is incorrectly labelled Vol. 3, #9 on the cover.)
  • Entire English part of Section I:   Searchable PDF image format   [20,357 KB]   Articles include:
    • “Bakke Ruling: Legal Seal for Reactionary Onslaught”
    • “2nd Convention of RCYB: Firm Ground for New Advances”
    • “ALD: Support African Peoples’ Struggles”
    • “Economic Struggle & Revolutionary Tasks: ‘Center of Gravity’ Repudiated”
    • “The Hand that Lurks Behind the Nazis”
    • “June 5 General Strike in Iran”
    • “‘Tax Revolt’ Won’t Ease Masses’ Burden”
    • “NATO, Zaire Meetings: U.S. Talks Tought, Sharpens Knives”
    • “Mensheviks in the Slag Heap: Forging Correct Line in Steel”
    • “Auto Elections Used to Hit Two-Headed Monster”
    • “Steering Committee Meets: NUWO Sums Up, Plots Advance”
    • “Party Speech at RCYB Convention: ‘Promote Revolutionary Struggles’”
    • “18,000 Hit Seabrook Nuclear Plant”
    • “Executed 25 Years Ago: Rosenbergs: Martyred by Imperialist Offensive”
    • “Postal Crisis is Capitalist Crisis: Strike Weapon Needed as Contract Nears”
    • “Covers for the Capitalists: OSHA Fiddles While Workers Burn”
    • “France, May 1968”
  • Entire English part of Section II: Mao Tsetung’s Immortal Contributions, “Part 3: Political Economy, Economic Policy and Socialist Construction”   Searchable PDF image format   [6,630 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part of Section I:   Searchable PDF image format   [3,620 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part of Section II: Las Contribuciones Immortales de Mao Tsetung, Parte 2.   Searchable PDF image format   [7,516 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 3, #11, August 1978, Section I: 16 pages in English, 4 pages in Spanish; Section II: 12 pages in English, 8 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part of Section I:   Searchable PDF image format   [13,578 KB]   Articles include:
    • “Postal Wildcats Deliver Blow to Sellout”
    • “Demos Target Shah, U.S. Imperialism: Iran: 25 Years of Bloody Rule”
    • “Crown Heights, N.Y.: Struggle Builds Against Police Terror”
    • “Ad for Mao Tsetung Memorial Meetings in New York City and San Francisco”
    • “Cleveland March Commemorates ’68 Rebellion”
    • “Six Cities: Nationwide Actions Defend Houston Rebellion”
    • “Mensheviks Sow Confusion on Fusion” [On the fusion of Marxism and the workers’ movement]
    • “‘Test Tube Baby’ Ires Vatican: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t”
    • “Decked Nazi with 2x4: Oregon Court Railroads Steelworker”
    • “Ridiculous Attack on RCP: Communists ‘Discovered’ in Alabama”
    • “USSR Sponsors Coup in South: Yemen: Superpower Battleground”
    • “What’s Behind Flap Over Soviet Dissident Trials?”
    • “Native Americans ‘Longest Walk’ Hits Government”
    • “Cops Protect Nazis in Chicago: Capitalist Promote Nazi Trash”
    • “Zimbabwean Liberation Fores Advance: U.S., Britain Prop Up ‘Internal Settlement’”
    • “1100 Strike Safeway’s Killer Production Plan”
  • Entire English part of Section II: Mao Tsetung’s Immortal Contributions, “Part 4: Philosophy”   Searchable PDF image format   [10,776 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part of Section I:   Searchable PDF image format   [3,359 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part of Section II: Las Contribuciones Immortales de Mao Tsetung, “Parte 3: Economía Política, Política Económica y Construcción Socialista”   Searchable PDF image format   [7,462 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 3, #12, September 1978, 9 pages in English, 7 pages in Spanish. Special Mao Tsetung Memorial Issue.  
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [7,594 KB]   Articles include:
    • “Uphold the Banner of Mao Tsetung! Statement by the C.C. of the RCP, USA.”
    • “The Struggle Over China in the RCP”
    • “Aid to Albania Cut Off: Chinese Revisionists Trail in Khrushchev’s Path”
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [6,510 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 3, #13, October 1978, 20 pages in English, 16 pages in Spanish.  
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [16,741 KB]   Articles include:
    • “Historic Mao Memorials Combat Revisionism”
    • “7 ½ Million March Vs. Shah’s Regime”
    • “Free the Moody Park 3!”
    • “Struggle Over ‘Gang of 5’ Hits US-China Peoples Friendship Association”
    • “Party Calls for Mao Tsetung Enrollment”
    • “NUWO Demonstrates in Atlantic City Steel Convention: Company-Union Circus”
    • “Civil War Erupts in Nicaragua”
    • “Embraces Tito, Shah — Hua’s Trip: All-Round Capitulation to Imperialism”
    • “Ex-Member Exposes CPML: Blind Tagging Behind China Demanded”
    • “Camp David Sellout: U.S. Imperialism’s House of Cards”
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [14,106 KB]   Includes:
    • “Las Contribuciones Inmortales de Mao Tsetung, Parte 4: Filosofia”
• Revolution, Vol. 3, #14, November 1978, Section I: 20 pages in English, 4 pages in Spanish; Section II: 8 pages in English.  
  • Entire English part of Section I:   Searchable PDF image format   [17,566 KB]   Articles include:
    • “Down, Down, Down with the Shah!”
    • “Moody 3 Fight Hits Raw Nerve”
    • “‘Three Worlds’ Strategy: Apology for Capitulation”
    • “Wage-Price Speech [by Carter] Confession of Crisis”
    • “Bourgeois Liberalism—A Tattered Cloak: Legislation, Elections ’78”
    • “Mao Memorial Month Final Events: Forward with Revolution Never Wavering!”
    • “‘Stop Rizzo’ Dead-End Trap” [Philadelphia]
    • “Vets Struggle Against Imperialist War”
    • “Interview Provokes Foaming CPML Response: Stuck Pigs Squeal”
    • “New Pope Blessing for West: Old Pope ‘Recalled’”
    • “Tupelo, Mississippi: Fight Against National Oppression”
    • “Safeway Strike in Fourth Month”
    • “‘Let Bourgeois Art Do Its Thing’”
    • “U.S. Schemes to Hold Zimbabwe”
  • Entire English part of Section II: Mao Tsetung’s Immortal Contributions, “Part 5: Culture and the Superstructure”   Searchable PDF image format   [6,825 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [3,356 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 3, #15, December 1978, Section I: 20 pages in English, 8 pages in Spanish; Section II: 9 ½ pages in English, 6 ½ in Spanish.  
  • Entire English part of Section I:   Searchable PDF image format   [18,091 KB]   Articles include:
    • “Iran: New High Tide Defies Military Gov’t.”
    • “Reactionary Mantle of Chou En-lai: Used to Attack Mao’s Line”
    • “Actions Support Houston Rebellion: Momentum Builds as Trial of 3 Nears”
    • “On the Role of Agitation and Propaganda”
    • “Vets Day Actions: VVAW Disrupts Patriotic Circuses”
    • “Crown Heights, N.Y.: Thugs in Blue Kill Again”
    • “High Stakes in NATO War Games”
    • “Jim Jones: In His Master’s Image”
    • “Chicago Worker Conference: Mobilizing for Bi-Weekly Worker”
    • “Steelhaulers Strike: Demands Have Dual Character”
    • “Big March in Tupelo” [Mississippi]
    • “Indochina Armed Clashes: Bitter Fruit of Revisionism”
    • “Furious Demonstration Against the Shah”
    • “Harry Haywood: ‘My Life as a Bundist’” [Review of Haywood’s book Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist]
    • “Nationwide Actions vs. U.S. in Iran: Tallahassee: Students Battle Cops”
    • “CPML Discovers Struggle in Iran: One Step Behind Bourgeoisie”
    • “Volume 3 Index”
  • Entire English part of Section II: Mao Tsetung’s Immortal Contributions, “Part 6: Continuing the Revolution under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”   Searchable PDF image format   [8,684 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part of Section I:   Searchable PDF image format   [7,455 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part of Section II: Las Contribuciones Immortales de Mao Tsetung, “Parte 5: Cultura y Superestructura”   Searchable PDF image format   [6,013 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 4, #1, January 1979, 41 pages in English, 31 pages in Spanish. (This was the first issue after the switch from newspaper format to magazine format.)
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [8,735 KB]
  • “Editorial: Enver Hoxha Exposes Opportunism—His Own”, 1 page,   Searchable PDF image format   [180 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [6,927 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 4, #2-3, February-March 1979, 41 pages in English, 23 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [9,621 KB]
  • Single article: “Mao Tsetung Thought vs. Hoxha’s Hollow Hatchetry”, 5 pages,   Searchable PDF image format   [1,038 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [5,167 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 4, #4, April 1979, 43 pages in English, 21 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [9,924 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [4,408 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 4, #5, May 1979, 36 pages in English, 20 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [7,690 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [4,141 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 4, #6, June 1979, 50 pages in English, 22 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [10,439 KB]
  • Single article: “A Critical Appraisal of the Communist Party of China’s ‘Proposal Concerning the General Line of the International Communist Movement’ (1963)”, together with the appendix “The CCP’s Struggle Against Khrushchev, 1956-1963”, English, 21 pages.   Searchable PDF image format   [4,186 KB]
  • The English part of this issue also includes:
    • “May Day 1980—Historic Step Forward”
    • “SALT II: Preparing the Missiles—and the Masses—for War”
    • “Busing and the Fight Against National Oppression and for Revolution” [A self-criticism of the previous line of the RCP (and earlier the RU) on the busing issue].
    • “New Chinese Leaders Paving the Way to Shelve Mao to Justify Their Policies”
    • “Closet ‘Maoists’ Expose Themselves” [About the Workers Viewpoint Organization.]
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [4,204 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 4, #7-8, July-August 1979, 47 pages in English, 49 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [10,908 KB]
  • The English part of this issue includes:
    • “Free the Mao Tsetung Defendants: Stop the Railroad of Bob Avakian”
    • “Vietnam: Miscarriage of the Revolution”
    • “Uphold Rebellion—Prepare for Revolution”
    • “A Wrong Phrase” [Correcting an error in the criticism of Enver Hoxha in an article in the Communist, #5.
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [10,158 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 4, #9, September 1979, 47 pages in English, 33 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [10,180 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [7,156 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 4, #10-11, October-November 1979.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [10,050 KB]
  • The English part of this issue includes:
    • “Lenin’s Struggle Against International Opportunism: 1914-1917”, major unsigned article, available separately, 21 pages.   Searchable PDF image format   [4,430 KB]
    • “The Prospects for Revolution and the Urgent Tasks in the Decade Ahead”, Documents from the third plenary session of the Second Central Committee of the RCP,USA.
    • Two Statements Upholding Mao Tsetung
      • Ceylon Communist Party: “In Defence of Mao Tsetung Thought”, by M. Sanmugathasan, General Secretary, adopted at a special congress of the CCP in July 1979, available separately.   Searchable PDF image format   [1,658 KB]
      • Communist Party of Turkey (Marxist-Leninist) [TKP/ML]: “On Mao Tsetung”, Sept. 9, 1979, 2 pages, available separately.   Searchable PDF image format   [526 KB]
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [12,068 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 5, #1, (whole number 46), January 1980, 57 pages in English, 39 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [8,070 KB]
  • The English part of this issue:
    • “Government Retreats, Attacks Again...: Bob Avakian Must Stay Free”
    • “Statement Upholding Mao Tsetung”, by the Revolutionary Communist Party of Chile
    • “There Will Be Revolution—But Wishing Won’t Make It So: Voluntarism, Metaphysics and the Communist Workers Party”
    • “Kennedy: Knight of the Living Dead”
    • Index for 1979 issues.
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [8,213 KB]
• Revolution, Vol. 5, #2-3, (whole number 47), February-March 1980, 54 pages in English, 34 pages in Spanish.
  • Entire English part:   Searchable PDF image format   [6,390 KB]
  • The English part of this issue:
    • “A Call to Battle, A Challenge to Dare” [On the draft of the new Party Programme]
    • “The Movement Against Nuclear Madness”
    • “America in Decline—Crisis and War: The Mood and Conditions of the Masses”
    • “Slipping into Darkness: ‘Left’ Economism, the CPUSA and the Trade Union Unity League (1929-1935)”   [This is part of the theoretical thinking which led to the growing isolation of the RCP from the working class. —Ed.]
  • Entire Spanish part:   Searchable PDF image format   [6,724 KB]
  • The Spanish part of this issue:
    • “Una Llamada al Combate, Un Reto a Atreverse”
    • “Comentarios sobre la Crisis y la Economica Politica”
    • “La Lucha de Lenin en Contra del Oportunismo Internacional: 1914-1917”
• Revolution, Vol. 5, #4, (whole number 48), July 1980, English edition, 65 pages. Searchable PDF image format   [10,291 KB]
  Includes:
  • Memorial for murdered RCP comrade Damian Garcia
  • “Communique from the Revolutionary Communist Party of Chile and the RCP, USA”
  • “The International Unity of the Proletariat: What It Is and How to Fight for It”
  • “International Workers Day, May 1st 1980: The Welding of a Class-Conscious Force”, with photo section
  • “The Historic Announcement from the RCP Central Committee given by its Chairman Bob Avakian at the 1979 May Day Rallies Calling for Revolutionary May Day 1980” [Announcing a year-long campaign to build for May Day 1980]
  • “Messages to the RCP, USA from Communists and Revolutionaries around the World on May Day”
• Revolution, #49 [Vol. 6, #1], June 1981, English edition, 80 pages.
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format   [Very large: 72,993 KB]
  • “Outline of Views on the Historical Experience of the International Communist Movement and the Lessons for Today”
  • “Some Notes on the Military and Diplomatic History of World War 2”
  • “On the Question of So-called ‘National Nihilism’: You Can’t Beat the Enemy While Raising His Flag”
  • “... But the MLPUSA Tries It”
  • “The Line of the Comintern on the Civil War in Spain”
  • “Joint Communique of 13 Marxist-Leninist Parties & Organizations”
• Revolution, #50, n.d. (but from December 1981), English edition, 52 pages. Special issue: “Conquer the World? The International Proletariat Must and Will”, by Bob Avakian.
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format   [17,644 KB]
• Revolution, #51, Spring 1984, English edition, 92 pages.
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format   [7,199 KB]
  • “Advancing the World Revolutionary Movement: Questions of Strategic Orientation”, by Bob Avakian
  • “Angola: A Case Study in Soviet Neocolonialism”, by Nicholas Cummings
  • “Observations on the French Left During the Algerian War”, by Albert Lefevre
  • “The Military Line of the PLO and the Lessons of Beirut: A Letter”, by Paul Case
• Revolution, #52, Summer 1984, English edition, 80 pages. More on the Soviet Union: Aspects of an Imperialist Society.
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format   [6,541 KB]
  • Cover Image
  • Contents Page & Editor’s Introduction
  • “Notes Toward an Analysis of the Soviet Bourgeoisie”, by Lenny Wolff & Aaron Davis, 39 pp.   [PDF Version: 368 KB];   [MS Word Version: 200 KB]
  • “Against the ‘Lesser Evil’ Thesis: Soviet Preparations for World War 3”, by Mike Ely, 27 pp. [Searchable PDF image format: 3,881 KB.]
  • “Soviet Education: Reading, Writing, and Revisionism”, by Leona Krasny, 22 pp. [Searchable PDF image format: 2,887 KB.]
• Revolution, #53, Winter-Spring 1985, English edition, 112 pages.
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format   [3,537 KB]
  • “The ’60s-’70s Shift”, by Bob Avakian
  • “The Disarmament Mirage”, by R. Ulin
  • “Not in Our Genes and the Waging of the Ideological Counteroffensive”, by Ardea Skybreak
  • “The Political Anatomy of the ERA: Bourgeois Feminism and Prewar Politics”, by Li Onesto
  • “Guevara, Debray, and Armed Revisionism”, by Lenny Wolff
• Revolution, #54, Winter/Spring 1986, English edition, 64 pages. “Questions for These Times: An Interview with Bob Avakian.”
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format [5,144 KB]
• Revolution, #55, Winter/Spring 1987, English edition, 77 pages.
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format [5,597 KB]
  • “Since the ’60s: Trends of Impoverishment, Oppression, and Class Polarization in the Black Nation”, by Clyde Young with Steven Anders
  • “Considerations on a Revolutionary Situation in the United States”, by M. Upshaw
  • “Historical Document: Self-Criticsm by the Indonesian Communist Party, 1966”
• Revolution, #56, Spring 1988, English edition, 81 pages.
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format [6,426 KB]
  • “Commemorating a Major Struggle in the RCP,USA: Upholding Mao’s Revolutionary Line: A Turning Point”
  • “What’s Behind Iran/Contragate?”, a talk with Raymond Lotta
  • “The United States and Mexico: Anatomy of Domination”, by David Nova
  • “On the Question of Homosexuality and the Emancipation of Women”
  • “When John Wayne Went Out of Focus: GI Rebellion and Military Disintegration in Vietnam”, by Nick Jackson
• Revolution, #57, Summer/Fall 1988, English edition, 40 pages.. “Bob Avakian: Two Talks on Preparations and Possibilities.”
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format   [2,594 KB]
  • “Some Thoughts”, Fall/Winter 1987.
  • “Some Further Thoughts”, early 1988.
• Revolution, #58, Fall/Winter 1989, English edition, 80 pages.
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format   [5,822 KB]
  • “Eye on the Prize”, by Bob Avakian
  • “Upheaval in China: Mao More Than Ever”
    • Bob Avakian on China: Excerpts on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the Restoration of Capitalism, and Genuine Proletarian Dictatorship
    • Raymond Lotta: Revolt in China—The Crisis of Revisionism, Or... Why Mao Tsetung Was Right
  • “Islamic Revivalism and the Experience of Iran”, by Larry Everest
  • Book Review: “Knowing the Enemy: The Pentagon Doctrine of Low-Intensity Conflict”, by Lenny Wolff
  • Correspondence on Black GIs
• Revolution, #59, Spring 1990, English edition, 40 pages.
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format [2,846 KB]
  • “Making New Leaps in Preparing for Revolution”, Winter/Spring 1989, by Bob Avakian
  • “The Latin American Debt Crisis in Perspective: The Political Economy and Strategic Implications of Global Financial Disorder”, by Raymond Lotta
  • “Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943”
  • “Step Forward to Build Revolution Magazine”
• Revolution, #60, Fall 1990, English edition, 48 pages.
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format [3,379 KB]
  • “The End of a Stage—The Beginning of a New Stage”, Late 1989, by Bob Avakian
  • “Radical Ruptures, or Yes, Mao More Than Ever”, Early 1990, by Bob Avakian
  • “A Final Note: Principles in Carrying Forward the Revolution under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Preventing Revisionism and the Rise to Power of the (New) Bourgeoisie”
• Revolution, #61, Spring 1991, English edition, 55 pages.
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format   [3,854 KB]
  • “Know the Enemy: A Statement of the Persian Gulf War”, by Bob Avakian
  • “Behind the U.S. War on Iraq”, by Larry Everest
  • “Lenin on War and Peace”
  • “All-the-Way Revolution vs. Other Strategies”, by Carl Dix
  • “After the Revolution... Uprooting National Oppression”
  • “Germany: And the Wall Came Tumbling Down”, by Köklu Köpus
  • “Bob Avakian on the Myth of Totalitarianism”
• Revolution, #62, Spring 1992, English edition, 63 pages.
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format [4,203 KB]
  • “On Today’s Strategically Favorable Situation”, by Bob Avakian
  • “The Theory and Practice of Maoist Planning: In Defense of a Viable and Visionary Socialism”, by Raymond Lotta
  • “Talk on the Third Five-Year Plan”, by Mao Tse-tung
  • “After the Revolution: The Proletariat, upon seizing power, will immediately take up the transformation of society”, from The New Programme of the RCP, USA
  • “Breaking ALL Tradition’s Chains: On Revolutionary Communism and Women’s Liberation”, an interview with Mary Lou Greenberg [Part I].
• Revolution, #63, Fall 1994, English edition.   [This was the final issue of the RCP theoretical journal Revolution.]
  • Complete issue in Searchable PDF image format [4,748 KB]
  • “The October Revolution and the Military Leadership of Lenin”, by Toby Preparado
  • “The Yankee Hand Behind the Crisis in Peru”, by Raymond Lotta
  • “Breaking ALL Tradition’s Chains: Revolutionary Communism and Women’s Libration”, Part II of an interview with Mary Lou Greenberg.

Demarcations [Theoretical Journal] (2009-   )

        The current, quite sporadic, RCP theoretical journal. There have only been 5 issues so far. The home page for this journal is at: http://www.demarcations-journal.org Some of the separate articles from these issues are available there in English, Spanish and in a few cases in other languages. Here we are mostly only posting the complete issues which are available in a single PDF file.

• Demarcations, #1, Summer-Fall 2009:   Spanish: PDF format, 159 pages, 3,055 KB.
• Demarcations, #2, Summer-Fall 2012:   English: PDF format, 79 pages, 916 KB.   Spanish: PDF format, 67 pages, 1,496 KB.
• Demarcations, #3, Winter 2014:   English: PDF format, 144 pages, 1,226 KB.   Spanish: PDF format, 140 pages, 2,778 KB.
• Demarcations, #4, Winter 2015:   Spanish: PDF format, 260 pages, 2,480 KB.
• Demarcations, #5, Late 2019, Special Issue: “Breakthroughs: The Historic Breakthrough by Marx, and the Further Breakthrough with the New Communism. A Basic Summary, by Bob Avakian”   English (Nov. 2019): PDF format, 81 pages, 549 KB;   Spanish (3 Aug. 2019): PDF format, 87 pages, 1,483 KB;   Farsi: PDF format, 128 pages, 948 KB;   Portuguese (28 Oct. 2019): PDF format, 67 pages, 896 KB;   Arabic (2020): PDF format, 57 pages, 1,061 KB;   German (complete): PDF format, 75 pages, 429 KB;   Turkish (Partial): PDF format, 39 pages, 1,088 KB

Note: The Revolutionary Worker Newspaper (1979-2005), and its weekly newspaper successor, Revolution, also have occasional theoretical articles, usually by Avakian, often ones which are also available in the above journals.

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