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Bob Avakian is an American political activist and Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP).

Early life

Avakian was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Berkeley, California.

Career

As a young man he became involved with the Students for a Democratic Society at Berkeley and the Free Speech Movement and the Black Panther Party. In 1968 he wrote articles for the Peace and Freedom Party's publications and attended a July 1969 Black Panther conference held in Oakland, California. Avakian was a member of the Bay Area Revolutionary Union.

Avakian was charged with assaulting a police officer in January 1979 at a demonstration held in Washington DC to protest Deng Xiaoping's meeting with Jimmy Carter According to Avakian, the charges were dropped a few years later. He gave a speech to 200 protestors in downtown, Oakland, California in 1980.

In 2005 Avakian published an autobiography called: From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist. He reports that the charges against him were dropped in 1982. According to Avakian's memoirs, he received death threats and began a self-exile in France. He went on a speaking tour in 2000.

Avakian has been the Revolutionary Communist Party's central committee chairman and national leader since 1979.

Reception

Avakian and his philosophy have been criticized by Mike Ely of the "communist project" Kasama and Mark Oppenheimer of the Boston Globe.

Notes

  1. ^ Oppenheimer, Mark. "Free Bob Avakian!". Boston.com. Boston Globe. Retrieved Sep 8, 2014.
  2. Werkmen, Dirk (March 10, 1968). "Freedom: The Birth of a Party, 1968". No. page 5. Independent Star News. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  3. Benson, George S. (March 28, 1972). "Looking Ahead". page 11. The Evening Independent. Retrieved Sep 9, 2014.
  4. Baker, Ross S. (Nov 22, 1970). "A History of The Weathermen". Express and News. Retrieved Sep 9, 2014.
  5. ^ (2005) From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist, Insight Press
  6. Avakian, "Bob Avakian Speaks on the Mao Tsetung Defendants' Railroad and the Historic Battles Ahead", Introduction and pp. 18--21.
  7. Athan G. Theoharis, "FBI Surveillance: Past and Present", Cornell Law Review, Vol. 69 (April 1984); and Peter Erlinder with Doug Cassel, “Bazooka Justice: The Case of the Mao Tse Tung Defendants – Overreaction Or Foreshadowing?”, Public Eye, Vol. II, No. 3&4 (1980), pp. 40--43.
  8. ^ Unknown author (May 2, 1980). "Scores arrested, Injured In May Day Violence". Logansport Pharos-Triubune. UPI. Retrieved Sep 9, 2014. {{cite news}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  9. Buchwald, Art (August 12, 2000). "Leisure Will Kill You". Indiana Gazette (Indiana). Retrieved Sep 8, 2014.
  10. Unknown (Dec 6, 1979). "Communist s get year sentence for disruption". No. page 2. The Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill). Retrieved Sep 9, 2014.
  11. Ely, Mike. "Letter 4: Truth, Practice and a Confession of Poverty". http://kasamaproject.org/kasama/40-import-data/4349-letter-4-truth-practice-and-a-confession-of-poverty. Kasama Project. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  12. "What Is Kasama". Kasama Project. Kasama Project. Retrieved Sep 5, 2014.

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