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Every week The RNL Show exposes and digs deep into the roots of the problem that the people here and around the world face and it brings to life the solution through a real revolution to emancipate humanity.
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Episodes
Episode 265: Reinstate Jimmy Kimmel! Trump Must Go Now! All Out for Nov 5 | + Bob Avakian on the New Communism
9/22/2025
Episode 265: Reinstate Jimmy Kimmel! Trump Must Go Now! All Out for Nov 5 | + Bob Avakian on the New Communism
Introduction, with Sunsara Taylor and Annie Day. A special announcement on the future of the RML Show.
The Trump regime uses the murder of Charlie Kirk to rush ahead with consolidating a fascist form of rule: Don't give them your fear!
November 5, The time has come for...The fall of the trump fascist regime, Beginning November 5, 2025, Washington DC. Fascism is not a looming threat. It is upon us now. Beginning November 5, the one-year anniversary of Trump’s election, flood DC in nonviolent protest. Don’t stop until Trump is removed.
Bob Avakian, the leader of the revolution and the author of the New Communism: From REVOLUTION #133, “Yes, this Trump/MAGA fascism really is that bad. And, if it is not driven from power soon, it will get far worse.”
Rafael Kadaris on anti-communist divide and conquer schemes that oppose the anti-fascist movement.
From the Bob Avakian Interviews: What is new in the New Communism?
Interview with Alfonso Morales, Los Angeles area Immigrant Rights Attorney and member of Refuse Fascism, on ICE terror and the impact of the recent fascist Supreme Court decision legalizing racial profiling.
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Duration:01:01:43
Special Dispatch: On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Dangerous Distortions of Donald Trump
9/15/2025
On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Dangerous Distortions of Donald Trump
In light of the events of September 10, the regular episode of the RNL Show was not broadcast. Instead, host Annie Day shares this special dispatch.
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Read “On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Dangerous Distortions of Donald Trump,” at revcom.us.
Stay tuned to the RNL Show channel and revcom.us for further developments.
Duration:00:08:22
Episode 264: Trump Is A Genocidal Racist & How the Regime Can Be Driven From Power
9/8/2025
Episode 264: Trump Is A Genocidal Racist & How the Regime Can Be Driven From Power
Duration:01:00:51
Episode 263: America 1st or Humanity 1st? Drive Out Fascism, Flag Burning, Gaza & Bob Avakian On Internationalism
9/1/2025
Episode 263: America 1st or Humanity 1st? Drive Out Fascism, Flag Burning, Gaza & Bob Avakian On Internationalism
Duration:00:56:03
Episode 262: Millions Must Rise... the Trump Fascist Regime Must Fall | Bob Avakian on What IS Socialism?
8/25/2025
Millions Must Rise... the Trump Fascist Regime Must Fall | Bob Avakian on What IS Socialism?
Duration:00:58:11
Episode 261: Fascist DC Take Over: Trump Must Go NOW | 60s GI Resistance | Bob Avakian On A Revolutionary Society
8/18/2025
Episode 261: Fascist DC Take Over: Trump Must Go NOW | 60s GI Resistance | Bob Avakian On A Revolutionary Society
Introduction, with co-hosts Sunsara Taylor and Annie Day: the reality that we are now living under fascism, and it is moving rapidly to consolidate a fully fascist form of rule.
The fascist takeover of Washington, DC: Coco Das of RefuseFascism.org on Trump's Nazi press conference, and the mass resistance we urgently need.
Larry Krasner, District Attorney of Philadelphia, calling out the lawlessness and illegitimacy of Trump and his fascist regime.
Carl Dix,, with a challenge to Black people to take up the fight against fascism.
Bob Avakian, what a revolutionary society would look like. Plus, the importance of the insights and leadership of BA during this most crucial time for humanity, including the social media messages at @BobAvakianOfficial.
Finally, an interview with Bill Short and Willa Seidenberg, producers of a new podcast, A Matter of Conscience, on the untold stories of GI resistance during the Vietnam War. You can find it at amatterofconscience.com.
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Duration:00:57:55
Episode 260: Trump's Fascist War On Facts & Truth | Bob Avakian On Why We Need Science to Emancipate Humanity
8/11/2025
Episode 260: Trump's Fascist War On Facts & Truth | Bob Avakian On Why We Need Science to Emancipate Humanity
Introduction, with co-hosts Annie Day and Michelle Xai. The fascist assault on the truth and science.
Bob Avakian on why the attacks on science are so dangerous, and why is the promotion of science such an important part of the revolution and the change that we need to bring about for emancipation.
The crucial importance of the New Communism, developed by Bob Avakian.
The opportunistic attacks on Refuse Fascism, which seek to prevent the unity of millions of people necessary to stop the Trump fascist regime.
Sounds from New York of The National Campaign to Get @BOBAVAKIANOFFICIAL Everywhere!
GAZA, a US-backed Israeli war crime almost beyond words. A live-streamed genocide before the eyes of the world.
The Trump fascist regime's attempt to suppress any and all criticism of Israel, any ability to tell the truth about what's happening in Gaza. They are concentrating on academia. Columbia University has adopted an official policy that treats criticism of Zionism, and any criticism of Israel, as antisemitism. How Columbia's capitulation has made it a participant in the greatest crime of this century.
The US is contributing 70% of the funding for this genocide – and why this gives people in the US a disproportionate responsibility to stand up against it.
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Duration:00:51:21
Episode 259: Make Defeating Trump Fascism Your #1 Priority | Bob Avakian: "Humanity, Not Me Me Me" | Gaza & Iran
8/4/2025
Episode 259: Make Defeating Trump Fascism Your #1 Priority | Bob Avakian: "Humanity, Not Me Me Me" | Gaza & Iran
Introduction: how fast the Trump fascist regime is moving on every front. And why people who are disturbed and enraged by this need to act now to drive this regime from power. This show will get into why this is necessary – and also possible.
Voices from the Refuse Fascism protest July 28, No Business as Usual When That Business is Fascism.
Sunsara Taylor on the strategy of Refuse Fascism, and how it is possible to defeat this fascist regime.
Bob Avakian, the leader of the revolution and the author of the New Communism, on individualism, and why people need to think of humanity, and not just of themselves. From an interview conducted in 2022.
The campaign to get Bob Avakian's voice reaching all throughout society.
Noche Diaz, National Spokesperson for the RevCom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity with a Tik Tok Stitch, responding to a question about revolution and a leader.
The US/Israeli genocide in Gaza: forced starvation and mass murder. And the need for many more anti-genocide actions in the US.
Voices from Evin Prison in Iran, a brutal dungeon for political prisoners, and a site of determined resistance to the Islamic Republic.
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Duration:01:00:41
Episode 258: Trump Fascism, A Challenge to Black People & the Importance of the Truth | Plus: Rally for Colbert
7/28/2025
Trump Fascism, A Challenge to Black People & the Importance of the Truth | Plus: Rally for Colbert
The open and ugly white supremacy of the Trump fascist regime: how it is a core part of their fascist program. And the need for Black people in particular to be in the front lines of people fighting to defeat Trump MAGA fascism.
Refuse Fascism actions July 28, to confront the State of Emergency we face. There can be no business as usual, when that business is cementing fascist rule.
Hundreds step out in a protest called by Refuse Fascism at the Ed Sullivan Theater demanding “Colbert Stays! Trump Must Go!”
Hundreds are dying. The US-Israeli starvation of Gaza.
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Duration:00:59:42
Episode 257: STATE OF EMERGENCY: Step Up the Fight to Demand TRUMP MUST GO NOW! | Plus: Bob Avakian On Courage
7/21/2025
Episode 257: STATE OF EMERGENCY: Step Up the Fight to Demand TRUMP MUST GO NOW! | Plus: Bob Avakian On Courage
Introduction. Host Sunsara Taylor is joined by co-host Michelle Xai. Accelerating fascism, and the need for a mass movement of millions, non-violent but determined, to drive the regime from power.
Three examples of decent people resisting ICE.
Voices from July 17, “The Disappeared,” a Human Installation reenacting the deportation of immigrants to the CECOT torture camp in El Salvador.
Sunsara Taylor talks with Andy Zee on the resistance that is necessary to stop the Trump fascist regime. Plus, plans for No Business as Usual, beginning July 28.
The importance of the leadership of Bob Avakian in the fight to stop fascism.
California farmworkers strike against ICE terror.
“We love Rosie!” Defending Rosie O'Donnell.
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Duration:01:10:45
Episode 256: The Machinery of Trump Fascism Must Be Prevented from Functioning! | + July 4: TRUMP MUST GO NOW!
7/14/2025
The Machinery of Trump Fascism Must Be Prevented from Functioning! | + July 4: TRUMP MUST GO NOW!
Introduction, co-hosts Sunsara Taylor and Michelle Xai.
Bob Avakian, REVOLUTION #125, “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.”
Voices from the July 4, Refuse Fascism protest in Washington, DC: We Declare Our Independence from Trump’s Fascist America
Bob Avakian on The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America. From the Bob Avakian Interviews.
More from July 4, from a march and rally in occupied Los Angeles.
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Duration:01:30:21
Episode 255: What is 4th of July in Fascist America? Trump Cruelty, Attacks on Immigrants | Bob Avakian on #July4
7/7/2025
What is 4th of July in Fascist America? Trump Cruelty, Attacks on Immigrants | Bob Avakian on #July4
The urgency of defeating Trump's fascism and removing it from power – and how it can become too late to do that. The cruelty of the latest developments in the fascist assaults on immigrants, and the deadly measures included in the Big Ugly Bill.
The Refuse Fascism Declaration of Independence from Trump's fascist America.
Voices from recent Refuse Fascism protests in DC.
Bob Avakian, the leader of the revolution and the author of the New Communism, on Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is Your Fourth of July?” and the importance of learning the true history of the US. From the 2003 Revolution Talk.
On the release of a new pamphlet by Bob Avakian, TRUMP/MAGA FASCISM, What We're Really Facing, Why and What Must Be Done to Defeat It Before It's Too Late, Volume 2.
Bob Avakian from REVOLUTION #121, “To those engaging in unprincipled attacks: Is your goal defeating fascism, or just slandering those working for this?”
American Crimes: the long history of genocide against native peoples.
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Duration:00:43:47
Episode 254: THIS IS FASCISM! July 4: Protest, Don't Celebrate! #TrumpMustGoNow | No War On Iran! | Gaza + More
6/30/2025
Episode 254: THIS IS FASCISM! July 4: Protest, Don't Celebrate! #TrumpMustGoNow | No War On Iran! | Gaza + More
Introduction, Trump's fascist consolidation is advancing: mass deportations, war on Iran, and a flood of fascist rulings from the US Supreme Court. Plus the most massive protests so far against Trump on June 14.
Andy Zee of Refuse Fascism on major plans for July 1 – 4.
Bob Avakian, from “2025: A New Year—Profound New Challenges—And a Profoundly Positive Way Forward in the Face of Very Real Horror.”
More on the War on Iran.
The system-created hellscape in Gaza.
What people can do to raise people's sights and sound the alarm.
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Duration:01:02:16
Episode 253: July 4 Protests: Declare Independence from A Fascist US | No War On Iran | #NoKingsDay & What's Next
6/23/2025
July 4 Protests: Declare Independence from A Fascist US | No War On Iran | #NoKingsDay & What's Next
Introduction with co-hosts Annie Day and Sunsara Taylor.
No Kings Day protests, including the Refuse Fascism protest in DC the day of Trump's military parade. The importance of the demand, “Trump Must Go Now!” and plans by Refuse Fascism for protests in Washington, DC, July 1 – 4.
Arrests of Democratic Party officials – statement of Sen. Alex Padilla.
Christian fascist majority on US Supreme Court makes vicious anti-trans ruling.
Rafael Kadaris on US/Israeli unprovoked attacks on Iran, and why this must STOP!
Bob Avakian, leader of the revolution and author of the New Communism,: Free Yourself from the GTF!
Israel's massacre of hundreds of starving Palestinians in Gaza as they seek food.
Contribute to the National Campaign to Get @BobAvakianOfficial Reaching Everywhere.
More from the DC protest on June 14,
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Duration:01:20:16
Episode 252: Fascism IS Here & Happening NOW—No ICE Raids, No Military Parade—IN THE STREETS J14! #TrumpMustGoNow
6/16/2025
Fascism IS Here & Happening NOW—No ICE Raids, No Military Parade—IN THE STREETS J14! #TrumpMustGoNow
Introduction.
ICE Raid Terror, No Due Process for Immigrants, Troops in LA, Democrats Arrested, Protesters Brutalized...
Interview with Sunsara Taylor on why all decent people must be in the streets of Washington DC (and everywhere else across the U.S.) on June 14.
From Bob Avakian's REVOLUTION #115: "The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go—NOW—before it is too late!"
Voices of people standing up against the Trump fascist regime.
What's the importance of the two slogans: “In the Name of Humanity We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America” and “This Whole System Is Rotten and Illegitimate—We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, A Fundamentally Different System.”? (From The Bob Avakian Interviews, 2025)
$30K fundraising goal by July 1 for the campaign to get Bob Avakian's social media and leadership known throughout society—impacting with posters, ads on social media + more.
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Duration:01:10:23
Episode 251: No ICE Raids, No Trump! | Plus: Bob Avakian Responds to the Anti-Revolution Haters
6/9/2025
No ICE Raids, No Trump! | Plus: Bob Avakian Responds to the Anti-Revolution Haters
Introduction.
Rafael Kadaris on the ramped-up fascist terror by ICE Gestapo.
Annie Day and Michelle Xai look at inspiring examples of people standing up against ICE, and discuss the importance of the June 14 protest in DC and everywhere else... and the need to link these struggles to the urgent demand: The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go Now!
Interview with Alfonso Morales, immigration attorney.
Interview with Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S./Mexico Border Program.
Interview with Kat Blue, community advocate in San Diego.
How do you deal with the ugly and dangerous attacks against you? (excerpt from The Bob Avakian Interviews on The RNL Show, 2022)
Further reflections on what's behind the unprincipled attacks on Bob Avakian, which have gotten worse.
Forced Starvation, Ethnic Cleansing and Indiscriminate Bombing in Gaza Continues...Do Not Be Complicit.
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Duration:01:17:57
Episode 250: Trump's J14 Parade & the Nazification of the Military | Bob Avakian: What's New in the New Communism
6/2/2025
Episode 250: Trump's J14 Parade & the Nazification of the Military | Bob Avakian: What's New in the New Communism
Introduction.
Fascism's double "double down"... the Nazification of the U.S. Military... June 14 mobilizations & the need for millions to demand: The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go Now!
What is different and new in the new communism? (from The Bob Avakian Interviews, 2025)
An interview with John Hedlund on his "open letter to academics on fighting fascism and the importance of Bob Avakian’s work."
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The genocide in Gaza, an update.
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Duration:00:51:32
Episode 249: #TrumpMustGoNow Protests | 5 Yrs Since George Floyd | Bob Avakian On Defeating Fascism & Revolution
5/26/2025
Episode 249: #TrumpMustGoNow Protests | 5 Yrs Since George Floyd | Bob Avakian On Defeating Fascism & Revolution
Introduction.
5-Year Anniversary of the Police Murder of George Floyd.
Nothing Less! A Statement from Bob Avakian (June 2020).
Key Lessons from the George Floyd Uprising in 2020 for Today.
What's the importance of the two slogans: “In the Name of Humanity We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America” and “This Whole System Is Rotten and Illegitimate—We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, A Fundamentally Different System”? (Excerpt from The Bob Avakian Interviews, 2025)
May 15, 2025: Refuse Fascism Press Conference in Los Angeles.
Speakers from around the country at Refuse Fascism's May 17, 2025 Rallies.
The US/Israel Final Solution in Gaza... What Are YOU Going to Do?
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Duration:01:08:53
Episode 248: Fascist Attacks on Habeas Corpus; Bob Avakian On the New Socialist Constitution; Hunger Strike For Gaza
5/19/2025
Fascist Attacks on Habeas Corpus; Bob Avakian On the New Socialist Constitution; Hunger Strike For Gaza
"If this Trump regime is allowed to remain in power, no one will be safe from its fascist rule..."
Introduction with co-hosts Sunsara Taylor and Annie Day.
The Trump/MAGA regime's fascist attacks on birthright citizenship, habeas corpus... the importance of different parts of society standing up... building now the movement that can defeat fascism.
"[W]e need a whole different system, with a whole different Constitution...."
Bob Avakian on dissent, protest, ferment... on meeting people’s basic needs and overcoming oppression... and how this is built into the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic.
Brave students on hunger strike, while Israel inflicts death and starvation in Gaza.
Sunsara Taylor interviews Maya, a Palestinian student at UCLA who is on hunger strike to protest the genocide in Gaza.
New song from Outernational: “La Gente Nueva.”
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Duration:01:03:09
Episode 247: Protest May15 &17: Defend Birthright Citizenship! Trump Must Go NOW! Bob Avakian & the New Communism
5/12/2025
Episode 247: Protest May15 &17: Defend Birthright Citizenship! Trump Must Go NOW! Bob Avakian & the New Communism
This episode presents two big themes:
The demand that The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go NOW! This is a mission that every decent person in the US needs to be on. In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America.
And, We Need and We Demand a Whole New Way to Live, a Fundamentally Different System.
Andy Zee on Refuse Fascism, and two major days of action, May 15, the day the Supreme Court hears a case on Trump's attack on the constitutional right of birthright citizenship. And May 17, a national day of action to spread the demand everywhere in society, The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go NOW!Bob Avakian, the author of the New Communism, on What's new about the New Communism, and Why it matters.
The ever deepening horrors being unleashed by the US and Israel on Gaza: the mass starvation of an entire people. And the continued resistance by students in the US to this genocide.
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Duration:00:51:43