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Though the city was swiftly closed to foreigners, TIME Washington correspondent David Aikman and photographer Alexandra Avakian of Woodfin Camp & Associates, on assignment for another story, happened to fly into Dushanbe on Monday. Until they returned to Moscow two days later, they were the only Western journalists to be eyewitnesses to the Tadzhik uprising...
...newspaper features many articles by its leader, Bob Avakian (as in "Free Bob Avakian"). Usually there is a political piece or two--insights on Iran or imperialist war preparations or the people raising the red flag of revolution and telling their capitalist bosses that they plan to get off their knees. Lots of space is devoted to timely causes, often to demands that someone be freed--the U.S. Two, the Houston Park Four, the Mao Tse-Tung Five. For several issues last winter, the theme was May Day 1980, which the party urged workers to celebrate by leaving their jobs...
FORTY MILE per hour winds whip across the Ellipse, where Greyhound after Greyhound is disgorging Communist after Libertarian after Democratic Socialist after backpacked unaffiliate. Flags snap in the gusts--bright red banners for members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, who also carry posters bearing the face of Chairman Bob Avakian. They lockstep around the park, a march within a march. chanting "You Can Take This War and Shove It Up Your Ass, I'm Going to Fight for the Working Class." The wind spins the noise around in circles--without moving, you can hear the cries of the yellow-flag...
...work of sociology. Unfortunately, The Jazz Makers is not so varied, informative, or readable as its alluring format. While it is impossible to capture a great creative spirit in a short essay, most of the writers involved in this project did not even limit their subjects effectively. Only George Avakian and John S. Wilson focus their works sufficiently. Avakian details the cultural process that changed Louis Armstrong from jazz's first great improviser to a grinning but unartistic national hero, then muses briefly on the corrupting influence that so often accompanies success in the arts. And Wilson has produced...
Directed by ARAM AVAKIAN Screenplay by JEFFREY BLOOM