Bob Avakian on: telling people the truth—even when they don’t want to hear it …if you don’t tell people the truth you’re cheating people, you’re depriving them of an understanding they really need to have especially if it’s about anything important.

Channel
BobAvakianOfficial
@bobavakianofficial
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Cross-platform identity · Cite this entry
96subscribers
+3 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002001939577 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @bobavakianofficial |
| Created | Between 1 November 2023 and 31 May 2024 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 9 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 13 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 13 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/bobavakianofficial |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Sept 2026, 00:59 | 96 | +2 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 12:09 | 94 | -2 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 12:16 | 96 | +1 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 17:28 | 95 | +2 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 13:17 | 93 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 20:27 | 93 | first reading |
Engagement
12 posts held, back to 18 June 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 12 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
- Video runtime
- 1h 41m
- Average length
- 11m 18s
Measured directly from 9 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Reaction mix
16 reactions across 8 posts, in 3 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 56.3% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 9 | 56.3% | |
| 🔥 | 6 | 37.5% | |
| 👍 | 1 | 6.25% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 8 of the 12 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 16 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 12 most recent posts we hold, published 18 June 2026 to 6 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
The new communism thoroughly repudiates and is determined to root out of the communist movement the poisonous notion, and practice, that “the ends justifies the means.” It is a bedrock principle of the new communism that the “means” of this movement must flow from and be consistent with the fundamental “ends” of abolishing all exploitation and oppression through revolution led on a scientific basis. –From “PHILOSOPHY…
Fight the Power, and Transform the People, for Revolution Read and SUBSCRIBE on Substack to get new messages as they are released: substack.com/@bobavakianofficial
Bob Avakian Answers: “revolution sounds good, but I don’t think it can happen” With thousands organized into the ranks of the revolution, millions can be won to revolution; and with millions won to revolution, there could be a real possibility for this revolution to win. –from REVOLUTION 9, “The three basic conditions for revolution” Read and SUBSCRIBE on Substack to get new messages as they are released: substack.…
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The Root Cause of Fascist Attacks on Immigrants Excerpt from REVOLUTION 124: “Donald Trump’s whole fascist regime is caught in a contradiction of its own making: his continual Big Lies” Read and SUBSCRIBE on Substack to get new messages as they are released: substack.com/@bobavakianofficial
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…[S]cience deals with material reality, and you could say that all of nature and all of human society is the province of science, science can deal with all that. It’s a tool—science—a very powerful tool. It’s a method and approach for being able to tell what’s true, what corresponds to reality as it really is. In that sense, science is very different than religion or mysticism, or things like that, which try to expla…
“What to the slave is your Fourth of July?” from lynching to police murder Frederick Douglass was a slave himself. who after he got his own freedom, spent his life fighting against the oppression of Black people and other injustices. Invited to speak at a Julv 4th celebration, Douglass made clear that July 4th was nothing to celebrate, and that America was guilty of great crimes. Excerpt from the 2003 film “Revolut…
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FASCIST CRUELTY AND ATTACK ON EMPATHY VS. THE NEW COMMUNIST VIEW OF EMPATHY by Bob Avakian https://open.substack.com/pub/bobavakianofficial/p/fascist-cruelty-and-attack-on-empathy
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Why There Is “No Lincoln” Now, and What That Has to Do With the Possibility of Emancipation FASCISM, PROFOUND CRISIS AND THE FUNDAMENTAL REVOLUTIONARY SOLUTION https://open.substack.com/pub/bobavakianofficial/p/fascism-profound-crisis-and-the-fundamental
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Talking about freedom and democracy and bringing up the “founding fathers”? AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED I want to introduce a phrase into political discourse... If you come up to anybody and start saying “I want to talk about freedom and democracy,” and then you want to go on and talk about “our great founding fathers,” you are AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED! Somebody needs to tell these people “You do know that you’re t…
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Mutual Aid—For What, As Part of What: Reform or Revolution? How do we revolutionary communists, based on the new communism, regard the approach of “mutual aid” that is a political trend among certain forces these days? https://open.substack.com/pub/bobavakianofficial/p/mutual-aidfor-what-as-part-of-what
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Ending white supremacy and all oppression, woven into this system of capitalist exploitation Excerpt from Bob Avakian’s 2018 talk “Why We Need An Actual Revolution and How We Can Really Make Revolution.” White supremacy and capitalism—they have been completely interwoven and tightly “stitched together” through the whole development of this country, down to today; to attempt to really put an end to white supremacy w…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 12 posts we hold for @bobavakianofficial. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cross-platform identity — Wikidata
A Wikidata item names this Telegram handle as belonging to the entity it describes. This is Wikidata’s claim, not a verification made by this register — nobody here confirmed that the account is genuinely operated by the entity named. Wikidata content is CC0; every fact below is dated to when it was read from Wikidata, not to when the association was first made there.
| Label | Bob Avakian |
|---|---|
| Description | American communist leader (1943-) |
| X / Twitter | @BobAvakian |
| Official site | https://thebobavakianinstitute.org/ |
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 13 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“BobAvakianOfficial” (@bobavakianofficial), 96 subscribers as measured 13 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/bobavakianofficial.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.