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May 18, Friday, 6:30-8:30pm
Be part of a send off party for an audacious group of volunteers who will be taking revolution right into the heart of the south. On 5/18, departing from Atlanta, "The BAsics Bus" will be bringing the work of Bob Avakian (BA) and his new book BAsics right into what he has called the Bible & lynching belt. Speaking to people's raw outrage and their deep hopes, the tour will bring a fresh wind of the possibility of a whole new world. Donate, be part of the national send off parties, and follow the BAsics Bus tour. Tune in May 22, Tuesday
Get your friends together Tuesday – watch with people across the country at: basicsbustour.tumblr.com The BAsics Bus, with riders of different ages, nationalities and experiences, from NYC and cities across the country, is traveling through the South. This bus tour is a bold move to spread word of Bob Avakian and the new synthesis of communism he's brought forward, the strategy for revolution he's developed, the leadership he's providing to the movement for revolution. Reaching where, as BA himself has said, "The 'Bible Belt' in the US is also the Lynching Belt." The focal point of the bus tour is the book BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian – quotations and essays from 30 years of BA's works on everything that stands between humanity and its emancipation. Get your friends together to watch this video on Tuesday – hear the crew tell about its experience on this historic journey into the future. Nothing like this has ever been done! Get into it. Donate! Volunteer! You can be part of it and contribute wherever you are. Write to baeverywhere@gmail.com. Sábado 26 de mayo a las 7:30pm
Invitamos a todos los poetas, cuentistas, narradores, soñardores, y amantes de literatura a estar con nosotros cada cuarta sábado del mes. Este micrófono abierto es diferente a otros, porque la audiencia no solamente oye pero participan con comentarios y preguntas al presentador. Es una oportunidad para expresar libremente sus ideas y sueños. Donación sugerida en la puerta de $5. May 31, Thursday, 7pm
Revolution Books will be honoring the life of Adrienne Rich with a program of readings from her work. Adrienne Rich was a poet who dared to reveal with razor-edge clarity the horrors and loneliness of life inside this colossus, while refusing to blame the people for the conditions forced upon them. She wrote beautiful powerful poems, breaking the sound barrier with voices of women never heard nor respected, and lesbians so long forced into the shadows. She acted bravely when it counted most—and without regard for social approbation. June 6, Wednesday, 7pm
In 1828 James, a slave, arrives in Texas, brought by his owner, Samuel Bingham. Texas is then a part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. James comes to Texas because he has no choice. But once there, he finds a postrevolutionary country where slavery is on the way out and his freedom is a real possibility. His owner, though, is determined to take advantage of the low cost of land in Texas to build up a farm into a cotton plantation with the use of slave labor. Set in the years surrounding the 1836 Texas War of Independence, Escape From Texas examines the clashing aspirations of slaves, slave owners, Indians, and Mexicans during a turning point of the westward expansion of the United States.
Held on April 11, Monday, 7pm
FOR PH0T0 SLIDE SHOW OF THE EVENT CLICK HERE April 11, 2011: The day finally arrived. Nearly 400 people came out to an amazing program of visual arts, dance, poetry, music of many different genres—all celebrating revolution and the vision of a new world on the occasion of the publication of a powerful and potentially very popular new book, BAsics—a collection of quotes and short essays from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian. Read more... For back information on the event, click here. |
Book of the Week!  This week's Book of the Week is Home by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, just published this week by Knopf. Staff Pick-- Frank Money grows up Black in the Deep South Lynching/Bible Belt of the early 50s. The one obvious escape hatch for a young man: going to kill for US empire in Korea. He returns damaged, desperate, and wandering the country until circumstances force him back to his hated home town where Jim Crow still rules, poisoning every single social interaction... Toni Morrison introduces you to characters you will never forget, people forced to navigate territory unfit for human beings. A moral thriller, beautifully told. "With the economical presentation of a short story, the rhythms and cadences of a poem, and the total embrace and resonance of a novel, Morrison... continues to marshal her considerable talents to draw a deeply moving narrative and draw in a wide range of appreciative readers..." Home is a 160-page hardcover $24 value for only $15 at Revolution Books this week only. Buy your books at Revolution Books where it matters. Cutting edge books to challenge, provoke, give heart and share insight. ▶ YES, there is an alternative to capitalism! Books on political economy and science of revolution. ▶Books on science, evolution and atheism -- there are no gods. ▶ Radical revolt against a revolting culture. Great new music, fiction, poetry, prose, graphic art, and DVDs. ▶ End "the new Jim Crow." Books on national oppression and the mass incarceration of people of color. ▶ The liberation of women. Books on this touchstone issue for the emancipation of all humanity. ▶ The wonderment and science of reality for children. Fun books and books on knowing what's really true. ▶ Libros en Español. Buy BAsics on line!
BAsics is a new book of quotes and essays from Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. BAsics concentrates more than 30 years of Avakian's work on everything standing between humanity and complete emancipation into a single concise book of essential quotes and short essays. A 210-page paperback for $14.00. Price includes sales tax and shipping.
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This Constitution (Draft Proposal) is written with the future in mind. It is intended to set forth a basic model, and fundamental principles and guidelines, for the nature and functioning of a vastly different society and government than now exists: the New Socialist Republic in North America, a socialist state which would embody, institutionalize and promote radically different relations and values among people; a socialist state whose final and fundamental aim would be to achieve, together with the revolutionary struggle throughout the world, the emancipation of humanity as a whole and the opening of a whole new epoch in human history–communism–with the final abolition of all exploitative and oppressive relations among human beings and the destructive antagonistic conflicts to which these relations give rise. Paperback, 91pp., $8.
In case you missed it, Revolution Books distributed our Science Quiz for Kids at the World Science Festival in Washington Sq. Park Read the answers to the science quiz here.
"After Change You Can Believe In, Wally Shawn reads from his Essays and discusses human nature with a communist."
In January 8, 2010, almost 300 people packed into Friends Meeting House in New York City for an unusual evening. After reading his essay "The Quest for Superiority," Wally Shawn sat down for a conversation with Andy Zee. Their unscripted discussion dug into urgent questions facing humanity: Can people change and how? Is there a far better way society could be organized? Does political power inevitably lead to bad outcomes because of innate human nature? Their conversation spanned the current political moment, past socialist experiences, and future revolutionary possibility - animated by examples from art, morality, and daily life. This was followed by a provocative Q&A with the audience. Proceeds from this evening and the DVD go towards saving Revolution Books. Now available in DVD for $15: Hear "After 'Change You Can Believe In,'" Wally Shawn reads from his Essays and discusses human nature with a communist." |
The BAsics Bus Tour is kicking off from Atlanta this week, heading into the South. Read the statements of support, and join in support of this audacious project. "Face-to-face conversation with people in their own communities offers a pathway to radicalization like no other. I salute the RCP efforts to organize the South, where the labor movement and others failed."
"I wanna put in my strong endorsement of this freedom bus… Courageous brothers and sisters going down to the gut-bucket South. The old Jim Crow senior, still the Jim Crow junior, of course. Whole lot of lynching used be going on in the past, still police brutality taking place, unemployment and underemployment taking place. Dilapidated housing in place, disgraceful school system's in place… Revolutionary Communist Party bearing witness in a serious kind of way. And I just want to let folk know… I'm behind what they're doing… keeping track of the injustice here in the state. Keep track of the freedom bus—the Avakian bus!"
On February 9, 2011, Revolution Books sponsored "An Evening with Junot Diaz" 
The full video record of "An Evening with Junot Díaz" is now available. This event was a benefit for Revolution Books on February 9, 2011. Almost 400 people crowded into the Community Church in NYC for a fascinating and moving evening with Junot--conducted almost entirely as a Q&A with an audience (over half HS and college students) who never ran out of questions and comments. Cinematography, editing, and production by Jordan Mattos and Fabian Jimenez The evening was introduced by Andy Zee, the spokesperson of Revolution Books, who offered an appreciation of Junot's work, and got into the unique work of Revolution Books and why we wanted to host this author. Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. His novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the. Díaz is also the author of Drown. Bring your used books to Revolution Books 
Do you have good used books? Donate them to Revolution Books. We are assembling a large collection of good used books, including a treasure house of rare books-- the hidden histories of the Soviet and Chinese revolutions, memoirs from the 60s Black liberation and women's movements, out-of-print chronicles of struggles in Africa, Latin America, Asia... art books, novels, poetry... Bring your books to Revolution Books and we will get them back in circulation to the people who yearn for a different future. And you will help keep this revolutionary bookstore open. Every third Saturday, Revolution Books holds a Giant Used Books Sale. We fill the store and tables outdoors with thousands of the best used books in the city. And every day at the store you can find an unusual selection of used books on our outdoor tables. |
