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May 23, Thursday, 5:30-7pm
Open House at Revolution Books

Coming off the hugely successful dialogue between Cornel West and Carl Dix on "Mass Incarceration + Silence = Genocide: Act to STOP It Now!" you are invited to come by Revolution Books Thursday at 5:30 for an open house.

Bring your dinner (and we'll order pizza or something), meet the staff, experience the store, eat, talk, and become a part of saving this store at the center of the movement for revolution. Humanity need revolution, revolution needs this bookstore, and the store needs you.

Then, at 7pm the same evening . . .

May 23, Thursday, 7pm
We Need a Real Revolution Not Better Democracy Under This System

Continuing weekly Thursday viewings of clips from the BA Speaks: REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS!, followed by informal discussion.

As Avakian points out in BAsics, "The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism-imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world in not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism."

These discussions have been lively, accessible, with people speaking from the heart. Can democracy be perfected? What is democracy, anyhow? And how would revolution bring in a new society that people would want to live in?

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May 30, Thursday, 7pm
Socialism Is Three Things

Continuing weekly Thursday viewings of clips from the BA Speaks: REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS!, followed by informal discussion.

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June 11, Tuesday, 7pm
Author event with Bruce Neuburger
Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California

Bruce Neuburger will discuss his book on the history of the powerful farm workers movement that surged out of the fields beginning in 1965, what became of that movement, and the situation of California farmworkers today.

"Bruce Neuburger's Lettuce Wars adds a new and carefully observed chapter to the farm labor saga in Steinbeck country during the Chavez years. The author details the exhausting work, low pay, strikes, and setbacks as well as his encounters with key union leaders and the friendships that sustained him. But don't mistake Lettuce Wars for an ethnography or regional history. It's the story of Neuburger's real life in a notoriously hardscrabble labor market, one that seemed like a vestige a generation ago but now serves as the default model in a new era of global neoliberalism. If you've ever felt that we're all "casual labor" now, 'Lettuce Wars' is the book for you."
--Peter Richardson, author of A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America

The author's presentation will be followed by a conversation with a someone from Revolution Books and the audience. Think about how our food is produced, who does it and under what conditions. And the most basic question: how can it be that we live in a world in which there is no right to eat? What might all this look like under different conditions in a revolutionary society? Check out this piece from Bob Avakian.

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Book of the Week!

This week's Book of the Week is Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr., published by University of California Press.

In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within the U.S., the Black Panther Party rejected the legitimacy of the U.S. government and positioned itself as part of a global struggle against American imperialism. In the face of intense repression, the Party flourished, becoming the center of a revolutionary movement with offices in 68 U.S. cities and powerful allies around the world.

"Black Against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions, such as why so many young black people across the country risked their lives for the revolution, why the Party grew most rapidly during the height of repression, and why allies abandoned the Party at its peak of influence. . . . Informed by twelve years of meticulous archival research, as well as familiarity with most of the former Party leadership and many rank-and-file members, this book is the definitive history of one of the greatest challenges ever posed to American state power."
- University of California Press

"This is the definitive history of one of the great revolutionary organizations in the history of this country.  In this age of the Occupy Movement, let us learn deep democratic lessons and strong anti-imperial conclusions from this magisterial book!"
--Cornel West

Black Against Empire is a 560-page hardbound $34.95 value for only $24 at Revolution Books this week only.

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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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A Radical Step
Into the Future

ORDER ONLINE NOW!

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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.

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Bring your 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.

From time to time 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.

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May 20 Dialogue Between Cornel West and Carl Dix
Schedule for activities to build for the event

Quote of the Month from Bob Avakian Let's get down to basics: We need a revolution. Anything else, in the final analysis, is bullshit. Now, that doesn't mean we don't unite with people in all sorts of struggles short of revolution. We definitely need to do that. But the proffering of any other solution to these monumental and monstrous problems and outrages is ridiculous, frankly. And we need to be taking the offensive and mobilizing increasing numbers of masses to cut through this shit and bring to the fore what really is the solution to this, and to answer the questions and, yes, the accusations that come forth in response to this, while deepening our scientific basis for being able to do this. And the point is: not only do we need to be doing this, but we need to be bringing forward, unleashing and leading, and enabling increasing numbers of the masses to do this. They need to be inspired, not just with a general idea of revolution, but with a deepening understanding, a scientific grounding, as to why and how revolution really is the answer to all of this. Bob Avakian Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA BAsics 5:11

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