RB Gear

tote

The Revolution Books tote bag, $3 or free with purchases of $100 or more.

mug

The Revolution Books coffee mug, boxed, $12.

red star

Red Star pin, $5.

We are open daily, noon to 7pm.

subway art
Beautiful huge format book, 128 pages of vivid art the police could not control, $40.00

CreateDanger
Danticat's latest, on "the immigrant artist at work," $19.95

PtolomeyGrey
Mosley's newest tale, a man given a second shot at life, hardbound, $29.95

Amexica
Searing picture of the US-Mexican border today, hardbound, $27.00

Constitution Written with the future in mind, for a vastly different society and government than now exists. It sets forth a basic model, and fundamental principles and guidelines, for the nature and functioning of a vastly different society and government than now exists. $8.00

      

 

 

memoirHow did a new synthesis of communism, both building on and transforming the theory and practice of previous revolutions, come into being? Read the engaging story of Bob Avakian, the innovative and critical thinker who has taken Marxism to a whole new place. $18.95

New Jim
Legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that Jim Crow and legal racial segregation have been replaced by mass incarceration as a system of social control. $27.95

chineseposters
Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution! Brilliantly colorful images of cultural celebration, industrial development, agricultural production, and class struggle. $19.95

PromisedLand
The untold story with photos of the vicous attack on the Black community of Tulsa, OK, in 1921. $18.95

      

Warmth
Stunning story of the "great migration" of six million Black Southerners out of the terror of Jim Crow to an "uncertain existence" in the North. $30.00

Many, many more titles available in the store. Here are just a few:

atheists

LittleBee

TexasTough

Manifesto

Ratification

slaveholders

ComJefDem

Wizard

Angels

GirlFire

midnight

Harvey

darkEnd

AntiAm

palestinian

geoofgod

TheHelp

Some Sing

Seale

Lacks

JustKids

Outnumbered

Fabric

CStrret

ecorift

ratgirl

RussRev

Driven

Hypatia

forest

Musico

10 Days

zeitoun

SuperSad

WolfHall

DeatLib

Kidnapping

Mendacity

Twain

Jimi

NGŨGĨ WA THIONG'O
on Revolution Books

"I think what's so beautiful and wonderful about Revolution Books is that even when you close your eyes and go to any of the shelves here and pick any one of the books, it is likely that it will contain the kind of dreams that Martin Carter was talking about when he said, 'And so if you see me looking in your hand, listening when you speak, marching in your ranks, you must know, 'I do not sleep to dream, but dream to change the world.' "

--NGŨGĨ WA THIONG'O is a novelist, playwright, literary theorist (Dreams in a Time of War; Wizard of the Crow; Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literatur), former political prisoner in Kenya, professor of Comparative Literature, Univ of California.

 

CHELSEA NOW FEATURES REVOLUTION BOOKS

(from the December 15 issue)

Revolution Books has been a crucial part of our city since 1979 — for a while on W. 16th, then W. 19th — and now for a year and a half just east of 7th Avenue at 146 W. 26th. It is, as its publicity card mission statement expresses, "alive with a defiant spirit that refuses to accept that the horrors of today's world have to be. People come into Revolution Books from all over the world to find the books and the deep engagement with each other about the possibility of a radically different way the world could be. This is a bookstore at the center of building a movement for revolution."