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On the Occasion of the Publication of BAsics: |
March 31, Thursday, 7pm Bring your questions and comments. Let's talk! April 4, Monday, 7pm
Kathleen Barry's new book reveals how the military's goal to drum empathy out of new recruits trains them to become remorseless killers. She shows how, even in demilitarized states, violence against women persists at high levels. presaging the Wikileaks exposés of random killing by US soldiers in Iraq, Barry documents preventive killing as a daily occurrence in combat zones. April 5,
Tuesday, 7pm 
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. There will be a reading of letters from prisoners commenting on Bob Avakian at the release party. Refreshments. For more info click here. April 11, Monday, 7pm
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FOR FULL DETAILS CLICK HERE BAsics is a book of quotations and short essays from Bob Avakian to be released in March 2011. This event on April 11 will bring together well known musicians, authors, actors and people from the community and the youth in a major celebration of revolution and the vision of a new world.
Held on September 14, 2010
Video by Fansmiles Productions at http://politube.org/show/3031
David Harvey is one of the world's foremost scholars of Marx, a renowned geographer and social theorist. He is a Distinguished Professor at CUNY Graduate Center. |
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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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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." On April 15, 2010, over 250 people came to Judson Memorial Church to hear NGŨGĨ WA THIONG'O read and discuss his new book "Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir."  photo: Bud Korotzer The evening was a benefit to save Revolution Books and it drew in readers of his extraordinary novels from the U.S. and African countries, including many professors and students from NYU, Hunter, New School, Baruch, Columbia, and other schools. Revolution Books still has some signed copies of his new memoir as well as an extensive collection of his novels, plays and literary criticism-- and books about his work. Video will be posted soon at revolutionbooksnyc.org. For more on Ngũgĩ, go to http://www.ngugiwathiongo.com/ 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. |
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Become a Friend of Revolution Books today.  A Message from Andy Zee Dear Friends, This spring, Revolution Books is busting out to make a breakthrough in putting the specter and joy of revolution on the map....
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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.
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. On October 29, 2010, an important dialogue between Cornel West and Carl Dix was sponsored by Revolution Books A sold-out crowd of more than 650 people at Aaron Davis Hall in Harlem, largely composed of African-Americans and youth but also other people of many nationalities and ages, turned out on October 29 for a dialogue between Cornel West and Carl Dix: "In the Age of Obama, Part II... Police Terror, Incarceration, No Jobs, Mis-education: What Future For Our Youth?" The dialogue was a fundraiser for Revolution Books and the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund (PRLF). Watch the trailor for this exciting event: |
