A Call for Volunteers to Join with Revolution Books:
At a Time of Great Danger and Revolutionary Possibility...
Be Part of Something Truly Emancipating

September 26, 2022

Revolution Books - Beacon for a Whole New World

Fire burns in Brazils Jacunda National Forest, part of the Amazon rain forest.

If you can’t stand this world the way it is ... if you are sick and tired of so many people being treated as less than human, from the street corners in Harlem to the deadly borders crisscrossing the globe, to the degradation and slamming back of women and LGBTQ people...if you are outraged by how this system is destroying the planet...

If you appreciate the stories and aspirations that fill the shelves here, the science, true history and poetry, and you want to see humanity truly flourish... if you are inspired by women throwing off the hijab in Iran … and wonder how people can truly become free … then step out of the made-in-America comfort zone, learn more and raise your questions as you participate.

Revolution Books is a beacon for a whole new world. The beating heart of RB is the work and leadership of Bob Avakian. He has developed the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a revolution to overthrow this system, and create a society and world in which human beings can fully breathe and the imagination can soar—through the new communism he has authored.

Precisely because BA is taking responsibility to chart and lead this all-the-way revolution, he is looked to and loved by people yearning for a whole new world, and reviled and slandered by those who want a “progressive” niche in this one.

This is a rare time when revolution becomes more possible. You can't make revolution at just any time, but now is different. The rulers of this country are more divided than at any time since the start of the Civil War. Do the slaves side with one slave master fighting another? Hell No! That's the time to seize on to bring down the system of slavery! RB and the Revolution Club are rising to the challenge of bringing forward a revolutionary people to seize on the potential for a radically different future.

For more on what makes revolution possible in this time—and how to seize the time—read this from Bob Avakian.

DIscussion continues after a program at Revolution Books, NYC

Join in making RB an even more powerful site of attraction for all those searching to understand why the world is so messed up...and how, by making an actual revolution, a far better world really IS possible--without the horrors of global exploitation, racism and patriarchy, or the dog-eat-dog competition that pits us against each other.

Join in making RB an even more powerful site of debate where students, youth, academics, professionals, street philosophers and everyday people are provoked and challenged to get into urgent questions like: Can you reform this system to solve problems like police brutality, or do you have get rid of it? Is America a force for good in the world, or the world's greatest oppressor? Is “wokeness” for different “identities” the consciousness we need, or do we need a scientific, revolutionary understanding and leadership that proceeds from the interests of world humanity?

This past week—and what's coming at RevBooks:

RevBooks staff, the Revolution Club and volunteers hosted a special used book sale and cookout Sat-Sun, September 17-18, bringing in much-needed revenue and bringing people in to a vibrant scene getting into WTF is going on in the world and what a real revolution is about. Kicking off a year-end effort to raise funds for this “beacon for a whole new world."

This past Wednesday, September 21, A Gathering of Internationalist Solidarity with Iran's Political Prisoners was hosted by the Revolution Club and RevBooks volunteers and staff.

That morning, the President of the barbaric Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) addressed the UN. He was met there with large crowds furiously protesting the murder in Iran of 22-year old Mahsa Amini by the regime's “morality police,” for supposedly wearing her hijab (veil) improperly.

The program at RevBooks that evening brought together Iranian activists and revolutionaries, NYC college students and neighborhood friends, highlighting the inspiration of the people of Iran pouring into the streets in resistance--and going to the urgent questions of the scientific leadership to achieve liberation in this time when systems of oppression can quickly lose their legitimacy in the eyes of millions. No to U.S. Imperialism, No to the Hated Iranian Regime, Another World IS Possible!

AN INVITATION: The Next 6 Weeks

Contribute your thinking, skills, resources and creative energy to taking Revolution Books out into the world: opening up debate on campuses and in the neighborhoods, growing financial support, waking people up to the revolution for a radically different society and world—engaging with the books, the programming, and each other.

Through the whole process, The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show will be at the center of how we wrestle together to understand developments in the world, why a revolution is necessary, what kind of a revolution is needed, and how a radically different society would be organized.

You can start here.

THIS WEEK

Events and Activities That Make a Difference for Knowing and Changing the World...For Getting the Message of Revolution Out There...For Strengthening Revolution Books:

September 28 and September 30.
The Brooklyn Book Festival Comes to Revolution Books!

Wednesday, September 28, 7pm: the authors of two debut novels dealing with dislocation, immigration, and love: Brother Alive, by Zain Khalid, and All This Could Be Different: A Novel, by Sarah Thankam Mathews (long-listed for the National Book Award) … both dealing boldly, in different ways, with issues of love, religious extremism, and work and life in monstrous capitalist systems of control and culture.
Friday, September 30, at 7pm: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Caroline Elkins, with her book Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire will show how and why violence in Ireland, India, Palestine, Kenya and other colonies underwrote Britain's empire and the country's imperial identity at home. In short, the blood and bones on which liberal-democratic “civilizations” sit—including America.
Sentimentalize the British royal empire? HELL No.
Caroline Elkins will be joined on a panel by Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Globalized World, and Raymond Lotta, writer for revcom.us and a spokesperson for Revolution Books.
On Sunday, October 2, RevBooks, the Revolution Club and volunteers head to downtown Brooklyn with our tent at the Brooklyn Book Festival—bringing the books and the message of revolution to thousands of book-lovers, thinkers, authors and other vendors in the largest book festival in the northeast.

What Better Time to Volunteer at Revolution Books!
Humanity Needs Revolution, The Revolution Needs Revolution Books, and Revolution Books Needs You

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From the genocide in Gaza, to the growing threat of world war between nuclear powers, to escalating environmental devastation… the capitalist-imperialist system ruling over us is a horror for billions around the world and is tearing up the fabric of life on earth. Now the all-out battle within the U.S. ruling class, between fascist Republicans and war criminal Democrats, is coming to a head—likely during, or before, the coming elections—ripping society apart unlike anything since the Civil War.

Bob Avakian (BA), revolutionary leader and author of the new communism, has developed a strategy to prepare for and make revolution. He’s scientifically analyzed that this is a rare time when an actual revolution has become more possible, and has laid out the sweeping vision, solid foundation and concrete blueprint for “what comes next,” in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America.

The website revcom.us follows and applies that leadership and is essential to all this. We post new materials from BA and curate his whole body of work. We apply the science he’s developed to analyze and expose every key event in society, every week. Revcom.us posts BA’s timely leadership for the revcoms (revolutionary communists), including his social media posts which break this down for people every week and sometimes more. We act as a guiding and connecting hub for the growing revcom movement nationwide: not just showing what’s being done, but going into what’s right and what’s wrong and rapidly learning—and recruiting new people into what has to be a rapidly growing force.

Put it this way: there will be no revolution unless this website not only “keeps going” but goes up to a whole different level!

So what should you give to make 2024 our year—a year of revolution?
Everything you possibly can!
DONATE NOW to revcom.us and get with BA and the revcoms!

Your donations contribute to:

Promotion of BA on social media and the Bob Avakian Interviews on The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show
Strengthen revcom.us as an accessible, secure, robust website able to rise to the challenge of meeting the extraordinary demands of navigating the storms and preparing for revolution in this pivotal, unprecedented year
Fund revcoms to travel to national “hotspots,” where extreme contradictions are pulling apart the fabric of this country and creating the possibility of wrenching an actual revolution out of this intensifying situation
Expand the reach and coverage of revcom.us
Printing and distribution of key Revcom materials including the Declaration “WE NEED AND WE DEMAND: A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE, A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM” and the Proclamation, “WE ARE THE REVCOMS (Revolutionary Communists)”