Revolution Books, New York City
New York City, Revolution Books
HOURS: Tues-Thurs-Fri-Sat-Sun 2-7 pm
LOCATION: 437 Malcolm X Blvd (at 132nd St) (2/3 train to 135th St)
New York, NY 10037
CONTACT: 212-691-3345
revbooksnyc@yahoo.com
revolutionbooksnyc.org
Revolution Books, Berkeley
Berkeley Revolution Books
HOURS: Tues-Fri 12:30-7pm; Sat & Sun 1:00-6pm
LOCATION: 2444 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
CONTACT: 510-848-1196
revolutionbooksberkeley@gmail.com
www.revolutionbooks.org
New York Events
437 Malcolm X Blvd (at 132nd St) (2/3 train to 135th St)
New York, NY 10037
Film + Discussion: Bob Avakian on Why We Need An Actual Revolution and How We Can Really Make Revolution
Tuesday, Sep 15 at 7:00pm
Revolution Books' Tuesday Night Discussions
Burning Questions... Liberating Answers
Bring your thoughts, questions and experiences — all of it.
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Screening and discussion on Tuesday Sep 15 at 7PM:
PART ONE
"Why We Need An Actual Revolution
and How We Can Really Make Revolution"
A speech by Bob Avakian in the summer of 2018
Author event: "THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL: The Secret Prison History of American Music"
September 24, Thursday @7pm
Author COLIN ASHER presents his new book at Revolution Books:
"THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL: The Secret Prison History of American Music"
Colin Asher tells of the extraordinary music created within the highest and thickest walls of America's brutal, racist prison system. With five compelling portraits of musical artists whose careers span the 20th century—from folk and blues singer Lead Belly to jazz pianist Elmo Hope, to rap artist Tupac Shakur. A celebration of joyful, angry, and rebellious words and sounds...an indictment of an unjust and cruel system of incarceration that cannot suppress beauty.
"A fog-bending down-bound train of a book, better than it had to be..."
-- Dwight Garner, NY Times Book Review, July 26, 2026
Joining Colin Asher in discussion on September 24:
-Aidan Levy author of Saxophone Colossus, biography of Sonny Rollins
-Raymond Lotta A spokesperson for Revolution Books
This special evening at Revolution Books is an official "Bookend Event" --
in collaboration with the Brooklyn Book Festival.
Events at Revolution Books are co-sponsored by the Revolution Books Education Fund, a 501(c)3 entity.
Berkeley Events
2444 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
50 Years Since the Death of Mao Zedong and the Defeat of Socialism in China Learning From and Going Beyond Mao's Great Breakthroughs to the New Communism of Bob Avakian
Saturday, September 19th, 6 p.m.
Fifty years ago, on September 9, 1976, Mao Zedong died.
Mao led the monumental and tremendously liberating Chinese Revolution of 1949-1976. Mao's greatest contribution was the theory and practice of continuing the revolution under socialism and preventing the restoration of capitalism. But shortly after Mao's death, new bourgeois forces in China carried out a violent coup—and began the process of restoring capitalism.
Following the defeat of socialism in China, the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian set out to sum up the first socialist revolutions in Russia and China: their tremendous achievements, but also their problems, some quite serious.
Through decades of theoretical work and struggle, Bob Avakian has synthesized the new communism. He has drawn from diverse spheres of human understanding and experience. The new communism builds on the achievements of the first stage of communist revolution but is a qualitative leap beyond and also, in important ways, a break with communist theory as it has been previously developed.
At the heart of the new communism is a thoroughly and consistently scientific approach to reality.
Humanity now has a radically different and far better framework to make the emancipating revolution necessary to end all exploitation and oppression. To create a world in which human beings can truly flourish. That is why being a communist today means being a follower of Bob Avakian.
