Sunday 11/22 and Tuesday 11/24 - on't miss these events

Upcoming Events :: 11/22 Discussion of Revolution issue on Prisons and Prisoners :: 11/24 Special Presentation :: 11/29 Discussion on "Three Alternative Worlds" by Bob Avakian :: 12/10 Herbert G. McCann author appearance :: Don't miss this film :: Support Revolution Books financially :: Every Monday - hot topics and mailing prisoner subs

Sunday, Nov. 22, 4pm Discussion of issue on Prisons and Prisoners The U.S. has 5% of the world's population but nearly 25% of its prisoners... (read more) This issue explores the horrors of prison life but also how a section of prisoners are transforming into emancipators of humanity. With a screening of an excerpt on the 1971 Attica prison rebellion from award-winning PBS documentary "Eyes on the Prize." XXXXXXXXXXXXSSXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX SPECIAL PRESENTATION Tuesday, November 24, 7 pm "The Reality We Face and the Struggle to Transform It" A special evening. Don't miss it! Sunday, November 29, 4 pm The first of a series of Sunday discussions on excerpts from Observations on Art and Culture, Science and Philosophy by Bob Avakian on "Three Alternative Worlds." Featured excerpts and questions for discussion will be emailed in advance. All welcome. December 10, Thursday 7 pm Author Herbert G. McCann Revolution Books presents author Herbert G. McCann, author of Greenwood. Greenwood, Oklahoma will forever be remembered as site of the US's worst act of racial violence during the 1921 Tulsa race riots. PRECIOUS: New film based on the novel Push by Sapphire Come to Revolution Books and buy your copy of Push. Precious is an unflinching and deep look, through one girl's life, at how girls and women all over this globe are degraded, demeaned, and brutalized in a thousand ways-- beaten and raped in huge numbers, treated as objects of sexual gratification and breeders of children instead of full human beings. How human potential gets crushed and beaten down. Help Raise Fund for Revolution Books November 22 - Bake sale Donate a desert to support Revolution Books. This Sunday, bring to 4 pm discussion or drop off during the day. December 12, Saturday, 7-9 pm, Holiday Party - Unique prints from the Cultural Revolution in China as well as cards, mugs and coffee and other unique gifts. Every Monday 5:30-8 pm Pick up a bundle of Revolution newspapers hot off the press and join a discussion of the lead articles and "hot topics" while mailing subscriptions to prisoners. Bring friends.

Raymond Lotta Speaking at University of Chicago

Everything You've Been Told about Communism Is WRONG! Capitalism is a Failure Revolution is the Solution __________________ November 11 Wednesday-7 PM University of Chicago Kent Hall-Rm 107 1020 East 58th Street in the Quad Sponsored by Revolution Books Cars leaving Revolution Books at 6pm - call to reserve a seat. Raymond Lotta will take on all comers in the questions and answers. On October 26, he spoke to an audience of over 200 hundred people at NYU. All the questions which followed his presentation are included here to give you an idea of the character of the debate. And you are encouraged to bring your own toughest questions to this event. Does communism subsume women's liberation and racism? Or does it only open the way to solving these questions? Isn't greed part of human nature? Greed and war have been part of societies from the beginning of time. Greed has been a mainstay of everyone's culture. And wasn't greed responsible for the overthrow of communism? I'm interested in poverty and the eradication of poverty. Jeffrey Sachs and Fareed Zakaria cite capitalist economic reforms as the solution- these are academics who pursue no imperialist agenda. Haven't 100 million people in China moved out of poverty thanks to the economic reforms? And how would communism actually lift people out of poverty. Didn't the Cultural Revolution under Mao kill a million people in Tibet and destroy 6000 monasteries? And you can give this lecture about communism at a university in the U.S., but what do you think would be the result if you gave a talk about democracy in Beijing? I'm a white, heterosexual male born into an affluent household. I also know that the clothes I wear contribute to exploitation, and the same with the food I eat. And that it is not acceptable to do nothing about all that. Further, when people say that there is no value whatsoever in communism, that strikes me as wrong. But when you dismiss capitalism out of hand, aren't you doing the same thing? How would the revolution you are talking about deal with religion? You say that you want debate - but would people be allowed to not just debate, but to overthrow communism in a revolutionary society? In a world of planetwide horror and environmental catastrophe, you yearn for a different one. You think about justice and human possibility, of how to live a life that matters, that can contribute. You have come to the university to find out about everything - including whether such a world could really be brought into being, and what your role might be in bringing that about. But you have been lied to - systematically and pervasively - about the actual possibility and path to getting such a world. You have been lied to about the real history of revolution, and the actual promise of communism. And we can prove it. Raymond Lotta has the facts on what actually has been accomplished - and he also has an understanding to share of where these revolutions fell short and erred, and how humanity can do better...the next time around. Raymond Lotta will speak at UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ON NOVEMBER 11th, 7:00pm, at KENT HALL, Room 107. His speech will cover four main points: He will show how the conventional wisdom as well as the "state-of-the-art" scholarship about the experience of the socialist revolutions in the 20th century is full of lies... and how this constrains and mutilates the discourse of what is possible... He will define what socialism and communism actually are - and are not... He will examine the most important revolutionary experience thus far - the Cultural Revolution in China - illuminating its purposes and accomplishments, and analyzing its shortcomings. And he will lay out a way in which humanity could go further and do better in the socialist revolution - the new synthesis of Bob Avakian. All this matters a great deal. If what Lotta is saying is right, then everything changes in terms of what actually is possible for humanity. In order to be true to your own aspirations and principles, you need to at minimum acquaint yourself with what this unique speaker has to say, and grapple with the challenges he is raising. Who is Raymond Lotta? Raymond Lotta is a revolutionary intellectual. He takes as his foundation Bob Avakian's new synthesis and has written extensively on China during and after the Cultural Revolution and played a major role in elucidating the actual thinking of Mao and the so-called Gang of Four that supported Mao. He also played a major role in working to expose the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union and China, including through written work and mass public debate. He has, through the Setting the Record Straight project which he leads, fought to spread the truth-and refute the lies-about the experience of the communist revolution in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1956 and China between 1949 and 1976. Most recently, he co-authored "Alain Badiou's 'Politics of Emancipation': A Communism Locked Within the Confines of the Bourgeois World" (demarcations-journal.org). Lotta has also done major work on political economy, including America in Decline (Banner Press, 1984) and "Shifts and Faultlines in the World Economy and Great Power Rivalry," a four-part series published in Revolution newspaper in July and August 2008. A recent speech-"Understanding the Global Economic Crisis: System Failure and the Need for Revolution"-can be heard at revolutionbooksnyc.org/Lotta4-23-09.mp3. Watch YouTube video Raymond Lotta-Everything You've Been Told About Communism is Wrong. Search "Raymond Lotta" on YouTube for additional videos.. For more on Set the Record Straight project, go to thisiscommunism.org.

The Raymond Lotta tour has made stops at UC Berkeley, NYU, and UCLA...now it comes to U of C.

Oct. 22: No More Stolen Lives! Stop Police Brutality!

October 18, Sunday, 4 PM Discussion of October 22 National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. Followed by working on preparations, 6-9 PM.

12 Noon, October 22 Federal Plaza Adams and Dearborn in the Chicago Loop RALLY & MARCH NO MORE STOLEN LIVES!! OCTOBER 22ND - WEAR BLACK For more info call: 773-368-2820 oct22.chicago2009@yahoo.ocm Join us at Facebook - click on: October 22 Chicago

October 22nd, 2009: NO MORE! No More Stolen Lives! Statement by Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party, USA Corey Harris, a junior at Dyett High School, a star basketball player and captain of the baseball team, was the first Chicago student to be killed by gun violence this school year - shot to death on September 11. He was killed after school, shot in the back as he ran away from a man with a gun. There was no media outcry over Corey's murder, no statement from the White House about their distress over it. Hundreds of students and adults who loved Corey attended his funeral, but there was no parade of politicians there. The name of his murderer is known by the Chicago Police Department and yet he walks the streets today, uncharged for this murder. Why? The man who executed this unarmed student was an off-duty Chicago cop. Last year the Chicago police killed 21 people. The death of Derrion Albert, an honor student at Fenger High School in Chicago, is also a horror for the people. On September 24, the nation was stunned by vivid images of the Fenger High School melee resulting in his death. People are agonizing over how did we get into a hellish situation where parents watch students being killed over nothing, where kids grow up haunted by images of gunfire. Everyone talks about responsibility. But who and what is responsible for this situation? Oscar Brown Jr's poem, "Children of Children," includes these lines: The children of children trapped by dark skins to stay in and play in a game no one wins The children of children while still young and sweet are all damned and programmed for future defeat The children of children are trapped by adults who fail them then jail them to hide the results... It is a crime of this system that our youth internalize the message they get every day through the worthless schools and degrading conditions and brutalizing cops - the message that this system has no future for them and that they don't even deserve a future - and then they act it out against each other. More police are not the answer, as the police murder of Corey Harris shows. Youth need to be inspired, encouraged, organized and unleashed to stand up against and resist the conditions they face, including degradation, dehumanization and outright murder they face at the hands of the police. In the course of this, and joining with others to throw off oppression throughout the world, people can and will change themselves. "The days when this system can just keep on doing what it does to people, here and all over the world...when people are not inspired and organized to stand up against these outrages and to build up the strength to put an end to this madness...those days must be GONE. And they CAN be." (The Revolution We Need... The Leadership We Have," Revolution #170, July 19, 2009) October 22nd is the National Day of Protest to STOP Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. It is the day to begin to stand up and resist the outrage of police brutality and police murder. FIGHT BACK! WEAR BLACK! For assembly points, go to october22.org/Assembly2007.html. Contact Carl Dix at comradecarl@hotmail.com. Carl Dix on Youtube: Making Revolution, Fighting Police Brutality Click here.

October 25, Sunday, 4 PM Discussion of RUMINATIONS AND WRANGLINGS By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the RCP, USA, Part 12 - On the Importance of Marxist Materialism, Communism as a Science, Meaningful Revolutionary Work, and a Life with Meaning.

October 31-November 1 USED BOOK SALE Donate your used books and help raise vitally needed funds to keep Revolution Books doors open. Volunteers needed to organize and staff the used book sale.

Don't Miss This Event!

Revolution Books received the following announcement from the Prisoners
Revolutionary Literature Fund.

To purchase tickets online for the October 11th Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund benefit, click PayPal button below. $17.50 $10 (under 21) For more on PRLF, go to Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund.

9/29 Live Webcast with Raymond Lotta

Watch Raymond Lotta on YouTube speaking on

"The Rape of the Congo and Your Cellphone" Click HERE.
Get this YouTube into the mass societal debates over health
care, the economy, is Obama a communist.
Get it posted on facebook and blogs and then join the debate!

September 29, Tuesday, 7:30 pm EDT, 6:30 pm CDT LIVE Webcast With Raymond Lotta "Behind the World Economic Crisis: System Failure & The Need for Revolution" September 29 live webcast of a fundraising event at New York Revolution Books. See instructions below for how to do your own webcast. Or come to a viewing at Chicago Revolution Books, Tuesday, September 29, 6:30 pm CDT. $20 donation. · Think the banks are too big to fail? Or is it capitalism itself that is failing humanity? · Think there is no alternative? Or are you willing to hear a challenge to the conventional wisdom about communism? Then you need to hear Raymond Lotta and participate in a unique live webcast. Raymond Lotta is a revolutionary intellectual who takes as his foundation Bob Avakian's new synthesis. He has written extensively on China during and after the Cultural Revolution, playing a major role in elucidating the actual thinking of Mao. In writings, talks, and YouTubes, he has fought to spread the truth-and refute the lies--about communist revolution in the Soviet Union in 1917-1956 and in China in 1949-1976 (www.thisiscommunism.org). Lotta has also done major work on political economy, including America in Decline and the series Shifts and Faultlines in the World Economy (www.revcom.us). Listen to Raymond Lotta on YouTube: Everything You've Been Told About Communism is Wrong. This interactive, live webcast is a fund-raiser for Revolution Books in New York City. You will be able to log on by donating $20 (go to www.revolutionbooksnyc.org and following the instructions to donate for the webcast). Details of how to log onto the webcast will be sent to those who donate. You will be able to ask questions via e-mail or possibly by phone. Spread the word through e-lists, Facebook, etc. And let us know if you would like to help work on making this important talk get out to as many people as possible.

9/20 Funeral of Corey Harris - Murdered by Police

17-year old Corey Harris was a star basketball player at Dyett High School on Chicago's South side just starting his junior year. He was chased down an alley and shot in the back, murdered, by an off-duty police officer on September 11th at 3:30 in the afternoon. The Chicago Police Department has admitted that he was unarmed at the time he was shot.

Corey's funeral will be held at A.R. Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 78th and Cottage Grove Ave, at 4:00 pm on Sunday, September 20th (wake starts at 3:00 pm)

Even as the facts surrounding Corey's murder are still coming to the surface, what is clear is that his death is an outrage. Another life taken, stolen away by law enforcement--this time a young man with an 8 month old baby and a whole life ahead of him. The family of Corey Harris welcomes widespread attendance at the funeral as a show of support for the struggle for justice. We urge all friends of Revolution Books to attend and show Corey's friends and family that they are not alone, as part of taking a stand against this outrage.

Rides will be available from Revolution Books at 2 pm or call the store for further information at 773-489-0930.

For those who cannot attend, we will be holding a discussion on the murder of Corey Harris, the need for revolution and for mass protest and resistance to the epidemic of police brutality and murder. Why does this happen, year in and year out? What can be done about it and what difference does protest make?

A must-see: Carl Dix on YouTube:
Making Revolution, Fighting Police Brutality




September 29, Tuesday, 6:30 pm

Live Webcast With Raymond Lotta
6:30 pm at Chicago Revolution Books
This is a webcast of an event happening at New York Revolution Books.
See instructions below for doing your own webcast.

"Behind the World Economic Crisis: System Failure & the Need for Revolution"

· Want to know why capitalism is facing its most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression?

· Want to know why the problem is not that the banks are too big to fail but that capitalism is too big a failure for world humanity?

·Want to know why no one in their right mind should want to rescue or reform this exploitative and plundering system...and why only socialism can solve problems like racism, health care, and the environment?

Then you need to hear Raymond Lotta and participate in a unique live webcast.

In October 2008, when the global banking system was facing possible collapse, the Agence France-Presse went to the German finance minister, a former U.S. Treasury official, and Raymond Lotta for comment. Raymond Lotta is a Maoist political economist and communist revolutionary. His book America in Decline was reviewed in Foreign Affairs. He has given talks at UCLA, Harvard, and Howard, as well as in London and Mexico. An activist-scholar, Raymond has been part of anti-globalization conferences and protests in India , the Philippines, and Canada.

Listen to Raymond Lotta on YouTube: Raymond Lotta-Everything You've Been Told About Communism is Wrong.

This interactive, live webcast is a fund-raiser for Revolution Books in New York City. People will be able to log on by donating $20 (a PayPal account is being set up) and you can ask questions via an e-mail address being created for the occasion (and possibly by phone as well).
Spread the word through e-lists, Facebook, etc. And let us know if you would like to help work on making this important talk get out to as many people as possible.