Sunday, August 30, 4pm Watch and Plan the Online Launch of REVOLUTION DVD

Be part of planning the online launch of Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About, a film of a talk by Bob Avakian, which goes online starting on Tuesday, September 1, 2009. We will play clips of the DVD and have a discussion. Bring your ideas about promoting the online launch and getting everyone organized to be part of this.

There is nothing online like THIS film: nothing that gets at these questions as deeply, thoroughly and truthfully as this. Millions of people are searching for the truth, and watching videos, short and long. Some of these give part of the answer; but some of them-including some of the most popular-give people bullshit answers, pointing people in the wrong direction and spreading poison. Here, and all over the world, people need to see Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About.

YOU are needed to spread this.
Here are 4 ways to get this film out:
1. On 9.1.09, embed the clips or the full film onto your sites, post it on message boards, discussion groups... wherever people are debating big questions.
2. Download the promotional materials that are up at revcom.us and get them up in your dorm rooms, housing projects, local coffee shop.
3. Talk with your friends, bloggers, fellow FBers, twitterers, etc. about taking this up as well-anyone you know who hates the way things are and is hungering to understand the world and be part of changing it radically. Send out email announcements about the online launch now.
4. Contribute financially to spread the Revolution talk online even further. Starting Sept. 1 contributions can be made at revolutiontalk.net.

CONTENTS DISC I - Session I

1. "They're selling postcards of the hanging"

2. Police: Enforcers of oppression and madness

3. 1960's: Racism and oppression challenged head-on

4. A world of rape and sexual assault 5. "Traditional" values-tradition's chains
Read the full table of contents Here

Promotional SPECIAL:
Revolution DVD is available at the bookstore.
DVD plus 10 issues of Revolution newspaper $25
DVD $20

MEANINGFUL REVOLUTIONARY WORK

Weekly Schedule of Events: Join In!
Help Spread Revolution newpaper.

Friday, August 28, 3:30-5:30 pm
West End (corner of Ralph Abernathy @ Lee St., across from West End Marta station)
Be a part of a team of Revolution newspaper sellers who have an ongoing presence and table at this corner at the West End, every Friday. Talk and learn from people while spreading revolution and communism and the leadership we have. Or stop by the table and pick up the current issue of Revolution newspaper #174. If there is interest, we can have a DVD showing at a nearby spot at 5:30, info at the table.

Saturday, August 29, 1:00pm
Meet @ Revolution Books
Located inside Four Corners Market, 1087 Euclid Ave. in Little 5 Points.
Meet at the book store and hook up with others to distribute Revolution newspaper at festivals around town..

Other Ways to Contribute
At the Schools
Volunteer to help staff tables at local universities or contribute to this effort, come by the store and pick up flyers: The Revolution We Need, The Leadership We Have, and flyer your classes, clubs, and professors boxes.

Help Fundraise
If you have some ideas to help raise money for Revolution newspaper, let us know. If you would like to bake some sweets and can sell them at work, school or give them to us to sell in the bookstore or on the street, let us know. All ideas welcome. Consider a monthly contribution, $5, $10, $25, $100. Contact us to brainstorm.

Get a bundle of Revolution newspapers to distribute:
Stop by Revolution Books (hours/location below) and pick up a bundle of special issue of Revolution #170 and the latest issue - 10 for $5 or a bundle, 100 for $20 to take out everywhere in society.
Get these to people who are searching for radical change, and ask them to get a bundle of 10 from you for $5, and be a part of the distribution network. Get a crew together and think of places that might help distribute this special issue: libraries, barber shops, cafes, schools, restaurants, etc. Let us know where you can take responsibility to make sure this gets out, and call or email us so we know.

Upcoming Discussions @ Revolution Books

This Sunday, August, 23, 4pm
Ruminations and Wranglings: On the Importance of Marxist Materialism, Communism as a Science, Meaningful Revolutionary Work, and a Life with Meaning
Part 8: Winning People to be Communists, Emancipators of Humanity
By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.

In light of that, I want to speak once again to the crucial importance of bringing forward and continually strengthening the communist solid core of, in turn, a broader revolutionary movement-a movement aiming for revolution and nothing less. This stresses once again the great importance of struggling to win people to the whole orientation of being emancipators of humanity, in opposition to notions of revenge-"the last shall be first, and the first shall be last"; "this is my chance to have a go at being in the top position," and so on-which is, to a large degree, the spontaneous way in which people see the question of change in society, when and insofar as they think about this. So there has to be a struggle for people to break out of, to rupture with, that outlook, and to become emancipators of humanity-to be striving consciously for the abolition of not just this or that particular oppressive relation, and not just a change of place within the framework of oppression and exploitation, but the abolition of all oppression and exploitation throughout the world. Read on...

Ruminations and Wranglings is the text of a talk by Bob Avakian, earlier this year, which is being serialized in Revolution, beginning with issue #163. The entire talk can be found online at www.revcom.us/avakian/ruminations/BA-ruminations-en.html

Sunday, August 30, 4pm
Excepts and Discussion
DVD
REVOLUTION:
WHY IT'S NECESSARY, WHY IT'S POSSIBLE, WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT
In celebration of the unpcoming launch of the DVD on the Web, come watch excerpts from the DVD Revolution: Why it's Necessary, Why it's Possible, What it's All About, a 4-part film of a historic talk by Bob Avakian. This talk is a wide-ranging revolutionary journey. He breaks down the very nature of the society we live in and thoroughly goes into the kind of revolution we need. It gives people an up-close-and-personal experience with Bob Avakian, the leader of the revolution-It's all there-full of heart and soul, humor and seriousness.Read more...
The discussion will include the upcoming launch of the DVD, appearing on the web 9.1.09
Posting this film online opens up a new opportunity for people to dramatically expand the major and multifaceted campaign recently announced by the Revolutionary Communist Party calling on people to join with "the revolution we need... the leadership we have."

Sunday, September 6
NO Discussion at the book store
Revolution Books will be at the Decatur Book Festival
(See below)

Save the Date!!
Labor Day Weekend
Saturday, September 5/Sunday, September 6
Revolution Books @ Decatur Book Festival

Revolution Books Atlanta will have a booth(#519) at the Decatur Books Festival on Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day Weekend. Our booth will be located on West Ponce De Leon Ave. near Church St. From Church Street walk west on Ponce, we will be on the north side of the street.
Be sure to come by and visit us--we will have a whole new shipment of books to explore.
If you have a few hours, and would like to help staff the booth/store, or flyer events, please get in touch with us asap. revbooksatl@hotmail.com or 770-861-3339

About the Decatur Book Festival:
The Largest Independent Book Festival in the Nation.It is an annual, free book festival that takes place over Labor Day weekend in Decatur, Georgia at several venues located in and around the downtown Decatur Square. Conceived in 2005 and launched in 2006, the festival brings more than 300 authors to Decatur for the holiday weekend. The authors give readings, talks, and panel discussions. The event is free and open to the public. Authors include Pulitzer Prize winning and best-selling authors of fiction in many genres and nonfiction on diverse topics. The authors come to Decatur from across the country and international points as well.
More info and schedule of events: http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=zmi6k5cab.0.0.s4pel9cab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.decaturbookfestival.com%2F&id=preview

PART 2! This Thurs. 12:25pm: Raymond Lotta on WRFG!

PART 2! Don't Miss
Part 2 with Raymond Lotta who was interviewed by Adam Shapiro on his radio show last Thursday, and asked to come back THIS THURSDAY, August 20 starting @ 12:25pm until 1:00pm to continue the conversation.
Adam is the host of Current Events on WRFG, 89.3 FM on the dial.
Or listen on the web: www.wrfg.org

The topic will be the recent statement in Revolution newspaper #170 called:
The Revolution We Need... The Leadership We Have
A Message, And A Call, From The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
This Is NOT The Best of All Possible Worlds... And We Do NOT Have to Live This Way

"The land of the free, and the home of the brave." "The leader of the free world." That's what they always say about this country. But this is a Big Lie.

The truth is that we live under a system that, from the start in this country, built up its wealth and power by enslaving millions of Black people, stealing land from Indians and Mexicans through war and genocide, and working many people, including children, literally to death. It is by such murderous means that this system has expanded "from sea to shining sea" across this continent-and around the whole world.It is a system of capitalism-imperialism...a system in which U.S. imperialism is the most monstrous, most oppressive superpower....
read more...

About Raymond Lotta:
Raymond Lotta is a Maoist political economist. He is author of America in Decline and editor of And Mao Makes Five and Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism. Since 2005, he has been speaking on college campuses and in the media as part of the Set the Record Straight Project, which is taking on the distortions and misrepresentations about the first wave of socialist revolutions in the 20th century. In December 2008, he helped organize a major symposium, "Rediscovering China's Cultural Revolution" held in New York City.Raymond Lotta is a contributing writer for Revolution newspaper; recent articles and interviews have also appeared in the Economic and Political Weekly (India), GlobalResearch.ca (Canada), and Agence France-Presse.

Send your comments off the show to: revbooksatl@hotmail.com

This Sunday, Aug. 9, 4pm, What a Revolution really is..and really is not

What a Revolution really is..and really is not
Part 7 of Ruminations and Wranglings: On the Importance of Marxist Materialism, Communism as a Science, Meaningful Revolutionary Work, and a Life with Meaning, by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.

What a revolution really is...and really is not This question is not only important in a general and fundamental sense, but it takes on particular significance in relation to the current "Obama phenomenon," and some of the deeper emotions his candidacy-and still more his election (and inauguration)-have called forth, and the ways in which, sad to say, this has blinded some people to what Obama is really all about and the actual nature of the system of which he's a part, of which in fact he is now the chief executive and commander-in-chief.
Read on...
Ruminations and Wranglings is the text of a talk by Bob Avakian, earlier this year, which is being serialized in Revolution, beginning with issue #163. The entire talk can be found online at revcom.us/avakian/ruminations/BA-ruminations-en.html


NOW AVAILABLE NOW online!
Demarcations
A Journal of Communist Theory and Polemic

Why Demarcations? Why Now?Demarcations: A Journal of Communist Theory and Polemic seeks to set forth, defend, and further advance the theoretical framework for the beginning of a new stage of communist revolution in the contemporary world. This journal will promote the perspectives of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement. Without drawing sharp dividing lines between communism as a living, critical, and developing science serving the emancipation of humanity, on the one hand, and other perspectives, paths, and programs that cannot lead to emancipation, on the other-whether openly reformist or claiming the mantle or moniker of "communism"-without making such demarcations, it will not be possible to achieve the requisite understanding and clarity to radically change the world. Demarcations will contribute to achieving that clarity.
read on....

Issue Number 1, Summer-Fall 2009

Alain Badiou's "Politics of Emancipation": A Communism Locked Within the Confines of the Bourgeois World by Raymond Lotta, Nayi Duniya, and K. J. A. (Also available in PDF)

On Developments in Nepal and the Stakes for the Communist Movement: Letters to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, 2005-2008 (With a Reply from the CPN(M), 2006)

"Crises in Physics," Crises in Philosophy and Politics by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA