Calendar:

Sunday, September 27, 4pm:
Discussion at Revolution Books Atlanta. Join us.
"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 - Available in Revolution newspaper #174 Part 10 (online here) or pick up a copy in the store. The entire talk can be found online at www.revcom.us/avakian/ruminations/BA-ruminations-en.html
Tuesday, September 29, 7:30pm: Live Webcast with Raymond Lotta, "Behind the World Economic Crisis: System Failure and the Need for Revolution. (See Below)
Thursday, October 1, 6:30pm: Carl Dix kicks off his speaking tour at Clark Atlanta University "From Buffalo Soldier to Revolutionary Communist." (See Below)

Live Webcast Fundraiser for Revolution Books NYC

Raymond Lotta
Tuesday, September 28, 7:30 EDT

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

Watch Raymond Lotta on YouTube speaking on

"The Rape of the Congo and Your Cellphone - Click HERE

· 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 it's time you tune in and log on to a special Revolution Books webcast to hear an analysis no one else is making.

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). Details of how to log on to the webcast will be sent to those who donate. You will be able to ask questions via e-mail and possibly by phone. For those in New York City, limited seating is available at Revolution Books for $20. Call for reservations.

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 the book America in Decline and the series in Revolution newspaper, "Shifts and Faultlines in the World Economy" (www.revcom.us).

Also available at Rev. Books Atl.

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.

Thursday, 10/1 Carl Dix @ Clark Atlanta University

(Help build this event, post on facebook, MySpace, Twitter, email lists)

Speaking Tour Kicks Off at Clark Atlanta University

Carl Dix "From Buffalo Soldier to Revolutionary Communist"

Thursday, October 1, 6:30pm

Clark Atlanta University in the
Thomas Cole Science and Research Center Auditorium

Sponsored by: Political Science Department Clark Atlanta University, Groove Phi Groove Ma'at chapter

From the Buffalo Soldiers, former slaves who were sent off to fight in the "Indian Wars," to Vietnam in the 60's, to Iraq and Afghanistan today, there is a long legacy of Black youth fighting in America's wars. Carl Dix is coming to Atlanta University Center as part of a campus speaking tour to deliver an urgent message to today's youth, and everyone else interested in justice:

DON'T BE A BUFFALO SOLDIER-
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are still about keeping the American empire in effect, not about expanding freedom and democracy, despite Obama's "re-branding" effort. Don't go off and kill people in other countries to expand the stranglehold of the same system that oppresses Black people in this country and people all over the world.

Carl is also issuing a challenge - he challenges anyone in the ROTC or theAmerican Legion or the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who thinks the war inAfghanistan is any good, to come out and argue that position.

And Carl is talking about a solution - Revolution.
All the problems people face around the world and here in this country stem from the way this capitalist system operates, chasing after profit for a few. We can solve all those problems by getting rid of this system through revolution, and going on to build a whole new world in place of this messed up one.
This system offers no future for youth, but the revolution does!

Contact info: nobuffalosoldier@yahoo.com

CARL DIX is a longtime revolutionary activist and a spokesperson for the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. Carl was one of the Fort Lewis 6 - six GI's who refused orders to go to Vietnam in 1970. Carl served 2 years in Leavenworth Military Penitentiary for this stand. He was a co-founder of the Oct 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality in 1996. Carl coordinated the Katrina hearings of the Bush Crimes Commission in 2006. He recently participated in a dialogue with Cornel West on the theme of "The Ascendancy of Obama ...and The Continued Need for Resistance and Liberation."*Interview with Carl Dix, Friday, September,18, 9pm, Comcast Cable, channel 23.

*YouTube promo for the event: Spread the link! (View the promo below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ03EIBgTwI

What you can do to help:
Post the info on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Text
Pick up flyers at the Revolution Books table on James Brawley, Thursdays, 11-5
Announce in your classes, pass out and post flyers
Ask your professor to give extra credit for going to the event
Looking for Graphic Artists to design flyers, if interested please contact us!
Contact us for help or other ideas nobuffalosoldier@yahoo.com

Upcoming Promo Event for Carl Dix at Clark Atlanta University

DVD Screening
Wednesday, September 23, 7pm
Georgia State University Student Center, Sinclair Suite
The Ascendancy of Obama:
and the Continued Need for Resistance and Liberation A Dialogue between: Cornel West and Carl Dix

Carl Dix will be present at this video screening for a question-and-answer session afterwards with the audience. This event is part of building for a speaking tour by Carl Dix entitled From Buffalo Soldier to Revolutionary Communist, which will be coming to Atlanta on October 1st at Clark Atlanta University (in the Thomas Cole Science & Research Center Auditorium at 6:30pm). We want to plan and promote these events very broadly, please help spread the word and contact us to get involved!
Hosted by: Revolution Club at Georgia State University
contact info: RevClubGSU@gmail.com 404-4372417 search for club on Facebook

Carl Dix: From Buffalo Soldier to Revolutionary Communist - Oct 1st, Clark Atlanta University

Thursday, October 1st, 2009 ----- 6:30 pm

Clark Atlanta University

Thomas Cole Science and Research Center Auditorium

Carl Dix announces his campus speaking tour "From Buffalo Soldier to Revolutionary Communist" kicking off at Atlanta University Center.

Contact: nobuffalosoldier@yahoo.com

Discussion: Sunday, September 13, 4pm

Join us to discuss:
Part 9 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 RCP, USA
(Available in Revolution #173 online and in the store)

This Week:
Special Middle School/High School Issue of Revoluion newspaper!
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Help get this into the hands of many, many thousands of youth in schools across the U.S.: Actually, We CAN Change the World - The Revolution is REAL!

"This system has robbed so many youth of the chance for a decent life and has got far too many living, dying, and killing for nothing - nothing good - nothing more than messing up people and murdering each other on the streets of the cities here... or joining the military, being trained to be murderers on a mass scale, massacring people in countries across the globe." -
From The Revolution We Need . . .The Leadership We Have... A Statement by the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.
Check out the short version of this statement here.

This special issue takes on the lies and confusion, often taught in schools, about communism; gets into just what sort of future this society has for the youth; and speaks to a whole new world that is possible through communist revolution. This issue has the potential to bring forward many young people, challenging them to hook up with the revolutionary movement and to engage with the leadership of Bob Avakian. The special issue needs to get into the hands of many, many thousands of youth in schools across the U.S.

Especially if you are youth or a teacher, come down to Revolution Books (store hours below), pick up a copy/bundle of the paper(s) and help distribute them, or hook up with a distribution team. And for anyone who wants to see this paper out broadly, come by the store and sponsor a school, $5 for 10 papers, $10 for 25 papers, $20 for 100 papers.

Sunday, September 20, 3pm
Revolution Books will be hosting an Open House and discussion around the special middle school/high school issue of Revolution newspaper (issue #176)- "Actually... We CAN Change the World!" Come make plans about getting this issue out to the schools and where the youth are, watch clips of the Revolution film.

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Excerpts from special issue #176:
Young Brothers and Sisters:

How often have you been told that, in America, you can be anything you want to be? That this is a free country? That as long as you work hard and make the right choices, the "sky is the limit" on what you can achieve? That if you don't make it in this society, it's your own fault?

But is any of this really true? For you, and for the vast majority of people on this planet?

Let's look way beneath the surface...

In the weeks leading up to the publication of this issue, a crew of youth from all over the country came to New York City to put revolution and communism on the map. Since understanding the world more deeply is essential to changing it, one key element of our revolutionary work involved interviewing male and female students of many different races and backgrounds, in parks and on street corners, to get a better sense of how you view the world, how you envision your future, and what the burning questions on your mind are. These interviews served as the basis and the inspiration for the content of this special high school and middle school issue. .
Read on . . .
Here's What You Can Choose to Do Right Now

Read full statement from #176

Visit Revolution Books Atlanta
at the Decatur Book Festival

Labor Day Weekend:
Saturday, September 5, 10am -6pm
Sunday, September 6, Noon - 6pm

Our booth(#519) 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 an expanded inventory to explore.

We will feature the works of Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. If you want to change the world, you need to know Bob Avakian.

Bob Avakian is the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. And he is more than that: he's an innovative and critical thinker who has taken Marxism to a new place; he's a provocative commentator on everything from basketball to religion, doo-wop music to science and he's a pit-bull fighter against oppression who's kept both his solemn sense of purpose and his irrepressible sense of humor.

Some Available Titles by Bob Avakian:

From IKE TO MAO:
My Journeyfrom Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist A Memoir by Bob Avakian

AWAY WITH ALL GODS!
Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World
Table of Contents

SPECIAL FOR THE FESTIVAL: 10% off all Bob Avakian works

Our expanded stock will include provocative new and recent titles on:
First hand accounts upholding the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Evolution, science and critical thinking
The oppression of Black people from slavery to present
The ravaging effects of imperialist globalization
Abortion and the liberation of women
U.S. wars for empire

About the Decatur Book Festival and schedule of events: www.decaturbookfestival.com

NOW ONLINE LIVE
http://www.revolutiontalk.net/

Watch the entire film of Bob Avakian's historic talk, “Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About,” online at http://www.revolutiontalk.net/ along with selected clips at http://www.youtube.com/revolutiontalk.com or www.vimeo.com/charlarevolucion for Spanish.

TODAY and in the days to come, help put this before thousands.

Here are 5 immediate ways to spread the revolution:

1. Embed the clips or the full film onto your blog, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter...

2. Watch it in your dorm room or living room with friends

3. Donate at revolutiontalk.net to spread this further. Anything you can give will enable promotion and advertising in these critical few weeks. If you want to see this voice and these talks reach further into society, contribute TODAY.

4. Download the promotional materials (posters, cards, stickers) from revolutiontalk.net and get them up in your dorm rooms, housing projects, local coffee shops....

5. Talk with your friends about taking this up – anyone you know who hates the way the world is and are hungering to understand it and be part of changing it radically.
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In 2003 Bob Avakian delivered this historic talk in the United States. This is a wide-ranging revolutionary journey. It breaks down the very nature of the society we live in and how humanity has come to a time where a radically different society is possible. He lays it all out in a nine-hour speech-and then goes into three hours of question-and-answer dialogue with the audiences. It's all there – full of heart and soul, humor and seriousness.

There is nothing online like THIS: 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.

And YOU are needed to spread this. Get with and be part of launching the Revolution film online.