Wednesday, August 20, 2008

New Constitution of the RCP, USA - AVAILABLE NOW!





AVAILABLE NOW!


The New Constitution of the RCP, USA is now available in booklet form at Libros Revolucion.

Pick up your copy or multiple copies today.

$5 per copy or
$3 each for 10 or moe
Help get this out very broadly!







Also available to read in full online:

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Constitution cover
RCP Publications announces the publication of the new Constitution of the RCP, USA - one that lays out the mission and vision of a new stage of communist revolution, informed by Bob Avakian's new synthesis of communist theory.

The constitution puts forward this vision in a very accessible way, as well as laying out the principles of organization and the theoretical foundation of the Party. This includes an important appendix on communist theory as a scientific and revolutionary theory. This constitution serves as a bold declaration that there is indeed a party, in the belly of the imperialist U.S., with the determination and strategic analysis to make a revolution. . . and the vision, method and understanding of society and history to ensure that it is a revolution worth making.
 
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Come and bring others to Libros Revolucion to discuss the new Constitution of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA - pick up promotional flyers at the bookstore to help build for this important event:

August 24, Sunday, 2 pm - Part 1 on the mission and vision of a new stage of the communist revolution, what the Party exists for, its principles of organization and theoretical foundation.

August 31, Sunday, 2 pm - Part 2 on the Appendix: Communism as a Science. Communism is an integral philosophy and political theory at the same time as it is a living, critical and continuously developing science.

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August 28, 7:30 pm - Come and dig into articles in the latest issue of Revolution newspaper (www.revcom.us), including events inside and outside the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
 
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Libros Recommends:
We received this Call and Open Letter from World Can't Wait:

Come to Denver August 23-28 when the Democrats meet.
Be there to make your sentiments loud and visible:

If you think no government should be allowed to do what the Bush regime has done the past 7 years, come to Denver and join others building a movement to that end.

If you are sickened by your government waging an endless, illegitimate, immoral war and occupation in Iraq, with ominous and immediate threats on Iran, and you demand U.S. aggression in the Middle East stop now, come to Denver and say it loudly!

If you are outraged that the war crime of torture is being committed by your government in your name with the Democratic leadership's involvement, come to Denver to say "We Won't Live in a Torture State!"

If you don't buy the justification of your government spying on private calls and mail, no matter which party makes it, come to Denver to repudiate the new FISA law.

If you're tired of politics as usual selling "change" while Obama refines the Bush program from "faith-based" initiatives to 80,000 troops "stabilizing" Iraq, and refuse to settle for less and less, come to Denver make a moral and political declaration.

If you know that only you-not your government-can bring this whole fascist direction to a halt, join with all of us in Denver to fight for a different future.

World Can't Wait, other organizations, and thousands of Denver activists will march against the war & torture, attacks on immigrants & women's rights; gather in parks with permits, drop banners, and meet the world press with the our demand to bring the Bush program to a halt, no matter who is president!

Sign up at 866-973-4463 or at worldcantwait.org

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Read an Open Letter - in part it reads:  "...We will join with others in mobilizing everyone who has ever been against this war, and all those who know in their hearts this is wrong, to be in the streets of Denver, standing with the people of the world and refusing to be party to these wars...We the undersigned will do all we can to get people to Denver to participate."

(signed)

Missy Beattie
Fr. Bob Bossie, SCJ
Elaine Brower
Larry Everest
C. Clark Kissinger
Ron Kovic
Dennis Loo
Cynthia McKinney
Dede Miller
Mark Ruffalo
Cindy Sheehan
David Swanson
Debra Sweet
Sunsara Taylor
Kevin Zeese
Howard Zinn

 
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Volunteers needed: Labor Day weekend at the AFRICAN MARKETPLACE:
Help take out Revolution newspaper and the new Constitution of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA; visit our bookstore booth at the Marketplace,
Friday, August 29 through Monday, Sept. 1st
Rancho Cienaga Recreation Center, 5001 Rodeo Road, L.A.
Call or email us to volunteer.


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Monday, August 18, 2008

Libros Revolucion Blogged








Libros Revolucion Blogged

Libros photo

From "South of Downtown"
http://transitionalzone.blogspot.com/2008/04/libros-revolucion.html
Monday, July 7, 2008
Libros Revolucion

If you've been in Berkeley, then you must have seen the branch of Revolution Books nestled in a plaza downstairs by a parking garage. The Los Angeles, Spanish-language version is tucked away on 8th and Hill among the various clothing vendors, nestled next to a pet shop. After a visit to one of the first South Park Flea Markets (when it was held on Olive and 8th), a friend and I wandered around SoDo and spent some time at Libros Revolucion. I hadn't expected to come across this bookstore while wandering toward the Jewelry District, and was excited to go inside to peruse their stock of political texts and materials. The rear part of the store is an open space reserved for events and readings. I've yet to return since my first visit, unfortunately.

Being a proud bastian of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, it is not surprising that a Google Search revealed that Libros Revolucion faced serious harassment when it opened in the late 1980s. This letter published in the New York Review of Books in 1989 cites "Uniformed and plainclothes police, right-wing religious fundamentalists with bullhorns, and callers identifying themselves as members of "death squads" appear to be working in concert to intimidate people associated with the store."

It's good to know that the store has stood strong for nearly twenty years.

Libros Revolucion
312 West 8th St.
90014
213-488-1303

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The Revolutionary Communist Party is led by the in-exile Bob Avakian, whose Maoist leanings are interesting and somewhat inspiring. The RCP runs a network of bookstores and infoshops, and if you're at all interested in Communism, labor, or sideline anarchist thinking and doing, the locations are need to gos.

The LA shop, in downtown LA, is heavily angled toward the Latino population that makes nearby Broadway its main drag. There are sections of books in Spanish and a hefty Latino focus.

They use about half of the shop's real estate well as a retail location. You can buy political books, RCP-related books, and copies of the house organ -- Revolution -- for relatively cheap. I picked up a 1980s anthology of Avakian's writing for about $6.

The shop is also an organizing and recruiting center. When I checked out, the young Latino working there -- there were two young men surfing the Net on the shop computer when I stopped by -- asked whether I was acquainted with the party, interested in Avakian's work, and well versed in his most recent talks on Jeffersonian democracy. I think it was Jeffersonian.

I expressed some knowledge but ducked voicing any engagement beyond it being interesting in order to avoid a deeper conversation -- I didn'thave much time -- but if you're at all interested in pursuing the Maoism of now, this is the place for you. Otherwise, it's a useful lefty political book stop.

Drop some dime here. They can use all the support they can get!

- Heath R.
Brooklyn, NY

Libros Revolucion
312 W. 8th Street
Los Angeles, California 90014
(213) 488-1303




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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

2008 Olympics and the TRUE story of Mao Tsetung

  

Thursday, August 14, 7 pm at Libros Revolución
What are the Olympics promoting and why should we not root for the home team?  What is the truth about Mao and the Cultural Revolution? 
View the documentary, "Mao Tse-tung, the Greatest
Revolutionary of Our Time" and join in the discussion and debate. 

Check out articles in Revolution #140
"One World, One Dream" and Beijing Olympics and
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Buy your copy today...


Midwest Book Review:

"Is religion far more harmful than it's worth? 'Away with All Gods!: Unchaining The Mind And Radically Changing The World' certainly believes so.  Calling out Religion as a roadblock to scientific, moral, and political progress that oppresses people on terms of race, beliefs, and gender, author Bob Avakian makes a call to action against all belief systems that stand in the way of social progress and world peace, stating that religion is not a necessary element to solid moral values and peace of mind.  'Away with All Gods!: Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World' is a must for any who seek a dissenting opinion for religious studies shelves and for anyone who is disillusioned with their God or gods."


Allen Wood, author of Karl Marx and Kantian Ethics:

"What most distinguishes Avakian's 'Away With All Gods' from other much publicized books of this kind, such as those by Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, is the direct connection Avakian makes between combating religious fundamentalism and promoting a radical political agenda.  Avakian is also to be commended not only for combining his religious freethinking with an endorsement of the modern Enlightenment tradition, but also for providing a sober warning against 'the smug arrogance of the enlightened.'  Anyone who has read any of the other books mentioned above should also take the time to read this one."

Read Table of Contents

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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Get your copy today...

Revolution Newspaper website 


Revolution and Communism: A Foundation and Strategic Orientation consists of “Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity” by Bob Avakian, a talk which was serialized in REVOLUTION beginning October 21, 2007, in issues 105 through 120; and “On the Possibility of Revolution,” which consists of a letter from a reader raising an important question of revolutionary strategy and a response—both printed in REVOLUTION newspaper issue 102, September 23, 2007. As the title of this pamphlet implies, this provides a foundation and strategy for revolution aimed at the ultimate goal of communism.

 

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

LA Locke High

L.A. Locke High School Students: Don't Be Played by the System—
Fight to Change the World

Locke High School, deep in the southwest corner of Watts in Los Angeles, looks more like a prison than....


From a statement by the Revolutionary Communist Party, LA Branch:

"Break out of fighting each other -- get with the revolution! Fight the power, and transform the people, for revolution! On May 9th at Locke High School, 600 Black and Latino students fought against each other. The authorities knew the fight was coming and didn't do anything to prevent it.  Instead, once it got going and spread, the police marched in to mace students and beat them with billy clubs.Every news channel showed the story over and over about how Blacks and Latinos got in a "melee" at Locke High School.  There were articles in the L.A. Times.  The story even made it into the New York Times and national news.
 
"The students at Locke got played by the system.
 
"Where were all the news articles when 800 Black and Latino Locke students united with each other in September to walk out for the Jena 6?  Where were the interviews about how more than 200 of them marched for miles down Imperial Highway through neighborhoods of different gangs, and were supported by people all along the way?
 
"This system has no interest in promoting THAT kind of activity by Black and Latino people."

 
BUT WE DO!

 

Call to artists and others: Create something in the spirit of unity for the picnic. For more information, call Diego @ 213-300-7337


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Saturday, June 07, 2008

Locke High Students on the Beneath the Surface with Michael Slate

Hear a program devoted to the situation at Locke High School, including interviews with students and a teacher, on Beneath The Surface with Michael Slate, on KPFK 90.7 FM. The show first aired Tuesday, June 3, at 5 PM. To listen or download, go to http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/, and scroll down. Shows are listed in the order they were aired.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

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