A BIG THANK YOU! TO ALL WHO GAVE TO BRING THE REVOLUTION BOOKS YEAR-END $10,000 FUND DRIVE TO A SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION as we enter this momentous year:

2024 Brings Heightened Danger
& Revolutionary Possibility.
In a Race Against Time, Make This Year Count for the Emancipation of Humanity.

And there's more $$ to come, we've heard... You can still donate, and it's very much needed. Stay tuned.

Message from Jim Fouratt:

Now that we've made the $10,000 goal, Scott will kick in an extra $500 (watch this to the end):

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Thank you to all who met Janet and Steve's $1000 challenge 2 weeks ago, and to all the donors who have thrown in to get this far. From Janet:

"My mother would say to me in Japanese: Shikata ga nai – 'It cannot be helped' or 'There’s nothing that can be done about it'... I didn’t like that saying. It never sat right with me. That’s the way things are? And will be forever?..." Read Janet's whole statement

Photo: Janet's family at site of Topaz concentration camp, 2022
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On December 19, we received a $1000 match challenge from a RevBooks staff member. In 2 days we met the match. The donor's moving story is here...
"A year ago, my father died at age 90. To honor his spirit of intellectual curiosity and his heart for the whole world – a spirit that is part of who I became as a revolutionary communist – I am challenging all of you...

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Climate Devastation...Nuclear War Threatened...The Direct Danger of All-Out Fascism and a Possible Showdown With the 2024 Elections... Vicious Israeli Genocide in Palestine, Backed and Armed 1000% by the U.S. Imperialists...
TIMES LIKE THESE CRY OUT FOR A REAL REVOLUTION!

As 2023 turns to 2024 and the world spins toward escalating horrors: will you complain and express your displeasure or anger, while these outrages go on and on and likely get even worse?

OR be part of moving to actually stop this, in the only way it can be done: through real revolution!

Donate to Revolution Books: where critical thinking meets the poetic spirit. Where the new communism developed by Bob Avakian challenges all the ways people accommodate to this intolerable world – and opens up the revolutionary way out of the madness, to a world where human beings can truly flourish and the imagination can soar.

Some of what your donation supports:
* Serious discussion and debate about the biggest questions confronting humanity.

* Impromptu and organized watch gatherings of The Bob Avakian Interviews.

* Programs with authors like the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks --->

* Shelves filled with fiction, true history, natural science, poetry, children's books and more, illuminating the creativity of human beings around the world and around the block, and the richness of the natural world in peril.

At a time when understanding this world as it is, and as it COULD be, is more and more critical and more and more suppressed.

Highlights from 2023. What humanity needs MORE OF:

November 28, 2023:
Bob Avakian (BA) on the Big Screen
at Teatro SEA @The Clemente Center on NYC's Lower East Side, sponsored by Revolution Books Educational Fund and the Bob Avakian Institute:
80 people of different ages and perspectives from Harlem, from universities, artists, activists, friends of Revolution Books, people just met on the streets, watched “Selections from The Bob Avakian Interviews on The RNL—Revolution Nothing Less!—Show” and then got into the deep questions this provoked with the host of The RNL Show and Spokesperson for Revolution Books, Andy Zee.

Andy ended the evening with the challenge to everyone: “[T]o shake people out of the stupor that they are in, out of the BS they are thinking about, looking for some safe space in a world going to hell, to see that there is a different potential, the potential for a radically different society and world… ” and to build the kind of movement for revolution “where heads would turn. Where people would say this leader and these people—they speak the truth, they are not afraid to be unpopular... they are bringing you the truth you need to hear.” Read about this event and find video of the first provocative exchange of the evening here.

2023 HIGHLIGHT October 26, 2023
Emergency speak-outs and events on the U.S-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The history of Israel's bloody theft and 75-year occupation of Palestine; students and others standing with the Palestinian people debating why anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism and why Hamas is not a force for liberation – and why emancipating revolution guided by the new communism developed by Bob Avakian is what is needed by the people of the world to break the stranglehold of oppression and exploitation. Books on Palestine are available at Revolution Books & at our online store.

2023 HIGHLIGHT October 2, 2023 An evening with Pulitzer-Prize winning jazz musician-composer and Henry Threadgill (<-- center) discussing his memoir Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music, with co-author Brent Hayes Edwards and Raymond Lotta from Revolution Books: growing up in a racist society, drafted into the imperialist war in Vietnam, and a lifetime of restless innovation and experimentation. Watch the video.

2023 HIGHLIGHT March 1, 2023 "The Industrialization of Sexual Exploitation and Global Capitalism... OR Why 'Sex Work' Is NOT 'Agency,' But Degradation and Nightmare... And Why We Need Revolution" An eye-opening analysis from Raymond Lotta, political economist and spokesperson for Revolution Books in Harlem, of how the capitalist-imperialist system has driven the explosion of global prostitution. Followed by sharp discussion and contention over “woke” rationalizations of sexual degradation and oppression of women vs the emancipation of all humanity. Watch the video.

As we approach 2024, in this race against time, your contributions and your participation are essential for all this and much more: for Revolution Books to reach many more thousands of people, to enable you and many more to struggle for clarity on the most serious questions confronting humanity; to bring the whole new way to live, a fundamentally different system, that IS possible with the revolution.
Give now. Thank you.