It was Sunday night, and the Grand Opening weekend for Revolution Books/Libros Revolución at its new location in East Hollywood was coming to a close. The store was filled to overflowing as nearly 100 people from many different parts of L.A., and many different sections of society and walks of life, were crowded in. There was electricity in the air that you could feel in the noisy conversations going on as many of the people were meeting the bookstore—and this revolution—for the first time.\
They had come to the store for a reception after seeing the remarkable film about the immigrant experience—
Alambrista! (tightrope walker)—held at nearby Barnsdall Art Park as a fundraiser for the bookstore. After the film the audience had the opportunity to hear filmmaker Robert M. Young in conversation with Michael Slate, writer for
Revolution newspaper and host of the
Michael Slate Show on KPFK, and to ask questions of their own. The event, a fundraiser for the bookstore, drew 180 people, and afterwards people went to the store for the reception with the filmmaker. [Read more from
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Relocated... Revitalized... Revolution Books, L.A.
Revolution Books/Libros Revolución in Los Angeles ushered in the new year by celebrating the Grand Opening of its bookstore at a new location on Hollywood Boulevard.
Revolution Books is a place, a bookstore, where people meet the revolution. Where people come into the bookstore from all over the world and from different corners of this society to find the books and deep engagement with each other about the possibility of a radically different way the world could be.
Scientific and poetic, wrangling and visionary—Revolution Books is alive with a defiant spirit that refuses to accept that the horrors of today's world have to be. At the heart of Revolution Books is the cutting-edge work of Bob Avakian, whose new synthesis of communism envisions a radically new society that is overcoming all of the oppression of the current world while giving great scope to intellectual work, ferment, and dissent as integral to the complete emancipation of humanity.
It matters that there is an intellectual center for building a movement for revolution accessible to every section of society. A movement that is engaging, learning from, and struggling with a wide array of divergent viewpoints—all searching for a fundamental solution to the political, ideological, and ecological disasters that the people of the planet face today.
The Grand Opening of Revolution Books/Libros Revolución, L.A. in its new location holds great promise. But none of this can happen without a broad base of support, both financial and in other ways, coming forward now. By the end of the bookstore's Grand Opening weekend many people had volunteered to work with the bookstore in different ways; and progress was made in meeting the store's goal of 100 "Friends of Revolution Books" committed to be monthly financial sustainers of the store. For this potential to be realized, all those who are coming to see that this movement for revolution is urgently needed, and possible, must also realize that its success depends on you and what you do. - from
revcom.us
"A massive and courageous uprising has erupted throughout Egypt-the most populous Arab country - with the youth at the forefront. What direction this will ultimately go, and how far, is to be determined. But this uprising already has been-and even more could be-an important element in shaking up the whole reactionary world order-giving oxygen to all those who hunger for liberation or are even dissatisfied with the way things are...
Journalist and author Chris Hedges on the urgent need for broad resistance in society today, and what's standing in the way of it. As W.B. Yeats wrote:
"This week we'll spend the entire hour with Robert M. Young, one of the most remarkable directors working in film today. He's an artist who's dedicated his life to the pursuit of the truth, and based on that, to making films that matter. We'll talk about his development as a filmmaker and his extensive body of work, both in documentaries and fictional narrative feature films. 
