Revolution Books will be showing this film in three parts on three consecutive Friday afternoons, beginning on Friday, April 5. 

In this disc Bob Avakian gets into what socialism is, the election hustle (with a focus on the last elections), internationalism, and the possibility of revolution.

The 2-hour showing beginning at 3pm will followed by a time for discussion.

The 3-disc DVD of the film is also available for sale at the store for $15. The DVD includes a menu to enable you to easily go to the portions of the film for showings in classrooms, home, churches and other gatherings.

For information about the film showings call 944-3106. For further information about the impact this film is having:www.revcom.us. 

Thinner Than Skin
by Uzma Aslam Khan
"In gorgeous prose, Khan writes about Pakistan, a land of breathtaking beauty, and complex relationships between people who are weighted with grief and essrangement....A novel of great lucidity and tenderness, filled with splendid descriptions of the land, the people who have always inhabitedit, and those who are irresistably drawn to it." [from a review by Therese Soukar Chehade] 

Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked our Sexuality
by Gail Dines
"A thoughtul analysis of pornography's infiltration into the American economy, its detrimental effects on the sexual and emotional health of women and men, and its ability to perpetuate both sexism and racism." [from the book jacket]

Hungry for Peace: How you can help end poverty and war with Food Not Bombs
by Keith McHenry
"Food Not Bombs is a glistening, beautiful arrow pointing us toward antoher way, rooted in belief that we are all part of one another and that we actually can feed a hungry world while helping our planet survive." [from a review by Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence]

Resistance Behind Bars:
The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
by Victoria Law, with an intro by Laura Whitehorn
"Written in regular English, rather than academese, this is an impressive work of research and reportage." [from a review by Mumia Abu-Jamal]

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
by Richard Dawkins, illustrated by Dave McKean
Packed with dazzling illustrations, and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a wide range of natural phenomena. This is a stunning, illustrated guide to the secrets of our world - and the universe beyond." [from the book jacket].

Slingshot Pocket Calendar
Still only $6
Now in its 19th year of publication, the Slingshot Organizer is a must-have for punks, radicals, free thinkers, and the young at heart. And Revolution Books is the only place in Hawai`i where you can get it.

Pier
by Janine Oshiro
"Seeking to identify the self that straddles both spiritual and physical worlds, Janine Oshiro's multidimensional poems are borderlands—wild and uncontained—where vision and illusion become crucial to survival. Pier is a place of frenzied collision where human industry meets feral ocean, a place of arrivals, departures, and transitions. Within these unique architectures, lyric intensity abounds and our identities discover a common landscape". [catalog description]

Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
by Christian Parenti
"If you read one book on climate change this year...Tropic of Chaos should be it. The way you undertand the changing climate, and the resulting conflicts that serrate our world, will be transformed." [review by Bookforum]

 The Novel
by Nawal El Saadawi
The first words of this book are: "The novel caused tremendous outrage." The novel itself is about a young woman who has "no family, no university degree, no national identity card." Revolution Books carries a number of El Saadawi's books, including classic, "Woman at Point Zero," and her more recently released "Zeina."

Follow the tour at basicsbustour.tumblr.com and twitter.com/baeverywhere.

Join in the celebration: The BAsics Bus Tour is arriving in NYC Saturday!

Saturday, July 14, Welcome the volunteers arriving, people of different ages, nationalities and backgrounds, from all around the country – here for the BAsics Bus Tour.  July 16, Join the buses in Harlem as the two week tour kicks off to the Bronx and Brownsville/Brooklyn.

Sunsara Taylor, 3/4/2012 from Revolution Books on Vimeo.

Watch/listen to this powerful talk by Sunsara Taylor:

"A Talk on the Occasion of International Women's Day:  "From the Expanding Porn Industry to the Aggressive Religious Patriarchs: End the Enslavement & Degradation of Women!"

Join the movement to Stop Patriarchy! March 8 is International Women's Day. Speak out at work and at school. Post materials. Chalk.

Join us at Revolution Books on Sunday, March 11 for an afternoon of sharing. Come having seen this talk. Let's talk about it and figure out how we're going to be part of this movement! Bring some food to share if you're able. 5-7 p.m.

New Books...
and some Favorites!

Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal): Written with the future in mind, for a vastly different society and government than now exists. It sets forth a basic model, and fundamental principles and guidelines, for the nature and functioning of a vastly different society and government than now. If you have a friend who's moaning and groaning about the future, give them this to lift their sights!

Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh. This is a saga about a ship that sails across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. The cast is a diverse group of Indians and Westerners. A historical adventure that is made more complex by issues of race and class.

About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War, featuring voices from the Courage to Resist Audio Project. "When new soldiers swear to support and defend the U.S. Constitution by following lawful orders, what are they to do when they are given unlawful orders? About Face provides raw examples of precisely what soldiers are doing who take their oath seriously." [From a review by Dahr Jamail]

BDS: Boycott - Divestment - Sanctions. The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, by Omar Barghouti. "For the first time, we have in front of us a succinct and poignant case made for the BDS strategy vis-a-vis Israel...This is a must read for anyone interested in, and committed to, the Palestine cause, regardless of their particular stance on the BDS strategy." From a review by Ilan Pappe.

Essays, by Wallace Shawn. This is a staff favorite. From a review by Michael Moore: "Shawn's essays are both powerful and riveting. How rare to encounter someone willing to question the assumptions of class and the disparity of wealth that grows wider every year in this country. To have such a gentle and incisive soul willing to say what others may be afraid to is considerably refreshing." And by Toni Morrison: "Lovely, hilarious, and seriously thought provoking."

Leche, by R. Zamora Linmark. "Leche is a combustible comedy, a nightmare, a fever dream that with humor and horror somehow captures the fractured Philippine identity. Eye-opening hilarious, and relentlessly seductive. Linmark's newest novel holds the reader until the very last page." From a review by Sabina Murray

Walking With the Comrades by Arundhati Roy. After being challenged for her unsubstantiated negative remarks against the a Maoist Rebel Group in India in her book, "Field Notes on a Democracy", Arundhati Roy spent several weeks traveling with them through the deep forests. In this book she chronicles the weeks she spent living with the forest guerillas resisting assaults by the Indian government and concluded that governmnent soldiers are committing "unspeakable atrocities daily". A fascinating read, and further exposure of the crimes of global capitalism.

The Kitchen House, a novel by Kathleen Grissom. Alice Walker's review of this book says: "I recommend The Kitchen House. This novel, like 'The Help' does important work." It tells the story of a young, white Irish woman who comes to the south as an indentured servant.

What We Leave Behind, by Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay. From a review by the late Howard Zinn: "Reading What We Leave Behind makes me think of Thoreau, of Lewis Mumford, of Tolstoy, who asked us to rethink our most deeply embedded beliefs in order to live clean, modest, thoughtful lives, to return to that natural world we have forsaken. Jensen and McBay are those rare thinkers who challenge all the accepted norms of habits of 'civilizaiton' and ask us to get back to our naked selves."

No Ordinary Deal: Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement, edited by Jane Kelsey. For those looking for an understanding of APEC's proposed Transpacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement (TPP), this raises questions about the political future of independent nations, about sovereignty, democracy and indigenous self-determination, and, above all, the people's right to know what governments are doing. A rigorous read, but divided into bite-sized pieces.

The week of January 9-13 will be the first week of the UH Spring semester and will be insanely busy. We need volunteers to help... no experience needed!  Please call the store if you can volunteer. The number is 944-3106.