Be A Friend of Revolution Books
Needed: 50 people to sustain the store at an average of $50 per month.

Revolution Books is needed now more than ever, yet its future is in peril. Hunger faces over a billion people daily. War continues to rage in the middle east, with little opposition. Black and Latino youth in the U.S. are incarcerated by the hundreds of thousands. The ecological future of the planet is in dire jeopardy.

Yet, there isn’t an atmosphere and culture of defiance, resistance, and revolution. Critical thinking and radical discourse are suffocated.

Revolution Books has been stepping up to puncture and change this—emerging since its re-opening as a growing center of radical and revolutionary ferment. When controversial issues arise, when no one else will speak out and provide a forum, Revolution Books does. Revolution Books is becoming the place to call, the place to be, when there is a sharp turn of events in the world.

This is a moment in history when Revolution Books is needed to soar— expanding its unique collection of progressive and revolutionary books; producing even more cutting edge programs, and advertising so that the many people who would find this store invaluable come to know of its existence. But without a major infusion of funds, the store could be lost. That is why we are launching a major campaign to raise $12,500. These funds are absolutely essential for Revolution Books to not only survive, but thrive—reaching out broadly, providing ideological oxygen for a new radical, revolutionary culture and movement.

Revolution Books is not about learning to survive on increasingly shrinking ground, accepting the status quo and holding on for dear life, a relic of a bygone age.

Revolution Books is part of contributing to a new spirit and atmosphere of critical engagement, putting revolution back into the larger societal conversation.

This $12,500 campaign is about more than saving a bookstore, as crucial as that is in these times; it’s about what kind of world there will be.

Every day, people are told that radical and revolutionary alternatives are unworkable and undesirable and are ruled out of the dominant discourse. The political imagination is stunted, sights lowered, people taught to think that capitalism/imperialism is the only and best way the world could be. Revolution Books is critical to lifting the lid on this.

No place else can people find and wrestle with the books, theory and engagement that reveals how the world could be—coming to understand that today there is the technology and productive capacity to meet the basic needs of all the world’s people—with the potential for a whole different cooperative world.

Writers, artists, students, people from all walks of life comment that the programs that Revolution Books sponsors are like no others. There is a different ethos, seriousness, and great fun. This is true because we are striving to have a store, and helping to create a movement, that reflects the kind of future society we’d like to see, as reflected in the work of Bob Avakian—a new society with much greater scope for intellectual work, art, ferment, curiosity, debate and dissent, a society where there is the challenging of the status quo as part of the process to achieve the full emancipation of humanity.

The heart of the fund drive is people like you—people who want a different, far better future.

Your support is vital. Your single donation. Your sustainer. Your fund raising parties and other activities. Your participation in events, including helping organize and publicize them. Your efforts to sell and promote books.

Introduce us to your progressive, critical thinking friends and colleagues who should know about Revolution Books.

With your support, we are working to make Revolution Books even more of a place where revolutionary communism mixes it up with, engages, and contends with other viewpoints in art, politics, science, and philosophy.

Ways to Make Your Financial Contribution

Download a PDF of the Friend of Revolution Books pamphlet, print out some copies, and use it when you talk to your friends about supporting Revolution Books.