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Publishers Weekly
March 8, 2018
Marxism is at the heart of the bookstore, founded upon the ideals of Bob Avakian, the chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party and author of The New Communism. These values make the store a favorite target of conservative activists, and 2017 brought a wave of intimidation and confrontation.
Berkeleyside
March 7, 2018
Revolution Books heavily promotes the teachings of Bob Avakian, a Berkeley-raised political activist who is the chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party. He promotes a “new synthesis” of communism. The store also sells many best-selling novels and non-fiction books. Workers at Revolution Books,Ãâà...
Berkeleyside
March 7, 2018
Rob Cantrell and Lauren White confront Reike Redmonde in front of Revolution Books on March 4, 2018. Photo: YouTube. Ten times in the last six month, Revolution Books, the far left bookstore in the Telegraph Channing Mall, has found itself under attack from far-right activists. The latest skirmish was Sat.
History News Network (HNN)
January 28, 2018
And this guy DH had been part of this grouping in a loose sense, even while he had also been part of the Chicago area Panthers for a while (Bob Avakian, From Ike to Mao and Beyond, 27). According to the Bureau, Wright's FBI file has been “destroyed.” However, given his leadership role, he repeatedlyÃâà...
Newsweek
January 8, 2018
The group has ties to the Revolutionary Communist Party, an older political group founded by a man named Bob Avakian in the mid-1970s. Avakian, affectionately nicknamed “Chairman Bob,” is a Maoist, and an outspoken critic of capitalism. The NAACP of Atlanta is also expected to protest Trump'sÃâà...
Newsweek
November 4, 2017
So far a lot of unclaimed signs, Bob Avakian lit. Spox: "Just the first day" pic.twitter.com/cYK97Flvdh. — Michael E. Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) November 4, 2017. Roughly five Trump supporters showed up to counter the demonstration. In the words of Christopher Lehmann,Ãâà...
Mic
November 2, 2017
At Revolutionary Books in Harlem, signs and shirts with Refuse Fascism's logos are sold alongside free hand-outs with the good word of Bob Avakian. Revolution Books. “The vision is that you get enough people in the streets,” Taylor said, sitting at the back of the bookshop. “A mass, non-violent politicalÃâà...
CALIFORNIA
December 19, 2016
Many Americans are fired up in a bad way about Trump getting elected, and the Revolutionary Communist Party, aka RevCom, founded in 1975 by UC Berkeley grad and party chairman Bob Avakian, are particularly vocal about it. A stroll by Revolution Books, in the alleyway just west of Telegraph, betweenÃâà...
Gawker
July 30, 2016
Bob Avakian, known to his followers as Chairman Bob, founded the Revolutionary Communist Party in the Bay Area in 1975. Four years later, he was arrested for assaulting a police officer. He fled the country to France and spent the next three decades underground, in self-imposed exile, despite theÃâà...
The Indypendent
November 21, 2014
We could have been listening to a barbershop rap session take an interesting political turn or perhaps a good sermon that flirted between indignation and humor, but channeled our outrage. Bob Avakian has a few good lines, a clear enough delivery and he makes revolutionary anger accessible and plain.
CU Columbia Spectator
November 17, 2014
Despite extensive outreach by event organizers on campus, a discussion on the role of religion in revolution between Union Theological Seminary professor Cornel West and Revolutionary Communist Party Chairman Bob Avakian on Saturday was mainly attended by out of towners. The event, which filledÃâà...
CU Columbia Spectator
November 6, 2014
Bob Avakian, chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, and Cornel West, professor of philosophy and Christian practice at Union Theological Seminary, will spend an afternoon in Riverside Church discussing how religion relates to communism on Nov. 15. The event, sponsored by The BobÃâà...
Boston Globe
January 26, 2008
Email|Print|Single Page| Text size – + By Mark Oppenheimer. January 27, 2008. IT WAS HARD to miss, splashed recently across a full page of The New York Review of Books: an advertisement featuring the boldface words, "Dangerous times demand courageous voices. Bob Avakian is such a voice."Ãâà...
Boston Globe
January 26, 2008
Email|Print|Single Page| Text size – + By Mark Oppenheimer. January 27, 2008. IT WAS HARD to miss, splashed recently across a full page of The New York Review of Books: an advertisement featuring the boldface words, "Dangerous times demand courageous voices. Bob Avakian is such a voice."Ãâà...
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