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Sources of Revolutionary Books, Pamphlets & Periodicals
This is a list of addresses of bookstores and publishers which carry revolutionary materials, especially from a revolutionary Marxist point of view. If you know of others which should be listed here, please email me at: scotth@massline.org
—Scott H.
Bookstores Carrying Revolutionary Books
[Note: While all these bookstores have a large number of revolutionary books for sale, the political lines pushed by the stores themselves are often not really revolutionary or scientific. Some are operated by revisionists like the CPUSA, some by leftist cults like the RCP, and others by anarchists or other folks with undeveloped or confused political lines. But hey, revolutionary books are still revolutionary books, no matter where you have to go to find them!]
California
- Berkeley
- Revolution Books, 2425C Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 — (510) 848-1196 — [RCP]
Hours: Sunday: Noon - 6 pm; Monday: 2 pm - 7 pm; Tuesday-Saturday: 11 am - 7 pm
Website: http://www.shopinberkeley.com/r/revolutionbooks- Los Angeles
- Libros Revolución, 5726 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028 — (323) 463-3500 — [RCP]
Email: RevolutionBooksLA@gmail.com
Websites: http://twitter.com/RevBooksLA, and http://www.facebook.com/pages/Revolution-Books-Libros-Revolucion-LA/167579913259691- Progressive Bookshop (Esther & Philip’s Marxist Library), Los Angeles Workers’ Center, 1251 South Saint Andrews Place, Los Angeles, CA 90019-3632 — [CPUSA]
Email: info@losangelesworkers.org
Hours: Tuesday & Thursday: 2 pm - 7 pm; Sunday: 1 pm - 6 pm — (323) 732-8435
Website: http://www.losangelesworkers.org/services- San Francisco
- Bound Together Books, 1369 Haight St. [nr. Masonic], San Francisco, CA 94117 — (415) 431-8355 — [Anarchist]
Hawaii
- Honolulu
- Revolution Books, 2626 South King St., Honolulu, HI 96826 — (808) 944-3106 — [RCP]
Mail: P.O. Box 11228, Honolulu, HI 96828
Illinois
- Chicago
- Revolution Books, 1103 N. Ashland, Chicago, IL 60622 — (773) 489-0390; FAX (773) 489-0984
Hours: Tue-Fri 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm; Sat 11:00 am - 7 pm — [RCP]- New World Resource Center, 1300 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL 60622
Iowa
- Iowa City
- Three Ring Media, 1016B Gilbert Ct., Iowa City, Iowa 52240 — (319) 341-4570
[Combination activist bookstore, show place and work space.]
Maryland
- Baltimore
- Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, 800 St. Paul St., Baltimore, MD 21202 — (410) 230-0450 — Also has free Internet access. Worker-owned and collectively managed. Described by a correspondent as being run by “communists and anarchists”.
Massachusetts
- Cambridge
- Revolution Books, 1156 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 — (617) 492-5443 — [RCP]
- Lucy Parsons Center,549 Columbus Ave., Cambridge, MA 02118 — (617) 267-6272
Web: http://www.tao.ca/~lucyparsons — [“Radical independent bookstore & community center.”]
Michigan
- Detroit
- Revolution Books Outlet, 406 W. Willis, Detroit, MI 48201 — (313) 833-7310
Mail: P.O. Box 0083, Detroit, MI 48201 — [RCP]
Minnesota
- Minneapolis
- Arise Bookstore, 2441 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55405
Hours: 9 am - 8 pm daily — Web: http://www.arisebookstore.org
[“Known as an activist information hub for the Twin Cities for nearly ten years.”]- Mayday Books, 301 Cedar Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55404 — Activist hub since 1975. Carries Marxist, revolutionary, anarchist & progressive material. — Web: http://maydaybookstore.org/index.htm
New York
- Buffalo
- Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St., Buffalo, NY 14213 — (716) 881-0791. [Anarchist and rad-left.] Web: http://www.burningbooksbuffalo.com
- New York City
- Revolution Books—NYC, 9 West 19th St., New York, NY 10011 — (212) 691-3345; FAX (212) 645-1952 — [RCP]
North Carolina
- Chapel Hill
- Internationalist Bookstore & Community Center, 405 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC 27516
(919) 942-1740; FAX: (919) 932-7911 — Email: ibooks@mindspring.com — Web: http://www.internationalistbooks.org
Ohio
- Cleveland Heights
- Revolution Books, 2804 Mayfield Rd., Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 — (216) 932-2543 — [RCP]
Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
- Wooden Shoe Books, 508 S. 5th St., Philadelphia, PA 19147 [Between South & Lombard streets.]
(215) 413-0999 — Hours: Sunday thru Thursday: Noon - 10 pm; Friday & Saturday: Noon - 11 pm
Web: http://www.woodenshoebooks.com — [Anarchist]
Quebec
- Montreal
- Maison Norman Bethune, 1918 Rue Frontenac, Montreal 42K2Z1 [Across the street from Frontenac metro.]
(514) 563-1487 — Hours: Wednesday: 12:30 - 6 p.m.; Thursday & Friday: 12:30 - 9 p.m.; Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 5 p.m.
[Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada]
Washington State
- Seattle
- Revolution Books, 1833 Nagle Pl., Seattle, WA 98122 — (206) 325-7415 — [RCP]
- Left Bank Books, 92 Pike St., Seattle, WA 98101 — (206) 622-0195 — [Anarchist]
World Wide Web Sources
In addition to the big online book stores such as Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, there are some smaller sources that specialize in radical books. These smaller sources are especially good for browsing to see what’s available, since you don’t have to wade through zillions of reactionary and irrelevant titles to find books of interest to you. I’ll be adding more Web sources here as I learn of them.
- Bookcounter.com at http://www.bookcounter.com — Mostly anarchist and anti-globalization books at present, but plans to carry more Marxist books in the future.
Publishers of Revolutionary Materials
(In some cases not everything they publish is revolutionary!)
Banner Press - P.O. Box 21195, New York, NY 10129 [Probably defunct.]
China Books & Periodicals - 360 Swift Avenue #48, South San Francisco, CA 94080
Web site: http://www.chinabooks.com
Once a major source of revolutionary literature; since China went capitalist, they followed suite politically and only carry a few token revolutionary items these days.International Publishers - 239 West 23 Street, New York, NY 10011
Publishing arm of the revisionist Communist Party, USA, which however still serves as a source for many Marxist books.Monthly Review Press - 122 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001
(212) 691-2555 Email (subscriptions): mrsub@monthlyreview.org
Web site: http://www.monthlyreview.orgRCP Publications - P.O. Box 3486 Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 60654
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA— End —
MLM Study Guide (Recommended readings.)