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Labyrinth Books presents an Evening of poets, actors, professors and more reading from

BOB AVAKIAN'S "FROM IKE TO MAO AND BEYOND: MY JOURNEY FROM MAINSTREAM AMERICA TO REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST"

Wednesday, Dec. 7
7pm
Labyrinth Books
536 W.112th St. (bet Broadway & Amsterdam)

Click here to see the event poster [PDF].

Guest Readers include: Gamal Chasten, Universes, poet and playwright
Aladdin, comedian
Discussion between Raymond Lotta, Maoist political economist, and Martha Quetzal Ceja, Managing Editor of Insight Press
More to be announced...

"A truly interesting account of Bob Avakian's life, a humanizing portrait of someone who is often seen only as a hard-line revolutionary."

-Howard Zinn

"Bob Avakian is a long distance runner in the freedom struggle against imperialism, racism and capitalism. His voice and witness are indispensable in our efforts to enhance the wretched of the earth. And his powerful story of commitment is timely."

-Cornel West

Travel with readers through three unique but interwoven stories. The first tells of a white middle-class kid growing up in 50s America who goes to an integrated high school and has his world turned around; the second of a young man who overcomes a near-fatal disease and jumps with both feet into the heady swirl of Berkeley in the 60s; and the third of a radical activist who matures into a tempered revolutionary communist leader.

"Whatever you may expect in picking up this book -- I guarantee you'll be surprised . . . There is a breadth to this man. And if you thought that 'communism is dead' or that all those who continue to uphold it conform to the stereotypes of dogmatic totalitarianism, you are in for a real jolt!" (from the Preface of From Ike to Mao and Beyond).

If you think about the past or if you urgently care about the future-- if you want to hear a unique voice of utter realism and deep humanity-- and if you dare to have your assumptions challenged and your stereotypes overturned-- then you won't want to miss this book.

Bob Avakian is the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. And he is more than that: he's an innovative and critical thinker who has taken Marxism to a new place; he's a provocative commentator on everything from basketball to religion, doo-wop music to science; and he's a pit-bull fighter against oppression who's kept both his solemn sense of purpose and his irrepressible sense of humor.

Contact the event organizers through Insight Press, 917.952.6044, avakianmemoirnyc@yahoo.com Book available at Labyrinth Books and online at www.Insight-Press.com or Amazon.com