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Vol.64/No.9             March 6, 2000 
 
 
Meetings to celebrate new Pathfinder titles  
 
 
BY STEVE CLARK  
NEW YORK--The four new branches of the Socialist Workers Party here and in northern New Jersey, together with chapters of the Young Socialists in this area, are organizing a meeting on Sunday afternoon, March 5, to celebrate the books launched by Pathfinder Press during the Havana International Book Fair in mid-February.

Those books are the Spanish-language translation of Capitalism's World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium, by Jack Barnes, as well as Che Guevara Talks to Young People and Making History: Interviews with Four Generals of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces (both in English and Spanish)

SWP members and Young Socialists in the San Francisco Bay Area will organize a celebration Sunday, March 12.

At the report-back meetings, speakers just returned from the book fair will describe discussions with working people and youth in Cuba about shifts in the U.S. class struggle, and how they used Capitalism's World Disorder to elaborate on these points. They will explain the effort by socialists across North America this spring to go back to those who've bought this book over the past year and introduce them to The Changing Face of U.S. Politics: Working-Class Politics and the Trade Unions--and to organize classes for young people and others to study that handbook that has guided the work of the SWP for a quarter century.

The New York celebration will coincide with a meeting that same weekend of the Young Socialists National Committee, as well as meetings of the elected steering committees of SWP members active in four industrial unions.

The East Coast and West Coast meetings will also be a tribute to supporters of the communist movement who are organizing volunteers around the world to convert all of Pathfinder's books and pamphlets into digital form, so they can be kept in print in a more readable and cost-effective way. Over the past month, 25 new volunteers have joined some 150 already involved in the Pathfinder Reprint Project. Supporters will be actively signing up new volunteers.

The availability of so many new titles for the Havana book fair, as well as an ongoing pipeline of reprints, is the product of efforts by volunteers in Pathfinder's print shop.

Funds will be raised to help finance new bindery stitching equipment for the print shop. The communist movement has launched a Capital Fund to raise $200,000 by the end of April.  
 
 
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