Seven months ago socialists launched a campaign to promote this new title among the increasing numbers who are looking for ways to resist the brutality and injustice of the capitalist system--both by selling it to individuals, and by placing it on the shelves of libraries and shops.

"The protests against the exoneration of Diallo's murderers attracted large numbers of workers and youth. Many were interested in discussing broad political questions," explained Galati.

"One young cab driver from Iran bought a copy of Capitalism's World Disorder and agreed that capitalism is sinking deeper into crisis around the world. He decided he needed the book as a way of learning about the growing resistance to this crisis.

At the protests the socialist campaigners handed out many copies of a flier advertising a meeting on March 5 in New York entitled "Reportback from Havana Book Fair/Building the Communist Movement." A week later socialist workers in San Francisco are organizing a similar meeting.

The speakers on March 5 will include Pathfinder Press president Mary-Alice Waters and others who attended the book fair. They will celebrate the new books by Pathfinder available at this major political and publishing event: the Spanish-language translation of Capitalism's World Disorder and Che Guevara Talks to Young People and Making History: Interviews with Four Generals of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces, both in English and Spanish.

Among the themes of the meeting will be the place, alongside these titles, of books that record the work of communists to build a communist vanguard based in the working class and its unions. The Changing Face of U.S. Politics: Working-Class Politics and the Trade Unions, by Jack Barnes, in particular forms a companion to Capitalism's World Disorder. In this book Barnes addresses the political changes that brought the industrial working class to the center of world politics in the 1970s and '80s, as the long postwar capitalist boom ran out of steam. He discusses the radical shifts communists made to respond to those developments to build proletarian parties rooted in industry, and the main defense organizations of the working class, the trade unions.

Socialists across North America are organizing to go back to those who have bought Capitalism's World Disorder over the past year and introduce them to The Changing Face of U.S. Politics. They will also be organizing educational discussions on the latter title. Both books will be part of the impressive range of Pathfinder books that supporters of the Militant and Perspectiva Mundial will use as they prepare for an eight-week campaign to sell introductory subscriptions to these socialist periodicals. Initial plans call for the drive to begin on March 21 in conjunction with the Rally for Rural America in Washington, D.C. Militant supporters and distributors are encouraged to begin discussing plans for the drive. More coverage of the effort will appear in coming issues of the paper.

Workers, farmers, and youth involved in struggle today appreciate the Militant, its accurate reporting of their struggles, and its clear political stance on questions confronting the labor movement. Scott Breen in Seattle reported-- after participating alongside technical workers at Boeing and steelworkers locked out by Kaiser Aluminum in a march and rally--that workers in the "upbeat" event responded well to the Militant. "We sold 51 copies to the 2,000 participants," he reported–– a response that augurs well for the upcoming circulation drive.  
 
 
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