Editor Greg McCartan is taking on a new responsibility as organizer of the Socialist Workers 2000 National Campaign Committee. The new editor is Martín Koppel. And Brian Taylor, on the Militant staff for the past four years, is heading to Alabama to help build the communist movement in that area.

McCartan, 42, who has been editor since January, will continue to serve on the Militant staff. The Militant will be the weekly voice of the soon-to-be-launched Socialist Workers presidential campaign, which will present a working-class alternative to the employers parties--Democrats, Republicans, Reform, and others. McCartan will coordinate the Militant's coverage of the socialist campaign and contribute to its coverage of the big political questions facing working people that the Socialist Workers candidates and supporters will be explaining every week.

Koppel, 43, has been a staff writer for the Militant since 1991. In addition to writing on class-struggle developments in this country, he has been a Militant correspondent several times in Cuba as well as in Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Argentina. Before joining the staff, he worked in Chicago at a steel tube mill and other factories organized by the United Steelworkers of America.

Koppel continues as the editor of the Spanish-language monthly Perspectiva Mundial, a responsibility he has had since 1993, having also served in that capacity from 1984 to 1987.

Most of the articles in Perspectiva Mundial every month are translations of Militant articles. Perspectiva Mundial will draw increasingly on volunteers in New York and around the country to help write, edit, and lay out articles for the magazine, whose principal audience is the growing Spanish-speaking component of the working class in the United States.

Taylor, 26, is on his way to Birmingham to help build the communist movement there. He will join with other working-class fighters and youth to be part of the developing resistance by working people in the cities and rural areas of that region, and to help strengthen the presence of communist workers in factories and coal mines there.

Taylor has served on the staff since April 1996. He took part in and reported on December protests held in Washington, D.C., by farmers who are Black. He has covered a range of other political topics, including as a Militant correspondent in Puerto Rico, Canada, and Cuba--most recently as a participant in the 12th Congress of Latin American and Caribbean Students in Havana.

Like McCartan and Koppel, Taylor is a member of the SWP National Committee.  
 
 
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