East Coast meeting March 11 in New York City to celebrate
 
The 40th anniversary of U.S. imperialism's first defeat in the Americas, the victory of the Cuban people at the Bay of Pigs, in defense of their socialist revolution
 
A public launching of Pathfinder's campaign to sell Bay of Pigs: Washington's First Military Defeat in the Americas and Making History: Interviews with Four Generals of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces; as well as Fertile Ground: Che Guevara and Bolivia
 
The program will feature:
MARY-ALICE WATERS, Pathfinder president and editor of Making History and of Fertile Ground, launched at the February 2001 Havana book fair
 
JACK BARNES, Socialist Workers Party national secretary, author of introduction to Bay of Pigs
 
STEVE CLARK, an editor, Bay of Pigs
 
MARTÍN KOPPEL, editor, Militant and Perspectiva Mundial, organizer of Books for Cuba Fund, and chair of Havana book fair meeting to donate 300 copies of Haciendo historia, the Spanish edition of Making History, to the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution
 
OLYMPIA NEWTON, member, Young Socialists National Leadership Council and Militant reporter at Havana book fair
 
NATALIE STAKE-DOUCET, YS leader from Canada
 
The meeting will culminate a March 10-11 meeting of the YS National Leadership Council, feature efforts by SWP supporters to produce and sell Pathfinder books; and celebrate two successful Red weekends of volunteer work at the Pathfinder Building in New York, and the new headquarters of the Brooklyn SWP branch in Sunset Park.
 
Hosted by the Brooklyn, Garment District, Newark, and Upper Manhattan branches of the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists. For more information call: 212-695-7358, 212-740-4611, 718-398-7850, or 973-643-3341