Two upcoming public events, in New York and Seattle, provide an important opportunity to celebrate and discuss a historic advance for working people--the victory scored 40 years ago by Cuba's workers and farmers in dealing the world's mightiest imperialist power a stunning defeat and defending their socialist revolution.

The crushing of a U.S.-organized counterrevolutionary invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, won through the fearless resistance of Cuban working people and the revolutionary decisiveness of their leadership, has had a lasting impact on world politics.

As Jack Barnes explains in his foreword to the new Pathfinder book Bay of Pigs: Washington's First Military Defeat in the Americas--reprinted in this issue--the opening of the Cuban Revolution and its effect on U.S. politics changed the lives of an entire layer of young people in the United States and transformed the communist movement here.

The March 11 East Coast meeting and March 18 West Coast event will be a launching pad for a campaign to sell three new books--Pathfinder's Bay of Pigs, Making History: Interviews with Four Generals of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces, and Fertile Ground: Che Guevara and Bolivia. These political tools are necessary for militant workers and farmers and a new generation of revolutionary-minded youth to study and conquer--together with communist workers of all generations--the lessons of the class struggle and the fight to build a revolutionary workers party in this country.

The public meetings will also highlight the effort today by supporters of the Socialist Workers Party to produce and sell Pathfinder books, and the launching of a fund-raising campaign to assure the long-term ability to produce these books and meet the capital needs of the publisher's printshop. Both weekends of these events will include sales of the Militant and Perspectiva Mundial, classes on aspects of Marxism, and inaugural forums in the new headquarters of Socialist Workers Party branches in workers districts of Brooklyn and Seattle.

Working people and youth who are interested in the communist movement are urged to participate along with socialist workers, young socialists, and supporters of the SWP in these two full weekends of political activity, and to join the efforts to sell these new titles. Socialist workers and young socialists can start making plans for this campaign, discussing the books with co-workers or fellow students, introducing the titles to workers and farmers on picket lines and at protest actions, and getting the books into bookstores and libraries where they can be found and read by working people and youth hungry for the historic lessons and revolutionary politics needed to advance the struggles of the working class and its allies around the world.
 
 
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