The U.S.-British imperialist buildup for war against the people of Afghanistan and the resulting political polarization under today's war pressures are driving a growing number of working people and youth to look for answers to the big political questions that millions face today.

The stiffening resistance by workers and farmers to the employers' decade-long assault on our job conditions, wages, social gains, and employment continues to spread. It ranges from Minnesota public workers facing down the state government's deployment of strike-breaking National Guard troops to protesters against cop killings of Black youth in Cincinnati, from the strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom to the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and against Israeli aggression.

An increasing number of working people in struggle are open to radical ideas about the root causes of the economic and social ills facing working people and are open to a communist perspective--that is, to a working-class road forward in the world. A graphic illustration was the anti-imperialist world youth festival in Algiers last August, where many young people involved in fights for national liberation, for land, and other social struggles made a beeline to the Young Socialists table and its stacks of Pathfinder books. The significant rise in Pathfinder sales in the last several months is another measure of that thirst for solidarity and struggle.

There are a number of ways you can join this campaign to sell revolutionary literature. One is by joining with socialist workers and Young Socialists on literature tables in working-class neighborhoods and on college campuses. Many communists were first introduced to Pathfinder and the Militant through these weekly sales.

Many union militants will appreciate a working-class explanation of Washington's war drive and the intertwined assaults on workers' rights in the United States. Sales of Pathfinder titles to co-workers in plants, mines, and mills are a central part of this campaign.

You can also join the organized effort to get books into bookstores, libraries, and other commercial outlets where most workers and youth go to buy their reading material. An important component of this work is seeking out professors who will be interested in using Pathfinder books in their classes.

Nearly 200 volunteers participate in the Pathfinder Reprint Project, which aims to put the entire arsenal of books into electronic form, making it possible to keep them in print. The project's steering committee is continually on the lookout for new volunteers to incorporate into the effort.

Finally, Pathfinder would not exist or continue to expand its publishing program without the generous financial contributions that many supporters of the revolutionary publishing house make. Pathfinder supporters have just launched a campaign to raise $125,000 that will go through December 15.

If you want to join the campaign to sell half a million dollars in revolutionary literature by end of next June, contact the Pathfinder bookstore listed on page 12 nearest you.
 
 
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