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   Vol.66/No.7            February 18, 2002 
 
 
Give to Books for Cuba fund
(editorial)
 
The Militant urges its readers to make a generous contribution to the Books For Cuba Fund. For a number of years the Militant has organized this fund, to which workers in the United States and other countries have contributed thousands of dollars. Donations from working people and others to the fund make it possible to send books and pamphlets published by Pathfinder Press to organizations and institutions in Cuba. The titles can also be sold at book fairs in pesos, at prices Cubans can afford.

At this year's Havana International Book Fair Pathfinder will organize three special presentations, including one of its newest title, From the Escambray to the Congo: In the Whirlwind of the Cuban Revolution by Cuban Revolutionary leader Víctor Dreke. Plans reported in this issue for book launching events following the book fair are further indications of both the importance of and the need for the fund.

During the book fairs, requests for Pathfinder titles have been made by students, workers, soldiers, librarians, teachers, and others. In response to the political interest in these titles, donations of books have been made to libraries and other cultural institutions in Cuba.

Last year contributions to the fund enabled the revolutionary publishing house to donate 300 copies of its Spanish-language edition of Making History: Interviews with Four Generals of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. Seven boxes of the books were turned over to leaders of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution, who planned to make the book available to every single one of the organization's municipal groups.

Pathfinder publishes titles such as these because they are needed by young people and working people in Cuba, the United States, and all around the world. By reading Pathfinder they can gain a better understanding of the brutalities of imperialism and capitalism. Pathfinder books help workers and youth learn about the communist movement and the continuity of communism, and to see how women and men can change society's economic structure and social relations through making a socialist revolution.

This year's fund got off to a good start with contributions and pledges of more than $1,600 at the January 26 event held at the Pathfinder building in New York, covered in last week's Militant. More contributions, large or small, are welcome. Please send checks or money orders made out to the Militant and earmarked "Books for Cuba Fund" to the Militant, 410 West Street, New York, NY 10014.
 
 
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