Alongside the subscription campaign, partisans of the Militant and its sister Spanish-language magazine Perspectiva Mundial have been campaigning to meet their quotas on sales of the new issues of the Marxist magazine New International. This campaign will culminate with efforts to sell hundreds of copies to youth attending the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students in Caracas, Venezuela, August 7-15. In the first month and a half of the five-month effort sales of the two new magazines have already reached 56 percent of local quotas.

Socialists in Des Moines, Iowa, have kept themselves on top of the chart through steady sales efforts. Through tabling at two different Cinco de Mayo celebrations, the opening of the local farmers’ market, a table in a workers district in Des Moines, and at a Militant Labor Forum on the first weekend of May, they signed up nine subscribers. They also sold three copies of the two new issues of New International as part of a total of $347 in socialist literature sold off a table at a conference on racism that drew 500 people at Central College in Pella, Iowa, reported Mary Martin.

The same weekend, SWP campaign supporters in New Jersey petitioning to put on the ballot Angela Lariscy and Michael Ortega—the party’s candidates for governor and state assembly in the 28th district, respectively—were also successful in combining the ballot effort with Militant sales. Ved Dookhun reported that petitioners sold six Militant subscriptions and more than $200 in Pathfinder books.

Similar efforts across the United States and other countries can help bring the drive home.

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