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   Vol. 71/No. 4           January 29, 2007  
 
 
'Militant' launches campaign to
increase long-term readership
(front page)
 
BY OLYMPIA NEWTON  
The Militant is launching a five-week campaign to increase its long-term readership. The goal is to win some 500 readers to renew their subscriptions. The campaign begins January 20 and ends February 25. It will build on the accomplishments of last fall’s circulation drive, when 2,500 people subscribed, most of them for the first time, and recent successes in selling copies and subscriptions among meat packers, particularly in the Midwest, in the Black community, and elsewhere.

More than 1,000 workers have bought copies of the Militant or subscribed just in Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois over the last month. Most have been meat packers seeing the paper at entrances of plants where they work. These include several of the six Swift factories that immigration agents raided December 12 across the United States, arresting nearly 1,300 workers. The response to the Militant is largely due to the paper’s consistent news coverage of the impact on working people of these raids, and its editorial support for workers’ demands to free those arrested, end deportations, and legalize all the undocumented.

Hundreds more have picked up the paper at actions against police killings, at political events in defense of the Cuban Revolution, and as a result of work to build the January 27 march on Washington demanding “Bring the troops home now!”

Most of the subscriptions sold during the fall circulation effort are expiring now. The renewal drive offers a chance to get back in touch with these people at house meetings or elsewhere, get to know them, talk to them about politics, learn from their experiences, and encourage them to get involved in political activities along with Militant distributors. This includes building the January 27 rallies and other mobilizations to protest the U.S.-led war in Iraq, actions to fight police brutality, and activities to demand U.S. hands off Venezuela, which can also point to the example of the Cuban Revolution for the world’s toilers.

As an aid to these efforts, those who renew or buy a new long-term subscription can also purchase several books and pamphlets at a substantial discount during the five-week campaign: The Working Class and the Transformation of Learning for $1; Cuba and the Coming American Revolution, or The First and Second Declarations of Havana, for $5 each; and issues 12 and 13 of New International for $25 together.

At the January 27 antiwar actions any new subscriber can also take advantage of these specials. In addition, New International no. 12, featuring “Capitalism’s Long Hot Winter Has Begun,” will be on special that day only for $10 along with any subscription.

Join the effort! Renew your sub and encourage coworkers, fellow students, friends, and relatives to sign up too. To order a bundle at 70 cents per copy or join sales teams, please contact the Militant directly or distributors near you .  
 
 
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