Vol. 71/No. 39      October 22, 2007

BY BEN O’SHAUGHNESSY  
Young Socialists around the country are joining the campaign to expand the readership of the Militant newspaper. YS members are getting out the press on campuses, on the job, and at social protest actions.

“We sold a subscription to a student at a September 27 meeting on campus to introduce the YS,” said Ben Joyce, a YS member in Albany, New York. “That weekend we helped sell another eight mostly to students at an antiwar action in Syracuse, New York.” Joyce said that another two were sold during the week to students at a campus meeting featuring the YS in St. Louis.

At an event in New York City on October 6 to demand the release of the Cuban Five and to celebrate the life of Ernesto Che Guevara, Tom Baumann, a YS member from New York City, sold three subscriptions.

“Some came to learn about the ideas of Che Guevara and most importantly how to put them into practice,” said Baumann. “The Militant gives those looking to join today’s struggles the kind of weekly coverage they need.”

The next day he sold a subscription to a taxi driver in Queens, New York.

“So far for the drive, we’ve sold three subscriptions where I work, with more to come,” said Chauncey Robinson, a garment worker and YS member in San Francisco. “A young Salvadoran worker who has been attending Militant Labor Forums and classes on Che Guevara Talks to Young People has also joined us on plant-gate sales.”

In the next week, Robinson will head to Moscow, Idaho, to help build a meeting on the Cuban Five there at the University of Idaho. From there she will join other supporters of the Militant in Utah to follow up with miners and other working people who recently subscribed.

These are just a few examples of efforts by young readers to expand the paper’s circulation. The campaign helps bring the voice of the working class to vanguard workers and revolutionary-minded youth.

We urge you to join us in the coming weeks at actions against the war in Iraq on October 27 in cities across the United States; on campus tables and street corners; on the job and at plant-gates and mine portals. Show the paper to your friends, classmates, co-workers, and neighbors, and get them to subscribe! Order a bundle to distribute on your campus or job! Join teams of Militant supporters in meatpacking areas in the Midwest and coalfields out West!

For more information on how to get involved, contact the YS at the address listed above or a Militant distributor near you listed on page 8.  
 
 
Front page (for this issue) | Home | Text-version home