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Vol. 73/No. 39      October 12, 2009

 
New book on Black struggle to
complement subscription drive
(front page)
 
BY TOM BAUMANN
AND NORTON SANDLER
 
We want to alert readers of the Militant that next week’s paper will feature a special multipage pullout of the introduction by Jack Barnes to the forthcoming Pathfinder book Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power. Barnes is the Socialist Workers Party’s national secretary and the author of several Pathfinder titles and major articles contained in issues of New International, a magazine of Marxist politics and theory distributed by Pathfinder.

Beginning next week, Militant distributors will be offering this book at a special prepublication price when it is purchased along with a Militant subscription. The details of this offer, which will be available until the end of the Militant’s fall subscription campaign, will be contained in next week’s issue.

In addition to the introduction, this pullout will include an extensive selection of photos that will give readers a feel for the contents of this new book, which will be available in November.

We are urging our distributors to order extra copies of next week’s issue with this special supplement and also to generously order individual copies of the supplement at the price of 25 cents apiece.

Given the encouraging response we are already getting to the subscription campaign, the Militant is setting an international goal of 2,000 new and returning subscribers for the eight-week drive.

Militant supporters signed up workers and students as new readers at various protests and other activities this week. We are just a little behind schedule, with 470 subscriptions in hand.

In the Los Angeles area, 17 people subscribed. “Eight new readers got subscriptions after meeting socialist distributors at a protest against Nazi sympathizers,” reported Arlene Rubinstein. “We heard about the protest that morning and got in our cars to join.” The Nazis organized a rally at a Riverside Home Depot, in part to terrorize the day laborers who assemble there. More than 100 people gathered to outmobilize them. “Four of the students who subscribed were later seen on the evening news, maintaining a disciplined counterprotest,” said Rubinstein.

Three students at Cal State Dominguez Hills and Cal State Los Angeles bought subscriptions. A worker in the American Apparel garment plant and another at the Farmer John slaughterhouse also subscribed, Rubinstein reported.

Kevin Dwire reports two of the subscriptions sent in this week from Boston were renewals from people who appreciate the paper’s factual coverage of workers’ struggles.

At a protest against Colombian president Alvaro Uribe, who spoke at East Boston High School, one long-time subscriber renewed and took advantage of the special offer on Nueva Internacional no. 8, only $10 with a subscription. “When another person at the protest saw the book, he also got the package,” Dwire said.

Supporters of the Militant in San Francisco distributed the paper at protests by thousands of students against education cuts. “Two students decided to subscribe after meeting socialists at a conference on how budget cuts affect education and four more did so at protests at University of California, Davis and UC Berkeley,” reported Carole Lesnick. Two campus workers who joined the protests also subscribed. “The cuts in education meant layoffs as well,” Lesnick added, “and they wanted a paper that explained the cause of these attacks.”

Dan Fein, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York City, campaigned with supporters at a South Bronx neighborhood event that demanded U.S. military bases out of Latin America. “Four workers subscribed, and several purchased Pathfinder books,” said Fein. The following day, the socialist campaigners went door-to-door in Harlem, the Bronx, and Brooklyn and met others interested in the socialist press, 10 of whom subscribed.

At a protest in Mt. Vernon, Washington, two students from Skagit Valley Community College and one from a high school in Bellingham got introductory subscriptions. “Some 500 people protested the mayor of Mt. Vernon giving the key to the city to Glenn Beck, a right-wing, anti-immigrant talk show host,” Edwin Fruit reported. Other new subscribers included workers met at street tables by supporters of the Seattle Socialist Workers campaign.

Militant supporters in Canada sold nine subscriptions and 26 Pathfinder titles at the “Word on the Street” book fair in Toronto September 27.

'Militant' subscription drive: Week 2 (chart)

 
 
 
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