Vol. 74/No. 6      February 15, 2010

In his introduction, Barnes says that Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power “is a book about the dictatorship of capital and the road to the dictatorship of the proletariat.” It is a “book about the last century and a half of class struggle in the United States—from the Civil War and Radical Reconstruction to today—and the unimpeachable evidence it offers that workers who are Black will comprise a disproportionately weighty part of the ranks and leadership of the mass social movement that will make a proletarian revolution.” And it is “a book about the last year of Malcolm X’s life,” about how this revolutionary leader assassinated in 1965 “became the face and the authentic voice of the forces of the coming American revolution.”

Introducing, discussing, selling Malcolm X, Black Liberation and the Road to Workers Power to workers and youth, and studying it with them is at the center of a several month international campaign by supporters of the Militant. Having the introduction in French as a special supplement for just 50 cents, in addition to the English- and Spanish-language versions printed last fall, will help introduce the book to workers, students, and others whose first language is French or who are more comfortable reading in French. This is the case with the majority of working people in Quebec and with a growing number of immigrants from Haiti and Africa in the United States and several countries in Europe.

Supporters of the Militant in Montreal are ordering 500 copies. “Once we looked at our experiences using the English supplement to sell the new book,” said Bev Bernardo of the Communist League in Canada, “we realized what a tremendous boost having the French version will be.”

There is a prepublication offer for Malcolm X, la libération des Noirs et la voie vers le pouvoir ouvrier. The book can be purchased for US$10 with a new or renewal subscription to the Militant or with the purchase of one or more of the Pathfinder titles: Cuba and the Coming American Revolution, The Working Class and the Transformation of Learning, or Is Socialist Revolution in the U.S. Possible? including in French, at a discounted price.
 
 
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