BY NELL WHEELER

NEWARK, New Jersey - Within days, New International no. 7, featuring the article "Opening Guns of World War III: Washington's assault on Iraq," will be back on the presses. The quick reprint of the Marxist magazine, which is distributed by Pathfinder, will ensure that plenty of copies are available for socialist workers to campaign with over the coming weeks. So far this year, sales of New International no. 7 are double the total sales from 1995.

The international Pathfinder Fund helps make it possible to produce this and other reprints in a timely way. One week into the Pathfinder fund drive, supporters of the campaign in cities throughout the United States and around the world have taken goals to raise $123,400 to carry out the Pathfinder reprint program. The challenge now is to plan fund-raising events and reaching out to coworkers, youth, and others for pledges. The ten-week drive that began September 1 will last through November 15.

Currently, Pathfinder is reprinting Leon Trotsky on China, an important selection of letters and articles on the Chinese revolution of the 1920s. Mike Taber, a Pathfinder editor, described Leon Trotsky on China as "indispensable for understanding what is happening in China today."

Volunteers in San Francisco have been scanning Teamster Power, in preparation for bringing out a new edition of this book, the second of four volumes in the series by Farrell Dobbs covering the transformation of the Teamsters union in Minnesota into a fighting industrial union movement. Bay Area Pathfinder supporters were also able to raise funds for the reprint program at a Socialist Educational Conference they held September 7-8.

The Pathfinder catalog is also on the presses. The original 1996 run of 10,000 has already sold out, indicating a higher level of sales and broader distribution of Pathfinder titles over the last several months. Already this year, book sales through Pathfinder bookstores have well exceeded total figures for 1995.

Javier Aravena, fund coordinator in St. Paul, Minnesota, reports that supporters there are planning a fund event for early October. "We plan to use building for the event to reach out to rebellious workers and youth and get on a footing so we can raise our goal. We will also draw on new supporters won through activities around the U.S.-Cuba Youth Exchange."

To contribute, make checks payable to Pathfinder and send them to the publisher at 410 West Street, New York, NY 10014; or you can contact the nearest Pathfinder distributor listed in the directory on page 12.  
 
 
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