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    Vol.60/No.8           February 26, 1996 
 
 
More locations in Paris will sell Pathfinder titles  

BY MICHAEL BAUMANN

Pathfinder, located in New York with distributors in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, publishes books and pamphlets by revolutionary and working-class leaders. Pathfinder bookstores are listed in the directory on page 12.

Titles from Pathfinder will soon be available at several more locations in Paris, Marcella FitzGerald reports from the French capital.

"Pathfinder representatives have been visiting bookshops here this week," she wrote in early February, "in the wake of the welcome response to street tables here featuring Pathfinder books. Since December, more than $7,000 in books and pamphlets by revolutionary and communist leaders have been sold from these tables.

"Another important new opening has been to begin to place Pathfinder titles in bookshops that sell only French-language material. Recently one of the big bookselling chain stores here opened an account with Pathfinder.

"Over the course of the week three bookshops ordered from Pathfinder for the first time. In one small bookshop, which ordered 35 different titles, the proprietor explained that many of the books he ordered were no longer available in French, although they had been once. He considered it important that such books be available for a new generation, and he took pride in making available books that were now difficult to find.

"Among the titles he ordered were The Leninist Strategy of Party Building by Joseph Hansen, the two-volume Revolutionary Continuity by Farrell Dobbs, and the five issues of Nouvelle Internationale that have so far been published."

In total, 9 stores ordered 101 books and pamphlets over the course of the sales visits.

Two students at the University of California - Los Angeles joined the Pathfinder Readers Club in early February after seeing on campus a table displaying a range of Pathfinder titles.

"One bought Nelson Mandela Speaks, a title on Malcolm X, and Socialism and Man in Cuba by Che Guevara," Vanessa Knapton reports. "Another bought To Speak the Truth [by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara] and issue no. 8 of New International on Che. He joined the readers club because he wants to buy the Bolivian Diary and Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War later when he gets more money. Another person had been to Cuba to study dance and wanted to go again. She bought the pamphlet by Fidel Castro Cuba Will Never Adopt Capitalist Methods."

In all, students bought $70 in literature during the three hours the table was up.

The Second Declaration of Havana is back in stock, reissued in a new printing. The document, which has served for more than 30 years as Cuba's manifesto of revolutionary struggle, was read by Fidel Castro at a mass rally of one million in 1962.

A powerful indictment of imperialist rule, The Second Declaration of Havana points to the example of the Cuban revolution as the road forward for fighters and youth throughout the Americas. This printing includes photos of factory workers and peasants lining up to add their signatures to the historic document.

 
 
 
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