Vol.61/No.45 December 22, 1997
Sales At Plant Gates, Campuses Build Socialist Conference
Below are notes from supporters of the Militant and
Pathfinder Press around the world about sales of socialist
literature in recent weeks.
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -Socialist workers and young socialists
in the southeast region have stepped up sales of the Militant
at factory plant gates and campuses in response to the recent
threats of war against Iraq and in preparation for the upcoming
southeast regional educational conference in Birmingham (see ad
on page 6).
Militant supporters from Pittsburgh traveled to southern
West Virginia, where they sold the newspaper to members of the
United Mine Workers of America. Edwin Fruit reports that the
team carried a sign that said "U.S. Hands off Iraq! Stop the
government assault on the Teamsters!" and sold 9 issues of the
Militant at two mine portals.
Lea Sherman, a member of the machinists union in Houston,
reports that communists in that city have relaunched regular
factory plant gate sales. In one week they sold 10 copies of
the Militant to members of the International Association of
Machinists at Wyman Gordon, 3 copies to railroad workers and 2
to oil workers.
Twenty-five people attended a forum at the University of
North Carolina in Greensboro entitled "Why the U.S. War Against
Iraq Doesn't End." The speakers were Raina Masri of the Iraq
Action Coalition in Raleigh and John Armstrong of the Young
Socialists. M.J. Rahn, a member of the Union of Needletrades,
Industrial and Textile Employees, reports that so far, seven
people from Greensboro and Raleigh are planning to attend the
Birmingham conference.
*****
PARIS - "We sold 107 Pathfinder titles at an antifascist
book fair November 19-23 in Gardanne, which is in the southern
part of the country near Marseille," reports Derek Jeffers. "An
international team of six activists from France, Canada, and
the United Kingdom sold six copies of the new French-language
edition of The Changing Face of U.S. Politics: Working-Class
Politics and the Trade Unions; a dozen copies of Nouvelle
Internationale no. 5, which features the article "Imperialism's
March Toward Fascism and War," and five copies of Nouvelle
Internationale no. 4, that has the article `The Opening Guns of
World War III.'" Jeffers said the team also sold 30 copies of
Socialism and Man in Cuba by Cuban revolutionary leaders
Ernesto Che Guevara and Fidel Castro; as well as 33 copies of a
translated version of Counter-Mobilization: A Strategy to Fight
Racist and Fascist Attacks that was produced by Young Socialist
members in France.
*****
DES MOINES, Iowa - "For the month of November, supporters in
Des Moines sold 92 Pathfinder titles said Dick Geyer. "The
highlight of the month was our trip to Denver where we
participated in an anti-racist rally and extended solidarity to
more than 1,000 steelworkers on strike at CF&I in Pueblo,
Colorado. During the trip we sold 57 Pathfinder titles and 26
single issues of the Militant."
Among the books and pamphlets unionists and other activists
bought were Two Speeches by Malcolm X; In Defense of Socialism
by Cuban president Fidel Castro; Europe and America: Two
Speeches on Imperialism by Russian revolution leader Leon
Trotsky; and At the Side of Che Guevara: Interviews with Harry
Villegas (Pombo). Supporters of the socialist press also sold
three single issues of the Militant at the steelworkers picket
line.
*****
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - In the month of November, socialist
workers in the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) sold 32
books to co-workers, reports Meg Novak from Birmingham. More
than a dozen copies of the Marxist magazine New International
were sold; 13 titles on Malcolm X and the Black struggle; five
on Cuba; and four of An Action Program to Confront the Coming
Economic Crisis.
Activists in Des Moines sold 10 copies of the Militant with
the headline "U.S. Hands off Iraq!" to workers at the plantgate
of a USWA-organized factory. In Houston a USWA member purchased
a Militant subscription and in Newark, a steelworker bought a
subscription to Perspectiva Mundial.
*****
ATHENS, Greece - "Our sales at the Pathfinder bookstore here
totaled 28 titles," writes Georges Sayad. "By far our best
seller was The Second Declaration of Havana, of which we sold
15." The pamphlet is available in English, French, Greek, and
Spanish.
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