BY MARTÍN KOPPEL AND JON ERWAY
NEWARK, New Jersey - We reached the goal - and went over! As the Militant goes to press, supporters of the socialist press have raised more than $127,000 or 116 percent of the $110,000 goal. This is also well above the cumulative sum of $119,000 in local goals.

A substantial amount was collected in the last days of the drive, as Militant supporters pushed, both to approach more readers for contributions and to collect pledges already made. The response was enthusiastic and made the success possible.

From Boston, Militant Fund director M.J. Rahn reports that "we ended up raising $200 more than our $6,000 goal." Among other contributors, two workers on the railroad - one works at Conrail, the other at Amtrak - both gave contributions on the job, and both also ended up buying copies of the Marxist magazine New International. And a 29- year-old worker who has attended classes given by the Socialist Workers Party on the Communist Manifesto donated $250 and bought nine issues of New International - almost a complete set.

In Birmingham, Alabama, communist workers have collected contributions to the fund from 20 co-workers at three different factories organized by the Steelworkers union. Eleven workers made donations at Meadowcraft, a furniture plant; two workers at Sloss, a coke plant; and seven workers at a US Steel plant in the area. Six of the 20 are Mexican- born workers who have read Perspectiva Mundial and expressed their respect for the socialist magazine's accurate reporting on world politics and its uncompromising defense of immigrant rights.

From Seattle, Nan Bailey reports that they contacted longtime subscribers to the Militant who are not organized members of the communist movement and received an excellent response. Some 29 such readers contributed a total of about $3,000.

Militant supporters in several cities have said that they still have a few outstanding pledges to collect, even in places where they have made their goals. Please send in those checks too! Every contribution will help.

The Militant is now fielding a reporting team of worker- correspondents from Sweden and the United States to Denmark. That's what the Militant Fund will continue to make possible.  
 
 
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