Among the publishers attending this time, as every year since 1986, is Pathfinder Press. The special thing this year is that the New York publisher will be presenting four new books at the fair, along with a wide range of the more than 350 other titles it has in print.

The week-long fair draws publishers from every part of Cuba, much of Latin America, and many countries in Europe. The event, which is open to the public, drew 40,000 people in 1998, as crowds of students, workers, soldiers, teachers, and others came to see, discuss, and buy new books by publishers from Cuba and around the world.

At the Pathfinder booth, discussing the books, their contents, and their distribution—and taking part in the nonstop political discussions that usually follow—-will be a team of volunteers made up of workers and students from Australia, Canada, France, Iceland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Reporters from the Militant will cover the event.

El desorden mundial del capitalismo, the Spanish-language edition of Capitalism's World Disorder, will be prominently featured among the new titles Pathfinder presents. Many in Cuba and elsewhere who have read the Spanish edition of the earlier volume by Jack Barnes—The Changing Face of U.S. Politics—and who have been asking when the Spanish translation of the new book would be ready will be glad to see it on sale in Havana and elsewhere this month.

Pathfinder is also presenting Making History: Interviews with Four Generals of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. This book will be launched during an event at the fair along with its Spanish edition, which is being brought out by Editora Política, the publishing house of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.

Pathfinder will also be featuring the newly published Che Guevara Talks to Young People along with its Spanish edition, Che Guevara habla a la juventud. This valuable new collection by the Argentine-born revolutionary who became one of the central leaders of the Cuban Revolution deals with a broad range of range of political, economic, and party-building questions. Most of the speeches have either never been available in English before, or were part of collections that have been out of print for decades. The volume was prepared with the enthusiastic support of Casa Editora Abril, the publishing house of the Union of Young Communists of Cuba, which assembled the Spanish texts of Guevara's speeches and compiled them digitally.

Editora Abril will be presenting the new publications together with Pathfinder at the book fair.

Supporters of Pathfinder are making a special effort to ensure the new titles are available for the fair. An international team of volunteers translated Capitalism's World Disorder into Spanish, and workers and young people in New York City volunteered to checking and cross referencing needed to produce the index for the new El desorden mundial del capitalismo. A garment worker from Miami and an auto worker from Cleveland who assist on the design for covers of Pathfinder books have volunteered their time on the weekends to make possible the new publications. The effort to publish four new books in a short period of time is an unprecedented achievement for Pathfinder's print shop.  
 
 
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