The fund makes possible the donations of books and pamphlets published by Pathfinder to libraries, institutions, unions and farmer organizations, factory bookshelves, and universities across Cuba. The latest donation was to the Foreign Language School of the Teachers Training Institute in Havana.

It is impossible for these libraries and institutions to get these invaluable works without the Books for Cuba Fund.

This is because of the financial constraints in Cuba flowing from the U.S. government's embargo, and the economic problems persisting from the sharp reduction in trade on favorable terms with the former Soviet Union--on top of the conditions resulting from hundreds of years of colonial and semicolonial domination by Spain and then the United States.

As Martín Koppel and Claudio Burgos report from Havana, the attendance at the book fair is "an indicator of the thirst for books, culture, and political debate today among working people, students, and other layers of the population in this country."

Pathfinder titles in English, Spanish, and Russian are welcomed in Cuba by revolutionary fighters because they help expand access to the basic works of Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, and V.I. Lenin, as well as Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, and others. Pathfinder titles provide both current and historical information on a communist approach to developments in the United States and the world class struggle, and lessons for building a proletarian party.

Noting the political importance of the new Pathfinder title of Che's works, youth leaders in Cuba are planning to make the book available to delegates at the Latin American and Caribbean Students Congress in Havana this April. It is a good example of how Pathfinder makes a contribution toward the political education of a communist vanguard around the world.

Making a generous contribution to the Books for Cuba Fund can help this exchange and collaboration to continue, as working people and youth across our Americas deepen our common resistance to the economic crises, wars, and brutalities against humanity perpetuated by Washington and the declining imperialist system it heads. Out of those struggles will come a communist leadership capable of leading hundreds of millions in revolutionary struggle for a new society.

Please send your check or money order to the Militant, 410 West St., New York, NY 10014, payable to the Militant and earmarked 'Books for Cuba' fund.  
 
 
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