Net sales of Pathfinder's revolutionary books and pamphlets over the first seven months of this year are 40 percent higher than during the same period in 2000. At the World Festival of Youth and Students in Algiers, where participants from around the globe--especially Africa, Latin America, and Asia--have purchased more than 500 books and pamphlets, Young Socialists report that Pathfinder titles have been flying off the literature tables they set up. Some of those who have purchased the books plan to use them in study circles or discussion groups.

Pathfinder supporters have also seized the opportunity to promote revolutionary literature at showings of the film Lumumba, which tells the story of Patrice Lumumba, the central leader of the Congolese struggle for independence and freedom from imperialist domination. Many of those who have watched the film have stopped by the literature tables set up outside theaters across the country and have bought not only Pathfinder's newly reprinted Revolution in the Congo but titles on a range of other subjects--from the Cuban Revolution to building a party of communist workers in the United States.

Workers involved in battles, such as coal miners fighting to defend their union and safe job conditions, have been attracted to Pathfinder's wide stock of titles on class politics. An increasing number have subscribed to the Militant.

This issue of the Militant, which presents a working-class explanation of the Israeli regime's accelerating war drive against the Palestinian people and Washington's complicity in that aggression, offers a good opportunity to get out the truth about the Mideast conflict. Many readers will also be drawn to the paper's broader reporting and analysis of developments in U.S. and world politics.
 
 
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