As part of this response, supporters of the Militant need to deepen their efforts to join the strikes, protests, and other struggles of workers and farmers that more and more mark the resistance to the unceasing assaults by the U.S. rulers.

Pathfinder books, the Militant, and Perspectiva Mundial explain that the root of war, racism, and the economic crisis is the system of capitalism and imperialist exploitation and oppression of the vast majority of humanity. Periodicals and books on working-class politics, such as Cuba and the Coming American Revolution, an excerpt of which is reprinted in this issue, point to the only way forward for toiling humanity: the possibility and necessity of working people organizing a revolutionary struggle to topple the rule of the superwealthy capitalist class in the United States and elsewhere and put in place a government of workers and farmers.

The Democrats and Republicans are seeking to turn the attacks in New York and Washington into an opportunity to bolster the course the U.S. ruling class has been pursuing for years: increased use of their military force abroad, assaults on rights of working people, expansion of secret police spying and intrusive searches of individuals, and targeting of working people--especially African Americans and immigrant workers--for police harassment and violence. The revolutionary perspectives and scientific explanation of the world contained in Pathfinder books, the Militant, and Perspectiva Mundial will be given serious consideration by working people who are looking for an alternative to the war drive and attacks on their rights that Washington is mobilizing to carry out.

Responding to these events is the best way partisans of the Militant and Perspectiva Mundial can win current readers to renew their subscriptions as well as gain new subscribers. The interest in the two periodicals' coverage of worker and farmer struggles--and the broader articles on questions ranging from energy and industrialization to the sharpening inter-imperialist competition and the Cuban Revolution--can be seen in the significant number of readers renewing their subscriptions. This trend parallels the growth in sales of Pathfinder books in stores and outlets around the world and by socialist workers from street tables and on the job.

This interest shows the mood of resistance and thirst for solidarity that has been developing among working people in this country today. Through their own experiences fighting the brutalities of capitalism, together with learning from socialist workers about the broader lessons of the worldwide class struggle over the past 150 years, some of these militant workers, farmers, and youth will conclude that they need to join a party that can help forge a revolutionary leadership of working people. Such a movement is needed to lead tens of millions in a revolutionary struggle to displace the capitalists from power, establish a government of their own, overturn the dog-eat-dog system of capitalism, and begin construction of a socialist society in collaboration with workers and farmers the world over.

That course is the only way out of the horrors that are bred and reproduced by capitalism and the devastation unleashed by the drive of the U.S. ruling class and their imperialist allies, who will go to any extent to salvage their outmoded profit system.
 
 
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