We urge you to contribute today to the Pathfinder Fund. This fund campaign has a goal of raising $105,000 through November 17 to ensure that Pathfinder continues expanding and reprinting its arsenal of books on revolutionary, working-class politics. Your contribution can help make the difference in reaching this goal.

The contributions are not simply for the future but are needed now. They have already been put to use in the publication of Pathfinder’s most recent title, October 1962: The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba, by Tomás Diez Acosta.

In the coming months Pathfinder will produce Spanish and French editions of The Changing Face of U.S. Politics by Jack Barnes; a new Spanish edition and an expanded English edition of Malcolm X Talks to Young People; a new issue of the Marxist magazine New International; The Assault on Moncada by Cuban author Mario Mencía, and other books.

In these and other Pathfinder titles working people and youth find explanations about the world capitalism has made, and the needed lessons on how to transform it. Repelled by the brutality of capitalist exploitation, oppression, and the drive to war that is built into the imperialist system, they will want to read about working-class battles waged in the past and today. That accurate history and those lessons are found in Pathfinder’s nearly 400 titles.

In addition to longtime loyal readers of Pathfinder who are a bedrock of the Pathfinder Fund, campaigners for the fund are finding a much broader number of working people and youth who are discovering these books to be indispensable for them and who are interested in contributing to make them possible.

A group of meat packers and other workers in Detroit recently invited the Militant editor to a fund meeting and a rolling political discussion at the home of one of these unionists. The thirst for political ideas and the desire to be part of this revolutionary publishing effort that workers expressed at this gathering capture the potential that can be found in city after city. It underscores the fact that Pathfinder’s publishing program is funded not by industrialists, bankers, and their foundations, but by the everyday efforts of workers and farmers, something that partisans of Pathfinder are proud of. Now at the halfway mark, the fund drive has slipped behind. You can help turn this around by sending in your contribution today and campaigning to involve others in it to raise $105,000 by November 17.
 
 
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