“We stopped at a trailer park near the Perdue plant in Georgetown, Delaware, where a number of the workers live,” said Janice Lynn, from Washington D.C. “They are trying to bring the union into this plant, which has a workforce of 1,000.

“During our visit, seven signed up for subscriptions: five to Perspectiva Mundial and two to the Militant,” Lynn said. “One new subscriber, originally from Haiti, told us he was a strong supporter of the union-organizing campaign. He bought the French-language editions of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by Jack Barnes and Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara. A junior high school student whose mother subscribed to Perspectiva Mundial told us she had heard about the women’s rights march on Washington April 25 at her school and was hoping to attend.”

Special sales efforts like these have brought in nearly 1,000 subscriptions to the Militant and more than 250 to the Spanish-language monthly socialist magazine in the first half of the eight-week international subscription drive. (See chart linked below.)

Partisans of the socialist press are gearing up for an all-out effort to get socialist books, pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers into the hands of the hundreds of thousands who will march on April 25 in Washington, D.C., to defend a woman’s right to choose abortion. In planning meetings, at protests, and at Militant Labor Forums many who are building for this march have responded enthusiastically to the books and pamphlets offered in the April 25 March on Washington Pathfinder Supersaver Sale.

At an April 16 forum on the fight to defend abortion rights in Houston, two panelists—Alicia Nuzzie, an organizer for the National Abortion Rights Action League, and Leigh Fernandez, who is organizing a support rally in Houston for the April 25 national abortion rights action—bought Militant subscriptions and 10 Pathfinder books and pamphlets between them. “Of all the books I purchased I’m most interested in reading Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women, followed by the Communist Manifesto,” said Fernandez. “To Speak the Truth is a gift for a friend of mine and he’s very excited about reading this,” she added.

Houston campaigners regularly set up a literature table at Prairie View A&M University, one of the state’s oldest Black colleges, located about 40 miles northwest of Houston. Dozens of students there have bought books or signed up to receive the Militant.

Special visits and phone calls to readers about renewing their subscriptions have accounted for nearly one-third of the subs sold so far in Houston, along with dozens of books, said Jacquie Henderson.

One of these renewals came from oil worker B.J. Case, who said she hasn’t received the paper for several years. “I remember how the Militant stood by us when we were locked out by Crown Petroleum,” she told Henderson. “With what is happening in the world now I think I need to get it again.”

After reading a couple of issues of her six-month subscription, Case purchased Capitalism’s World Disorder, The Changing Face of U.S. Politics, and Cuba and the Coming American Revolution—all by Jack Barnes, and all chosen from the Supersaver Sale advertisement, published as a supplement to the Militant—along with Palestine and the Arabs’ Fight for Liberation by Fred Feldman and Georges Sayad. She also made a welcome contribution towards the Militant/Perspectiva Mundial international fund drive.

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