We need 341 subscriptions to hit the target of 2,300 Militant subscribers. For PM, 105 subscriptions are needed to meet the 550-subscription goal.

By organizing to be on a daily campaign footing, maximizing the opportunities to find new readers, this challenging gap can be closed in the final week.

In Newark, socialist workers have sold 13 Militant subscriptions going door-to-door in the neighborhood where the Pathfinder book center is located. “We have had great success with door-to-door sales,” Angel Lariscy, a Newark campaigner, reported. “We decided before going out campaigning that we were going to focus on why the elections didn’t change the fundamental questions facing working people. We’ve gotten a very good response.”

Lariscy said that in one large apartment complex, three campaigners sold eight subscriptions to the Militant on the November 13-14 weekend. “We’ve started to get recognized a little more from the Socialist Workers Party election campaign,” she said. “At another table in downtown Newark the same day, we sold three subscriptions, one to a guy who had met us before and bought a single copy. A second person, who had already subscribed, came up to the table and bought a book.”

“These door-to-door sales have been a goldmine for us,” said Newark campaigner Nancy Rosenstock. “A young woman who works as a clerk answered the door at one building. She liked the idea of a working-class alternative to the capitalist parties in the elections. She especially liked what we had to say about workers’ need to use union power and to organize unions to resist the bosses’ attacks. She was home sick and her employer doesn’t provide health coverage, so she immediately identified with the points we made about the need to fight for universal health care. She signed up to subscribe and said she hoped to see us again.”

Newark campaigners have already gone over their local goal for the Militant. “Our focus now is on helping to make the international goal,” Lariscy said. “We want to see how many more we can get in the last weekend to help in this final push.”

In Sweden, supporters of the Militant have had good results so far as well, going two subscriptions over their goal of 30, with a week left in the effort.

“Throughout the campaign we’ve been setting up literature tables and doing street speaking on a range of topics, from the Cuban Revolution to the fight against Swedish imperialism’s domination of workers and farmers in the semicolonial world,” reported Adreas Bergerheim. “There’s been a big media campaign against Cuba recently, spearheaded by the leaders of the Liberal and Conservative parties. We’ve found a lot of interest in the Cuban Revolution on our tables. One person came up to us last week and said ‘Keep up the good work’ donating 50 Kroner (U.S. $8.00) to help.

“A high school student signed up to subscribe after meeting us at one of these campaign tables and since then has begun working with us to arrange a speaking engagement for Arrin Hawkins at her school this week,” he continued. Hawkins, the SWP vice-presidential candidate in the U.S. elections, arrived in Stockholm November 17 for a speaking tour in Sweden. Bergerheim added that socialists in Sweden have been doing systematic door-to-door campaigning, and this has been a factor in their success so far. “We have been knocking on doors in neighborhoods all over Stockholm,” he said. “In one building, which houses mostly university students, we sold three subscriptions in one afternoon.”

Hawkins is slated to speak at two high schools and one university during her visit, as well as join the socialists in talking to workers at the gate of a large beer brewery in Stockholm. She will also speak at a Militant Labor Forum in that city on November 20, before returning to the United States.

Carrying out this kind of political work around the world in the remaining six days can make all the difference in a successful conclusion of the sub drive.

All subscriptions that arrive at the Militant business office by 10 p.m. Eastern Time, on Tuesday, November 23, will be counted in the final scoreboard.

All out to make the goal!

Fall Militant/Perspectiva Mundial Fall Subscription Drive chart (week 11)