The fund drive will coincide with the Militant subscription drive (see article article in this issue). It starts the same weekend as the launching of the international campaign to sell the new issues of the Marxist magazine New International and the Spanish-language Nueva Internacional (see editorial).

The Militant is funded solely through the contributions of workers, farmers, and others who value the paper’s irreplaceable role in covering struggles by workers to organize unions and use union power to resist job speed up, weakening of safety provisions, cuts in wages and broader attacks by the wealthy rulers on the social wage. The paper also covers what’s behind the sharpening conflict between the main imperialist powers and the turn in Washington’s military policy and organization—the U.S. rulers’ most far-reaching shift since the late 1930s preparations for World War II. And it sends reporters around the world—from Cuba and Venezuela to the Middle East—to give first-hand accounts of struggles by working people for land, jobs, and national sovereignty, and in opposition to imperialist intervention and domination.

The $90,000 fund will be used to help cover rent, utilities, and printing and shipping costs for the Militant and Perspectiva Mundial. It will also help finance special reporting teams like the recent one at the 2005 Havana International Book Fair.

Because these expenses have to be paid weekly, regular payment of pledges is needed and requested from our readers.

To take advantage of increased opportunities to expand the Militant’s readership, the cost of the special offer for a 12-week introductory subscription was cut from $10 to $5 in the United States a year ago. Supporters of the Militant in other countries instituted similar rate reductions. In the last 12 months the average weekly circulation of the Militant in the United States increased to 1,550 subscribers from 1,050 during the same period in 2003-2004. The fund drive will help ensure that these subscription rates can be maintained.

As we go to press, supporters of the Militant from a dozen U.S. cities and from Sweden had sent in quotas they had adopted, which amounted to more than $50,000. Supporters from around the world are urged to do the same in the next few days. A chart with all local quotas and initial payments will be published next week.

Supporters of the Militant are encouraged to send in accounts of their progress each week that can be included in this column. Checks or money orders should be made out to The Militant, earmarked “Spring Fund Drive,” and sent to the Militant at 306 W. 37th Street, 10th floor, New York, NY 10018.
 
 
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