Seventy-nine copies of the two magazines—published in English, Spanish, and now the first of the two in French—were sold in week 17. An average of 259 copies per week need to be sold over the next month to meet the international target.

As we go to press, socialists have begun selling the Militant and New International at auto plants in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina. This is part of the effort to join with workers resisting the attempt of the auto barons to bust the United Auto Workers union.

“The team just got back from selling outside the big Honda assembly plant in Lincoln, Alabama,” Susan Lamont, an organizer of the effort, wrote July 26, the first day of a weeklong effort. “This is the first time that we’ve sold at that plant gate. We set up at one of the entrances to the plant and at a nearby gas station.

“One worker, after hearing that the Militant supports unions, said, ‘The way they treat us, we need one,’ as he picked up a copy of the paper,” Lamont said. “The Lincoln police stopped the team from selling after an hour, but not before we had sold a dozen papers.”

An earlier campaigning effort to the Midwest meatpacking region has continued to bear fruit. Joe Swanson reports that five of the new issues of New International and three Militant subscriptions were sold during follow-up visits to Storm Lake and Marshalltown, Iowa.

“A number of workers had asked us to come back when they had money to pick up a copy of the NI and to get the paper,” Swanson said. “During the visit to Marshalltown we had a number of discussions on the importance of workers in the United States unifying with workers internationally. In Storm Lake, where a union-organizing campaign failed to win the necessary votes last year at the large Tyson hog slaughterhouse, workers were again discussing fighting to bring the union in.”  
 
 
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