On April 8, as the massive outpouring for immigrant rights was getting under way in the United States, the Militant launched a seven-week circulation campaign and fund drive.

Join the effort to win at least 2,000 new readers by May 28 and raise $90,000 to help us continue reporting from the front lines of the class struggle!

Hundreds of workers and others subscribed to the Militant April 8-10 at the immigrant rights mobilizations (the total is not known yet since subs purchased then continued to come in as this issue went to press), giving the circulation effort momentum from the get-go.

Selling Militant subs is an integral part of efforts by supporters of the paper to help build an April 26 protest by farmers who are Black in Washington, D.C., walkouts and rallies for immigrant rights planned for May 1 across the United States, the May 20 marches in Washington and Los Angeles demanding “Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba,” and other work in the labor movement and beyond.

Many readers are asking for an in-depth explanation of what’s behind the momentous changes in world politics under way. That’s why, along with subscriptions, Militant supporters are selling the pamphlet The Working Class and the Transformation of Learning: The Fraud of Education Reform Under Capitalism and the book Cuba and the Coming American Revolution, both by Socialist Workers Party national secretary Jack Barnes, at the deeply discounted prices of $1 and $5, respectively. Other specials with a sub are $25 for the two most recent issues of the Marxist magazine New International and $15 for Our History Is Still Being Written (see ad on home page).

The $90,000 we are seeking to raise is needed to allow the paper to continue sending reporters around the world—from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela to every nook and cranny of the United States and other countries where workers are resisting the bosses’ onslaught. It’s also needed to meet other operational costs like rent, utilities, printing, shipping, and equipment maintenance. The big-business media is financed by its corporate sponsors, who lavish millions on ads in dailies and on commercials in radio stations and TV channels. But the Militant depends on people like you to keep publishing week after week.

To order a bundle, join sub sales teams, or donate to the fund drive, and to discuss how to involve others in these activities, contact us (see article in this issue), or approach our distributors nearest you (see directory). Glad to have you on board.

Sincerely,
Argiris Malapanis, Editor  
 
 
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