We urge you to join supporters of the Militant around the world to expand the paper’s subscription base. That includes selling at least a couple thousand introductory subscriptions and convincing hundreds of readers whose subs have expired to renew.

The Militant’s fall subscription drive starts September 9. It will last for eight weeks, ending November 7.

You can be part of making it a success!

A central task of the circulation campaign is to expand and maintain the Militant’s subscription base within the working class and labor movement. This includes talking to co-workers about renewing their subscriptions or convincing others on the job to sign up for the first time; reaching out to meat packers, garment workers, coal miners, and other working people by their workplaces; going door-to-door or approaching people at street corners in working-class neighborhoods, including Black communities; promoting the Militant at political events, including at meetings such as the September 9 forum in San Francisco hosted by the Chinese Historical Society of America on the book Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution (see description of event in article on page 6); and widely circulating the paper at social protest actions like the ongoing rallies for immigrant rights.

We are off to a good start.

“Militant supporters took part in a march and rally of 200 for immigrant rights here on Labor Day,” said Sara Lobman, a garment worker in Newark, New Jersey. “Altogether we sold 14 Militant subscriptions, 61 copies, and 13 books on revolutionary, working-class politics. Two of the new subscribers are people we work with in the New Jersey Immigrant Rights coalition. Another is one of my co-workers at a UNITE-organized shop.”

We’ve begun to receive similar notes from other cities. Please send such reports to the Militant by every Monday night.

Over the last week, before the start of the circulation campaign, nearly 130 people signed up for introductory subscriptions and more than 30 renewed.

The work this fall can build on the expansion of the paper’s circulation, which doubled over the last year, a sign of the Militant’s increased political weight. Where battles between labor and capital have been joined in recent years—from the western coalfields to Kentucky and from meatpacking plants in the Midwest to copper mines in Arizona—significant layers of workers know about the Militant. They recognize it not only as a paper that tells the truth about their struggles but makes it possible for them to learn about fights by other working people in North America and around the world, and thus be armed to help advance all these workers’ efforts to resist the bosses’ antilabor offensive. Some help supporters of the paper to get the Militant and other socialist material into the hands of other working people.

To take advantage of this reality, Militant supporters this fall will be offering at special prices along with any subscription—new or renewal—the following books and pamphlets: Cuba and the Coming American Revolution for $5 and The Working Class and the Transformation of Learning: The Myth of Education Reform Under Capitalism for $1, both by Socialist Workers Party national secretary Jack Barnes; and the last two issues of the Marxist magazine New International at $25 for both.

Helps us get the paper around. If you don’t already get a bundle you can order one at 70 cents per copy by contacting the Militant directly (see information on page 2). Or you can be part of sales teams other distributors near you organize (see directory).

Join the effort!

Sincerely,
Argiris Malapanis, Editor  
 
 
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