The 8,000 coal miners on strike in Kazakhstan to demand safety on the job need and deserve the active solidarity of working people and the labor movement the world over. One of the most effective ways to do that is to spread the facts about their struggle. Getting the Militant around and signing up as many people as possible to subscribe will go a long way in accomplishing that.

The workers in Kazakhstan are setting an example for all those working for a living, including miners in the United States and other countries facing similar unsafe conditions due to the bosses’ insatiable profit greed. Let’s give these workers a hand by spreading their story in your workplace, neighborhood, or school.

Many readers have sent in notes describing how they are already doing such work effectively. Here’s a few examples.

Manuel Sánchez, a building maintenance worker, and Militant correspondent Róger Calero reported the following from New York: “On Saturday evening, September 23, a reader of the paper who recently renewed her subscription helped us introduce the Militant to her relatives and other neighbors in the apartment building in the Bronx where she lives. Ten people subscribed that night, and three more paid up the next morning. Eleven signed up for the first time and two renewed.

“’It’s not fair what they are doing to these workers,’ said Candida Torres, after she heard of the news on the front page of last week’s issue about town officials in Mamaroneck, New York, closing a site there where day laborers would wait to get jobs. ‘What are these people supposed to do if they can’t look for work? she asked.

“’I want to support the cause,’ said another worker who subscribed that night after she heard Manuel’s explanation of the struggle to legalize all immigrants. After that exchange, a relative of Torres who works in a garment shop in the area said she wanted to talk about organizing a union in her workplace.”

Jacquie Henderson, a garment worker in Houston, sent this note September 25: “A meat packer took a sub blank from me at the entrance to the plant where he works. Today he brought it filled in to renew his subscription, giving the money to a supporter of the Militant who also works there. He said he enjoyed reading the paper. This is in addition to three workers at the Tyson packing plant who subscribed last week as a result of a radio interview on a Spanish-language program with Amanda Ulman and Steve Warshell, Socialist Workers candidates for U.S. Senate and governor of Texas, respectively.” Ulman works at Tyson.

Militant supporter Mary Smith reported this from Toronto September 24: “Today I helped staff a booth at a book fair here called ‘Word on the Street.’ We displayed books on revolutionary working-class politics published by Pathfinder Press and the Militant. We sold 16 subscriptions and $580 worth of books.

“Many of the new readers took advantage of the specials offered with the sub, buying six copies of the book Cuba and the Coming American Revolution for only $5 and the pamphlet The Working Class and the Transformation of Learning: The Myth of ‘Education Reform’ Under Capitalism for just $1.”

Join in! To order a bundle contact the Militant directly (see information) or distributors near you (see directory).

Sincerely,
Argiris Malapanis, Editor
 
 
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