Vol. 71/No. 44      November 26, 2007

There is a tie for top sub seller this week. Deborah Liatos and Bernie Senter, both from Miami, each sold 12 subs. This was a big week for Miami partisans of the Militant, who took part in the Miami Book Fair International, where they sold 31 subscriptions and 131 books on revolutionary politics.

Ellen Brickley reports that their biggest selling title at the fair was The Communist Manifesto, with 12 copies sold. Also popular was Pathfinder’s newly released Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87. The French edition of the book was also sold at the booth of Libreri Mapou, a Haitian bookstore. Pathfinder supporters also did a presentation on the book at the Francophone Pavilion.

Chicago campaigners sold five subscriptions and $250 in books and pamphlets at the Latino Book and Family Festival, including three copies of the new edition of Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle and two of We Are the Heirs of the World’s Revolutions, both by Thomas Sankara.

Nine subscriptions were sold by a team in Seattle that attended a Northwest Women of Color and Allies conference in Tacoma, Washington. The event was sponsored by the National Organization for Women and hosted by the Korean Women’s Association.

New Militant subbers have been an important part of the drive. This past week in New York a Hunter College student active in the fight against police brutality requested subscription blanks so he could help sign up new readers. He came back with four new subscriptions from friends in his neighborhood.

Participants in a U.S.-Canada conference held in Toronto to win freedom for the Cuban Five bought 14 subscriptions to the Militant. Twelve of those also took advantage of a special discount offer for the new edition of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution when purchased with a Militant subscription.

Click here to see the 'Militant' subscription drive chart