Vol. 71/No. 45      December 3, 2007

With one more evening of campaigning left, we have already surpassed the international goal of 2,300. Nearly every local quota has been met or surpassed.

Kenneth Page, a supporter of the Militant in New York, was the top seller this week, with 16 subscriptions. Page, who works in the legal department of the Transport Workers Union Local 100, sold many of the subs to coworkers and friends.

“It’s amazing all the folks you talk to in the elevator, or on the street about all the problems in the world,” he said. “It was easy to convince many of them to get this paper.”

Seth Dellinger, a supporter of the paper in Washington, D.C., came in second with 12 subscriptions—half the subs sold by supporters of the paper in that city during the campaign’s final stretch.

Dellinger and fellow Militant supporter Tim Mailhot visited a mechanic who recently renewed. After some discussion, he bought the Spanish editions of four Pathfinder books: Cuba and the Coming American Revolution; The Working Class and the Transformation of Learning; The First and Second Declarations of Havana; and Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution. His son, a construction worker, took copies of the paper and subscription forms to show around to coworkers.

In Houston, partisans of the Militant combined campaigning with the paper with outstanding sales of Pathfinder books. In October, while they were building a meeting on campus to discuss Our History Is Still Being Written, they sold 89 Pathfinder titles, including many on the University of Houston campus. (See Militant #42 for a report on that meeting.)

“During the course of the drive, the federal Minister for Immigration announced a severe reduction in the intake of African refugees, claiming an ‘inability’ of Africans to adjust to the Australian lifestyle,” Militant supporter Manuele Lasalo reported from Sydney, Australia. Partisans of the paper there went over their goal. “We responded to these racist comments. On stalls and at work, our campaign got a response—selling seven Militant subscriptions together with five new books by Thomas Sankara and two Sankara pamphlets to African immigrants.”

In next week’s issue we will print the final chart and list the three top sub-sellers of the campaign.

Click here to see the 'Militant' subscription drive chart