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Vol. 71/No. 46      December 10, 2007

 
Revolutionary books are popular in Caracas
 
CARACAS, Venezuela—Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by Jack Barnes was the best-selling title at the Pathfinder stand during the Third Venezuela International Book Fair, with 139 copies in Spanish and 11 in English.

Malcolm X Talks to Young People in Spanish was the second-highest seller, with 114 copies. Books by Thomas Sankara, leader of the 1983-87 revolution in the West African country of Burkina Faso, were also popular. Seventy-three copies of We Are the Heirs of the World’s Revolutions and 70 of Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle were sold in English, Spanish, and French.

Other top sellers included The Working Class and the Transformation of Learning by Jack Barnes, The First and Second Declarations of Havana, and issues 6 and 7 of the Spanish-language New International, a magazine of Marxist politics and theory.

In all, 1,057 Pathfinder books were sold at the 10-day event—about 250 more books than last year. This was the fourth year in a row that the U.S.-based publisher has participated in a book fair in Caracas.

—OLYMPIA NEWTON

 
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