Vol. 72/No. 15      April 14, 2008

A highlight of the sales effort this week were actions by truck drivers to protest the rising cost of fuel, insurance, and maintenance. Forty-five truckers subscribed to the Militant and another 31 bought single copies at an April 1 action of 300 in New Jersey. Five of the truckers who subscribed picked up Cuba and the Coming American Revolution, which is available at half price, $5, with a subscription.

“Supporters of Socialist Workers Party campaigns, including Sara Lobman, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey and Dan Fein, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress in New York’s 10th District, distributed a statement in support of the truckers,” wrote Amy Husk, a medical equipment assembly worker from Newark. The organizers of the action invited Fein to address the rally and encouraged truckers present to pick up the Militant, which was telling the truth about their struggle.

The subscription effort has also gotten a boost from new readers joining the campaign. “A recent Militant subscriber who met supporters of the Socialist Workers Party campaign at a plant gate at the Cargill meatpacking plant in Beardstown, Illinois, joined a door-to-door team in Springfield to sell subscriptions,” wrote Laura Anderson from Chicago. Supporters of the paper from that city also went to Detroit this week to offer solidarity to striking auto workers at the American Axle plant there, and to Boiling Brook, Illinois, where they campaigned among independent owner-operators.

To get involved, contact local distributors near you listed on page 8.

2008 Spring 'Militant' Subscription Drive, Week 1 of 8