Vol. 72/No. 39      October 6, 2008

In addition, anyone who subscribes or renews during the drive can purchase a copy of New International magazine no. 14 for just $10, a substantial savings from the $14 cover price.

The first issue of the Militant rolled off the presses dated Nov. 15, 1928, 80 years ago, and has covered the struggles of working people around the world ever since.

As the current world financial crisis unfolds, partisans of the socialist newsweekly are finding interest among workers and youth in reading articles that start with the interests of working people in explaining key political and economic events.

Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president Alyson Kennedy visited the picket line at the Stella D’oro Biscuit factory in Bronx, New York, September 17 to talk to strikers. In the course of discussions two striking workers bought subscriptions.

A taxi driver taking Kennedy to her next speaking engagement wouldn’t take her fare after finding out about the Socialist Workers Party platform that calls for legalizing immigrants and shortening the workweek with no cut in pay. He also bought a subscription to the Militant and asked to be kept informed of campaign events.

Mary Martin of Seattle reports that “supporters of the Socialist Workers campaign in Washington State attended a protest of 150 people in Port Angeles, Washington, on September 20 that was called to protest the ‘anti-terrorist’ Border Patrol checkpoints set up on the Olympic Peninsula. A dozen immigrant workers have been arrested for alleged lack of documents.” Three subscriptions were sold to the Militant at this protest.

The discount on New International no. 14 is timely. The lead article, “The Clintons’ antilabor legacy: Roots of the 2008 world financial crisis,” explains how the Clinton administration “consolidated an anti-working-class shift in Democratic Party domestic policy that increased the political convergence of the two leading parties of the employing class. The most important elements of domestic and foreign policy alike widely attributed today to the Bush administration had their origin during the Clinton-Gingrich-Rubin years.”

The article also takes up how laws signed by Clinton accelerated and magnified the results of the workings of the laws of capital.

The New International also includes the article “Revolution, internationalism, and socialism: The last year of Malcolm X,” and “The stewardship of nature also falls to the working class: In defense of land and labor.”

Partisans of the Militant will go door-to-door in working class communities and in college dormitories, set up street tables, and sell subscriptions and copies of New International at factory gates, immigrant rights and Black rights demonstrations, and at a wide variety of political events. They will also set up meetings with current subscribers to talk to them about renewing and becoming long-term subscribers of the paper.

If you would like to help out with this effort, please contact one of our distributors listed on page 10. For your area to be included on the scoreboard, please get subscriptions into our office by Monday evening each week.
 
 
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