Vol. 72/No. 43      November 3, 2008

The special effort is part of an eight-week campaign to win 2,400 Militant readers by November 23.

In the United States, most areas are significantly behind on their sales quotas. Organizing every day during the 11-day push to take advantage of the steeply discounted subscription is necessary to win new readers and get back on schedule. Interest in the Socialist Workers Party candidates leading up to the U.S. elections presents new opportunities to do this.

Discussions around the worldwide financial crisis also spark interest in subscribing, because the Militant is the only paper that explains what is happening from a working-class perspective.

Houston Militant distributors traveled six hours to the Rio Grande Valley with Róger Calero, SWP candidate for U.S. president, October 14-15. Calero spoke to classes and meetings at South Texas College in McAllen and the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg and participated in campaign tables along with Steve Warshell, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from Houston’s 18th district. They sold 21 subscriptions to students during the two-day team.

Over the next week and a half, Jacquie Henderson reports from Houston, campaigners will be traveling to New Orleans with Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for vice president, setting up tables at the University of North Texas in Denton, visiting meat packers in east Texas, and campaigning among workers and students in Houston.

In New Zealand, Communist League parliamentary candidates Annalucia Vermunt and Patrick Brown are promoting the Militant and New International no. 14 magazine on their campaign tables, reports Janet Roth.

“Vermunt participated in events organized in Ruatoki to commemorate the anniversary of commando-style police raids on the Maori community Oct. 15, 2007,” says Roth. The raids were mounted on the pretext of fighting terrorism. During the commemoration Vermunt and supporters sold four subscriptions to the Militant.

In cities where supporters are behind schedule, they are mapping out plans to get current. Daily teams during the 11-day period in New York will include soapboxing with socialist candidates in working-class communities, campus tables, door-to-door teams, and campaign events. Seth Galinsky reports they have adopted a goal of 134 subscriptions to get on schedule.

Those who subscribe to the paper can purchase a copy of New International no. 14, featuring the articles “The Clintons’ Antilabor Legacy: Roots of the 2008 World Financial Crisis” and “Revolution, Internationalism, and Socialism: The Last Year of Malcolm X,” for only $10. To date, more than 75 copies of the magazine have been reported sold.

You can join the effort to get out the Militant during this special campaigning. Sign up your friends, coworkers, fellow students, and neighbors. For only $3 during this week they can read the socialist newsweekly that tells the truth about the struggles of workers and toilers around the world and presents a fighting perspective for those seeking to resist the offensive by the bosses and their governments as they attempt to make us pay for their financial crisis. Contact a distributor listed on page 8 to find out more.

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