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Vol. 72/No. 49      December 15, 2008

 
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Militant supporters at November 21 Florida rally for protected status for Haitians.

BY ANGEL LARISCY  
Congratulations to supporters of the Militant around the world who sold 2,374 subscriptions to the paper in the past two months!

Over the previous week partisans of the socialist newsweekly campaigned to make their quotas in a variety of ways. In Atlanta, distributors of the Militant fanned out in working-class communities to sell door-to-door on the final day of the drive, winning 14 new subscribers, reports Rachele Fruit. In Chicago, Betsy Farley says seven subscriptions were sold there to taxicab drivers on a 24-hour strike.

Even though they had already surpassed their goal, supporters of the socialist press in San Francisco decided to maximize the number of subscriptions they could get and as a result landed at the top of the chart. “We sent a team to a supermarket in Vallejo November 29. This is the third time we’ve gone to this spot during the sales drive and we’ve always done well,” wrote Carole Lesnick. “This is a city that has declared bankruptcy and has had well-publicized ICE raids. The team sold 10 subs toward the international goal.”

A young woman from Brooklyn who first subscribed to the paper in August sent in for a renewal and wrote, “I love the Militant!” She later called the paper’s offices asking if someone could come visit her for further discussion and bring revolutionary literature on Cuba and Black rights.

Over the course of the subscription campaign 238 people also decided to purchase New International no. 14 or Nueva Internacional no. 8. The magazine of Marxist politics and theory contains the articles: “Revolution, Internationalism, and Socialism: The Last Year of Malcolm X”; “The Clintons’ Antilabor Legacy: Roots of the 2008 World Financial Crisis”; and “The Stewardship of Nature Also Falls to the Working Class: In Defense of Land and Labor.”

The response by workers and youth around the world to the socialist newsweekly shows the opportunity to expand the long-term readership of the paper. Over the coming weeks, Militant supporters will follow up with those who subscribed to make sure they are receiving the paper and see if they want to renew.

The Militant will be especially useful as it covers the 2009 Socialist Workers election campaigns in states and cities across the United States.

'Militant' fall 2008 subscription drive: final chart

 
 
 
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