The Militant - November 9, 2009 -- ‘Militant’ to print supplement on Black struggle in Spanish

Vol. 73/No. 43 November 9, 2009

‘Militant’ to print supplement
on Black struggle in Spanish

BY NORTON SANDLER
Militant distributors will want to begin now to map out plans for using the Spanish-language version of the paper’s special supplement containing the introduction to the forthcoming Pathfinder book Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes. The supplement will be printed in Spanish in the issue of the Militant that comes off the press November 5.

Barnes is the Socialist Workers Party national secretary and author of several Pathfinder titles and feature articles in New International magazine.

The Spanish-language supplement, like the one in English that is being widely used now by our distributors, will contain an impressive selection of photos from the new book.

To take full advantage of both the English and Spanish supplements, the Militant has extended its fall subscription drive by one week. The drive now ends November 17. The extension will allow distributors of the Militant to build on the many successes registered in the current drive.

Using the supplement on street tables, on door-to-door sales in working-class neighborhoods, and on the job is helping to win new readers. In both Chicago and New York, seven subscribers to the paper have already preordered copies of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power, at the special pre-publication price of $10 for subscribers. In Chicago, in the first two days of the Militant’s special target week, distributors sold 15 subscriptions—13 of them in that city’s South Side Black community.

In many areas of the country supporters of the paper who work in industry are winning new readers. So far this drive 24 new readers have been signed up in United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789 in South St. Paul, Minnesota. That local organizes the Dakota Premium Foods meatpacking plant and butchers and clerks in area grocery stores. At the JBS Swift packing plant in Marshalltown, Iowa, supporters of the Militant have sold 10 subscriptions to coworkers and raised their goal for the drive to 15.

Across the country socialist workers and young socialists are selling the press regularly at college campuses. This has been a boon to the current subscription campaign. Twelve subscribers have been won during this drive at the Dominguez Hills campus of California State University. In New York, 17 subscriptions have been sold over the past four weeks on regular Friday afternoon sales to students at Hunter College, Borough of Manhattan Community College, and City College of New York.

Reporting from London, distributor Jonathan Silberman said that 14 new subscribers signed up at the youthful October 24 protest in that city against the Iraq and Afghanistan war.

'Militant' subscription drive: Week 6 (chart)

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