Vol. 74/No. 18      May 10, 2010

London
Most of the sales of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power have been through tables set up Saturdays in working-class shopping areas here, as the Communist League election campaign hits the streets, reports ólöf Andra Proppé. Last Saturday, six copies of the book were sold along with eight Militant subscriptions.

Ahmed Kiar, a health-care worker originally from Eritrea, is among the dozens who have picked up a book and subscription at one of these tables. At a program sponsored by supporters of the Militant, Kiar described the title as a “must buy” book. He pointed to a quote by Malcolm X of the coming clash “between those who want freedom, justice, and equality and those who want to continue the system of exploitation.” He has since sold a copy of the book to a coworker and has joined in campaigning for the Communist League candidates.

—Jonathan Silberman

Miami
“When Malcolm was alive he was presented as a loose cannon,” said Emmanuel Watson, a member of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) in Fort Lauderdale. “From what I’ve read so far this book helps enlighten people about what he was really all about. I’m looking forward to reading the rest.”

Watson is one of 11 members of the ILA there who in the past six weeks have purchased copies of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power. Seven of them purchased Militant subscriptions along with the book. An additional four subscriptions have been sold to workers there.

In addition to sales at the ILA hall, five people attending a meeting to free the Cuban Five, Cuban revolutionaries unjustly incarcerated in U.S. jails for more than 11 years, bought the Spanish edition of the book. Two of them also got subscriptions. After getting back in touch with four people Militant supporters had met recently, they each purchased the book and a subscription.

—Ernest Mailhot and Deborah Liatos

Nebraska
Militant supporters from Des Moines, Iowa, recently visited Fremont and Omaha, Nebraska, to discuss with working people their views on a ballot initiative approved by the State Supreme Court that starting this summer will prohibit renting apartments to immigrants who don’t have work papers. In Fremont, supporters went door to door in two trailer parks, one near the large unionized Hormel meatpacking plant, and sold one Workers Power book in Spanish and five Militant subscriptions.

In discussions with workers by a Family Dollar store in Omaha’s Black community, two copies of the new book along with Militant subscriptions were sold. One retired Black worker said there should be a monument at Malcolm X’s birthplace a few blocks away.

—Maggie Trowe
 
 
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