DETROIT—At the U.S. Social Forum held here, Socialist Workers Party candidates and their supporters talked to hundreds of youth and working people at workshops and at the SWP campaign table. Participants bought 142 Pathfinder titles, including 61 copies of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes. Fifty-two Militant subscriptions were also sold.

At a workshop on Haiti, one of the panelists recommended the writings of Thomas Sankara, a leader of the revolution in the 1980s in Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa. “Unfortunately, you have to read it in French,” she said. Sara Lobman, a campaign supporter from New York, told the workshop that speeches by Sankara are also available in English and held up a copy of Sankara’s We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions. The panelist asked her to pass it around.

Many ex-prisoners expressed gratitude for the Militant and Pathfinder books. One person, who recounted how he led a hunger strike at a prison, pointed to several Pathfinder titles he had read while incarcerated. Another gave a $5 donation to the Militant Prisoner’s Fund.

—ALYSON KENNEDY