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Vol. 76/No. 9      March 5, 2012

 
Drive expands long-term
readership of ‘Militant’
Communist workers build March 10 meeting in NY
  
BY LOUIS MARTIN  
At the end of the first week of a five-week campaign to increase the long-term readership of the Militant, 251 readers have renewed or signed up for long-term subscriptions, 50 percent of the international goal. The drive runs from Feb. 11 to March 18.

“Members of the Socialist Workers Party returned from Longview, Wash., today with a renewal in hand,” Clay Dennison told the Militant Feb. 21. Longview was the site of a six-month battle by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union against EGT Development’s attempt to shut it out of its grain terminal at the city’s port.

“We have been talking with several of the ILWU fighters there about attending the March 10 public meeting in New York.” (See article and ad on front page.)

Two other party members went to Olympia, Wash., and sold five subscriptions to port truckers who are part of a fight by 100 truckers for a union. The truckers also bought copies of Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs, Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, as well as Thomas Sankara Speaks.

The first two books are among five on special discount with a subscription (see ad on page 6).

“You guys are the only ones who talk about the fights,” said long-time reader Larry Ginter, a retired farmer in central Iowa, referring to the Militant’s coverage of workers’ resistance to the bosses’ onslaught. Ginter renewed his subscription when visited by two socialist workers from Des Moines, Iowa. He also bought a copy of the new book by Pathfinder Press, Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution. (See articles and talks on front page and center spread.)

From Sydney, Australia, Linda Harris writes that members of the Communist League there sold long-term subscriptions last week to a high school teacher and a Cuba solidarity activist. Each bought copies of The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution as well as The Cuban Five: Who they are, Why they were framed, Why they should be free, a collection of Militant articles on the case of five Cuban revolutionaries arrested in 1998 and imprisoned on frame-up charges by the U.S. government. The five had been gathering information in Florida on the activities of armed counterrevolutionary groups with a long history of violent attacks against the Cuban Revolution and its supporters.

“Both subscribers,” adds Harris, “were keen to get involved in an upcoming exhibition at an inner-city gallery of political cartoons of Gerardo Hernández,” one of the five Cuban revolutionaries who is serving a sentence of double life plus 15 years on false “conspiracy” charges.

Your reports, quotes and experiences on the subscription renewal drive in your area are essential for this weekly column. Send them by Tuesday, 8 a.m., EST.
 
 
Related articles:
‘Militant’ Renewal Drive Feb. 11-March 18 (week 1) (chart).  
 
 
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