NEW YORK—Steve Clark, a member of the Socialist Workers Party National Committee, speaks April 14 at a Militant Labor Forum here on “Our Politics Start with the World: Resistance to Capitalist Crisis Opens Prospects to Advance Revolutionary Perspective for Working-Class Power.” Some 75 people attended.

Behind him are two displays produced by the local party branch used to track their weekly progress selling subscriptions to the Militant as well as two books on special sale as part of the spring subscription campaign. (See article and ad on front page.)

Forum participants donated $975 and pledged an additional $7,205 to the Militant Fighting Fund, an annual drive used to finance the working-class newsweekly.

The meeting was also part of a Supporters Monthly Appeal tour in the New York/New Jersey area. Through the appeal more than 470 people across North America make regular monthly financial contributions to the political work of the Socialist Workers Party. The tour was part of an effort to increase to $750,000 the yearly total contributions to the appeal by the party’s June convention.

—NANCY BOYASKO