Vol. 76/No. 21 May 28, 2012
Los Angeles increased its local quota by 10. We need other areas to follow this example to close the 37-subscription gap between the combined local quotas and the international goal.
“The Militant is a real good paper. I see it gets around. I’ve been reading about the sugar workers’ fight. You cover a lot of places,” said Barbara McFadden, a nurse assistant and member of Service Employees International Union Local 1199 at the West River Health Care Center in Milford, Conn.
McFadden was one of 100 workers locked out Dec. 13 by West River in an attempt to impose a concession contract. They returned to work April 4 under the old contract while the two sides resume negotiations. The 1,300 sugar workers McFadden referred to have been fighting a similar lockout by American Crystal Sugar in the Upper Midwest since Aug. 1.
McFadden met with Deborah Liatos and Susan Lamont from the Socialist Workers Party in New York. They went to Milford to talk with workers at West River who had bought subscriptions during the lockout.
McFadden renewed her subscription and bought a copy of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, one of two books offered at reduced price during the subscription campaign. (See ad on age 8.)
“Montreal had its best week in the drive so far, selling 19 subscriptions,” writes John Steele. Communist League members going door to door in working-class neighborhoods sold six of them.
“Of the 12 subscriptions SWP members sold in Seattle this week,” writes John Naubert, “one was off a Socialist Workers election campaign table in a Black neighborhood to Cy Hagos, an activist in the Eritrean community. “I am following American politics,” said Hagos. “The system is for the capitalists, not for us. We have to stop dealing with the symptom.”
Related articles:
James P. Cannon on getting ‘Militant’ into workers’ hands
Spring 'Militant' subscription campaign April 14 – June 10 (week 4) (chart)
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