Vol. 76/No. 46      December 17, 2012

The Militant calls on readers to step up their efforts for the last two weeks of the paper’s nine-week subscription drive and fight for the international goal.

Distributors of the socialist newsweekly are getting the best response in decades from workers to the Militant and books on revolutionary working-class politics, which together make sense of the unfolding worldwide crisis of capitalism and chart a revolutionary fighting course to confront it.

The bosses and their government are reacting to the crisis by cutting job hours, wages and benefits of working people; and by jacking up productivity on the job as they simultaneously go after our rights, our unions and very dignity.

Resistance to these assaults remains episodic and limited in scope. But changing attitudes among a growing layer of workers is marked not by the outcome of these fights, but by a growing awareness of their interests as part of a class. And those directly engaged in struggles today more often than not come out with a stronger sense of working-class solidarity and determination to fight again, regardless of outcome.

Practically every issue of the paper provides evidence of this. This week includes a number of examples from the 19-month-long strike at Pioneer Flour and the 16-month fight by locked-out sugar workers to social struggles against police brutality from Chicago to Australia.

Working people in U.S. mines and factories today increasingly identify with and support battles by our class around the world covered in the paper—from fights to protect life and limb on the job like that being waged by garment workers in Bangladesh to struggles by toilers for political space to organize, from Egypt to Israel and the occupied territories.

Thinking workers today need the Militant. They need to understand what capitalism has in store for working people worldwide and what can be done about it. They need to know about the living example of workers power in Cuba and the fight against the frame-up and ongoing imprisonment of the Cuban Five by Washington.

Thinking workers today also need access to the lessons from past revolutionary struggles around the world in order to fight effectively, prepare for the big class battles to come and to build a revolutionary movement that can wrest political power from the capitalist exploiters. This is where the Militant’s promotion of the four books on special helps strengthen the paper’s striking power.

Join a concerted and collective effort over the next two weeks to distribute these powerful weapons far and wide.
 
 
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