Vol. 78/No. 15      April 21, 2014

Through a concentrated effort between September and February volunteers in the U.S. and Canada in 15 cities logged 121 book orders, 36 to first-time Pathfinder customers — exceeding the goal of 105 orders.

Special emphasis was placed on winning professors to include Pathfinder books in their class syllabuses. Pathfinder books have recently been ordered for university classes in Seattle (Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution and February 1965: The Final Speeches), Los Angeles (The First and Second Declarations of Havana and Nelson Mandela Speaks) and Miami (Our History Is Still Being Written).

In December, following the death of Nelson Mandela, volunteers organized a special two-week push to get bookstores and libraries to order books on Mandela, including in his own words and about the revolution in South Africa he led. More than 20 such orders were made. The largest was an order from a national bookstore chain in Canada that included 50 copies each of Nelson Mandela Speaks and The Struggle Is My Life. A Civil Rights museum in North Carolina ordered 10 copies each of books on Mandela, as well as Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes and two books of Malcolm X’s speeches: Malcolm X Talks to Young People and February 1965: The Final Speeches. A number of orders were also placed for issue no. 5 of the Marxist magazine New International, which contains a feature article titled, “The Coming Revolution in South Africa.”

As volunteers gear up for another effort this spring, orders are already coming in for Pathfinder’s new books on defense of the Cuban Five: I Will Die the Way I’ve Lived and Voices From Prison: The Cuban Five. Volunteers in the Twin Cities helped bring in a large order for these and other titles from an art gallery that sponsored an exhibit of Antonio Guerrero’s “I Will Die the Way I’ve Lived” watercolor paintings.

Two other new titles are expected soon: Socialism on Trial and 50 Years of Covert Operations in the US, both in English and Spanish.

With the fall/winter effort completed, volunteers are sharing lessons from their recent work, setting goals for spring 2014 sales that is just underway, and reaching out with Pathfinder books that can help strengthen the class struggle unfolding around the world, from Cambodia to Ukraine, from Egypt to the United States.  
 
 
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