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Vol. 78/No. 16      April 28, 2014

 
Pledges to Militant Fighting
Fund go over $115,000 goal
 
BY LEA SHERMAN  
So far the Militant Fighting Fund’s appeal to raise $115,000 for the working-class paper has already yielded more than $117,000 in pledges from its supporters worldwide. The seven-week drive runs from April 5-May 27, starting concurrent with the campaign to sell 1,800 subscriptions to the socialist press.

More than $6,700 was pledged at an April 11 Militant Labor Forum in New York featuring a talk by John Studer who recently returned from the Militant’s reporting trip to Ukraine, said Deborah Liatos, director of the local fund effort.

Since January of this year, worker-correspondents have covered class struggle developments in Ukraine, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Mali, Cuba and Lebanon. These reporting trips along with the daily operating expenses of publishing a weekly paper, shipped to distributors and subscribers all over the world, are funded by contributions from our readers.

Unlike the big-business press funded by commodity advertising and written in the interests of the bosses under the banner of “impartial” reporting, the Militant proudly proclaims in its masthead to be a “socialist newsweekly published in the interests of working people.”

As supporters of the paper sell subscriptions to new readers, they will also be collecting donations for the Militant Prisoners Fund, which helps cover the cost of the paper’s growing base of subsidized subscriptions among workers behind bars.

“Thank you for the opportunity to know the hardships of others and to be free of this cell,” wrote a prisoner from Florida. “Even if its only a spiritual journey, my heart is compelled to great depths of compassion for those all over he world. Keep up the good fight! … Please renew my subscription. A prisoner in need of free expression! Truth and the voice that can’t be hushed by oppression!”

To contribute to the Fighting Fund, contact distributors listed on page 8 or send a check or money order to “The Militant,” 306 W. 37th St., 13th Floor, New York, NY 10018.
 
 
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