The Militant is appealing to our readers to help get the paper around — to use it to build solidarity with the national oil workers strike, join in the fight to defend the Cuban Revolution and to share invaluable analysis of the big questions facing working people in the world today.

Since the oil strike began Feb. 1, readers from Houston report 19 oil workers there have subscribed and nearly 90 single copies of the Militant have been sold at picket lines and rallies in Texas.

Militant supporters talked to workers during shift changes at the Phillips 66 refinery in Linden, New Jersey, Feb. 26 and 28, and sold 25 papers to members of the Teamsters, Laborers and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, as well as contract workers who aren’t in unions. Ed Nodes, 57, an electrician, liked the article about Walmart raising wages as a result of a growing movement for $15 and a union. “I think everyone should be in the union and get good wages,” he said.