Join us in expanding the reach of the Militant !
The Socialist Workers Party is launching an eight-week campaign to increase the readership of the Militant and widely introduce books by SWP and other revolutionary leaders that present the program, continuity and activities of the party and its 2024 candidates. The campaign will include the annual effort to raise $165,000 to help cover the costs of producing and distributing the paper.
The Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the U.K. will join in this effort. You should too!
Alongside Moscow’s murderous invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Hamas’ Tehran-backed Oct. 7 pogrom killing 1,200 Jews in Israel marks a watershed in world politics. The world will never go back to the way it was before Oct. 7.
The week-by-week coverage in the Militant on the importance of fighting Jew-hatred, and its steadfast backing for the fight by Ukrainians against Putin’s war, is essential for working people looking to find a way forward. So too is the defense of constitutional freedoms that protect the political space workers need to fight the attacks of the bosses and their government. No other paper provides the facts, and explains the stakes for working people around the world.
The March 9 to May 7 spring campaign to sell 1,350 Militant subscriptions, 1,350 books and raise the $165,000 for the paper is up and running. Fifteen Pathfinder books are being offered at a substantial discount with a subscription to the Militant.
These include the latest Pathfinder book, Che Guevara on Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism by Cuban revolutionary Carlos Tablada. Guevara, a central leader of the Cuban Revolution, joined Fidel Castro in laying the economic and political foundations of this historic transformation, efforts that were hammered out in revolutionary struggle. They chart a road for working people everywhere to join in the fight for a socialist world. And, to transform ourselves and millions of others in the process.
During the eight-week campaign, all other Pathfinder titles will be offered at a 20% discount.
The spring campaign will go hand in hand with the Socialist Workers Party election campaigns of Rachele Fruit for president and Margaret Trowe for vice president, along with candidates running for U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in states across the country. The Communist Leagues are also fielding candidates this spring.
These election campaigns offer a working-class program to take on the exploitation, oppression and wars endemic to capitalism and point a road toward breaking with the parties of the ruling rich. For workers in our millions to chart a course to take political power into our own hands, end capitalist exploitation and join the fight for a socialist world.
The 2024 campaigns come at a time when more workers are turning to our unions to unite the working class in the fight to make progress. On picket lines, at union meetings and solidarity rallies, and on workers’ doorsteps we will take the Militant and books to be part of the broadening political discussions taking place today.
The party and its candidates will lead the fight against the assaults on democratic rights led by the Democratic Party. The SWP will get our candidates on as many state ballots as possible and have already begun collecting signatures for ballot status in New Jersey. We invite all readers to join us in these efforts.
Party supporters will take the campaign to working people in cities, towns and countryside alike. We invite Militant readers to participate — introduce the paper and books to your co-workers, members of your unions, neighbors and others you discuss politics with. Join with SWP members and candidates in campaigning.
We encourage all Militant readers to join in. To help, please see the directory and contact the party branch or Communist League nearest you.
John Studer
Militant Editor