BY MEGAN ARNEY
After taking a dip in the number of subscriptions sent into the Militant this week, supporters of the socialist press are aiming to shoot for high numbers of Militant and Perspectiva Mundial subscriptions, as well as selling the Marxist magazine New International and Pathfinder literature during a target week set for Saturday, April 5, through Sunday, April 13. Goals for the international subscription drive are to sell 1,400 Militant subscriptions, 450 Perspectiva Mundial subs, and 600 copies of New International by April 26.

Reports have come into the Militant laying out battle plans for stepping up efforts to get communist ideas into the hands of workers and youth. This week, the Militant adds another city to those taking goals for the international campaign. "We've taken goals of 10 Militant subs, 2 PM and 6 New Internationals," explained Alaric Dirmeyer, a YS member from Spokane, Washington.

"We're organizing our target week here by setting up street tables and going door- to-door in teams in working- class neighborhood on Saturday, April 5," writes Heidi Rose from Toronto. "The highlight of this weekend's kickoff will be the April 6 eyewitness report on Albania, featuring Militant staff writer Argiris Malapanis. A few hours prior to the forum, we will be participating in a demonstration against the cuts to education that will take place at Queens Park.

"The following week we will get back to people who bought one issue, who want us to call them after they've had a chance to read the Militant or Perspectiva Mundial. During the last subscription drive a number of people signed up that way," Rose added. She reported on plans to travel to London, Ontario, to follow up on contacts there and work with other readers and supporters of the paper.

"We hope to go to Sudbury (a mining center about 400 kilometers north of Toronto) where we have some 10 people to call back who we met while participation in a Days of Action event, two weeks ago."

In the next two weeks big political events are happening throughout the United States that supporters of the socialist press and Pathfinder plan to get to.

Militant supporters in Philadelphia are planning to attend the anti-Klan rally in Pittsburgh April 5. "We've also organized to have a Pathfinder table at a feminist conference at Temple University during the target week," reports Bob Stanton, as well as traveling to the strike picket lines at Wheeling-Pitt Steel.

Other areas have responded to the events to build for the national Young Feminists Summit in Washington, D.C. Andrea Morrell reports from Boston that supporters in that city will be getting communist ideas out to young fighters at a national student conference called "Abortion Rights and Reproductive Freedom," which takes place at Hampshire College in western Massachusetts on April 4-6. Along with an immigrant rights demonstration on April 5, partisans of the Militant will also join a picket line at the British Consulate demanding freedom for Roísin McAliskey on April 6.

After a very successful propaganda intervention at a tour in Miami of Félix Wilson, Second Secretary at the Cuban Interests Section, supporters of the socialist press will launch their target week by participating in two events: a Women's Studies conference at Florida International University North campus and a conference in Boca Raton organized by the Florida Peace and Justice Coalition.  
 
 
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