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    Vol.62/No.11           March 23, 1998 
 
 
Fund Will Help Print `Militant'  

BY MARTÍN KOPPEL
Supporters of the Militant around the world are kicking off a $110,000 fund drive that will help make possible special reporting trips, like the team that is en route to Kosovo as this issue goes to press, after spending several days in Cairo, Egypt, covering a meeting of the World Federation of Democratic Youth and reporting on protests by students in the region against Washington's war moves in the Mideast. The Militant Fund will also help finance the operating expenses of producing this paper and the Spanish-language magazine Perspectiva Mundial. In February, another Militant reporting team traveled to Cuba to cover the Havana Book Fair and other developments, such as how working people in Cuba are collectively confronting the challenge of increasing agricultural and industrial production today.

The Militant Fund runs from March 14-May 10. It will coincide with a soon-to-be launched special appeal for capital contributions of at least $1,000 and in many cases much larger - often drawn from supporters of the socialist movement receiving windfalls - that will help finance long-term capital investments to revolutionize the production of Pathfinder books and keep them all in print (see article above).

There are a lot of signs that this fund can get off to a strong start. Readers of the Militant and Perspectiva Mundial have responded enthusiastically to the Books for Cuba Fund (see article on page 9) and given nearly $10,000 to help cover the recent international reporting teams.

The success of the Militant Fund, which runs simultaneously with the Militant and Perspectiva Mundial subscription drive, will depend on contributions from as broad a range of workers and others who read the socialist press as possible.

In Washington, D.C., New York, and other cities, Militant supporters are already making plans to hold special fund- raising forums early in the drive to discuss some of the central issues in world politics today and to get pledges to the fund from the beginning. Joel Britton, a leader of the Socialist Workers Party's trade union work, and the Militant writers Argiris Malapanis and Jack Willey, currently in Yugoslavia, are among the speakers Militant supporters are inviting to speak at these meetings.

The chart accompanying this article shows the initial pledges to the fund. Militant supporters in several other cities in the United States and elsewhere plan to adopt goals in the next week. Contributions to the fund can be sent to the Militant, 410 West St., New York, NY 10014.

Martín Koppel is the director of the Militant Fund.  
 
 
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