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    Vol.62/No.12           March 30, 1998 
 
 
Militant Fund Drive Under Way  

BY DAVID BERG
As Militant correspondents traveled from Kosovo to Macedonia to Albania, reporting firsthand on the struggles by Albanians for their self-determination (see coverage elsewhere in this issue), the international Militant Fund drive began. The $110,000 fund-raising campaign, which runs from March 14 to May 10, is essential to continue producing the Militant and Perspectiva Mundial - socialist periodicals published in the interests of working people - including the special reporting teams such as the one in the Balkans.

The key to reaching the goals is an early start on raising money. In several cities, supporters of the Militant are already preparing fund-raising meetings featuring speakers on major questions of interest to working people.

Special political events in three cities will include an appeal for the Militant Fund. In Chicago, Militant reporters Argiris Malapanis and Jack Willey will speak at a March 28 socialist conference on the working-class resistance they witnessed in Albania and Kosovo, as well as on a youth conference in Cairo, Egypt, and the prospects for rebuilding a worldwide anti-imperialist youth movement. A similar conference will take place in Toronto on April 11. In Los Angeles, a West Coast socialist conference will feature Malapanis and Willey on the afternoon of April 4, capped off that evening with a talk by Mary-Alice Waters, president of Pathfinder Press, on the Cuban revolution and the place of Pathfinder in building an international communist movement.

Militant supporters in Newark are hosting a March 29 fund-raising program that will feature Mámud Shirvani on the growing confrontation between imperialism and the workers states in Russia and the republics around the Caspian Sea.

Organizers of these events are using them as a springboard to get momentum in winning contributions and pledges and reaching out as broadly as possible in the working-class audience that supports the Militant.

Raising money on the job from fellow industrial unionists is a crucial aspect of the Militant Fund. Working people are the pillar that supports the publication of the Militant and Perspectiva Mundial. Socialist workers in Newark met with a longtime supporter of the Militant who works at the Ford plant in Edison, New Jersey, organized by the United Auto Workers union, and who gladly agreed to contribute to the fund.

Contributions can be made out to the Militant and sent to 410 West St., New York, NY 10014.  
 
 
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