Hearing this stopped many of those leaving the showings of Lumumba, the recently released film on Patrice Lumumba, the leader of the Congolese struggle for independence and freedom from imperialist domination. Socialists from New York's Garment District, Brooklyn, and Upper Manhattan have set up tables of Pathfinder literature outside showings of the film at the two locations in the city.

In three days, close to 70 copies of Revolution in the Congo, Pathfinder's newly reprinted pamphlet, were sold to people coming in or out of the theaters.

Many of those who stopped by the literature tables also bought a range of other Pathfinder titles. These included Malcolm X Talks to Young People and To Speak the Truth, a collection of speeches by Cuban revolutionary leaders Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara at the United Nations, which includes Cuba's denunciation of the U.S. and UN role in the assassination of Lumumba.

After seeing the film, many were eager to discuss the role of U.S. imperialism today, lessons of the past anticolonial struggles, and prospects today for the fight against capitalist exploitation.

Two young men outside a Saturday evening showing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music reviewed their monetary situation after looking at a range of titles and settled on a copy of the Communist Manifesto and the issue of New International on "Che Guevara, Cuba, and the Road to Socialism."

A young woman walked away with $40 of books including several titles on the Cuban Revolution and Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle, a pamphlet by Thomas Sankara, the central leader of the 1983–87 revolution in Burkina Faso.

Some $140 of books were sold outside the theater in Manhattan on one Saturday evening and $80 the same night in Brooklyn. Many of those who bought books and the Militant also signed up to receive notices of the weekly Friday night Militant Labor Forums.  
 
 
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