• In Defense of Marxism: The Social and Political Contradictions of the Soviet Union on the Eve of World War II by Leon Trotsky;

• Lenin's Final Fight: Speeches and Writings, 1922–23 by V.I. Lenin;

• Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women by Joseph Hansen, Evelyn Reed, and Mary-Alice Waters;

• Che Guevara Speaks by Ernesto Che Guevara;

• Che Guevara: Economía y política en la transición al socialismo by Carlos Tablada;

• Nelson Mandela Speaks by Nelson Mandela;

• What Working People Should Know about the Dangers of Nuclear Power by Fred Halstead; and

• Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It by Leon Trotsky.

Through August 31 Pathfinder will make these titles available at a special 60 percent discount to Pathfinder bookstores. Five of the titles have been chosen as August's "Books of the Month" features and will be available at a 25 percent discount to members of the Pathfinder Readers Club (see accompanying ad).

Books of the Month specials, discounts on newly reprinted titles, a one-day 75-percent-off sale offered to Pathfinder bookstores, and the beginning of fall semester classroom orders helped contribute to brisk sales in June. Twenty-three Pathfinder bookstores reported selling a total of 978 books and pamphlets in June, totaling $8,470.

The best sellers for the month were: Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by Jack Barnes (in English and Spanish), The Working Class and the Transformation of Learning by Jack Barnes (in English and Spanish), and Puerto Rico: Independence Is a Necessity, an interview with Puerto Rican independence leader Rafael Cancel Miranda. Cuba and the Coming American Revolution is available at the special price of $10 until Labor Day, September 3.

Sales for July have gotten off to a strong start. Salespeople in New York City report selling several hundred copies of the new pamphlet, Revolution in the Congo, to crowds at theaters where the film Lumumba is showing, as well as hundreds of dollars in sales of a broad range of other Pathfinder titles. Similar sales are planned in cities where the film is scheduled to show throughout the summer.

The Communist Manifesto remains Pathfinder's strongest seller for classroom use. University bookstores filling classroom orders in preparation for fall classes have also ordered Malcolm X on Afro-American History, Malcolm X Speaks by Malcolm X, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Frederick Engels, and The Great Labor Uprising of 1877 by Philip Foner.

Some of the most requested classroom titles are currently out of stock. Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War, 1956–58 by Che Guevara and Women and the Nicaraguan Revolution by Tomás Borge are among those Pathfinder will reprint in order to have them ready before the beginning of classes.  
 
 
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