Socialist workers and young socialists will be getting on buses from around the country to participate in the April 20 march and rally to "Stop the War, at Home and Abroad!" that will be held in Washington, D.C. A similar action is planned in San Francisco. Selling copies of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution, as well as subscriptions to the Militant and PM to young people and others at send-off events, on the buses, and off literature tables at the demonstrations will provide a boost to the sales campaign.

One area that has gotten a jump off the starting blocks is Miami, where Chris Hoeppner reports, "For the past few weeks there have been demonstrations here in solidarity with Palestinians where we've been selling all kinds of books and around $100 worth of Pathfinder titles each week." He said they sold two Militant subscriptions to Palestinians they met at the demonstrations. One of them also bought a copy of The Jewish Question, a book that provides a scientific explanation of why the capitalist rulers incite Jew hatred.

"We also sold three Militant subscriptions during our efforts to build a Militant Labor Forum on the class struggle in Haiti. We went from store to store posting flyers in the area where the Pathfinder bookstore is located. We spent a little time explaining the forum to the barber who works in the shop on the first floor beneath our headquarters. He told others about the event, including one Haitian who brought his son to the forum. This man bought a Militant subscription and $60 worth of Pathfinder literature, including Thomas Sankara Speaks."

Rachele Fruit, a meat packer in Tampa, Florida, told the Militant, "We had a tremendous time this week. We set up a literature table at the University of South Florida and two students walked up and asked, 'How can I subscribe to this paper?' We also sold out of our papers at demonstrations defending the rights of Palestinians in Tampa and Orlando."

Socialist workers in Tampa held their second Militant Labor Forum in the city, featuring a talk on the struggle for a democratic, secular Palestine, said Fruit. "Twenty-four people came, including a young woman we met at the University of South Florida who is active in a Muslim women's group on campus. She has been reading the Militant for a while and decided to buy a subscription at the forum.

"That evening we launched a fund to raise money for the headquarters we are planning to move into and afterwards took some people over to the location. A Palestinian guy who came to the forum offered to help us get some of the equipment we will need to hold forums, sell Pathfinder titles, and organize other political activity to build the communist movement there."

Socialist workers in New York's Garment District sold six Militant subscriptions and one copy of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution in the first three days of the circulation drive, reported Laura Anderson. "We set up a sales table at Union Square where a demonstration demanding an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine was held," she said. "Our table was a center for debate, involving participants in the rally and a few Zionists. People were interested in reading literature that points to the overthrow of the Israeli regime as the only solution for opening the road to peace in Palestine. We sold two Militant subscriptions, 20 copies of the paper, and a few Pathfinder titles on the history of struggles in the Middle East.

"Wong Dowling, a young Black man who came to our Militant Labor Forum on police brutality, purchased a copy of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution and a subscription to the Militant," she wrote. "He told me, 'I bought the paper so I wouldn't feel so comatose, not able to know what's going on in the world around me. I'm also interested in Cuba.'"  
 
 
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