Fund-raising meetings are now taking place across the United States, giving fund campaigners a good focus for stepping up the pace of collecting pledges for the fund. This is necessary, because the fund stands at 27 percent of the $105,000 goal but should be at 45 percent.

Sam Manuel, Socialist Workers candidate for mayor of Washington, is speaking in Atlanta October 12. Paul Pederson, the Socialist Workers congressional candidate in Brooklyn, who took part in a recent solidarity trip to Puerto Rico, is speaking in Northeast Pennsylvania October 19.

Argiris Malapanis, who was part of the trip by communists from the United States and Canada to Venezuela last summer to discuss the fight against imperialism with workers and fighters in that country, will be the featured speaker at the Pathfinder Fund meeting in Houston on October 26.

All of these meetings will feature Pathfinder’s newest book, October 1962: The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba by Tomás Diez Acosta.

Pathfinder sales representatives have been visiting buyers at bookstores and libraries in a national effort to sell the new book. Special programs at universities and in the media commemorating the 40th anniversary of the "missile" crisis will pique the interest of many people to read this clear factual account drawing on U.S., Cuban, and Soviet sources that records the course of events when the Kennedy administration prepared an invasion of Cuba, and how the massive response by Cuban workers and farmers defending their sovereignty and revolution was the decisive factor in standing down imperialism.  
 
New books
The Pathfinder Fund allows contributions to go right into financing the production of several books that will be released this fall. These include Marianas in Combat: Teté Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, which features an interview with Puebla, who fought in Cuba’s revolutionary war and is a general in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba; and The Assault on Moncada by Mario Mencía.

Young socialists attending the 13th congress of the Continental Organization of Latin American and Caribbean Students (OCLAE), to be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, from November 29 to December 2 will take along an array of Pathfinder titles to sell to congress participants. The congress coincides with the Guadalajara Book Fair, the largest book fair in Latin America, where Pathfinder will have a booth.

Contributions to the Pathfinder Fund can be sent to the Militant, 410 West Street, New York, NY 10014, with checks made out to Pathfinder.  
 
 
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