For just a $10 annual fee, the Readers Club, which has been in existence for more than a decade, offers members a 15 percent discount on all Pathfinder books and pamphlets, and even larger discounts on featured books each month.

With the launching of Pathfinder’s web site at the beginning of last year, individuals and bookstores have been able to place their orders for books online. However, during the first year of the existence of pathfinderpress.com, Readers Club members weren’t able to automatically receive discounts for books ordered at the web site.

Starting this month individuals can now sign up as members of the Readers Club online and order their books at discounted prices. Club members ordering books through Pathfinder’s web site receive the same discounts as they would if they purchased the books at a Pathfinder bookstore (these discounts remain valid for purchases from any Pathfinder bookstore around the world.)

Among the books that Readers Club members can now purchase in this way are Marianas in Combat: Teté Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, 1956–58, together with the Spanish edition, Marianas en combate. Both of these titles were published in January. Also now available is the first-ever Pathfinder edition in both English and Spanish of Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Russian revolutionary leader V.I. Lenin. It is in an easy-to-read 8 1/2 x 11 inch format, along with the new 2003 Pathfinder catalog.

New International no. 12, which will be distributed by Pathfinder, will also be published soon. The magazine will feature a lead article "Capitalism’s Long, Hot Winter Has Begun," by Socialist Workers Party national secretary Jack Barnes. Also in this magazine of Marxist politics and theory will be two reports presented to the Third Congress of the Communist International in 1921--"The World Economic Crisis and Tasks of Communists," by Leon Trotsky and "A Very Unstable Equilibrium," by V.I. Lenin.

Also scheduled for publication is the French edition of Their Trotsky and Ours.

In the coming months Pathfinder will be publishing The Assault on Moncada: Forging the Revolutionary Movement in Cuba, 1952–53, by Mario Mencia, and Aldabonazo: Inside the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1952–58, a participant’s account by Armando Hart. A founding member of the July 26 Movement, Hart was a leader of its urban underground in the 1950s.

After the triumph of the revolution he served as minister of education from 1959 to 1965 and minister of culture, 1976–97. Hart has been a member of the Communist Party Central Committee since 1965. Both books will be appearing in English for the first time.

For the month of February Pathfinder is featuring seven recently reprinted books and pamphlets at a 25 percent discount for Readers Club members. The books on sale, which can be purchased at Pathfinder bookstores or online, are: Two Speeches by Malcolm X, The Socialist Workers Party in World War II by James P. Cannon, The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky, Revolución granadina by Maurice Bishop and Fidel Castro, The 1985–86 Hormel Meat Packers Strike by Fred Halstead, Europe and America by Leon Trotsky, and Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1930–31.

The new Pathfinder 2003 catalog is an invaluable tool for introducing readers and book buyers to the many varied political titles available from Pathfinder. The 10-page "New & Noteworthy" section in the beginning of the catalog highlights some of the publisher’s newest titles, including Malcolm X Talks to Young People, Marianas in Combat, and October 1962: The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba. Each book has a brief summary of its contents. Many also have cover reproductions highlighting some of the hundreds of titles published by Pathfinder.

Also featured is a "Pathfinder around the world" photo display showing sales of the publisher’s titles at book fairs, librarians’ conferences, on campus, and at street tables and political events. The catalog, which sells for $1, is now available from www.pathfinderpress.com.

Becoming a member of the Pathfinder Readers Club is easy. To purchase a one-year membership all you have to do is to click on the link for the Pathfinder Readers Club at the Pathfinder web site home page and add it to your online shopping cart. Once the membership is in the system, club members will automatically receive discounts on all books purchased at www.pathfinderpress.com. A Readers Club card will be sent out with the first online order.

Everyone who becomes a member of the Readers Club--whether they signed up online or at a Pathfinder bookstore--will be able to purchase books at a discount from Pathfinder’s web site. Those joining at a bookstore will be sent by e-mail a login and password for placing orders at pathfinderpress.com.  
 
 
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