In Los Angeles, socialists are contacting longtime readers of the Militant to introduce them to the New Internationals. “We sent out a letter to Militant subscribers and got 15 requests for the new issues by mail and phone,” Frank Forrestal reported. Argiris Malapanis, editor of the Militant, spoke at a Militant Labor Forum there April 19, using “Their Transformation and Ours,” which appears in NI no. 12, in his explanation of Washington’s moves in Latin America and its threats against Venezuela today. Ten copies of the new issues of New International and their Spanish edition, Nueva Internacional, were sold at the meeting.

In New York, campaigners are maximizing the month left at many city and state campuses to get out with the new magazines. Martín Koppel, Socialist Workers candidate for mayor of New York, led a team to State University’s Stony Brook campus in Long Island where he spoke to about 30 students April 19, on “Why students should oppose U.S. intervention in Venezuela and Latin America.” Several books and pamphlets were sold, including a copy of New International no. 12.

“Someone came into the campaign center looking for tapes on Malcolm X,” said Dennis Richter from San Francisco. “He stayed and talked for a couple of hours and ended up picking up the two New Internationals.” An electrician who stopped at a literature table during the hotel workers strike in San Francisco came by as well looking for Capitalism’s World Disorder by Jack Barnes. He ended up buying both New Internationals along with a subscription to the Militant.

Campaigners in a number of cities are discussing plans to raise their local quotas for the drive, as more than 40 percent of local targets has already been hit. An international goal for the five-month campaign will be decided after the quotas are reviewed.

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