In London, campaigners decided to raise their quota by 30 after several weeks of increased sales. Sales picked up as they hit the streets in response to the moves by the British rulers to deepen their assault on working people following the July 7 London bombings.

“We’ve sold 12 copies of the two new issues on street tables in working-class districts or from our book center,” said Jonathan Silberman from London. “Within hours of the bombings we were on the streets campaigning. Each day we have been setting up a table in the district where our bookshop is, selling a two-pack every day.

“We’ve started to lead with the magazines, often times hawking them near the table,” Silberman said. “Regular classes on the two issues have made a big difference in our ability to explain them and point to page references that take up questions in politics today, from the imperialist ‘war on terrorism’ to the decline of Islamism. We underestimated how quickly they would sell so we’ve raised our quota twice during the campaign.”

The previous week campaigners in London and Edinburgh sold 11 copies during the march and other activities organized to coincide with the G-8 summit of the leaders of the wealthiest imperialist nations.

“Many stopped by the tables to discuss the character of the so-called antipoverty initiatives presented at the G-8 summit. We discussed how government leaders were taking advantage of it to bolster the image of British imperialism,” said Caroline Bellamy, a campaigner from Scotland. “One set of the two new issues was sold after a discussion with a young participant in the march on the section of the article ‘Capitalism’s Long Hot Winter Has Begun’ describing how the May 2002 tour through several African countries by U.S. treasury secretary Paul O’Neill and pop singer Bono was part of strengthening the image of the imperialist architects of the devastation of the economies of those nations.”

Five two-packs of New International numbers 12 and 13 were sold at the NAACP convention in Milwaukee, along with dozens of books on revolutionary politics.

Note: please send the weekly reports on local sales results by Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. so they can be reported in the Militant.  
 
 
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