Vol. 72/No. 20      May 19, 2008

Participants in May Day actions demanding legalization of immigrants picked up hundreds of single copies and subscriptions to the Militant, and hundreds got copies of the new pamphlet Is Socialist Revolution in the U.S. Possible? In several cities, workers who subscribed at the May Day actions attended Militant Labor Forums, weekly meetings sponsored by Militant supporters, later that week. Other new subscribers joined Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists contingents in the marches.

“One student, Ashley, got her first subscription at Georgia State University during the day before the May Day rally that afternoon,” writes Lisa Potash from Atlanta. “She then joined us at the rally.”

Supporters of the Militant in New York sold 78 subscriptions on May Day at actions for legalization of immigrants and at an event at Hunter College supporting West Coast dockworkers striking in opposition to the Iraq war. In the Northwest, supporters of the paper sold 59 subscriptions, including 53 with the new pamphlet, at actions in Seattle, Yakima, and Bellingham, Washington; and Portland and Salem, Oregon. In Northern California, 39 people subscribed at immigrant rights marches in San Francisco, Watsonville, Oakland, Santa Rosa, San Jose, and Davis, and at an antiwar march by striking longshoremen in San Francisco. Forty-six people at these actions bought copies of the new pamphlet.

The success was not limited to the United States. “Last week we got 27 subscriptions,” writes Joe Young from Montreal. “This included 14 from our participation in May Day marches as well as five subs at a march of several thousand in Montreal organized by the unions against the privatization of health care.”

The subscription campaign runs through May 18. To get involved, contact distributors listed on page 8.

Spring 'Militant' subscription drive chart: Week 6 of 8