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Vol. 72/No. 40      October 13, 2008

 
‘Militant’ supporters begin
campaign to win new readers
(front page)
 
Militant/Mary Ellen Marus
Militant supporter campaigns with paper September 28 in Vancouver, Canada.

BY ANGEL LARISCY  
“Using the momentum in Atlanta from building a broadly sponsored panel on the book Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution,” Lisa Potash writes, “a dozen supporters of the Militant fanned out across the city in teams Saturday and Sunday. By Sunday night, we had signed up 16 people for subscriptions.”

The socialist newsweekly has launched an eight-week effort beginning September 27 to win 2,400 new and long-term readers. Supporters across the globe are setting up street tables, visiting campuses, participating in protest actions, and going door-to-door to introduce workers to the paper. They are also calling current subscribers to encourage them to renew. Subscribers to the paper are urged to take advantage of a special offer to get New International no. 14, a magazine of Marxist politics and theory, which is available for only $10 with any subscription.

The magazine features the article “The Clintons’ Antilabor Legacy: Roots of the 2008 World Financial Crisis.” It explains that “the Clinton administration was responsible for decisive steps enabling the U.S. rulers to erect the enormous edifice of household, corporate, and government debt, and its accompanying array of derivatives, that are at the foundation of the current world financial crisis.” The article “Revolution, Internationalism, and Socialism: The Last Year of Malcolm X” traces Malcolm’s final year and how he worked increasingly closer with communists from Algeria, to Cuba, to the United States.

Socialist campaigners in Newark, New Jersey, sold 15 subscriptions and two copies of New International no. 14 in the first weekend of the drive.

At an Essex County College meeting on “Bridging the Gap: Building Ties Among People of African Descent,” attended by 80 people, four bought subscriptions and a dozen more purchased books by Pathfinder Press. Nancy Rosenstock reports, “Participants were particularly interested in the Militant’s series on Equatorial Guinea and the role of Cuban health-care workers in that country.”

The next day, 10 subscriptions were sold going door-to-door in the Newark area while introducing the Socialist Workers Party campaign, which offers working-class explanations and answers to the financial crisis and a program to defend working people.

This week we are reporting the initial goals taken by supporters of the paper (see chart on this page). Next week’s issue will begin recording sales results. In order to be included in the weekly chart, send in reports each week by Monday evening.

We welcome reports and photographs on teams and experiences during the subscription drive. If you would like to join the effort, please contact a distributor on page 8 or the Militant.

'Militant' fall 2008 subscription drive chart

 
 
 
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