Vol. 75/No. 16      April 25, 2011

Kirkaldy pledged $40 to the Militant Fund at an April 9 Militant Labor Forum in New York where two socialists recently returned from the Havana Book Fair, Doug Nelson and Martín Koppel, spoke about the 50th anniversary of the defeat of U.S. invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

Kirkaldy first ran into the Militant when she stopped at a street table the Socialist Workers Party sets up regularly in the predominantly Black working-class neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. This was her first time attending a Militant Labor Forum. “I used to see everything from the perspective of one person,” she said, “but now I can step back and see more of the grand picture.”

The New York meeting raised more than $8,000 in cash and pledges for the Militant Fund. New York socialists are aiming to bring in $21,000 over the course of the drive, which ends May 30.

In Philadelphia an April 9 program featured Paul Mailhot, the Militant circulation director, who had just returned from Cairo where he was part of a team of socialists distributing the paper and revolutionary books at the Tahrir Book Fair.

Mailhot explained that the fund not only covers printing and mailing expenses but makes it possible to offer subscriptions at a rate workers can afford. It enables the Militant to send correspondents to flashpoints in the class struggle from Egypt to Madison, Wisconsin. Philadelphia supporters pledged $3,100 to the fund.

This week we are running our first chart for the drive showing local quotas, now totaling $115,800.

Dan Fein and John Studer contributed to this article.
 
 
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