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Vol. 77/No. 37      October 21, 2013

 
Join effort to win 2,500 ‘Militant’
subscribers during int’l campaign!
(front page)
 
BY EMMA JOHNSON  
On Oct. 12 the Militant kicks off an international campaign to win 2,500 new and renewing subscribers. We call on readers to join in the eight-week effort and help boost your area on the scoreboard that will be printed each week as supporters around the world report on progress to bring the drive home by Dec. 10.

Participants in the drive will bring the socialist newsweekly to working people, whose lives and outlook are shaken by the crisis of capitalism — from big cities to small towns and rural areas, from coal mines to garment factories, from the U.S. and Canada to the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.

As in other recent subscription efforts the heart of the campaign will be selling door to door in working-class neighborhoods. Supporters of the paper will also be selling as they join labor struggles and social protests — from fights against police brutality to defense of women’s right to choose abortion, and actions demanding release of the Cuban Five, Puerto Rican independence fighters and other political prisoners.

The subscription drive will coincide with campaigns by Socialist Workers Party and Communist League candidates in elections across the U.S. and beyond, offering a special opportunity to reach and involve workers, farmers and revolutionary-minded young people looking for a class-struggle road forward.

The candidates bring a socialist perspective, a working-class program, that answers who the “we” are in bourgeois politics and presents a working-class line of march toward power.

The Militant will continue to feature nine key books by Pathfinder Press on special offer with a subscription. (See ad on this page.) Supporters sold hundreds of these books on revolutionary working-class politics in the eight-week spring drive, including 150 copies of The Cuban Five: Who They Are, Why They Were Framed, Why They Should Be Free. Recent experiences from book fairs in Montreal and Brooklyn, New York, reflect a thirst for these important weapons.

The Militant’s fight against the Florida prison authorities’ impounding of the paper offers the opportunity to join in a fight to defend workers rights, particularly workers behind bars. And coverage of the international campaign to “Free the Cuban Five” will be a regular feature.

The Militant is proud about its growing number of subscribers behind bars — which stands at 86. Prisoners will continue to occupy an important row in the subscription chart, as they have for the last two drives.

“I received the notice that I have ‘2 issues remaining’ and I must renew my subscription,” wrote a prisoner in Florida by mail. “I want to stay updated on all social issues.”

Winning readers to renew is a very important feature of the campaign and we should take the lead from this fellow worker behind bars.

The Militant will publish the first scoreboard for the drive in its Nov. 4 issue.  
 
 
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