Vol. 71/No. 21      May 28, 2007

The eight-week campaign is now $7,400 behind schedule. The Militant needs to receive $20,000—roughly twice the amount we got last week—by next Wednesday, May 23, in order to get the campaign on target.

The fund picked up an additional $1,500 in local pledges last week. But we are still $1,385 short of the quotas adding up to the international goal. Supporters of the paper everywhere can step up collection and increase their quotas, especially where working people's response to the paper during and coming out of the May Day actions has been the strongest.

The money is needed now to cover the paper's operating expenses—printing, shipping, rent, and utilities—and to continue sending reporters around the world to respond to developments in the class struggle in a timely way. On May 27, as the fund drive ends, three Militant reporters will be heading to Cuba to cover the 10th Festival of Overseas Chinese, which will mark 160 years since the arrival of the first Chinese indentured laborers there.

John Naubert, the fund drive director in Seattle, wrote that a special Militant Labor Forum there to raise money for the fund featured a panel of speakers who helped build and organize May Day actions for legalization of immigrants in that city and in Yakima, Washington.

"Paul Reboca, who helped organize last year's May Day demonstration in Yakima and participated in this year's action in Seattle, relayed how he began to read about the nature of the capitalist system while he was in prison," Norbert said. "He said that the Militant 'has information the regular papers don't want you to know,' and described how he shares it with his family."

Similar outreach is needed and possible everywhere. Send your contribution to the Militant, earmarked "Fund Drive," at 306 W. 37th St., 10th Floor, New York, NY 10018. And encourage your coworkers, neighbors, and friends to do the same!

Click here to see the fund drive chart