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| PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY Interviews Pathfinder Editor
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The book industry trade journal Publishers Weekly interviewed Pathfinder editor Steve Clark for its online issue dated February 25. “With the country in the midst of a serious recession, mounting layoffs and rising unemployment,” PW writer Calvin Reid says, “socialist publishing house Pathfinder Press is committed to radical political advocacy and is not shy about declaring the mission of its publishing program.”
Pathfinder books, said Clark, “are increasingly attractive in a time
of crisis. People are open to the idea that capitalism doesn't work. The capitalist
financial system will to continue to lead to the devastation of working people and
we're finding that people are responding to our books.”
Publishers Weekly is widely read by librarians, book buyers, authors, and publishers. It is produced by Reed Business Information. For the complete interview click here.
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| ‘One of year’s ten best’ says Johannesburg Mail & Guardian
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“Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution” was selected as “one of the top ten reads of the year” by the Johannesburg Mail & Guardian, a South African daily. Writing in the December 15, 2009 online edition, reviewer Darryl Accone describes the book as “even more fascinating than its title and subtitle suggest, because all three generals have much to say about the war against the apartheid army in Angola, and the decisive Angolan and Cuban victory at Cuito Cuanavale, which ultimately brought the National Party to the negotiating table. Chui headed the 90th Tank Brigade in Malanje [Angola], and lost a leg when his vehicle hit an anti-tank mine in northern Angola.” For the complete text of the article, click here. |
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| Venezuela International Book Fair: ‘Something is happening with people that is making them buy books about history and politics’
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Participants at Fifth Venezuela International Book Fair |
CARACAS, Venezuela—“Books about history and politics are the most sold, according to the daily surveys,” said Héctor Soto, Venezuela’s minister of culture, at the closing of the Fifth Venezuela International Book Fair, held here Nov. 13–22. “Something is happening with people, that is making them buy books about history and politics,” he said.
The interest in political books referred to by Soto was evident at the Pathfinder Press stand at the fair. Some who came to the Pathfinder stand knew the publishing house from previous fairs. Many wanted to discuss the course undertaken by the new Barack Obama administration, including the extension of the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan and the economic crisis, among other issues.
A total of 417 copies of New International, a magazine of Marxist politics and theory distributed by Pathfinder, were sold in Spanish and English. They featured the articles “Capitalism’s Long Hot Winter Has Begun”; “Imperialism’s March toward Fascism and War”; and “Revolution, Internationalism, and Socialism: The Last Year of Malcolm X.”
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| Pathfinder at Martí, Juárez, Lincoln conference in Mexico
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Militant photo by Ben O’Shaughnessy
Participants at Monterrey conference |
MONTERREY, Mexico—The International Conference on Martí, Juárez, and Lincoln in the Heart of Our America took up the importance today of the political legacy of the popular revolutionary struggles of the 19th century in Mexico, the United States, and Cuba. The October 15–17 conference drew some 200 participants from Mexico, Cuba, the United States, Canada, Venezuela, and other countries. It was organized by the José Martí Cultural Society and the José Martí Institute for Higher Education in Monterrey, together with the Center for Martí Studies in Havana, Cuba. Sponsors included several academic institutions, including the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, the University of Havana, and the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Houston.
The Conference was named after three great figures in the history of the Americas. José Martí was the central organizer of Cuba’s final independence war against Spanish colonial rule in 1895–98. Benito Juárez led Mexico’s 1858–61 bourgeois democratic revolution and the 1862–67 war to defeat a French invasion. Abraham Lincoln, elected U.S. president in 1860, marshaled the forces that assured victory in what became the revolutionary war to abolish slavery in the United States.
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| Mexican Daily on 'Is Socialist Revolution in the US Possible?'
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The following are excerpts from an article in the October 17 issue of the daily El Regio of Monterrey, Mexico, titled, “Yes, a socialist revolution in the U.S. is possible.” Translation from Spanish is by the Militant newspaper.
BY RAÚL A. RUBIO CANO
Because of the impact of the economic crisis on the American people, today more than ever, the conditions are being created in the United States of America that make it possible to say that a socialist revolution is possible there, stated Mary-Alice Waters, author of the book Is a Socialist Revolution in the U.S. Possible? published by Pathfinder Press (New York, 2009). She is participating in the Martí, Juárez, Lincoln International Conference that is taking place in our city.…
Waters, a member of the National Committee of the [Socialist] Workers Party, editor of New International, and president of Pathfinder Press, pointed out that the important thing for working people in the United States—and we don’t mean from the United States, because they come from all over the world—is that the accelerating capitalist crisis which we are now experiencing, is actually a crisis that for us dates from the 1970s, when an enormous change took place as a growing economy began to decline.…
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‘Malcolm X: Internationalizing the Struggle’
Atlanta African American library hosts discussion on Malcolm X
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Left to right: Steve Clark, Sobukwe Shukura (speaking), and Samuel Livingston |
ATLANTA—“The Political Evolution of Malcolm X, Internationalizing the Struggle” was the topic of a panel discussion here September 24 sponsored by the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History. Included on the panel were Sobukwe Shukura, host of the radio show “Revolutionary African Perspectives”; Samuel T. Livingston, a professor of history at Morehouse College; and Steve Clark, editor of several collections of Malcolm X's speeches published by Pathfinder Press.
Pathfinder has published the speeches of Malcolm X since shortly after his assassination in 1965.
Morris Gardner, program manager at the Auburn Avenue Research Library, chaired the event, attended by more than 100 people. The meeting was part of a series of discussions with authors on the history of African Americans. Gardner outlined the library's origins as a segregated institution founded in 1934 as the Negro Colored Collection of Non-Circulating Books. Click here for more.
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| At Gothenburg Book Fair, youth attracted to Pathfinder titles
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Militant/Dag Tirsén
Pathfinder booth at Gothenburg book fair. |
GOTHENBURG, Sweden—The newest issue of Ny International was the best seller at the Pathfinder booth at the Gothenburg Book Fair, held here September 24–27. Ny International is a magazine of Marxist politics and theory published in Swedish. Issue no. 6, just off the press in time for the book fair, features the article Revolution, Internationalism, and Socialism: The Last Year of Malcolm X first published in 2008 in the English-language magazine New International. Titles about women’s liberation were also popular, including Problems of Women’s Liberation and Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women. Volunteers staffing the booth noted a particular interest in Pathfinder books among young people. The book fair is one of the main cultural events in Sweden, attracting about 100,000 visitors every year. |
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| Pathfinder's Arabic titles at Beirut meeting on Cuba
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Cover of Arabic edition of Communist Manifesto |
BEIRUT, Lebanon—The Communist Manifesto and The First and Second Declarations of Havana paced the sales of Pathfinder titles at an August 1 meeting here celebrating the 56th anniversary of the launching of the Cuban revolutionary armed struggle led by Fidel Castro. The two Arabic-language titles, along with other titles from Pathfinder, were featured at a booth staffed by volunteers from Beirut and Athens. The major liberal daily Al-Safir reported on the booth and its display in its August 3 issue.
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| Farsi translations of nearly thirty Pathfinder books are now available
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Covers of Farsi translations of Teamster Rebellion, Woman's Evolution, Communist Manifesto, Genocide Against the Indians. |
Thirty-five titles from Pathfinder have now been translated into Farsi, the language Europeans formerly called Persian. Since 1998, Iranian publishers Talaye Porsoo and Golâzin have published a wide range of Pathfinder books, including titles by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, George Novack, and Leon Trotsky. Evelyn Reed’s books on the fight for women’s rights have been particularly popular. Several issues of the New International, a magazine of Marxist politics and theory distributed by Pathfinder, have also been published. More than 47,000 books have been sold. Ten more Pathfinder titles, among them the recently-released Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa, The First and Second Declarations of Havana, and Our History Is Still Being Written are currently in the works.
Over 95 million people speak Farsi. There are 70 million Farsi speakers in Iran, along with another 25 million in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and other parts of Central Asia.
Almost all of these Farsi titles are now available from Pathfinder at www.pathfinderpress.com
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