THE KEY to successful sales that are also politically meaningful absolute regularity. There's no point sunilewiere. unsuccessfully at first, if one doesn't continue consistently, so that regular readers can be certain of getting their In our area we sell on Thursdays and Saturdays for a total of 5½ hours. I realise there are problems where violent opposition sellers — we can safely sell one at a time.
Nevertheless, it does seem to me that I ought to be possible, where there are enough people to do a rota, can face to sustain a regular public sale for longer than two hours a week.
We have' a 'round' of 18 regular sales. These have been established over a long period of time as a result of our comrades approaching people to whom they have sold regularly work, on the street and so on. offered to deliver every Thursday at Vicinity One comrade_ went around immediate vicinity at election time knocking on all doors Labour' posters were displayed.
A key thing about this sales round is that it is a way of keeping in regular " contact with readers, informing them of local events in involved, and taking the opportunity lo gel ID political Most of these people we visit are involved in some activity, so even it they don't come to our meetings it's a way of establishing a relationship group of activists.
the about the local Zimbabwe meeting ' organised by. 'vote trades council and We'll get them to take leaflets for it and encourage them to come. Later in the month we'll do the same thing to help build the local UTOM showing which we are discussion with kind of political much wider Next week we'll talk to all of them the Labour Party, the Anti-Apartheid accumulated - of the Patriot Game and the 22 October abortion demonstration We've taken advantage of SCs new accounting procedure to put of a leaflet with the paper this week next advertising a special offer of eight weeks' Socialist Challenge for £1.20. If we maintain our sales nearly all the papers we receive, wel be able to finance this out of the profit on our casual sales.
Next week I'll be distributing the five hundred or so back numbers of yea that - T'll enclose the special offer leaflet inside. We'll do the same when the university ters