The long term goal of the labour movement should not be a bilateral unioncorporation relationship. but a different unilateral relationship, one where working people democratically manage a colleclively owned and controlled economy. * conference listing * coming sonn
Neo-Liberalism, The IMF, And
International Solidarity
Seoul, South Korea, July 3-5, 1998
Sponsored by a range of progressive organizations, including the KCTU
Action Network for International Solidarity, PICIS Newsletter, and Solidarity for Democracy and Progress.
For more information, contact PICIS Newsletter at 1578-
3, Woosung Bdg. 5F, Shilim1Dong, Kwanak-Ku, Seoul,
Korea. Fax: ++82 2 839 4359 Phone: ++82 2 837 2853.
<[email protected]> <[email protected]> http://kpd.sing-kr.org/~picis
International socialist youth camp
Jutland, Denmark. 25-31 July
See below for details. Trade Unions, homosexuality & work Amsterdam, 29-31 July 1998
The 1998 International Conference on Trade Unions, Homosexuality and Work provides a forum for lesbian and gay trade unionists to exchange information, policies and strategies. For full details see International Viewpoint #298 or contact the organisers. PO Box 732, NL 2700 AL, ., Zoetermeer, Netherlands. Tel: +31-30-273 2627. fax: 271 0512. E-mail: <[email protected]> utopia.knoware.nl/users/modijk Solidarity Summer School Chicago, USA. 3-6 August
The US socialist and feminist group will hold its annual summer school at the usual venue. The group's convention will run from 7-9 August. LCR Summer School
Grenoble, France, August 26-30 Cost: 959FF including accomodation and all meals. Youth/unemployed discount available. Contact: LCR, 2 rue Richard Lenoir, 93100 Montreuil, France. Tel. +33.1.48 70 42 20. Email redaction@|cr-rouge.org> EuroMarch summer meeting Halkidiki, Greece, August 31- Sept. 6 The Greek EuroMarch Committee is sponsoring this first meeting as a unique opportunity for 100 Greek and 100 west European leftist trade union and social movement leaders to exchange and discuss their unique experiences in relation to the main problems that social movements and trade unions are facing today in western Europe. We also plan to give a special Balkan dimension to our initiative, by inviting 50 representatives of trade unions and social movements from the region.
Subjects for discussion include:
Financial austerity • unemployment • The dissolution of the social state and the alternative solutions • European and national policies for work • Privatisation and unemployment in eastern and western Europe • Fortress Europe: immigrants, racism, and unemployment • Women and neo-liberal policies • Youth and social exclusion • Rebirth of the Balkan trade union movements • unity of working people beyond national divisions in the Balkans • Participants can propose additional themes for discussion.
The Network of European Marches against Unemployment unites more than 1,200 small and large organisations and movements, including trade unions, unemployed movements, groups representing the homeless and socially excluded, anti-fascist, anti-racist ecologist and feminist organisations as well as political parties from all15 member states of the European Union. The summer meeting will take place at the Akti Philippeion hotel, Halkidiki 60 km from Thessaloniki airport. To register contact the Greek organisers at 62 Academias Street, 5th floor, Athens 10679, Greece. Tel.: (+30 1) 3619513 Fax: 3619610. E-mail <[email protected]> A deposit of 50% of accommodation costs should be sent to account number 101-002101-763243, Alpha Credit Bank, 40 Stadiou Street, 10252 Athens, Greece. Fax: 32 65 438. Do so before 1 July to ensure you have a place! Accommodation, including breakfast, costs 5,850 Drs./US$19 per person per day in a twin-bed room, 4,750 Drs./$17 in a triple room. Camping space costs $4 per person per day. Latin American Marxist Magazines Buenos Aires, 25-27 September Focus on "the Communist Manifesto in Latin America Today." Ccontact Alberto Teszkiewicz at <[email protected]>
International Youth Camp '98
The 15th European camp of youth organisations in solidarity with the Fourth International will take place in Jutland, Denmark, on 25-31 July.
Participation costs US$100-200, depending on your country of residence.
For more details see last month's issue of
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Imprints vol.2, no.3 Imprints vol.c, ho.s
The March 1998 issue includes an interview with Michael Rosen, author of On Voluntary Servitude (Polity 1997), and articles by Kai Nielsen, on 'Socialism and Nationalism' • Vittorio Bufacchi on 'Reasonable Agreement,' Alex Coram on 'Socialist Distribution' • Keith Graham reviews Pettit on Republicanism • Judith Squires reviews Lister on Citizenship and lain Gault reviews Diamond on History. Those interested in contributing should contract the editor at 9 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB, Britain, or <[email protected]> Subscription (for 3 Issues) in the EU costs £15 (student/unemployed £10), institutions £30. Rest of world: £30/US$40 (individuals), £60/US$80 (institutions). Write, with cheque, to 58 Wilmer Drive, Bradford, BD9 4AS, Britain. Or consult the website:
info.bris.ac.uk/~plcdib/imprints.html Revolutionary History
The latest issue, A Paradise for the Bourgeoisie?, focuses on Belgium. It contains a number of letters by Trotsky on Belgian issues, taken from the Oeuvres and never previously published in English, together with history and accounts of pre-war Belgium Trotskyists, with bibliographical introductions. There is also an account of the 1961 General strike, and the positions taken by the various Trotskyist tendencies. To order by mail send £8.15 (Britain), £8.85 (Europe). £10.85 (N.America, Sri Lanka) or £11.35 (Australia, New Zealand & Japan) to Socialist Platform Ltd, BCM 7646, London WC1N 3XX, Britain. Credit card orders are also welcome by fax, (+44 171) 263 5196 or E-mail <[email protected] A bundle of all available past issues costs £80 in the UK. £85 in Europe, and £100 elsewhere. Vol.Il no.2. & no.3 are no longer available Some 25 articles from the early issues are now available on the ETOL website:
www.compulink.co.uk/~jplant/revhist
Asia Pacific Solidarity
Conference, Sydney '98
Reports, photographs, resolutions, and interviews with participants at the
Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference held in Sydney, Australia on April 10-13.
Talks presented to the plenaries and workshops will be loaded on to the site as soon as they are transcribed. So will links to and information about all the parties and movements represented at the conference.
www.peg.apc.org/~apiaustralia/apsc98.htm
Asia Pacific ACTION!
After three years as a monthly faxed news sheet for the Asia Pacific Workers
Solidarity Links (APWSL) network,
ACTION! is now also distributed as email. Articles are kept very short to encourage translation and reproduction.
NZ Neoliberal preachers
The reality of the neo-liberal "plague"
in New Zealand is carefully exposed on this special section of the Joint Methodist/Presbyterian Public Questions
Committee website.
www.godzone.gen.nz/PublicQuestions/ nzreform.html
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Science as Culture, Vol. 7 Part 1
"A unique point of view in a world where most commentators on science, technology, medicine and other forms of expertise suffer from a remarkable timidity," write the authors. Submissions are invited on any aspect of the cultural dimensions of science and of the history and philosophy of science and other forms of expertise.
For information about subscriptions and a list of back issues, go to: www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gpp/process.
html#science
A web site associated with the journal and forum holds articles from back issues of the journal, as well as other materials which forum members may wish to discuss:
www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html
The web site now includes Barbara Heyl's article, 'The Harvard "Pareto Circle, which discusses the ideological origins of the concepts of social system and social equilibrium, involving the influence of L. J. Henderson on the social science writings of Talcott Parsons, Charles Homans and Crane Brinton, in which Henderson drew on the ultra-conservative theories of Vilfedo Pareto to combat radical and Marxist ideas in American social science. Net Working Schengen secrets
The confidential police manual for the EU's Schengen system for immigration police co-operation has been obtained and posted on the Internet by a Danish lawyer. Contents include the hitherto denied co-operation of secret police services, and an open invitation for police to break their national laws, in the "greater good" of the Schengen zone.
www.datashopper.dk/~boo/sirene.html
A new Outlook