Conferences
Coming soon...
London Anarchist Bookfair 16 October, London, Britain Contact: <[email protected]> Tel. 0171 247 9249. Participative democracy 10-13 November, Porto Allegre, Brazil An International Seminar on Participative Democracy, based on Porto Allegre's pioneer "participatory budget process" Working languages Portuguese, Spanish and English. Places are very limitted! Cost: US$100. Contact the town hall, Praca Montevideo, 10, CEP 90010-170, Porto Allegre, Brazil. fax 051 228 8725, email <[email protected]> European Marches Network 13-14 November, Brussels, Belgium. At least one hundred unemployed, labour and campaigning groups are expected to send delegates to evaluate the "Cologne '99" events, plan future initiatives, and decide how to improve pan-European coordination of radical unemployment groups. For more information (in English or French) contact: Michel Rousseau, European Marches, 104, rue des Couronnes, 75020 Paris, France. Fax: +33 1 44 62 63 45. E-mail: [email protected] www.ras.eu.org//marches/ Email lists are available, in read only or in write-discussion mode.
mod World Trade Organisation ministerial conference Seattle, USA, 29 Nov.-3 Dec.1999
At the initiative of the "European Parliament of the Unemployed" • a European day of action against Workfare will be organised to coincide with the Helsinki European summit (dates not yet announced, but probably 6 December (St Nicolas celebrations in northern Europe!) or the 10, opening day of the EU summit.
The European Marches Network will also organise a European Meeting against Precarity, in Brussels, in the first half of 2000, and mass mobilisations in France in the second half of the year. These Will include a new session of the "European Parliament of the Unemployed"..
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Marxism 2000 Sydney, Australia, 5-9 January 2000 Journalist John Pilger and Latin America specialist James Petras will be keynote speakers at the second Asia Pacific Solidarity and Education conference organised by Australia's Democratic Socialist Party.
Other speakers include Dipankar Bhattacharya (Communist Party of India Marxist Leninist), Chris Gaerlan (AlabKatipunan, Philippines), Farooq Tariq (Labour Party of Pakistan) and Sonny Melencio (Socialist Party of Labour, Philippines).
Participants are expected from Japan, East Timor, Burma, PNG, Bougainville, Malaysia, New Zealand, Kanaky, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Scotland, Palestine, and Bangladesh. Australian speakers will come from the DSP, Resistance, Green Left Weekly, and ASIET.
Main themes of discussion include: Is Marx still relevant for the 21st Century? • The state of the world capitalist economy • Global political and military strategies of imperialism • Problems of revolutionary strategy in advanced capitalist countries • Problems of revolutionary strategy in developing countries • Will the socialist countries all yield to capitalist pressures? • Recent experiences in trade union and labour organising • Marxism and the national question • Women and socialism • What basis for international left collaboration and socialist renewal? • Can humanity survive the 21st century?
Additional workshops will focus on: The IMF and the World Bank - How they work • Imperialism's impact on the Asian and Pacific Economies • The contribution of Trotskyism to the workers movement • The history of the Philippines left • Issues in Women's liberation today • Internationals and internationalism
The DSP will use this conference to launch a range of collaboration projects with its international network:Joint Asian TU tours of Australia • Joint tour of women activists • Statement on unity and collaboration • Future joint educational efforts • book publication projects • Links magazine. Registration costs ASSO, plus A$22-50 per day for accomodation and meals. For more information contact P.O. Box 515, Broadway 2007, Australia Tel: +61-2 9690 1230 <[email protected]>
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