Conference listing
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Participative democracy 10-13 November, Porto Allegre, Brazil International Seminar on Participative Democracy, based on Porto Allegre's pioneer " participatory budget process" In Portuguese, Spanish and English. 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. 100 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 unemployed 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. 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 agaınst 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 events will include a new session of the "European Parliament of the Unemployed".
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 (CPI-ML, India), Chris Gaerlan (Alab-Katipunan, 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.
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 Registration costs AS50, plus AS22-50 per day for accomodation and meals. For more information contact P.O. Box 515, Broadway 2007, Australia Tel: +61-2 9690 1230 <[email protected]>, www.dsp.org.au/ List your event here! Write or e-mail us with details, at least six weeks in advance.