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well read News From Within, 8/99
Palestinian Sociologist Dr. Salim Tamari heads the Institute of Jerusalem Studies and is a member of the Refugee Working Group that deals with the question of refugees established in the wake of the Madrid conference.
In this interview, Tamari describes the new book Jerusalem containing a collection of articles on Palestinian residency in West Jerusalem before the 1948.
Tamari provides insight into what the Israeli strategy has been vis à vis the refugees in negotiations and discusses what the PA will have to face when final status negotiations begin.
Other articles address the issue
Union Aid to Palestinian Authority "Security" services, an analysis of Jewish History Text books, a critical assessment of Azmi Bishara's "Tajamu'" party and its tallures both ideologically and tactically in the last elections, and much News From Within, July 1999
Includes articles on the actual and real possibility of the Right of Return (by Dr. Salman Abu Sitta), an assessment of Barak's coalition and what he did to get Shas in his government (Dr. Tikva Honig Parnass), a scathing analysis of the Palestinian Authority and its Facade War against NGOs all the time in the back wings making million dollar deals with the Peres Center for Peace, and the story of how the
Israeli establishment closed down a progressive school for underprivelaged Mizrahi youth.
36 International Viewpoint #315 October 1999
London Anarchist Bookfair 16 October, London, Britain Contact: <m.peacock@unl.ac.uk> Tel. 0171 247 9249. 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 <becker@gp.prefpoa.com.br> 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 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: marches97@0ras.eu.org 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 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". 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 A$50, 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 <dsp@peg.apc.org>