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well read Against the Current #4/99
The September-October issue focuses on "battles for education" in the USA and Canada: race integration, privatisation, "choice" , affirmative action and graduate student campaigns.
Other articles include Steve Bloom's report on the Mumia Abu-Jamal campaign, and Emily Citkowski's eye-witness report trom Indonesia. Subscription costs US$25 (six issues) in the USA, USS50 for overseas (airmail), with 40% discount on orders of three or more. Contact AT at 7012 Michigan Avenue, Detroit, MI 48210, USA <cfc@igc.apc.net Indonesia Alert #2/99
This US solidarity newsletter has some outstanding articles. Dan La Botz reviews the Indonesian labour movement under reformasi, Emily Citkowski interviews labour leader Dita Sari, and Elizabeth Collins continues her in-depth study of the democracy movement. Covers a broader range of organisations than some other Indonesia solidarity groups, but with a clear focus on the more radical and socialist currents. Subscription is USS8.00 for students and low-income, otherwise US$12.00 (outside the USA add 56.00 for postage). PO Box 267, Oakland, CA 94604-0267, USA. <kurtbiddle@earthlink.net> Asian Labour Update #29,30
A two-part dossier on "Labour rights under attack", with welldocumented articles from across Asia, plus Australia and New Zealand. Future issues will cover labour rights, collective bargaining and human resource management. Subscription costs USS20. Asia-Pacific area labour groups and NGOs can request free copies. Published by the Asia Monitor Resource Center, 444 Nathan Road 8-B, Kowloon, Hong Kong. <amrc@nk.super.net 36 International Viewpoint #316 November 1999
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.pretpoa.com.br> 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. Michel Rousseau, European Marches, 104, rue des Couronnes, 75020 Paris, France. Fax: +33 1 44 62 63 45. E-mail: marches97@ras.eu.org www.ras.eu.org//marches/ Email lists are available, in read only or in write-discussion World Trade Organisation ministerial conterence 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 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 <dsp@dsp.org.au>, www.dsp.org.au/ List your event here! Write or e-mail us with details, at least six weeks in advance.