LL:INFO: New pamphlet on the Olympics

2000-07-11 Thread David Glanz
Socialist Worker has just published a pamphlet by Chris Breen called: Stuff the Corporate Games: Racism, Sexism, Nationalism--The Real Story of the Olympics. There are chapters on: * The Olympics' sordid history * The IOC * The corporations behind the Games * Nationalism * Drugs and the ideolog

LL:DDV: Merri Creek

2000-07-11 Thread Chris Rust
The Merri Creek runs from the north of Melbourne to join the Yarra River at Collingwood. Friends of Merri Creek is a community group which works to preserve and restore the natural beauty of this waterway. On Sunday16 July there will be a planting bee at Rushall Station, Clifton Hill from 10.0

LL:ART: S11 -- World TNC jackals gather in Melbourne

2000-07-11 Thread Communist Party of Australia
The following articles were published in "The Guardian", newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia in its issue of Wednesday, July, 12th 2000. Contact address: 65 Campbell Street, Surry Hills. Sydney. 2010 Australia. Phone: (612) 9212 6855 Fax: (612) 9281 5795. CPA Central Committee: <[EMAIL P

LL:DDW: Perth Convention on Globalisation, 25 Nov 00

2000-07-11 Thread Brian Jenkins
Dear friends and colleagues, Thanks to those of you who have offered support and papers (and apologies to any whose patience I have unduly tried ). Be assured I won't be posting another update for at least a month. Feel free to network this one -- I would be delighted to learn of any similar e

LL:ART: NO to Star Wars

2000-07-11 Thread Communist Party of Australia
The following articles were published in "The Guardian", newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia in its issue of Wednesday, July, 12th 2000. Contact address: 65 Campbell Street, Surry Hills. Sydney. 2010 Australia. Phone: (612) 9212 6855 Fax: (612) 9281 5795. CPA Central Committee: <[EMAIL P

LL:DD: Meet the Federation of Cuban Women

2000-07-11 Thread Debbie Brennan
WELCOME FEMINISTS FROM REVOLUTIONARY CUBA! Bertha Acosta Segua, member of Federation of Cuban Women's National Committee, and Nancy Iglesias Mildenstein, from FMC's Department of Foreign Affairs, will visit Australia July 22 - 30. The Federation of Cuban Women, an outstanding champion of women

LL:ART: Indonesian Parliament `allows' unions

2000-07-11 Thread melanie sjoberg
UNIONISTS AGAINST CORPORATE TYRANNY Indonesian Parliament passes Bill on labour unions JAKARTA -- The Indonesian People's Representative Council(DPR) yesterday unanimously passed a Bill that would guarantee the freedom of workers to form their own labour unions, a report said. The Bill was pa

LL:INFO: GRAFFITO --political satire & cultural activism on line

2000-07-11 Thread Dave Riley
This is an invitation to subscribe to GRAFFITO. GRAFFITO is a three year old email newsletter that featured works of original political satire. Now it has a new subscription host -- LISTBOT -- and a broader focus: as well as political satire, GRAFFITO will also function as a discussion and ann

LL:AA: U.S. Defence Secretary visit - Sydney protest

2000-07-11 Thread joan
URGENT William S. Cohen, U.S. Secretary of Defence will be in Sydney this coming Sunday, July 16. Demonstrate what we think about U.S. policies on sanctions on Iraq, the blockade of Cuba and all the rest of their actions around the world in defence of an exploitative, oppressive and bloody syst

LL:DD: Indonesian Trade Unionist to tour Australia

2000-07-11 Thread melanie sjoberg
ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH INDONESIA AND EAST TIMOR (ASIET) UNIONISTS AGAINST CORPORATE TYRANNY (UACT) Militant trade unionist to visit Australia, August-September 2000. Dear friend, We are writing to let you know of the forthcoming tour of a leader of the Indonesian National Front for Worker

LL:INFO: new cuba book

2000-07-11 Thread sp
New Book out on Cuba and the debates around the Cuban revolution by Peter Taffee, General Secretary of Socialist Party (England & Wales). Cuba, socialism and democracy-debates on the Revolution and Cuba Today $15 at New International Bookshop, $12 from Socialist Party direct. Takes up all the

LL:INFO: new globalisation pamphlet relevant to S11

2000-07-11 Thread sp
New pamphlet from the Socialist Party Cancel the Debt! A socialist programme for the anti-globalisation movement $2 from Socialist Party or progressive bookshops. Email us to get a copy. On our web page in a few day. The millennium ended with 50,000 people marching in the Battle in Seattle and