LL:DDV: SP Day School on Processes of Revolution
Comrades The next SP half day school is on Saturday 5th July 2003 from 1pm at the SP office, Trades Hall, cnr Lygon and Victoria Sts, Carlton South, Melbourne. Entry by gold coin donation. All welcome. Members and non members. Phone 96399111 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for help with child care or transport or more information and background reading. Topic: Processes of Revolution What are the common features of every revolution and mass movement? Using 1917 Russian Revolution as a test case, we will study the February initial mass spontaneous stage, the role of a party in relation to Lenin's return to Russia in April, the July days where the more advanced workers moved into battle before they had won over the mass of workers elsewhere, the attempted counter-revolution in August, the period of dual power, and the question of insurrection. These common features of every such movement are vital for socialists to absorb so as to better understand and therefore better intervene in future movements. Day school run by Zac Wright and Stephen Jolly. Use of Video: Ten Days that Shook the World. Reading will be distributed at upcoming SP branches in Melbourne (every Tuesday and Wednesday at 7pm Trades Hall) or by email or post (contact details above). Come along and bring all your interested friends and workmates and fellow students! -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:DDV: Darebin Defend Medicare Campaign
PUBLIC MEETING Friday, June 20th, Preston Town Hall Gower Street, Preston 7:00 pm Stop the Americanisation of our health care Defend Extend Medicare Join the campaign Speakers include: Peter Stephenson - Mayor City of Darebin Marilyn Beaumont - Women's Health Victoria Martin Ferguson - Member for Batman George Lekakis - Chairperson, Victorian Multicultural Commission Dr. Shane Conway, Reservoir GP - impact on local patients Endorsed by the Preston Reservoir Progress Association others -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:DDV: Waste Dump Public Meeting
Friends of the Earth and Nuclear Free Australia present: No Radioactive Waste Dump Irati Wanti, the poison - leave it! Public Meeting and film screening of Irati Wanti by Shannen Owen When Wednesday July 02, 6.30pm Where Trades Hall Lygon/Victoria Sts, CARLTON Speakers Include: Senator Kerry Nettle - Australian Greens Loretta O'Brien - Friends of the Earth Eve Vincent- Melbourne Kungkas www.nukefreeaus.org www.iratitwanti.org.auwww.foe.org.au -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:INFO: Class Pride World Wide CDs
Hi, Love and Rage now has 2 CDs from Canadian anti-racist skinhead label Insurgence. Class Pride World Wide Volume 1 and 2 - two compilations of anti-racist and anti-system anthems...punk as fuck, if not punker. Or skinhead-er, as the case may be. Each CD is $15 in Australia, UK 5 pounds, New Zealand $20, Europe 10 euros. Canada and the US, you're probably going to find it cheaper buying them directly from their label, www.insurgence.net. As always, send well-concealed cash, or a cheque or money order made out to J. Hutchings, to Love and Rage, PO Box 1191, Richmond North VIC 3121. Love and Rage's own compilation is selling fast - volume 2 is on the way, featuring an unreleased song by Chumbawamba, and music by Anti-Flag among others. website - www.loveandrage.rocks.it full catalogue (Word document) - www.geocities.com/skipnewborn/catalogue.doc .. -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:DDS: Ruth Russell, human shield in Iraq, speaking on war
Please distribute widely. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (SA) and Adelaide Amnesty International Women's Group invite you to hear Ruth Russell, human shield in Iraq speak about her experiences of the recent war on Iraq at the Coglin Street Community Centre 23 Coglin Street, Adelaide 7.30 p.m. - 9.30 p.m. Thursday 3rd July Entry by gold coin donation Supper provided Further information: 8232 6334 -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:DDA: Protest Australian military ties with Indonesia
http://www.active.org.au/sydney/ June 24, Canberra: Protest Australian military ties with Indonesia by ASAP 8:12pm Thu Jun 12 '03 article#2477 address: PO Box 458, Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007, AUSTRALIA - phone: (+61 2) 9690 1032 - Fax: (+61 2) 9690 1381 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Acehnese community and their solidarity supporters will join the 'Defence and Industry 2003' conference protest on June 24. On June 24-26, in the ACT, the Australian government is hosting this conference at the National Convention Centre, Constitution Ave, Canberra. The Australia-Aceh Association in Sydney is organising transport to Canberra for the day. Please circulate Protest Australian military ties with Indonesia! The Acehnese community and their solidarity supporters will join the 'Defence and Industry 2003' conference protest on June 24. On June 24-26, in the ACT, the Australian government is hosting this conference at the National Convention Centre, Constitution Ave, Canberra. Some 1500 delegates are expected to attend to network and to plan the tender of defence contracts from, and with, the Howard government. The Defence and Industry 2003 conference is an important forum between the Australian government and international corporations which deal in arms. It will promote the manufacture, import and export of lethal weapons by Australian and international companies, and is therefore an ideal opportunity to put the arguments against such a lethal and inhuman military-industrial complex. Speakers at the conference include Senator Robert Hill, Minister for Defence, Ian Macfarlane M.P., Minister for Industry Tourism and Resources, Fran Bailey M.P., Parliamentary Secretary for Defence. Delegates from Raytheon, Lockheed-Martin, British Aerospace, and other big international arms producing corporations are expected to attend. The Acehnese community will join other peace activists to protest against the government's decision to increase defence spending and to maintain military ties with the Indonesian government which is currently waging all-out war against the Acehnese people. The Australian government currently provides no military hardware to Indonesia, but it maintains a training program for Indonesian military officers and is looking to expand this. Senator Hill wants to resume military ties with Kopassus, the discredited special forces who masterminded the carnage in East Timor, and are now busy doing the same in Aceh and West Papua. The Australia-Aceh Association in Sydney is organising transport to Canberra for the day. They are encouraging solidarity activists to join with them to take their protest to Canberra. To book a seat on the bus, call Dahlan on 0401 956 274. To find out more about what's happening in Aceh, go to the home page of Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific @ www.asia-pacific-action.org. Below is the arms embargo call from TAPOL. To sign on please contact Paul Barber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL MILITARY SANCTIONS AGAINST INDONESIA We are organisations with long-standing concerns about human rights in Indonesia and about the adverse impact on human rights of Indonesias military relations with other countries. This statement arises out of our alarm at developments in Aceh following the Indonesian Governments declaration of martial law on 19 May 2003 and our concern about military operations currently underway in the Central Highlands of Papua. The military offensive in Aceh is now proceeding at a level that is causing widespread civilian loss of life and the destruction of Acehs public infrastructure. Human rights groups fear massive violations of human rights and are especially concerned about the safety of human rights defenders and civil society activists. Numerous reports of extra-judicial killings and torture are emerging from Aceh, including of students and boys as young as 12. Several NGOs have been forced underground because of dire warnings from the Martial Law Authority. Their activists have been threatened with arrest and as a result many have gone into hiding. Acehnese communities are being targeted in Jakarta and other cities outside Aceh. In an attempt to isolate Aceh and suppress the truth about the war, the Government has banned foreign aid workers and international NGOs and imposed severe restrictions on press freedom. Tens-of-thousands of people have been internally displaced and villagers are afraid to tend their land. The UN has expressed concern about a looming humanitarian crisis as food supplies run dangerously low. In Papua, military operations have intensified in the Central Highlands following an incident in Wamena on 4 April. Villagers are fleeing their homes and some deaths have been reported because of the lack of food. The Indonesian military (TNI) have obstructed investigations into the killing on 31 August of two US citizens and one
