Anarchist Voices

AK Press, [url]http://www.akpress.org/[/url], which is probably now the leading publisher of scholarly books on anarchism has added to its collections the remarkable works of Paul Avrich, the leading scholar on American anarchism. I will mention:

* Anarchist Voices: An Oral History Of Anarchism In America (Unabridged), 2005. Pb. ISBN: 1904859275.

ITH Goes Global

The ITH, the Austrian organization which since 1965 organizes annual labour-history conferences in the city of Linz, will change its course quite fundamentally. Originally founded as a neutral meeting place for labour historians from East and West during the Cold War, the collapse of East-European state socialism plunged [?] the ITH into a severe identity crisis. After years of debates and experiments the General Assembly now unanimously decided to implement a new approach. The essence of the organization's new profile was summarized in the following points:

Sephis E-Magazine

Sephis (South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development) posted the latest issue of their e-magazine at [url]http://www.sephis.org/pdf/ezine7.pdf[/url]

Since 1994 Sephis activities have facilitated exchanges through conferences, fellowships and lecture tours. We have now embarked on a new initiative, which offers an opportunity for regular dialogue and wider participation. At present there appears to be no magazine dedicated to south-south exchange either in hardcopy or on the www.

Fraternal Capital

Sharad Chari. Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers, Self-Made Men, andGlobalization in Provincial India. Stanford: Stanford University Press,2004. xxv + 379 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-4873-X.

Reviewed by Manu Goswami, Department of History, New York University
Published by H-Asia (September 2006)

Transforming Toil into Capital in Tiruppur

Irish Labour History Society

Irish Labour History Society Annual Conference 2006
20th - 21st October 2006, Liberty Hall, Dublin

90th Anniversary James Connolly (1868 - 1916)

Full Conference Admission (including Clé Club Social) EUR10
Individual Sessions EUR5

Session 1 - Friday 20th October, 7.30 p.m.
Chair - Hugh Geraghty, President, I.L.H.S.
"James Connolly and the Great Divide: Ireland, Europe and the First World War"
Professor John Horne, Trinity College Dublin
Followed by an Open Forum