The Working Class Movement Library will be celebrating International Women's day with an event on Sunday 5th March, starting at 2pm.

Ruth Frow, co-founder of the library with her late husband Eddie, will speak about the Socialist origins of IWD followed by Michael Herbert, chair of WCML Trust, who will talk about Mary Quaile, a leading trade unionist of the 1920s who was the only woman on the General Council in 1926. The afternoon will be rounded off with songs from Bernie Murphy, an excellent singer from Manchester. The event is free. Light refreshments will be served.

Call for Papers

At the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the proclamation of the Martial Law in Poland, I want to organize a conference about the reactions of western trade unions on Solidarnosc, and the motives and interests behind eventual support, or the reasons for eventual indifference or reserve.

Edward Thompson Memorial Bursary

Society for the Study of Labour History
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

Applications are invited for the Edward Thompson Memorial Bursary. The bursary has been established by the Society for the Study of Labour History in honour of one of its distinguished founders and past Presidents. It is tenable at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, in the value of up to £250 per annum per annum, in order to support research in the MRC archives.

It is a great pleasure to announce that Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas has been chosen to receive the 2005 award for "Best New Journal" (including all startups over the past three years) from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. The award will be formally presented to a representative from our editorial board on December 27th at the MLA meetings in Washington D.C.

Leon Fink
Editor, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
www.lawcha.org

The Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli published two new titles:

Giuseppe Mazzini, Dei doveri dell'uomo, Biblioteca europea
www.feltrinelli.it/Fondazione/pubblicazioni-interna-mazzini.htm

Il sogno dell'Inghilterra. Il Fondo William James Linton
www.feltrinelli.it/Fondazione/pubblicazioni-interna-linton.htm

Call for Papers

RSD3: Re-thinking Social Democracy for the Future:
Social democracy in the post-bipolar world: Challenges in the developed world, opportunities in the developing world?
International conference; University of Sheffield, 28-30 June 2006

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Labour and Right-Wing Extremism
42nd Conference of the ITH - International Conference of Labour and Social History
Linz, Austria, September 14-17th, 2006

Música en las Fábricas y en las casas del pueblo

Concierto de piano de Rosa Torres-Pardo
Madrid, 22 de diciembre de 2005 a las 13:00 horas

La Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero (FFLC) tiene como objetivos recuperar la memoria histórica, recordar la figura de Francisco Largo Caballero, divulgar y difundir el pensamiento sindical de inspiración socialdemócrata, así como facilitar la reflexión, dentro del mundo del trabajo, sobre los temas que preocupan a una sociedad moderna, especialmente en colaboración con el mundo de la cultura y el mundo universitario.

As a collaborative work of Ilse Fischer (Archives of Social Democracy of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation ) and Rüdiger Zimmermann (Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation) the life story of Eugen Prager has been published:

Fischer, Ilse:
"Unsere Sehnsucht in Worte kleiden" - Eugen Prager (1876 - 1942) : der Lebensweg eines sozialdemokratischen Journalisten / Ilse Fischer ; Rüdiger Zimmermann. - Bonn : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Historisches Forschungszentrum, 2005. - 242 S. : Ill. - ISBN 3-89892-417-3

The 2005 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize has been awarded to:

Kevin Murphy for Revolution and Counterrevolution, Class Struggle in aMoscow Metal Factory published by Berghahn Books.