Conference: ‘Histories of Activism’ Postgraduate Conference
Organised by the Histories of Activism Research Group at Northumbria University and the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH), Venue: Bishopsgate Institute, London, Saturday, 26th November 2011.
To register your attendance or for any enquires please email vanessa.sherriffs [at] northumbria.ac.uk or p.simpson [at] northumbria.ac.uk

Histories of Activism Postgraduate Conference – Programme

Registration 10.00am – 10.45am
10.45am – 11am – Welcome and Introduction

Actividades Culturales

TOC, Volume 56 part 2, April 2011

Research Articles
Mary Hilson, A Consumers’ International? The International Cooperative Alliance and Cooperative Internationalism, 1918–1939: A Nordic Perspective
Custodio Velasco Mesa, Revolutionary Rhetoric and Labour Unrest: Liège in 1886 and Seville in 1901
Cristiana Viegas de Andrade, Migration Systems in Nineteenth-Century North-Western Portugal: The Case of Vila do Conde

Suggestions and Debates
Marianne Maeckelbergh, The Road to Democracy: The Political Legacy of "1968"

TOC, vol. 41, n. 6, Summer 2011 (Italian text)

The Anarchist movement in Galicia is unknown to English-language readers. These essays tells the stories of the men and women who built it, fought for it, and how they kept it alive in the face of incredible odds.

Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 67, July 2011 has just been posted on the site.

Contents:

Archibald, Malcolm. The Many Lives of Max Chernyak: corrections.

Berkman, Alexander. Berkman and the Relief Fund.

Bookunin, M. Rabble rousers and merry pranksters : a history of anarchism in Aotearoa/New Zealand from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s [Review].

Fernández Andújar, Francisco José. Who was Francisco Maroto del Ojo?.

Greek Anarchist History.

LabourStart's 2nd Annual Global Solidarity Conference / LabourStart'ın İkinci Küresel Dayanışma Konferansı, İstanbul, 18-20.11.2011

From social networks to social revolution

That’s the theme of this year’s LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference, to be held on 18-20 November 2011 at the headquarters of Petrol-Is (the Turkish oil workers union) in Istanbul. The conference website will contain everything you need to know about the conference and is in the process of being built right now:

Featuring an array of archival documents and illustrations, Remains to be Seen: Tracing Joe Hill's ashes in New Zealand—an easy-to-read account of censorship and radical labour during the First World War—is now available to purchase from Rebel Press.

Volontariato e mutua solidarietà. 150 anni di previdenza in Italia
a cura di Gianni Silei
Lacaita, 2011

Eugenio Colorni federalista
a cura di Fabio Zucca
Lacaita, 2011

M. Donno
Italia e Francia: una pace difficile. L'ambasciatore Giuseppe Saragat e la diplomazia internazionale (1945-1946)
Lacaita, 2011

http://www.pertini.it/turati.html

Conference: "Giuseppe Garibaldi : a Che Guevara of the XIX century?"
Co-organized by Stichting Italiëlinks and Stichting Alternatieve

Program:
14:30 Introduction with coffee/tea
15:00 Welcome speech
15:10 Giuseppe Garibaldi and socialism
Prof. Lucy Riall University of London
15:50 The role of emigration in modernizing
Italy after the unification - Fare l'Italia fuori d'Italia
Prof. Emilio Franzina University of Verona
16:30 Discussion and questions
16:45 Refreshments