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Objet: Les initiatives Daniel Guérin

Chers camarades, cher(e)s ami(e)s,

Au cours des derniers mois et années, les idées et les ouvres de Daniel Guérin ont fait l'objet de plusieurs initiatives, prouvant, s'il en était besoin, leur actualité.

Book announcement:

Alexandros Dagkas, Recherches sur l'histoire sociale de la Grèce du Nord: Le mouvement des ouvriers du tabac, 1918-1928, De Boccard, Paris, 965 pp. + 1 CD. ISBN : 2-7025-1133-3

You can order this book by email:
Paris: De Boccard, tel. 01 43260037, fax. 01 43548583,

Athens : Kauffmann, tel. 210 3236817, fax. 210 3230320,

Alex Dagkas teaches social history at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

http://users.auth.gr/~adagkas/archive.htm

Rütters, Peter, Bauarbeitergewerkschaften in Deutschland und internationale Vereinigungen von Bauarbeiterverbänden (1869 - 2004) : Protokolle, Berichte, Zeitungen ; ein Bestandsverzeichnis der Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung / Peter Rütters ; Rüdiger Zimmermann. - Bonn, 2005. - 268 S. : Ill.. - (Veröffentlichungen der Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung ; 16) ISBN 3-89892-352-5

From: John Clark []

Here's a second announcement of the Reclus conference to be held in the fall in New Orleans. The final deadline for proposals has been extended to May 15, but participants are encouraged to sent them in as soon as possible. Thanks, John

Conference Announcement/Call for Papers (Please Forward)

Humanity and the Earth / l’Homme et la Terre: The Legacy of Elisée Reclus (1830-1905)

October 28-30, 2005
Loyola University
New Orleans, LA USA

From: London Socialist Historians Group

1956 was the year of Khruschev's secret speech, the year of the Russian invasion of Hungary and the Anglo-French invasion of Suez.

Fifty years on, the London Socialist Historians Group is organising a one day event to assess the historical significance of the events of 1956, particularly in terms of its impact on the left.

We intend to have panels on 1956 in the Middle East and in Hungary to start and finish the conference.

Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli - Newsletter n. 5, 5 aprile 2005
Le novità della Fondazione e del sito
http://www.feltrinelli.it/fondazione

Gli archivi del presente: dal documento tradizionale al documento digitale.
Archives of the Present: from Traditional to Digital Documents.
[A conference held in Milan on Dec 2-3, 2004]

From: Julie Herrada

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The IWW is the oldest anti-capitalist trade union federation in history. Their mission, the abolition of the wage system, still holds today; their practice of justice and fairness and their commitment to worker empowerment serves as a model for all trade unions.

Fifth Estate (http://www.fifthestate.org) will be joining in this centenary celebration by dedicating its Fall issue to the topic of "Wobblies and Work."

Wobbly Culture on laborarts.org
Friends, we have a new exhibit on the LaborArts.org website, created by Joseph Deodato, and we'd be delighted to hear your thoughts.

"Solidarity Forever: A Look at Wobbly Culture celebrates one of the most remarkable developments in the American labor movement's history-- the formation just a century ago of the Industrial Workers of the World. The exhibit features cartoons, graphic art, songs and poetry, evoking the vibrant folk culture of the IWW of the early 20th century.

Published by EH.NET (March 2005)

Steven Leiken, The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. xxi + 233 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8143-3128-9.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Ken Fones-Wolf, Department of History, West Virginia University.