Seminar Announcement:

For the first time ever, the story of New Zealand's involvement in the Spanish Civil War will be publicly examined. The Trade Union History Project will host a major seminar in Wellington, NZ on the weekend of 4-5 November 2006. A number of specialist experts, both academic and otherwise, have agreed to speak on subjects such as the New Zealanders in the International Brigade, New Zealand non-combatants such as doctors and nurses, the role of NZ trade unions to the civil war, the position of the Catholic Church, and the Quaker fundraising campaign.

The Lent 2006 issue of the London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter has been published and can be downloaded from the LSHG web site.

1906-2006, Les 100 ans de la Charte d’Amiens. Le syndicalisme révolutionnaire, la Charte d’Amiens et l’autonomie ouvrière 2006.

Colloque international, Paris, à la Bourse du travail de Saint-Denis, 4 et 5 mars 2006.

Programme

Alexander C. Pathy. Waterfront Blues: Labour Strife at the Port of Montreal, 1960-1978. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. ix + 328 pp. Photographs, notes, index. $53.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8020-8980-1.

Reviewed by: Andrew Parnaby, Department of History, Cape Breton University.
Published by: H-Canada (October, 2005)

From: Marcel van der Linden,

Call for Papers

The International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and AMSAB - Institute for Social History (Ghent, Belgium) are jointly preparing a conference on the past and present of the International Labor Organization. If possible, the conference papers should lay the foundation for a collection of essays to be published later.

From: Anand Pakiam,

Heiner Lindner: "Um etwas zu erreichen, muss man sich etwas vornehmen, von dem man glaubt, dass es unmöglich sei". Der Internationale Sozialistische Kampf-Bund (ISK) und seine Publikationen (In order to achieve something, one must undertake what one thinks to be impossible. The Militant Socialist International and its Publications) Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, History Discussion Group, No. 64, ed. by Dieter Dowe, 270 pages, 15 illustrations, Bonn 2006.

Rosario González Martínez ( ) sends the following information about the International Conference about the Spanish Civil War, Madrid, November 27, 28 and 29, 2006.

The Fondazione Turati (Florence) recently published three new titles:

This book charts the turbulent history of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) from its foundation in 1913, to its dissolution in 1945. Established to protect and advance the interests of workers of all countries and to further international solidarity, the IFTU from the outset was beset by difficulties. Within a year the First World War split the fledgling organisation, underlining national interests and creating resentment between some of the most powerful union interests.