Throughout time, humans have crisscrossed regions of the world and the entire globe to share, trade, and conquer. Despite this constant in human history many see our present time as the "age of globalization." Especially during the last decade, demonstrations, meetings, books and documentaries have focused on this phenomenon, but not sufficiently on people of the African Diaspora. The Central Pennsylvania Consortium addresses this through the 2004 African American Studies Conference, "Globalizations and the African World" on February 27-28 at Gettysburg College.

The Amadeo Bordiga Foundation gives notice that an election will be held to two Research Scholarships in the topics:

• Amadeo Bordiga and the 'Communist Left' in the context of the international socialist and communist movement
• The Relevance today of Amadeo Bordiga's theoretic-political thought

Each Scholarship value amounts to € 1,500.00 (one thousand five hundred only), less applicable tax.

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The Victor Serge Library, Moscow's library of alternative and radical literature, has now reopened in new premises. Its organisers are making plans to expand further in the coming period. Please take a few minutes to look at a new web site, established by the Friends of the Victor Serge Library to provide information about the library in English, at www.sergelibrary.org.

Constance Bowman and Clara Marie Allen. Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. xvi + 181 pp. Index. $14.95 (paper), ISBN 1-56098-368-X.

Reviewed for H-Amstdy by Karla Erickson, University of Minnesota
Published by H-Amstdy@h-net.msu.edu (July, 2003)

Call for Manuscripts

Berg Publishers are pleased to announce a new journal:

Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture
Eds. Pennina Barnett and Janis Jefferies, both of Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Doran Ross, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History

The Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH) is hosting the IVth Intenational Conference on Indian Labour History at New Delhi on March 18-20, 2004. The theme of this conference is "Labour Movement: The History of Labour Mobility". Papers on a wide range of issues of labour mobility, migration and movement will be presented. The deadline for abstract submission is November 15, 2003, and for full papers February 2004.

Visit the website at www.ailh.org.

L'adresse du site internet du Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements trotskystes et révolutionnaires internationales (CERMTRI) est www.trotsky.com.fr ou assoc.wanadoo.fr/cermtri. Notre mail: cermtri@wanadoo.fr.

Nous organisons, le 15 novembre 2003 à 14h30, en nos locaux (28, rue des Petites Ecuries - 75010 PARIS - France) une conférence sur la résistance en Albanie et dans les Balkans pendant la seconde guerre mondiale.

David S. G. Goodman. Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China: The Taihang Base Area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945. Asia/Pacific/Perspectives Series. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. xxxii + 345 pp. Tables, chronology, maps, list of abbreviations, bibliography, index. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-7425-0864-1; $26.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7425-0865-X.

The 2003 conference of the Scottish Labour History Society will be held at the Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, on Saturday 4th October. Proceedings will begin at 10am. The theme of the conference is 'Labour, the Trade Union Movement and Industrial Relations in late 20th Century Scotland'.

Three papers will be presented:

Louise Michel Papers