LL:DDV: Emergency SP public meeting
Bali Bombings - Looming War on Iraq A socialist analysis Emergency Socialist Party public meeting This Tuesday 22nd October 7pm Trades Hall, cnr Lygon and Victoria Sts, Carlton South Phone (03) 96399111 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information .. -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:URL: Know Your Place! Shut Your Face! anti-war satire
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LL:PR: A new publishing project of the works of Che Guevara
October 8, 2002 A NEW PUBLISHING PROJECT OF THE WORKS OF CHE GUEVARA Coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the death of Ernesto Che Guevara a major publishing program has been announced by Ocean Press, Australia, and the Che Guevara Studies Center, Havana. This project will prepare Ches complete writings for publication in a large number of thematic and other collections. It will include a substantial number of previously unpublished works by Che Guevara such as his much speculated about Critical Notes on Political Economy and others that were only sporadically published in the 1960s and 1970s. The series will ultimately include no less than 17 separate volumes and will be the most complete library of Ches work ever to be published. All these titles will be published by Ocean Press in English-language and Spanish-language editions. Ocean Press, which holds world rights to the titles, has begun work with publishing houses on all continents to prepare editions of these books in many languages. The objective of the series is to disseminate Ches works and ideas in a way that, according to the Che Guevara Studies Center, will allow those young activists who see Che's life and actions as a model to understand his many facets, study his ideas and, in this way, recognize his legacy. The Havana-based Center also stresses that while providing a unique and invaluable resource to scholars and researchers, this series by presenting Che in his own words will contribute to a better understanding of Che's thought, allowing the reader to delve into his cultural depth, his incisiveness, his irony, his passion and his astute observations that is to say, the living Che. The Che Guevara Studies Center is the institution established to promote, both inside and outside of Cuba, the thought, life and works of Ernesto Che Guevara, recognizing the extraordinary significance of his theory, praxis and ethical legacy and their validity and timeliness in today's globalized world. The Center is located in the house where Che lived with his family from 1962 until his final departure from Cuba. The director of the Center is Aleida March. Ocean Press is an independent, Australian-based book publisher with offices in the United States and Cuba. Ocean Press has already published a significant number of books on or by Che Guevara. These include CHE GUEVARA READER (David Deutschmann, editor) CHE GUEVARA AND THE LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS (Barbarroja Piñeiro) CHE AND AFRICA: CHE GUEVARAS CONGO DIARY (William Gálvez) CHE GUEVARA AND THE FBI (Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith, editors) CHE A MEMOIR (Fidel Castro) * INITIAL TITLES IN THE NEW CHE GUEVARA PUBLISHING PROJECT Global Justice Liberation and Socialism (published 2002) Critical Notes on Political Economy The Great Debate on Political Economy (with additional contributions by Ernest Mandel, Charles Bettelheim and others) The Motorcycle Diaries A Latin American Journey (new, expanded edition) Kennedy's Alliance for Progress The Punta del Este Conference, August 1961 Latin America The Awakening of a Continent Che Guevara Reader (new, expanded edition) Che Guevara A Self-Portrait Socialism and Humanity Thoughts on Revolutionary Humanism World Revolution and Politics The Cuban Revolution (1959-65) For further information contact: Ocean Press GPO Box 3279, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia Phone: (61-3) 9326 4280 Fax: (61-3) 9329 5040 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the United States: Ocean Press PO Box 1186 Old Chelsea Station New York, NY 10113-1186 Telephone: 718-246 4160 In Havana: Ocean Press Phone: (53-7) 961456 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.oceanbooks.com.au .. -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:ART: Scheme to privatise water
The following articles were published in The Guardian, newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia in its issue of Wednesday, October 16th, 2002. Contact address: 65 Campbell Street, Surry Hills. Sydney. 2010 Australia. Phone: (612) 9212 6855 Fax: (612) 9281 5795. CPA Central Committee: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Guardian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webpage: http://www.cpa.org.au Subscription rates on request. ** Scheme to privatise water Slay the Telstra giant says a headline in Business Review Weekly on October 2. The article pushes for the privatisation of the remaining publicly owned 51 percent of the telecommunications provider. At around the same time a group of billionaire businessmen and a commercial radio spin doctor were devising a lunatic scheme to control Australia's scarce water resources, including re-routing the river systems. by Marcus Browning The connection between water and telecommunications is not an accident. The Business Review Weekly article was written by one of the sharks from the sea of consulting companies eagerly promoting deregulation and the sell off of all public assets. It is an eagerness motivated by the promise of share options and huge salary packages, which in this case would be funded by taxpayers. The article argued that Telstra's monopoly in telecommunications is holding Australia back on the brink of the glorious new world order of corporate globalisation. How can Australia expect to compete with Hong Kong and Singapore to attract regional [corporate] headquarters when its communications services lag?, asks this advisor to the privateers. Meanwhile, radio mouthpiece Alan Jones was at the Farmhand Foundation giving off feelgood vibes: We're seeking to go to the farming community to encourage them that we're on their side. The privateers get full marks for propaganda skills. The Farmhand Foundation was set up by corporate monopoly interests under cover of helping drought-stricken farmers (see The Guardian #1112). News Ltd chief executive John Hartigan is a member, as is Consolidated Press Holdings chairman Kerry Packer. Farmhand's chairman is Bob Mansfield, who is also chairman of Telstra, appointed by the Howard Government to oversee the sell-off of the remaining 51 percent. The privatisation of Telstra is fiercely opposed by rural Australians and the Government knows it. Rural communities can see the writing on the wall. They know that its spells the end of their cross-subsidised telecommunication services. This would result in prices in regional Australia increasing and services being further degraded. Farmhand's drought-proofing of Australia includes the construction of water pipelines and changing the course of rivers. Said Packer, who is a monopoly operator in the meat industry, I think it's possible for this country to be a lot better drought proofed than it is at the moment. Jones ran with a diversion-of-the-rivers line, calling for the tapping of the Clarence, Burdekin and Daly northern rivers to irrigate dry areas in the south. Dire consequences This scheme, scientifically debunked when put forward previously, was rejected again by experts. Tom Hatton, senior principal research scientist with the CSIRO's Land and Water division, warned of the dire consequences of proposals to turn the rivers around. You can't spread the water around so that the grass is always green, he said. If they mean opening up new irrigation areas, then that would mean pulling new waters out of the environment, and that really is very fraught. The Northern Territory Government called the idea of tapping the northern rivers for massive new amounts of irrigation water technically possible but economically and environmentally ridiculous. Putting out some more feelgood vibes, chairman Hartigan intoned, We are not only trying to alleviate hardship, but looking to put in some water policy that is enduring. Enduring for whom? His philanthropic hot air has about it the stink of entrepreneurial money grubbing. Who would construct such an elaborate irrigation system? Who would own them, regulate them, manage them, and benefit from them by controlling the water supply? The answer is the corporations with rich subsidies from the Federal government using taxpayers' money derived from the sale of Telstra. It should be noted that the individual recruited by the Howard Government to head yet another investigation into Telstra services in the bush is a big player from the cotton industry. Dick Estens is a cotton farmer from Moree in north-west NSW. He, like most of those on his Telstra inquiry panel, is a member of the National Party. His millionaire status was in no small part derived from the cotton irrigators' ruthless and willful exploitation and destruction of the river systems in north west NSW and south west Queensland. Estens and his like are the ones set to benefit from Farmhand's water plan. Alan Jones' program with
LL:DDV: meeting: remembering the freedom rides
** Wednesday Night at the New International Bookshop 6.30 pm, 16 October Remembering the Freedom Rides NIB event: Historian and author Ann Curthoys discusses her new book on the legendary 1965 anti-racist bus trip into rural NSW. New International Books Trades Hall 54 Victoria St Carlton Sth 3053 Jeff Sparrow Coordinator New International Book Co-operative Trades Hall Box 18 54 Victoria St Carlton Sth 3053 Mon-Fri 9am-6.30 pm Sat 11am-5pm tel 03 9662 3744 fax 03 9663 4755 www.nibs.org.au to receive regular updates about bookshop events, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comrades, cling to your principles! Be men and women! We are fighting for freedom; why should we falter? J.W.Fleming, 1889 .. -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
