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Malaysia - Socialism 2008, November 7-8

Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) invites you to

SOCIALISM 2008 – MALAYSIA

7-9 November 2008

New Era College, Kajang, Selangor, MALAYSIA

Vietnam Update: Labour in Vietnam -- November 6-7, 2008, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

The Vietnam Update will be held at University House, Australian National

University on 6-7 November 2008. The 2008 Vietnam Update addresses the

topic of labour in Vietnam.


Vietnam is one of the world's fastest growing economies and has undergone

a remarkable transformation over the last two decades from a poor, mostly

agricultural country to a new centre of global industrial production.

However, for three years in a row, factories throughout the country have

been hit by waves of strikes. Complaints about low wages, harsh conditions

and the high cost of living have come to the fore in labour disputes.

Industrial unrest has increased in 2008, a year of soaring inflation and

slowing growth. Below the surface, rarely manifested in the strikes, are

diverse concerns about inadequate social infrastructure for migrant

workers, the quality of the workforce, the representation of worker's

interests, the unregulated informal sector, and the social and cultural

costs of Vietnam's rapid metamorphosis into a globalised industrial

society.

Photo exhibition: Durban, South Africa, UKZN Centre for Civil Society from August 1-September 3, 2008

Photographs by Oliver Meth, from the exhibition 'Breathing Spaces



Breathing Spaces exhibition can be viewed at UKZN Centre for Civil Society from 1 August - 3 September 2008.



About the Photographer

South Africa: Treatment Action Campaign 10th Anniversary Conference, Cape Town, December 8-9, 2008

Treatment Action Campaign 10th Anniversary Conference and Edited Volume Cape Town, 8-9 December 2008 [provisional dates]


Call for papers

Conference theme: TAC's impact in its first decade and challenges for the
future

Authors are invited to submit abstracts (maximum 300 words) on any topic
related to the conference theme. The organisers intend publishing a volume
of the best papers from the conference during the first half of 2009.
Abstracts should be emailed to history@tac.org.za

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Deadline for submission: 31 August 2008

Overview

Towards climate action in Copenhagen 2009: International planning meeting in Copenhagen 13-14th of September 2008

Towards climate action in Copenhagen 2009
Climate Network 09 | 23.05.2008 23:39 | Climate Chaos | Ecology

We invite you to join the 1st international planning meeting in Copenhagen from
the 13-14th of September 2008. The meeting aims at preparing a large
mobilisation for direct action against the root causes of climate change in
Copenhagen and throughout the world during the UN Climate Conference (30 Nov-11
Dec 2009).

Towards climate action in Copenhagen 2009

First international planning meeting

We stand at a crossroads in history. The facts are undeniable. Global climate
change, caused by human activities, is happening. We all know that, world over,
we're facing a manifold and deepening crisis: of the climate, energy, food,
livelihoods, and of political and human rights. Scientific, environmental,
social and civil society movements from all over the world are calling for
action against climate change.

Massive consumption of fossil fuel is one of the major causes of global
warming, a problem that threatens the lives of hundreds of millions of people

Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 30-November 1, 2008: Crisis and revolution in today’s world. Analysis and perspectives

International Congress of Research and Political Debate

Working People of All Countries, Unite!

Crisis and revolution in today’s world. Analysis and perspectives

October 30th to November 1st, 2008

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Facultad de Filosofìa y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.


“The end of History” can be considered as one of most flawed predictions ever heard. Instead of accepting passively the painful consequences of capitalism, the world’s proletarians respond in different ways. Latin-American insurrections, Iraqi resistance and strikes in Europe show that class struggle remains at center stage in world politics. Fukuyama’s mistaken characterization exemplifies the inability of bourgeois science to analyse and understand reality.

Conference and Vietnam/Laos study tour October 2008

Announcing conference in Hanoi, 7-8 October 2008: "Problems in Contemporary
Socioeconomic Theory" sponsored by Nature, Society and Thought and the Ho
Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration. Conference
is embedded in a two week study in northern & northwestern Vietnam and
Laos. For details see attached PDF file or
http://umn.edu/home/marqu002/VL2008.htm

Erwin Marquit
Editor, Nature, Society and Thought
University of Minnesota
116 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

marqu002@tc.umn.edu
612-922-7993

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