Reflecting on twenty years of COSATU, 1985-2005
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) was formed in 1985 at the height of township struggles against apartheid. COSATU is one of the key working class organisations that contributed immensely to the struggle against apartheid and capitalism. This year marks COSATU's 20th anniversary and this provides the South African working class and its organisations an opportunity to draw a balance sheet of the federation since its inception in 1985.

From: Ronald Creagh

KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library #42

Contents
Antonio Téllez Solà, the Herodotus of the anti-Franco maquis by Stuart Christie

New Pamphlet: Alan O'Toole, "With The Poor People Of The Earth: A Biography Of Doctor John Creaghe of Sheffield & Buenos Aires"

Feedback
New: Alexandre Skirda, "Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack. The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine, 1917-1921"

Coming Soon: José Peirats, "The CNT in the Spanish Revolution", VolumeTwo.

From: Dr David Nash

Social History Society Annual Conference
31 March-2 April 2006
Reading University
Call for papers

From: Jennifer A Longley

Cornell University Press is excited to announce a recent publication of interest. The book, entitled "New Working-Class Studies” is edited by John Russo and Sherry Lee Linkon. Included below is information on the book. If there are any questions, please feel free to visit our website at http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu, or send an email to me at

From: Dave Berry

Call for papers

Les forces de révolution
Forces for radical social change in France today

Annual conference of the Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France, Loughborough University, 8-10 September 2005

The Tenth Annual Chartist Day Conference. 18 June 2005 Bedson Building, Room G37, University of Newcastle, UK
Conference Programme

9.30 Coffee/tea

9.45 Welcome and Introduction to the conference. Joan Allen.

10.00 'Sheffield and the early nineteenth century English Revolutionary tradition'. John Baxter

11.00 'Democracy or Nationalism? The problems of the Chartist press in Ireland'. Mike Huggins

Lunch

2.00 Chartism and Education after 1848: a key to the 1870 Education Act? Keith Flett

From: Sebastian Budgen Books in German for which Historical Materialism seeks reviews in English
May 2005

Historical Materialism seeks reviewers for the following books in German. Reviews should be submitted in English. Our policy is to publish substantial review articles, usually ranging between 3,000 and 6,000 words, and it is important that books should be discussed in terms of their relevance to Marxist theory. The Guidelines document for HM reviewers will be sent on request.

Le Centre d'animation et de recherche en histoire ouvrière et populaire (Carhop) publie Questions d'histoire sociale.

Apporter un éclairage historique à de nombreuses questions d'actualité qui font et qui ont fait, aujourd'hui comme hier, l'objet de débats passionnés : tel a été l'objectif du Carhop en rédigeant ces Questions d'histoire sociale.

English version below

From: Tapio Bergholm

Making Global and Local Connections: Historical Perspectives on Port Economics

Call for Papers for a port history session of the XIV International Economic History Congress IEHC, Helsinky, Finland, 21-25 August 2006 and a pre-conference to be held in Kotka (Finland), 18-20 August 2006