File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-01-07.045, message 49


Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 19:38:47 +0000
From: Richard Bos <Richard.Bos-AT-hagcott.meganet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: M-I: Fwd: : SoliNet Seminar: Labour and the Internet(fwd)


I have got the very good book by Eric Lee to review for the New Worker.
Well worth reading. It should be a good cyber-conference.

Louis N Proyect wrote:
> 
>         This is an invitation to attend a special conference for labour
> activists to be held on  the World Wide Web in January, 1997.
> 
>         Entitled "Labour and the Internet" the conference will bring together
> hundreds of labour activists from around the world to discuss how they
> and their unions are using the Internet to build a better labour
> movement. It promises to be an exciting and historic event and we'd
> like to you to be there.
> 
>         The conference will be conducted from January 6 to January 31, 1997. It
> will be moderated by Eric Lee, the author of the recently  published
> book: "Labour and the Internet: The New Internationalism".
> 
>         It will take place on the Solidarity Network (SoliNet) which is a
> WEB-based conferencing system owned by the Canadian Union of Public
> Employees.
> 
>         The conference is part of a series of seminars being conducted on
> SoliNet in 1997. The others conferences include:
> 
> February 1 - February 28:          THE INTERNET AND LABOUR IN THE THIRD
> WORLD
> March 1 - March 30:                  TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZING
> April 1 - April 30:                         LABOUR MOVEMENTS IN THE
> WORLD
> May 1 to May 31:                       THE RUSSIAN LABOUR MOVEMENT
> June 1 to June 30:                     EDUCATION IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
> 
>         To join SoliNet (which is, of course, free of charge) please point your
> WEB browser to:
> 
> 
> www.solinet.org
> 
<snip>
Comradely,

Richard.                     
      New Worker Online http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2853




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