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All together for Haiti!

Welcome to the CLASS book club.
The CLASS book club aims to offer a space for discussion on authors and ideas about different issues concerning contemporary Latin America. The topics will range from history, political analysis and theory, cultural studies, workers and people´s struggles, poetry and fiction literature. In our monthly meetings we profile a book, [...]

The Pablo Neruda Cultural Centre is organising a Celebration for the International Women´s day.
Saturday March 13, 6:30pm
At the Maritime Union of Australia. 46-54 Ireland St., West Melbourne
All money raised will go directly to support aid project in Chile, for the recovery after the terrible earthquakes. Come along!
No more sexism! no more neoliberalism!
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The Centre for Latin America Solidarity and Studies (CLASS) thank you all for participating in the event Celebrate 50 years of Revolutionary Cuba
Thank you to the unions that supported us, the Conch, the great Cuban artists and performers, Candela Dance, the FMLN, the Centro cultural Pablo Neruda, the Australia-Cuba Friendship society and everyone who helped [...]

CLASS invites you to celebrate 50 years of Revolutionary Cuba and its achievements in social justice, education, health and environment.
Saturday 20th of June, from 6:30pm
Hall of the MUA (46 Ireland St, West Melbourne, Melway 2A F12)
Featuring reportback from workers solidarity May Day brigade to Cuba
Cuban Trova by Yordis Seijo, music by The Conch and Latin [...]

On the 20th of April, 10 years ago, black and red flags placed by students covered the doors of the most prestigious University in the Hispanic world and the biggest in Latin America, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM by its Spanish acronym). In Mexico the black and red flag is a symbol of strike action. Students from high school and university formed a movement and occupied the university for nearly a year to defend free education against the neoliberal strategies the government (and the authorities of the University) tried to implement, as part of the agenda of the IMF and its plan of privatisations.

Sometimes I have thought that I would not have to write the following day and that I could rather use part of the time to read and study, as I have often done. But, the significant events of the past few weeks related to the world economy and politics, and the developments in Bolivia have [...]

Talk by Jo Williams who led the Education exchange tour to Venezuela in February 2009. It was presented to the Feb 21, 2009 Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Forum in Melbourne.

Talk presented by Jo Williams an activist with the Revolutionary Socialist Party and co-organiser of the January 2009 Education Study Exchange to Venezuela. The Talk was presented at the Empire, War and revolution seminar March 2009 in Melbourne

Direct Action Issue 9,  March 2009
By Jo Williams
At the end of February, my co-workers and I head into indefinite industrial action at Melbourne’s Victoria University. VU’s management has failed to negotiate a new agreement guaranteeing job security and acceptable workloads. Despite a strong staff, student and community campaign late last year, which forced the VU [...]