CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: ‘Mythes, réseaux, milieux, formes et cultures de l’anticommunisme en Suisse des origines à nos jours’, organised by the universities of Fribourg, Geneva and Lausanne and held at UOG, Geneva 10-12 November 2005; further information from ; or ; or
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JAMES BARKE CONFERENCE AT THE MITCHELL LIBRARY: On Saturday 12 November 2005, the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, hosts a one-day conference to mark the centenary of the Scottish socialist novelist and playwight, James Barke (1905-1958), whose papers the library holds. Speakers will include Margery McCulloch, Moira Burgess, Valenina Bold, David Borthwick, John Burns and John Manson, and the conference will consider Barke’s major novels like Major Operation (1936) and The Land of the Leal (1939), as well as his associations with the ILP and the CPGB. Further details can be obtained from the Mitchell Library, North St, Glasgow G3 7DN (0141-287-2999).

THE COMINTERN AND INDIAN COMMUNISM: Sobhanlal Datta Gupta’s Comintern and the Destiny of Indian Communism. Dialectics of the Real and the Possible, will be published in India in 2006. ‘The book is based on materials from the Comintern archives in Moscow, the CPGB archives, inner-party documents and new German and Russian materials published in recent years on Comintern in general and the colonial question in particular.’ Further information and details of how to order the book can be obtained from: .

LATIN AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY: Edited by Lazar S Jeifets, Victor L Jeifets and Peter Huber, and based on materials in the Comintern archives, La Internacional Comunista y América Latina, 1919-1943. Diccionario Biográfico (pp445; 45 ills; ISBN 3-033-00363-X) includes entries on more than 900 Latin American communists. Further details from .