Rainforests on the Web — The international Rainforest Action Network (http://www.ran.org/ran/info_center/aa/aa118.html) pools the most comprehensive information about the struggles to save the world's rainforest. Also check out the Gaia Forest Archives (http://forests.lic.wisc.edu/forests/gaia.html). Protect the Canadian rainforests (http://vvv.com/rainforest). The world's largest unprotected temperate rainforest is currently being threatened with massive destruction from multinational logging companies. Save Clayoquot Sound! (http://vvv.com/clayoquot). Stop the destruction of one of the world's largest coastal temperate rainforests. Save the Walbran! (http://olywa.net/sierrabc/walbran/front.html). Help protect a remote rainforest in western Canada.
Spookland: Tricks of the Trade of the CIA (http://www.clas.ufl.edu/anthro/activism/spookland.html) — The web is a haven for those who want to expose the malevolent doings of the secret services. This site has a hefty but very educational study of the origins, function and activities of the US Central Intelligence Agency. If you think that this is all the suff of conspiracy theorists, check out the revealing three-part expose by the mainstream San Jose Mercury (http://www.sjmercury.com/drugs) of the CIA's role in the introduction of crack into the US. Then check out Wormscan (http://hemp.uwec.edu/wormscan/wormscan) — "a collection of news items concerning the involvement of police, lawyers, judges, politicians, bankers, prison guards, spooks, and other social predators in the enormously profitable illegal drug business".
Additions to the Marx/Engels Internet Archive — The Archive has a new address. Adjust your bookmarks to http://www.marx.org. A heap of new additions are now available at this great site. They include: Rosa Luxembourg and Mass Action; Trotsky's 1932 essay On Lenin's Testament; Rosa Luxemburg's famous 1916 work, The Junius Pamphlet; Marx's 1842 report on Prussian laws on "theft of wood" in forests, which Marx would later pinpoint as the beginning of his studies in economics; Marx's 1847 book The Poverty of Philosophy, his rebuttal to Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty; Engels' 1873 series of articles The Bakuninists at Work.
The Labour Movement and the Internet — Pluto Press in Britain has just publishing The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism. To accompany the book, a web site has also been launched (http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2808/labour01.html). The site includes: The Labour Web Site of the Week — selecting from among the hundreds (maybe thousands) of Web sites put up by trade unions around the world; (generous) extracts from the book; updates and corrections to the book, including new labour resources on the net as they evolve; a chance to interact with the author by asking questions and making comments; and information about other Pluto Press titles. Pluto is an important publisher of books for the left.
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