[Individual-members-EL] changes to the statute

[Francis King]

Hi all

Uli is quiet right that if EL intends to make individual membership a
permanent part of the EL structure, then there needs to be representation
for individual members at EL congresses and on relevant committees. However,
I think that the first suggested amendment, to article 6/2, is unnecessary.
The existing article 6/2 grants more rights to individual members than the
amended version proposed by Uli, and I doubt that it would be workable
anyway - there are so many small left-wing groups af all types in all the EU
states. They fuse and split all the time. Some are much to small to consider
affiliating to EL. So, as long as individual EL members are not working
against the interests and positions of EL, their local affiliations should
not matter.

I don't have any problem with the other suggestions, which seem fine. But I
wonder - why do people want to become EL individual members? For me in
Britain, the answer is easy - the "communist parties" here are tiny,
insular, dogmatic and backward-looking, the Labour Party allows itself to be
led by Blair and is therefore beneath contempt, and the most active groups
on the left here are Trotskyists - dogmatic, sectarian and intolerant of
dissent. There is nothing worth joining in this country. But in countries
with EL affiliates, are individual people joining EL in addition to
belonging to the PCF, PRC, PDS etc., or are they joining it instead of
belonging to those parties? It would be interesting to know.

All the best

Francis King
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ulrich Deike" <udeike at web.de>
To: <individual-members-el at listi.jpberlin.de>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 6:55 PM
Subject: [Individual-members-EL] changes to the statute


Hi everybody,

as you know we also have to fight for our own rights if we want to help
others. I have attached my suggestion
for changes to the EL-statute guaranteeing representation of all - also
individual - members in the Congress
(on the penultimate page of the document). I'm waiting for comments/other
suggestions. I think it's necessary to discuss this
first so that most of us indiv. members eventually support the version that
we'll pass on to the Executive Board
by the end of September. I'd be grateful if anyone had up-to-date figures of
party members to give us an idea of the
composition of the upcoming Congress.

take care

Uli

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