[Individual-members-EL] unionists VW meeting in Berlin etc.
Ulrich Deike
udeike at web.de
Sun Jan 21 22:51:00 CET 2007
Hola Sigfrido,
good to hear from you. I didn't know it has been 8 debates already - impressive!
I don't know much about the unionist working group. Maybe you ask Stephen Spence or Sabine Wils
about this. The group is very new I think and I haven't read any documents about their work yet.
Or is it a special Brussels group you were talking about??
If you want to get hold of the French-flyer-pdf-file please contact Joseph.
Your proposal:
>a meeting in Berlin
> attended by trade unionists of VW factories throughout Europe. What would be a better answer to that German presidency which aims
> to justify the re-introduction of the Constitutional Treaty with some social
> clauses?... We wait for news from German individual members about this concrete
> proposal for collaboration.
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...is a brilliant idea. I think I'm just not in a position to arrange a meeting with German govt. officials if that was the
idea behind it. Maybe you can ask Helmut Scholz about it. Even if it was just meant to be a meeting of European
VW unionists and EL people it would cause travel expenses. And our network of 2 active indivídual members in Germany doesn't have any money. Please give us more details about what such a meeting could be like.
Do you actually work in the Brussels EL office? Then it's
probably easy for you to contact Helmut.
How was your VW event yesterday?
You should definitely publish any of these events on our EL website!!! It will make a completely different impression then.
Hasta luego!
Uli
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: "sigfrido ramirez" <sigfrido.ramirez at coditel.net>
> Gesendet: 19.01.07 16:19:59
> An: <individual-members-el at listi.jpberlin.de>
> Betreff: RE: [Individual-members-EL] reviewing the last 6 months
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> Dear Uli,
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> Thank you for your energy and enthusiasm to articulate
> the individual members of the EL.
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> I apologise for not having been active in answering or
> contributing at all to the discussion list. Our activities take all our energy
> and I am also member of the Brussels section of Izquierda Unida, from where we have initiated the
> development of the Brussels
> circle of the EL.
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> We have already organised several debates together
> with the local section of Rifondazione Comunista and we just started to
> collaborate with Attac Brussels and other political-cultural organisations like
> Une Autre Gauche.We are also attempted to become members of a cultural and
> social cooperative, the Garcia Lorca centre (wwww.garcialorca.be)where we have organised most of our
> activities. Our next activity is tomorrow (the information you have it down
> here) around trade unionism in Europe following the Volkswagen decision to restructure factories in Barcelona and Brussels.
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> We hold a monthly meeting of members and assistance is
> at most of 10 and at least of 5, but we have starting to have new members. It
> is also true that we have not done a great effort yet but we did not have much
> material in French. So great you have a brochure now!
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> Summarising our 8 monthly debates there are three views
> ( not contradictory) about which role such a local section could play in the Brussels political scene:
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> 1) LOCAL NETWORKING- a place where activists from
> different sections of party members and members of social movements meet to
> discuss about European issues and inform each other about the situation in
> their countries and activities developed by their local sections.
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> 2) DIRECT ACTIVISM- We undersand here to carry
> campaigns at local level around issues of European relevance such as the Bolkenstein
> Directive, the right to dwelling, participating in demonstrations and
> organising debates between activists. I underline that our debates do not aim
> to be scholarly conferences but activist debates launched by informed people.
> For example we would like to organise a election night around the Presidential
> elections in France.
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> 3) EUROPEAN TRANSFER- This is the least explored of
> all the three and consists in seeking local contributions of individuals and
> specialised social and political movements to the working groups set up by the
> EL party.
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> I think that this is a fundamental element which could
> serve to attract local activists to the EL Party. It would be great if the
> working group on trade unionist could develop a subgroup about the automobile
> industry as this could serve us to bring together local trade unionists who are
> desperately searching for a political space where to meet other European colleges
> to prepare European actions against restructuring.
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> Being this month the German, and later the Portuguese
> presidency of the EU, the VW case could appear as an important step towards
> showing that the EL serves for something concrete to trade-unionists. But I
> guess that this is a initiative that the German members of the EL has to launch
> with a meeting in Berlin
> attended by trade unionists of VW factories throughout Europe. What would be a better answer to that German presidency which aims
> to justify the re-introduction of the Constitutional Treaty with some social
> clauses?... We wait for news from German individual members about this concrete
> proposal for collaboration.
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> Comradely yours,
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> Sigfrido
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> Fermeture d'entreprises et réponse syndicale
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> Débat autour de Volkswagen
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> samedi 20 janvier 2007 au
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> Garcia Lorca (47-49 rue des Foulons 1000 bxl)
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> à partir de 16 h
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> Diosdado Toledano (Espagne - Conseil Politique Federal Izquierda Unida -
> Assemblée des Licenciés de SEAT Barcelona)
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> Nico Cue (Secrétaire
> National de la Centrale des Métallurgistes de Belgique -CMB-FGTB)
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> Sergio Raviccini (ex-délégué syndical FGTB de VW Forest)
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> Sandra Goret (déléguée syndicale FGTB de VW Forest)
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> Silvio Marra (ex-délégué
> syndical aux Forges de Clabecq)
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> Guy Van Sinoy (délégué cgsp -
> militant une autre gauche)
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> Organisé par : Izquierda
> Unida Bruselas - Parti de la Gauche Européenne - Une Autre Gauche
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> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: individual-members-el-bounces at listi.jpberlin.de
> [mailto:individual-members-el-bounces at listi.jpberlin.de] En nombre de Ulrich
> Deike
> Enviado el: viernes, 19 de enero de 2007 14:29
> Para: individual-members-el at listi.jpberlin.de
> Asunto: [Individual-members-EL] reviewing the last 6 months
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> Hi all,
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> I‘ve had a look at our working schedule from July 19, 2006
> and now, 6 months later, it’s time for a first review. As
> I‘m not informed about everything going on in our group, please add
> and comment.
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> A. Things we tried to do self-responsibly:
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> 1. There are a couple of British individual members. They
> haven’t launched their website yet. But they are very close to doing
> it (have prepared everything for it).
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> Unfortunately, Stephen’s attempt to gather the British
> members in London in early January failed as far as I know, but it was good
> news hearing of the attempt already. Thank you, Stephen! Maybe it’s
> worth a second trial preceded by a long-term announcement?
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> 2. We have had the link “Join us” on the EL
> homepage for some months now, a real success. Thank you, Martin and Mike!
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> 3. The passing on of contact data from Brussels to national groups as
> soon as a new member subscribes seems to have worked in a couple of cases in
> Germany. However, the influx has been very low despite the fact that we have
> distributed hundreds of flyers especially in and around Berlin. Also
> communication between individual members and the Brussels and Berlin offices is
> usually initiated by us. And we don‘t always get a response.
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> 4. National groups are still too small to start active political work
> beyond advertising ourselves.
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> The German network has issued a flyer, printed it and keeps
> distributing it around the 2 spots on the map
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> (Leipzig and Berlin) where we got active members.
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> A French flyer is ready to be printed (Thank you, Joseph and
> Mike!), but – as far as I know – we are still
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> waiting for some money for it.
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> The Brussels group of individual members has run some local
> political events, such as topical discussions
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> and film evenings. This is an example of what our political
> publicity can look like if we have more than one
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> active member in a town. Thank you Martin, Liberté and
> Sigfrido!
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> 5. We haven’t submitted any articles to the EL website since
> my interview with Prof.Mahnkopf in August. This is probably due to our lack of
> time in the first place. Mike is trying to sort out our options for our own
> website preferably on a supranational level.
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> 6. Trying to fill the white spots on the EL-map:
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> Lena and I have tried to use our contacts with Danish people, but in
> vain. (Anyway, thank you, Lena!) We’ll have to be present at more
> international gatherings of unionists and other left activists in order to get
> people involved. Or we could try out flyers completely in English and
> distribute them on vacation and other trips anywhere in Europe.
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> B. Things we had to sort out with the Executive Board:
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> 1. We didn’t have an international meeting of individual
> members, but there was a meeting of Germans in October. Only 10 people attended
> it and too much time was spent on sightseeing, too little time on actual plans
> and exchange of information. But we agreed to have another national meeting in
> 2007. Thanks to the Berlin office for their support.
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> 2. Congress 2007:
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> As you can read in one of the web-articles from January 17, the
> Congress is scheduled for November. Every national party can send 12 delegates.
> Before we could possibly send delegates to a subsequent congress, the statute
> will have to be changed, which is what a statute commission has to discuss.
> This commission again includes only members of national parties.
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> 3. There are membership cards now. Those of you who haven’t
> got one yet, please contact the office.
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> Thank you Martin!
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> 4. Just for statistics: How many individual members do you know there
> are in your country? In order to know where we are going and how slow/fast, we
> got to measure our size from time to time.
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> That’s it from my side. So, what’s next? And how do
> you think we can improve our work?
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> Best wishes to all of you for 2007
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> Uli
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