[Individual-members-EL] EL Individual Members

[pablo sanchez centellas]

Dear comrades,

 

Well, the point is that the different parties that run for the coming European elections do not even take individual members into account.

 

It is a pity that there is not a website or a blog but I think that the hard reality does not encourage people to work towards something that you do not even know if it is going to be acknowledged.

The Cercle in Brussels has gone trhough a similar period, people do wonder what is the point of meeting if we are a talking shop.

Apparently the italians are going together with the communist list but I wonder how much life does Sinistra Europea does have?

I am very pessimistic about the future of the individual members, on the other hand there have been some changes such as the depart of the hungarian partner if the ELP had had a hungarian group of individual members they could establish a base to the left of the current government so there is some room for us to exist.

 

Just some thoughts.

 

About the No2EU campaign in the UK, i think this is the same people that tried to create RESPECT, the Socialist Alliance, the old CPB and some trade unionists that have attempted to build a left alternative for the last 10 years. I fear that this will be another fiasco. The ELP should debate the situation in the UK as far as the left is concerned.

 

I would like to see the ELP taking more seriously both the individual members and people who are trying to build a left alternative in difficult conditions. I hope that after the elections they realise the need to develop a wider base of support.

 

Yours


Pablo
 


From: stephen_spence at btinternet.com
To: individual-members-el at listi.jpberlin.de
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:27:56 +0100
Subject: [Individual-members-EL] EL Individual Members







Dear Comrades,
 
I have not seen any discussion between individual members on this list for many months.
 
In the UK individual members still do not have any status within EL despite asking Helmut Scholz on several occasions to ask the Executive Board to grant observer status to our network.  The network here has now taken down its website and its blog as the lack of status within EL has resulted in very little activity from the members we do have.  So far we have built the network up twice only to see it dwindle again.
 
The majority of the UK Left remains anti-EU as demonstrated by an electoral platform ‘No to EU, Yes to Democracy’ being run in the European Elections by the RMT union, Communist Party of Britain and the Socialist Party of England and Wales, which I certainly do not support.  I am not part of the anti-Europe left.
 
Those of us who support EU solidarity within the Left do not have a UK party and the EL appears to have little interest in us.  I think all of us are considering what future we have with the EL.
 
In solidarity
 
Stephen Spence
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