[Individual-members-EL] EL Individual Members

[Jan Šlemenda]

Dear Pablo and Steve,

I am now standing in front of the LIFE decision to take another direction
for the rest of my life or to stay where I am right now.

Despite the prolongued crises, the opportunities are many and some of them
very tempting.........................

I also feel the need that the EL should take more active position in current
issues, but I myself feel as a beginner and dare not into "unknown waters".

European Parliament Elections are not about posts or influence, sadly, it is
a question of money. Money rules everything and especially in times like
these.

I would like to enrich EL with something more valuable, but EL individual
members has no vote, no influence and therefore I will not be present on the
next Summer university propoesed in Chisinau (Rep. Moldovia) nor I am
counting myself as an "activist".

I still do count myself amongst EU leftists, but no effort from my side till
it is considerably needed.


with best regards


always yours
Jan

2009/5/2 pablo sanchez centellas <superpablo3 at hotmail.com>

>  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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Jan Šlemenda
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