[Individual-members-EL] <kein Betreff>

[Ulrich Deike]

Hi Kuba,

welcome in the EL. It’s nice to meet you. I hope the Polish individual members – I think you are
not the first one – will soon start communicating on a national level as well and do EL-activities such as membership and political awareness campaigns in Poland.




Hi Mario, EL comrade and member of Rifondazione,

I think it’s sad you have been watching an internal discussion of a group of people who you think should actually dissolve and should not be entitled to have the same rights as any other paying member of the EL.

Because that is what we were fighting for for 18 months before the Prague EL Congress with those humble democratic means that we have got. I do think it was worth putting forward the motion giving us the rights to vote and form structures with a budget. 
(I could forward this motion to the Prague Congress to any indiv. member interested.) Who wasted our time were those members of the EL Executive Board who still deny these basic rights to us and who did not even have the guts to discuss this matter openly during the Congress.

I don’t understand why you are giving us advice on a problem which isn’t yours: You are represented in the bodies of the EL, we aren’t. And as long as we lack those basic rights we have no chance to make our party interesting for other left people who would like to get involved in Eur. Politics, nor to be heard and taken seriously in our own party. 


Hi Gudmund,

if we had a budget for our group you could distribute EL-flyers in Norwegian in Bergen in 2010, talk to people in the street, make them join the EL and soon organise local activities and once run for European Parliament as an EL candidate. The EL as the first European Party that deserves the name – that’s still a vision.
But that’s where the European party system is heading, slowly, but gradually. And if we stay an umbrella organization with several anti-EU parties, we’ll be the last party going really European.

I once was a member of the Linke in Germany and left them, when I had found out that some time after joining the local government in Berlin they turned out rather liberal while still preaching Marx.

I read Monbiot or Krugman (winner of last year’s alternative Nobel Prize and considered a progressive liberal) but try to act left, e.g. as a union activist. Joining the EL, not the German Linke, 3 years later has given me a left party to identify with.

Rivalry is what national parties in the EL indeed fear when they think of us. I rather think of competition in friendship and with common goals. We are going to move them and they will thank us once the EL has decided to grow with our group and take the road of internationalism and democracy, addressing the PEOPLE, and not political theorists.



Best wishes to all

Uli

PS: I won’t manage to type a first draft of the essentials of our Working Group before July. Does anybody else like to volunteer ....? 



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