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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In response to Mario: we need to work on different
levels. Some comrades are particularly focussed on local questions, some on
national-level questions, and some of us are interested in the pan-European
issues. On the national level, it is fine for Mario and his comrades to
work in RC, even if they are doing it from Belgium. The job of RC is to
intervene in <EM>Italian</EM> politics, after all. But there are also
Europe-wide issues, issues which transcend national borders. Indeed, as capital
becomes increasingly globalised, there are more and more of these issues. It is
for these <EM>transnational</EM> issues that a genuinely pan-European left party
would be useful, not to work <EM>against</EM> the national parties, but to give
European-oriented leftists a framework in which to work across borders. I didn't
join EL to intervene in British politics - there are better ways to do that. I
joined it in the hope that it might become a genuinely international party
rather than just an umbrella for a collection of national forces. Whether it can
do that, and if so, how, I don't know. But I am sure there is a need for such a
framework.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in comradeship</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Francis</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=marioaliciagm@yahoo.es href="mailto:marioaliciagm@yahoo.es">Mario
& Alicia Gabrielli</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=individual-members-el@listi.jpberlin.de
href="mailto:individual-members-el@listi.jpberlin.de">individual-members-el@listi.jpberlin.de</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:37
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Individual-members-EL] (no
subject)</DIV>
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<DIV>Dear comrades,</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm Mario, an Italian-Spaniard living in Brussels, member of
Rifondazione Comunista in Belgium (see <A
href="http://www.rifondazione.be">www.rifondazione.be</A>). I was
following the discussion, as usual, and in this case I would like to say
something on the question of EL Individual Members, organisation, claim
for recognition and support, and so on.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Sincerely, I do not understand the real meaning, and above all, the
real need and utility, to have such "individual members" groups - apart
when in a specific country there is no party or organisation as member
or observer of the European Left Party. But in a lot of European
countries, we do have at least one party, so, my question is: why create
someting "new" or "different" when something already exist? Why don't
give them a hand, instead of re-investing the wheel? If someone want to
engage him/herself in political/social activities in the framework of
the EL, why don't join a EL party somewhere?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I hope that the idea of "individual members" groups outside the
local EL parties would not mean to be "against" or "overcoming"
those parties... Of course I don't think that a party is the only
or exclusive way to "make politics" and to be engaged in social issues,
but at the same time I don't share some negative attitudes towards
political parties, which lead someone to think that only in an informal
organisation it would be possible to be "free" or "independent".</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In my opinion, if we want to do something for a better Europe, as
leftists (or, even better, as communists!), let's join one of the
political parties members of the EL; or even one not a
member, and in this case, we can try to contribute to approach
positions - instead of dividing our forces and losing time,
resources and efforts in defining what an "individual members" group
should do or not, what representativity, what right of vote, what
support, what... what?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I take the opportunity to confirm that the Italian
communists - Rifondazione Comunista and Comunisti Italiani, in the
EL as member and observer respectively - partecipate together to the
European elections, in the Communist and Anti-capitalist list <A
href="http://www.unaltraeuropa.eu/">http://www.unaltraeuropa.eu/</A>.
This is the only real Left in Italy... beware of imitations!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Fraternally,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Mario</DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>
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