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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dear Waltraud,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I appreciate Brussels are busy with things
like the alternative summit, individual members are keen to get a structure as
soon as possible to be able to help and participate more fully in such
initatives.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am sorry you will be in <st1:City w:st="on">Malaga</st1:City>
when I am in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vienna</st1:place></st1:City>,
but that can’t be helped, you have important work to do.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You might have seen that George Galloway
and the Respect Party won a stunning by-election victory in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">England</st1:place></st1:country-region>
yesterday. He took votes off all three major parties to get a 10,000 majority
in <st1:place w:st="on">Bradford</st1:place>!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I look forward to hearing more soon.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Best<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Stephen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
Waltraud Fritz [mailto:wfritz@chello.at] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 30 March 2012 07:24<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Stephen Spence<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: Re: FW: Re: letter to
all EL parties regarding individual members</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear Stephen,<br>
<br>
We -my/husband and I - are just on our way/from Spain to Austria - I could not
really/get into our subject yet because in Brussels/they/are more
than/busy/with the alternative summit this/weekend so I need to be alittle
patient with getting more infos from the office.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately/regarding your coming to Vienna in May I have a meeting of the
secretariat on May/10 and 11 in Malaga/in Spain where I must attend and so I
will miss the meting of the trade unionist network in Austria and you to discuss
personalyposible results or other things concerning our mutual
"interest"-<br>
Back to you when<br>
I am ready with some ideas have a good and hopefullyrelaxing easter time<br>
<br>
Al the best<br>
<br>
Waltraud<br>
<br>
Stephen Spence <stephen_spence@btinternet.com> schrieb:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Waltraud,<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Just to let you know I will be in <st1:City u2:st="on"><st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vienna</st1:place></st1:City></st1:place></st1:City>
11 – 12 May for the Trade Union Network if there are things to talk about
coming out of the April meeting on statutues.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Best<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Stephen<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Stephen Spence
[mailto:stephen_spence@btinternet.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 10 March 2012 12:16<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'Waltraud Fritz-Klackl'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> 'Indiv. Members EL'; 'Maite
Mola'; 'Andrew Stevens'; 'Francis King'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: Re: FW: Re: letter to
all EL parties regarding individual members</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<u1:p></u1:p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Dear Waltraud,<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>I welcome very much your contact on this matter and I appreciate
your willingness to engage so when I make some statements which are very direct
it is not my intention to offend you. It is simply that the time for
plain speaking is here. I’m copying this to the individual members list,
Maite, and two key individuals who in the past have worked with me on the EL in
the <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region>
because this is a collective conversation, and I would want others to make
their comments to you also.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Firstly I understand the difficulty of achieving consensus amongst
the parties of the Executive Board (EB). Individual members have
patiently discussed this over many years, including at the Prague Congress with
Helmut Scholz when we agreed not run a candidate for election to the EB to
force the matter, in exchange for resolution in the longer term. We feel
very let down by the lack of action since then. I know Helmut has been
supportive, but it is my opinion some Parties which do not want individual
member representation believe they can permanently delay this. They need
to know there are now individual members discussing taking the EL to the
European Courts if this can not be resolved, the EL cannot legally accept
individual members, take membership subscriptions and refuse to provide a
representative structure.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Since 2004, after I had spoken to Helmut Ettinger in <st1:State u2:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Berlin</st1:State></st1:State> at my own initiative and expense, I
returned to the <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region>
and gathered many supporters for the EL. Over the next few years I did
this not once but twice. It was like rolling a snowball down a
hill. It became bigger and bigger. Martin Herberg (who would give me
information) advised who had actually joined and I followed up. I
organised comrades to put together an EL UK website, again not once but
twice. To get momentum, as people were interested in how the EL could
develop left politics in this country, we asked for a UK ‘European Left
Network’ to be given observer status under the Statute. Not once but
twice, nothing happened. Building something has several stages.
Twice with the EL we got past the early stage of development and waited for the
Party to give ‘official’ status to be able to develop to the next stage.
The first time, when the ‘observer’ status did not come things fell
apart. We built it up again, a second time the Party did not act, and the
same thing happened, it fell apart. We now only have a small number of <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region>
individual members across the country. EL is irrelevant to <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region>
politics.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>I am a trade union organiser. I work for a Union which is
non-party political and I have a public face for that Union, so I have had to
do my Left work as a personal project hoping the observer status as a Network
would have given us the opportunity to ‘officially’ launch EL more broadly and even
run in elections. Again I have done this kind of thing before in <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region>
as a backroom operator,getting public faces elected to a local council and
running a City.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Why without observer status, not once but twice, did everything
started fading away? Because most people, especially those who can be the
public face, will not come forward if you have no ‘official’ status. I
feel enormously let down by the EL. We wanted observer status for the
‘European Left Network’ in the <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region>
which the EB could have easily passed. They did it for <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region>
but not us. Why? I think because the Italian Party wanted it and the EB
only listens to parties.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Largely at my own expense but latterly with some support of the
party I have attended Trade Union Networks, Summer Schools, the Founding, 2<sup>nd</sup>
and 3<sup>rd </sup> Congresses to promote individual
membership. Each time I have had to wear a badge marked ‘guest’, I
was not allowed to speak in Rome, I fought for the right to do so in Prague,
and eventually I was allowed to again in Paris, but each time after an
argument. When I knew the PCF were a problem, I went to <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:City u2:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:City></st1:place></st1:place></st1:City>,
again at my own expense and met with Jean Francois Gau. He has no support
for individual members, but said he didn’t mind about the <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region>.
But again nothing happened. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>As I have pointed out within EL forums the number of times nothing
has happened in relation to individual membership the reaction has become more
and more dismissive and if I get a response at all it leaves me with the
feeling I am some kind of unreasonable fanatic. The Party talks about
being open and being a networking party, but in the case of individual
membership I have found it to be closed and not sincere.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>The only reason I have kept going when as Maite pointed out I am
‘free and can elect’ to do something else is because I have met some excellent
people amongst the individual members, amongst the trade union network and even
amongst party members. I support the programme and policies of the EL and
I want to be able to advance EL ideas in my personal time outside my paid trade
union work. Why does the Party make this almost impossible when it says
it wants to facilitate such activity? Does it really want to develop and grow
or is that simply lip service to an ideal and in reality it is a limited Party
of parties? If that is the truth then the EB should simply state that and
then I can stop wasting my time.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>One positive thing the Party has done is to set up the individual
member email forum. We can talk to each other but to be honest we talk
rarely because there’s nothing to talk about as we have no way of developing
work inside the EL because there is no official structure.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>The conclusion I and others have drawn is now that we want
‘official’ status within the Party for a European wide individual member
network, Branch, Section, Friendship circle, we don’t care what it is
called. We want the Party to make available, as it does with the ELfem
and the trade union network, a budget for perhaps two meetings a year to enable
us to come together to talk about how we can develop individual members.
We would like delegate to Congress so we are not ‘guests’ anymore, and a seat
on the EB.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Thank you for listening. I hope finally something can be done.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Best<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Stephen<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1>
</span></font></div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Waltraud Fritz-Klackl
[mailto:wfritz@chello.at] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 05 March 2012 11:05<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'Stephen Spence'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> AW: Re: FW: Re: letter to
all EL parties regarding individual members</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Dear Stephen,<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Thank you for getting already in contact
with me. Maite had asked me to “help” in the communication about the problems
regarding individual membership in the EL. I trust you are wll aware (as a long
time member) that this question has been existing since the very existence of
the EL – and still going on of course. I am in the secretariat of the EL
“responsible2 for the liaison with the statute commission (the coordinator is
Jiri Hudiceck) from the SDS. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>I think, the first thing we have to do
together is to take stock. What is the current situation – statutewise and where
can we start to act on the basis of the existing regulations. I think if we
look carefully at them, there is still space for the individual members to have
more say in the politics of the EL. You will know it anyway, but just to
bring the fact to your attendance again. Any changes – statutes or programme –
of the EL can only be achieved via unanimous decisions, which is very hard. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>In this context, can you please send me any
information regarding the situation of individual members in the <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region>?
Is there a “friendship circle” exisiting? A mailing list? Any other form of
communication?<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>And of course what are your own ideas about
the situation? <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Looking forward to hearing from you soon<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Best regards<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Waltraud<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
font-weight:bold'>Von:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Stephen Spence
[mailto:stephen_spence@btinternet.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Gesendet:</span></b> Donnerstag, 01. März
2012 </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=DE style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>21:04<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>An:</span></b> 'Maite Mola'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> 'Indiv. Members EL'; 'Giorgos
Karatsioubanis'; 'Waltraud Fritz-Klackl'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Betreff:</span></b> RE: Re: FW: Re: letter to
all EL parties regarding individual members<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:12.0pt'><u1:p> </u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Dear Maite Mola,<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Happy to tell Waltraud anything she’d like to know. I met her
in <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region>
some years ago at a Summer School. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>I can share the same points I’ve made so far to you, Helmut Scholz,
Jean Francois Gau, Martin Herberg, Giorgos Karatsiobanis, and many others at
different times over eight years and see if something finally happens, but I
think if nothing changes in April, that will be enough for me.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Best<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Stephen<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>
</span></font></div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <a
href="mailto:maitemola@gmail.com">maitemola@gmail.com</a> [<a
href="mailto:maitemola@gmail.com">mailto:maitemola@gmail.com</a>] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Maite Mola<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 01 March 2012 19:32<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Stephen Spence<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Indiv. Members EL; Giorgos
Karatsioubanis; Waltraud Fritz-Klackl<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Re: FW: Re: letter to
all EL parties regarding individual members</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear Stephen,<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please, can you
communicate with Waltraud Fritz-Klacl? She is the member of the EL Secretariat
charged of the Statutes Commission, it's better that you communicate directly
with her. <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>You have in CC her
mail.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Regards,<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Maite Mola<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>2012/3/1 Stephen
Spence <<a href="mailto:stephen_spence@btinternet.com">stephen_spence@btinternet.com</a>><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Dear Maite Mola,</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Yes, and if the Parties had taken this seriously before, individual
members would be able to help you now, many of us with years of experience as
organisers, to assist to defend working people through the EL, now the crisis
has hit.</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Instead, through inaction, we sit outside the EL structure, mere observors
and impotent, as you are left to do the work without an additional group of
allies you could have made use of, who have been asking for years, not for some
kind of prize, but to be allowed into the structures to help.</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>In the absence of an EL structure we work through other
organisations, trade unions, social movements, etc. but can’t work through the
EL because the EL won’t let us in any meaningful way.</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>The crisis you mention is exactly why the EL now needs to take
urgent steps, to make up for the inaction of the past so as we can participate
in the defence of working people, which is what the EL is for. </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>I appreciate your understanding of this matter.</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Best</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Stephen</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>
</span></font></div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Maite Mola [mailto:<a
href="mailto:maitemola@gmail.com" target="_blank">maitemola@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 29 February 2012 20:02<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Stephen Spence<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: Re: FW: Re: letter to
all EL parties regarding individual members</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear
Stephen,<br>
Yes, I understand it is important the individual members, but the, crisis,
austeriry, authotitarism, migrants,...the people and his situation it's our
principal problem in the agenda, regards<br>
Maite Mola<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>El 29/02/2012
20:55, "Stephen Spence" <<a
href="mailto:stephen_spence@btinternet.com" target="_blank">stephen_spence@btinternet.com</a>>
escribió:<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Dear Maite Mola,</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Thank you for advising me that the issue of individual members is
now going to the Statues Commission. </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>It is disappointing that we were to get an answer in January, then February
and now April, nevertheless I am grateful for your response.</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Best</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Stephen</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>
</span></font></div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Maite Mola [mailto:<a
href="mailto:maitemola@gmail.com" target="_blank">maitemola@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 29 February 2012 08:54<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Stephen Spence<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Fwd: Re: FW: Re: letter
to all EL parties regarding individual members</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear
Stephen, I send you my answer to Norbert, of the 20 of February.<br>
Regards<br>
Maite Mola<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>---------- Mensaje
reenviado ----------<br>
De: "Maite Mola" <<a href="mailto:maitemola@gmail.com"
target="_blank">maitemola@gmail.com</a>><br>
Fecha: 22/02/2012 21:44<br>
Asunto: Re: FW: Re: letter to all EL parties regarding individual members<br>
<st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Para</st1:place></st1:place>:
"Norbert Hagemann" <<a href="mailto:norberthagemann@web.de"
target="_blank">norberthagemann@web.de</a>><br>
Cc: "Indiv. Members EL" <<a
href="mailto:individual-members-el@listi.jpberlin.de" target="_blank">individual-members-el@listi.jpberlin.de</a>>,
<<a href="mailto:giorgos.karatsioubanis@european-left.org" target="_blank">giorgos.karatsioubanis@european-left.org</a>><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear Norbert<br>
The 20 of April the Statutes commission of the EL will meet in <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:State u2:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Madrid</st1:State></st1:place></st1:place></st1:State>,
to speak about this matter. The president of this commission is Jiri Hudecek.<br>
Regards<br>
Maite<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>El 22/02/2012
20:03, "Norbert Hagemann" <<a href="mailto:norberthagemann@web.de"
target="_blank">norberthagemann@web.de</a>> escribió:<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<div>
<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Dear
Maite Mola,<br>
could you please be so kind and inform us about the debate on us as individual
Members in secretariat meeting you mentioned in your mail.<br>
We are very keen to push forward this issue to a positive solution within a
reasonable timeframe.<br>
<br>
Kind regards<br>
<br>
Norbert Hagemann</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>
</span></font></div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
font-weight:bold'>Von:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> "Maite Mola" <<a
href="mailto:maite.mola@european-left.org" target="_blank">maite.mola@european-left.org</a>><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Gesendet:</span></b> 31.01.2012 13:47:28<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>An:</span></b> "Norbert Hagemann"
<<a href="mailto:norberthagemann@web.de" target="_blank">norberthagemann@web.de</a>><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Betreff:</span></b> Re: FW: Re: letter to all
EL parties regarding individual members<br>
<br>
Dear Norbert, dear all, </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>We have
decided in the ex board of <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:State u2:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berlin</st1:State></st1:place></st1:place></st1:State>, to
discuss about the situation of the individual members in the EL in
the secretariat of the 4 February.</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>I'll
write you next week about it and inform you!</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Regards,</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Maite
Mola</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Vice-President<br>
European Left Office<br>
Rue Parnasse 30<br>
B-1050 Bruxelles<br>
Phone: <a href="tel:%2B32.2.5022-%20606" target="_blank">+32.2.5022- 606</a><br>
Fax: <a href="tel:%2B32.2.5020%20-173" target="_blank">+32.2.5020
-173</a><br>
E-Mail: <a href="mailto:maite.mola@european-left.org" target="_blank">maite.mola@european-left.org</a><br>
Web: <a href="http://www.european-left.org/" target="_blank">http://www.european-left.org</a> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>2012/1/10
Maite Mola <<a href="mailto:maitemola@gmail.com" target="_blank">maitemola@gmail.com</a>></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Dear
Norbert,<br>
Ill send your letter tomorrow to the Secretariat of the EL, and I ll inform you
about our decision after our meeting in <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:State u2:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berlin</st1:State></st1:place></st1:place></st1:State>.<br>
Regards,<br>
Maite Mola</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>El
10/01/2012 21:17, "Norbert Hagemann" <<a
href="mailto:norberthagemann@web.de" target="_blank">norberthagemann@web.de</a>>
escribió: </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
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<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Dear
Maite Mola,<br>
<br>
before the last EL EX-Board meeting in early October I sent a letter to
Pierre Laurant (using his PCF mail account) which was discussed between the
individual members using our mail list and at the end signed by eight of us
from different countries. The letter deals with the problem of our formal
rights within the EL, reflecting our situation and making proposals how to deal
with in the near future. As of today there is neither a reply nor a
confirmation of receipt and so we sent the same letter to Giorgios
Karatsioubanis within the EL office in <st1:City u2:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Brussels</st1:City></st1:City>
asking him to distribute the letter to all parties of the European Left and to
discuss this issue on the next meeting in <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:State u2:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berlin</st1:State></st1:place></st1:place></st1:State>.<br>
<br>
We asked at the same time to include within the upcoming budget for
the year 2012 an amount of money for a meeting which should be organized
to discuss between us the way out of this situation and to organize
our work within the EL.<br>
<br>
<br>
Giorgios Karatsioubanis asked me to resent this letter to you as coordinator of
the EL Executive Board. I hope you will support our request indipendently from
the question would you be personaly in favour or not of the individual
membership.<br>
<br>
Thank's for that.<br>
<br>
Warm regards<br>
<br>
Norbert Hagemann<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----<br>
Von: "Giorgos Karatsioubanis" <<a
href="mailto:giorgos.karatsioubanis@european-left.org" target="_blank">giorgos.karatsioubanis@european-left.org</a>><br>
Gesendet: 09-Jan-2012 17:39:09<br>
An: "Norbert Hagemann" <<a href="mailto:norberthagemann@web.de"
target="_blank">norberthagemann@web.de</a>><br>
Betreff: Re: letter to all EL parties regarding individual members<br>
<br>
Dear Norbert,<br>
<br>
I have received your letter, and after having a first discussion on it,<br>
i would like to ask you to direct the email to Maite Mola, as<br>
coordinator of the Executive Board of the EL. Her email is:<br>
<a href="mailto:maitemola@gmail.com" target="_blank">maitemola@gmail.com</a><br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Giorgos Karatsioubanis<br>
<br>
<br>
ps. i have to inform you, after speaking with them, that the office of<br>
Pierre Laurent did not receive any letter on this matter before the ExB<br>
meeting in <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:City u2:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Paris</st1:City></st1:place></st1:place></st1:City>. For future
messages to Pierre Laurent, please send<br>
them also to Anne Sabourin <a href="mailto:asabourin@pcf.fr" target="_blank">asabourin@pcf.fr</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:18:13 +0100 (CET), Norbert Hagemann wrote:<br>
> Dear Giorgios Karatsioubanis,<br>
> could you please be so kind and confirm us that you got the letter.<br>
> We would be interested to hear from you, if you would be so kind and<br>
> forward the letter and the request as proposed by us.<br>
><br>
> Thanks for your support. Please be so kind and keep us informed<br>
> about<br>
> your activities regarding this letter.<br>
><br>
> Sincerely<br>
><br>
> Norbert<br>
><br>
>> -------------------------<br>
>> VON: "Norbert Hagemann"<br>
>> GESENDET: 25-Dec-2011 22:04:30<br>
>> AN: <a href="mailto:giorgos.karatsioubanis@european-left.org"
target="_blank">giorgos.karatsioubanis@european-left.org</a><br>
>> BETREFF: letter to all EL parties regarding individual members<br>
>><br>
>> Dear Giorgios Karatsioubanis,<br>
>> enclosed I send you a letter which was signed by eight individual<br>
>> EL members from different countries. The letter deals with the<br>
>> problem of the rights of individual members apart and was sent by us<br>
>> to Pierre Laurant before the last EL EX-Board meeting in early<br>
>> October. To date, neither a reply nor a confirmation of receipt is<br>
>> received.<br>
>><br>
>> Since you as "employee" of EL are also responsible for us,
the<br>
>> individual members, we want to ask you officially to give this<br>
>> letter to all member and observer parties of the EL at the latest<br>
>> till the next Board meeting in January in <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:State u2:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berlin</st1:State></st1:place></st1:place></st1:State>.
We hope that this<br>
>> letter will be formaly put on the agenda and discussed during this<br>
>> meeting.<br>
>><br>
>> At the same time we want to ask you, to communicate to all parties<br>
>> our request, that in the upcoming budget of the EL for the year 2012<br>
>> we would like to have introduced a reasonable amount of money for an<br>
>> European meeting of individual members to be organized next year<br>
>> with the aim to discuss and organize our work within the EL. The<br>
>> existing working structures for cooperation of the trade unionists<br>
>> or the EL-FEM-structures are well established examples how we would<br>
>> like to go ahead in the future.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks for your support. Please be so kind and keep us informed<br>
>> about your activities regarding this letter.<br>
>><br>
>> Sincerely<br>
>><br>
>> Norbert<br>
<br>
--<br>
Party of the European Left<br>
EL Office, Giorgos Karatsioubanis<br>
30 Rue Parnasse<br>
1050 Bruxelles<br>
<st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region><br>
Tel: <a href="#135cfba6ee3438b1_135caaee650951d8_135a6">+32 2 5022606</a><br>
Fax: <a href="#135cfba6ee3438b1_135caaee650951d8_135a6">+32 2 5020173</a><br>
email: <a href="mailto:giorgos.karatsioubanis@european-left.org" target="_blank">giorgos.karatsioubanis@european-left.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.european-left.org" target="_blank">http://www.european-left.org</a><br>
</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br
clear=all>
</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>--<br>
Maite Mola<br>
Vice-President<br>
European Left Office<br>
Rue Parnasse 30<br>
B-1050 Bruxelles<br>
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E-Mail: <a href="mailto:maite.mola@european-left.org" target="_blank">maite.mola@european-left.org</a><br>
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Maite Mola<br>
Vice-President<br>
European Left Office<br>
Rue Parnasse 30<br>
B-1050 Bruxelles<br>
Phone: +32.2.5022- 606<br>
Fax: +32.2.5020 -173<br>
E-Mail: <a href="mailto:maite.mola@european-left.org" target="_blank">maite.mola@european-left.org</a><br>
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