Labour Friends of Italy launch with Action Day in Clerkenwell on March 20

LME’s very own Lazzaro Pietragnoli has been instrumental in founding Labour Friends of Italy. Their first event jointly organised with Islington South & Finsbury CLP organise and LME-LSE will happen later this month. Please come along.
ACTION DAY IN CLERKENWELL on Saturday 20th of March – 10:00 to 12:30

Join us for a morning of campaigning in support of Emily Thornberry MP and the Labour local candidates for the Council election, in one of the “most Italian” areas of London.

Help us get out the Italian and European vote for the local elections and  help us prevent the euro-sceptic Tories from winning the General Election.

Give us a couple of your spare hours and stay with us afterwards for a glass of wine and some real Italian appetisers.

For further details and to confirm your attendance, please e-mail
info@labour-italy.org.uk

Talking about Europe with PES activists Romania

Over 40 PES activists from Romania came together in Bucharest on Friday 20 Feb to begin a weekend of discussions and reflections. They were joined by Romanian Social Democrat MEPs Adrian Severin and Gabriela Cretu and activists from Portugal, France and Bosnia. Yes, there’s a PES activist group in Bosnia!! Activists from Gorj, a town in south west Romania, explained – in their bright red ‘PES activists Gorj’ T-shirts, how their group met every week with some 100 activists to discuss European and Romanian issues. They´ve also set up a website which gets some 500 visitors a week. Impressive for a small, poor but ´red´ town far from the capital. There were also questions from activists from Cluj and Craiova. PES activists Romania are a lively and committed bunch and are determined to have an impact in the European elections.

Julian Scola

Europe against US Missile Defence

Come to CND’s conference to demonstrate the strength of opposition to US Missile Defence across Europe, with politicians and campaigners from Britain being joined by their counterparts from the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. President Bush has backed US ‘Missile Defence’ since he was elected in 2000, including unilaterally withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia in 2001.Designed to give the US military ‘full spectrum dominance,’ it is destabilising relations with Russia and causing concern across Europe. Barack Obama has not yet given his full support to the system – let’s send him a clear message of opposition in his first days as President.

Speakers:
Michael Connarty MP, Chair, European Scrutiny Committee
Jeremy Corbyn MP
Jean Lambert MEP
Kate Hudson, CND
Elaheh Rostami-Povey, SOAS
Uta Zapf MP, Social Democrats, Germany (tbc)
a speaker from Die Linke, Germany
Lubomir Zaoralek MP
, Social Democrats, Czech Republic
Jana Glivicka, No to Bases, Czech Republic
Janusz Zemke MP, Democratic Left Alliance, Poland (tbc)
Filip Ilkowski, Stop War Initiative, Poland


Saturday 31st January
10am-5pm, at SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1

To register, email campaigns@cnduk.org or phone 0207 700 2393

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament www.cnduk.org


AGM and PES manifesto launch debate on December 4

real great event, massive turn out, developed execellent ideas going forward.
watch this space for a full report/summary of agm and debate in the coming days.

European Elections 2009 – Why Europe is a Labour issue

INVITATION TO AGM AND DISCUSSION

THURDAY DECEMBER 4, 2008

Committee Room 6 – Houses of Parliament

AGM 18:00 – 18:30, Panel 18:30 – 20:00

SPEAKERS: CLAUDE MORAES MEP, JULIAN SCOLA (PES) (tbc) AND SPEAKERS FROM THE PLP AND THE TUC

Please RSVP to lme.lse@hotmail.co.uk

 

We will discuss our and your ideas to the upcoming European Elections and preceding campaign and we will also discuss the freshly adopted pan European manifesto of the Party of European Socialists (PES) www.pes.org.   

Speakers and participants alike will be asked to pick one element of the manifesto which they think is vital and make the case for why Labour should campaign on it.

The manifesto will be adopted by the PES Madrid Council on December 1 and we will send it to all who have RSVPed on December 2 the latest.