Inside LabourStart

Our latest Iraq campaign, launched at the request of the ICEM (now IndustriALL) has closed after two months.  The campaign attracted only 3,951 supporters, which is quite small for us, even though it was available in 9 languages.  We’ve asked IndustriALL, who have agreed to close it down, for a summary of what the effect of the campaign was, but are still waiting for a reply.

The backlog of translations of campaigns and mass mailings has now been completely cleared.  In future, we’re aiming to have more of the work done by the translators themselves, which will speed things up considerably.

There are several new campaigns coming up.  We may well launch a Swaziland campaign later today at the request of the EI, PSI and ITF. UniteHere in the USA has something they want to discuss with us.  And we’ve been talking to Iranian comrades about a possible campaign in defense of jailed activists (yet again).  It’s been 12 days since the launch of our last campaign (Peru – 4,851 messages sent so far).