Inside LabourStart

Six months before our Global Solidarity Conference opens in Berlin, and just one day after the first mass mailing to our English list, we’re already up to 112 registrants from 39 countries. It’s just above 39% female, which is below our goal of 50%.

This is something that never happened with previous conferences, so this looks to be a very big one. 

Some of the registrants, unfortunately, are ignoring or have misunderstood our message — which I tried to make clear — that LabourStart is not paying anyone’s airfare.  Still, the vast majority of those who registered are clearly planning on attending.

The largest groups come from Germany (21) and the UK (17).

We haven’t even done our mass mailing to our German list yet — and we have 3,855 people on the German list — quite of few of whom, we hope, will attend.