I spent much of the last two weeks travelling — to Istanbul, Geneva and Brussels — so this will have to be a relatively short report as I have much to catch up on.\u00a0 Apologies if you’re waiting for an answer to an email — I’m struggling to catch up on that.<\/p>\n
Campaigns:<\/strong><\/em> We launched new ones for Fiji<\/a> (26 January) and Aeroflot<\/a> (17 January). The latter, with just under 12,000 messages sent, is our largest current campaign.<\/p>\n Mailing lists:<\/strong> <\/em>These continue to grow quite well.\u00a0 The English list now stands at 85,419; the French list is up to 7,215.\u00a0 The German list is poised to replace the Italian one as our fourth largest list, as it’s now up to 4,072, just 75 fewer than the Italian one.\u00a0 That German list was around 2,500 a year ago, so it’s grown spectacularly. We’re migrating most of the lists back to MailChimp due to continuing software issues with Sendy.<\/p>\n Berlin 2014:<\/strong><\/em> We have 316 people signed up now (this includes some duplicates).\u00a0 The organizing committee continues to meet and a lot of progress has been made, including on fundraising.\u00a0 I continue with monthly mailings to all those who signed up — a mailing went out today.\u00a0 We’ll be holding the meeting for UK participants<\/a> on 20 February at the TUC.<\/p>\n Books:<\/strong><\/em> We have all the content for the next book (Dan Gallin) and I met with Dan in Geneva in order to discuss and to pick up some photos of him.\u00a0 Andy has finished a translation of our second book (the global labour movement) into French.\u00a0 Our fifth book, which we could publish in June, would be a collection of papers and speeches from our Berlin conference.<\/p>\n