Originally posted by Matthijs+Mar 2 2006, 10:10 PM--> (Matthijs @ Mar 2 2006, 10:10 PM)
[email protected] 2 2006, 05:04 PM
also i just looked this one up via the site of the dutch International Socialists, who are a pretty cool group, nothing "nutty" there :P
Apart from that whole bit about supporting a social-democratic party... No idea what the Ozzie branch is like though.
Anyway, if you're on your own, it can be annoying. If you have any like-minded friends, team up with them, so you've got some sort of group. My party, which is basically the equivalent of the CPA in the Netherlands, usually distributes like this:
-Material at public meetings: handing out pamphlets and flyers, selling books, the newspaper, the paper of the youth movement, posters(of Che Guevara and the Dutch communist WWII resistance heroine Hannie Schaft), bags(with Che Guevara, and the website address), shirts(again, mostly Che) and videos at stands at public meetings.
-Selling newspapers door-to-door. All the bourgeois parties go door-to-door when the elections are coming soon, but, as people have remarked, our party is the only one that does so throughout the year. This is where participation in elections comes in handy: the party can find out in which neighbourhoods they have the most support.
-Public meetings: Such meetings are either party-organised, like the "solidarity with Cuba!" meetings, or nationwide things like the 5th of May(when the country was freed from fascism at the end of WWII). Their success all depends on the people you can attract, and the venue. Renting a decently-sized room costs money, of course. Our party has done "solidarity with Cuba" meetings for a while now, with increasingly large audiences, and in my location, they had a "public election meeting" for the first time last week, which went quite well too. On such occasions, always have a reading table with the material mentioned earlier. As for attracting people to such meetings: make sure the info and agenda are easily accessible from your website, and basically advertise it in whatever way you can(websites, newspapers, etc. that cover political parties usually provide a link, I assume that the CPA is doing all it can to make sure this happens), and of course: word of mouth!!! [/b]
Exactly comrade ive heard comments about the aussie ISO to the effect of "i would cross the street to avoid them" ;).Thankyou for the advice and good luck with you party in netherlands. :)