European socialist awakening, and hey Italy - wow!

With the European Parliamentary Elections barely 18 months away it's not too early to be thinking about the PES manifesto. Indeed a website has been created here to enable us all to do just that.

While I have managed to lift my eyes from the British agenda, have you read Denis MacShane's piece on the Italian left in the latest issue of Tribune?  Three million, yes, three million Italians have just voted to elect the first leader of a new Party fusing all the non-Conservative parties in the country except the Trots.