Another Europe’s founding statement appeared in the Guardian on the 18 February 2016. It is reproduced below with some additional signatories.
The progressive case for staying in the EU
A British exit from the EU would have a seriously detrimental impact on the free movement of people; trade union and human rights; environmental protection; international cooperation; and a host of other vital issues. While, at the very least, the EU is in desperate need of a democratic overhaul, an exit at the current time would boost rightwing movements and parties and hurt ordinary people in the UK. European politics has been dominated by neoliberal thinking for far too long – as recent events in Greece brutally demonstrate. But changing this means working to strengthen anti-austerity movements across all of Europe – not walking away.
Another Europe is Possible is a campaign for a radical “in” vote. Our campaign will put the case for staying in the EU independently of Cameron and big business, opposing any part of a “renegotiation” that attacks workers’, migrants’ or human rights. We will combine campaigning for an in vote with arguing for an alternative economic model, maintaining European citizens’ rights to live and work across the EU, and for far-reaching democratic reforms of European institutions.
Caroline Lucas MP Green party
Cat Smith MP Labour shadow minister for women
Clive Lewis MP Labour shadow minister for energy and climate change
Hywel Williams MP Plaid Cymru Westminster group leader
Lucy Anderson MEP Labour
Claude Moraes MEP Labour
Michael Mansfield QC Barrister
Molly Scott Cato MEP Green party
Julie Ward MEP Labour party
Manuel Cortes General secretary, Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA)
Marshajane Thompson Momentum National Committee (pc)
Steve Turner Assistant general secretary, Unite the Union
Luke Cooper Anglia Ruskin University and convenor, Another Europe Is Possible
Ann Pettifor Economist
Kate Smurthwaite Comedian
Owen Jones author and columnist
Zoe Williams Journalist
Richard Murphy Economist and tax justice campaigner
Neal Lawson Compass
Peter Tatchell human rights activist
Amelia Womack Deputy leader, Green party
John Palmer Former Europe editor, the Guardian
Billy Hayes Former general secretary, CWU
Paul Mackney Former general secretary, UCU (Natfhe)
Sahaya James NUS national executive committee
Nick Dearden Director, Global Justice Now
Lord Stewart Wood Labour
Deborah Hermanns National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts
Michael Chessum Journalist and Labour party activist
Zoe Gardner Refugee rights campaigner
Mark Perryman co-founder Philosophy Football
Janna Kenny junior doctor and EU migrant worker
Mohammed Ateek Syrian refugee, activist and PhD student
Sam Fowles Birmingham University
Salman Shaheen journalist
Marina Prentoulis University of East Anglia and Syriza (UK)
Professor Etienne Balibar Author, We The People of Europe
Sunny Hundal Journalist
Liz Davies Barrister and Labour party activist
Neil Faulkner Historian and archaeologist
Houzan Mahmoud Kurdish feminist activist
Bill Bowring Professor of Law, Birkbeck
Niccolo Milanese Chair, European Alternatives
John Christensen tax justice campaigner
Kate Hudson Left Unity
Derek Wall Green party international coordinator
David Rosenberg Author, Rebel Footprints
Maryam Namazie Human rights activist
Hannah Webb NUS national executive
James Elliot NUS disabled students campaign
Natalie Sedacca Human rights lawyer
Andrea Pisauro Sinistra Ecologia Liberta (London)
George Aylett Former Labour parliamentary candidate and Youth NC member