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1,000 demonstrate against 300 neo-fascists

Nationalise and provide transport for all!

But no real alternative on offer

Warning to bosses and government!

100,000s protest for a living wage and affordable prices

Government and bosses fear all-out battle with working class

Protests against anti-immigrant Brussels mayor and neo-Nazi group

First International Women’s Day demonstration in decades

March 8th International Women’s Day demonstration in Brussels

Workers demand higher wages to off set rising energy and food prices.

Ruling class parties in a muddle

Workers will have to resist more ‘social reform’ cuts

June 10 will see the first election outing for the Committee for Different Politics (CAP) when it stands in the Belgian general election for both the federal Senate and Chamber.

Will the Flemish parties succeed in imposing the break up of the national labour market policy?

Social democratic leaders forced to pose as more left wing as a result

Successful second CAP Conference

Extremely succesfull meeting of the Belgian left socialists

Three years after massive job cuts at Ford-Genk (the loss of 3,000) and nine years after the closure of Renault-Vilvoorde, the announcement of Volkswagen that it will cut 4,000 jobs in its plant in Vorst […]

Up to 11,000 jobs threatened

Important step towards a new workers’ party

National government’s defeat hidden by media!

CWI contests local elections to highlight case for new workers’ party

Veteran workers’ leader discusses a new political initiative

Serving soldiers amongst suspects

The political situation in Belgium has changed a lot in the past year.

Neo-liberal policies expose reactionary party’s ‘worker-friendly’ rhetoric

Resistance against government’s pension cuts far from “isolated”

28 October strike poses need for new workers’ party

Government forced to partially retreat, but unions must still oppose cuts

United union action needed to win

Overview of some of the solidarity messages. Sign the online petition.

Student society under threat of exclusion from university for fighting racism.

Relentless campaign sponsored by university Rector to ban ALS

Just two weeks after a successful mobilisation for the Youth March and European Trade Union demonstrations of 19 March, the LSP/MAS (cwi, Belgium) held its national educational weekend – ‘Socialism 2005’ – in Brussels.

Need for unity in struggle and a political alternative

LSP/MAS organises biggest anti-fascist demonstration since the beginning of ’90.

On 9 November the highest court in Belgium confirmed an earlier court decision convicting three associations linked to the Vlaams Blok for racism.

Is the Vlaams Blok trying to change itself into a more "mainstream" rightwing party?

The Active Left Students (ALS), the student organisation of the LSP/MAS, the Belgian affiliate of the cwi, has won a second election victory at the Flemish university in Brussels.

LSP/MAS, the Belgian affiliate of the cwi, has developed very successful student organisations.

Court decides electoral registration office ban was illegal

Electoral registration office bans Belgian cwi contesting elections

Despite bureaucratic obstacles, lists handed in today.

The NSV, the students’ organisation of Belgian’s biggest fascist party, the Vlaams Blok, organises a yearly demo in one of the cities in Flanders where a university is present. This year they chose to march […]

Last weekend, LSP/MAS (the Belgian affiliate of the cwi), held a national conference to discuss ’Political alternatives for the. With 134 participants from 17 branches this conference was the biggest ever in the history of […]

On Saturday 25 October, 1,000 people protested in Casteau near Mons (in the Walloon area in Belgium) against the NATO military headquarters SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers in Europe). The repressive actions of […]

After the dramatic closures and the lost jobs in Renault, Sabena, Cockerill and Philips, there is another threat of the loss of several thousands of jobs at Ford Genk.