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30 January 2019
Belgium: Movement against climate change grows
School student strikes hit a record high. 35,000 marched through Brussels on Thursday 24 January, triple the size of the week before. On Sunday 27 January, more than 70,000 marched on a national climate change demo in Brussels.
23 January 2019
Europe: school students strike against climate change
School students in Germany and Belgium have walked out against climate catastrophe
16 May 2018
A week-long series of strikes by Lidl workers in Belgium has led to increased staff at stores across the country. A strike broke out at one store in Oostkamp over the dismissal of a sales manager, which also raised the issue of workloads.
13 December 2017
A world in crisis, ripe for revolution
Committee for a Workers' International document: The world crisis of capitalism - despite the surface impression of 'recovery' - has only got worse since the meeting of last year's IEC.
6 December 2017
Fighting sexism, violence and capitalism - an international struggle
Interviews with socialist women from Mexico, Belgium, Ireland and Brazil
8 March 2017
Thirty years ago, 193 passengers and crew drowned off the coast of Belgium after P&O's Herald of Free Enterprise car ferry capsized. One of the dead was seafarer and Militant (forerunner of the Socialist) supporter Geoff Haney.
25 January 2017
Short stories from other sections and co-thinkers of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), the global socialist organisation which the Socialist Party is affiliated to. CWI stands in Northern Ireland elections; socialists gather in Latin America; anti-sexism campaign launched in Belgium.
2 November 2016
EU-Canada trade deal battle points to Corbyn's Brexit opportunity
The saga of the on-off-and-on again EU-Canada trade agreement holds important lessons for how Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters could use the Brexit negotiations to build European-wide workers' opposition to the EU bosses' club.
27 July 2016
Europe and the workers' movement after Brexit
Europe - Britain in particular - is now at the forefront of political developments. Because of the 'weight' of British capitalism, Brexit represents a giant boulder dropped into a lake.
15 June 2016
The Socialist Inbox: Letters to the Socialist's editors. European Union membership referendum special.
18 May 2016
Belgium: unions call national demos and general strikes
Bring down the government!: Belgian trade unions have called new protests - including national demonstrations and a 24-hour general strike - after the right-wing government announced abolition of the 38-hour working week and attacks on public sector pensions, among other austerity measures, writes LSP/PSL (CWI, Belgium) reporters.
6 April 2016
Short stories on workers' struggles around the world. Germany socialist conference success; Belgian socialists arrested for challenging far right.
30 March 2016
Belgium: Far right attack vigil for Brussels victims
Eyewitness report from members of Linkse Socialistische Partij/Parti Socialiste de Lutte Socialist Party's sister organisation in Belgium
23 March 2016
Brussels attacks: don't let the terrorists and racists divide us
The victims, once again, are ordinary people. The workers’ movement needs a collective response to resist terrorism, racism, and government attempts to restrict strikes, demonstrations and political opposition.
9 December 2015
Belgium - party congress success
The 14th congress of the Socialist Party's sister party in Belgium was held recently. Some 130 delegates present discussed among other issues how to end this sick system of capitalism which creates mass poverty, endless wars and the conditions in which terrorism flourishes.
2 December 2015
Belgium: ruling class can't be trusted with 'security'
If we consider how Belgium's government deals with our wages, our benefits and our jobs, we should have no confidence to entrust them with our security.
15 July 2015
Short stories on workers' struggles around the world.
24 June 2015
Short stories on workers' struggles around the world.
May Day in central London, photo Paul Mattsson
30 April 2015
125 years of May Day: Learn lessons of past struggles
This year marks the 125th International Workers' Day, or 'May Day'. The original call for workers' demonstrations around the world on 1 May was made in July 1889 at the International Socialist Workers Congress in Paris
10 December 2014
Europe: a new wave of workers' struggle has begun
Once again workers are in revolt against "elderly and haggard" European capitalism - as the Pope accurately described it. Six years into 'the Great Recession' austerity and mass unemployment have become permanent continent wide
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