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1 History

The Workers Party of Belgium originated in the student movement at the end of the 1960s. Radicalized students (organized in the student union SVB - Studenten VakBeweging), mainly from the Catholic University of Louvain, turned towards the working-class movement. They considered the politics of the existing Communist Party of Belgium as being revisionist, i.e. too much turned toward the social-democratic politics (represented in Belgium by the Belgian Socialist Party). They were influenced by the ideas of the Chinese Communist Party, guerrilla movements in Latin America, the movement against Vietnam War, and the Leuven-Vlaams mouvement, the democratisation of the (then still French-speaking) University of Louvain (in the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium).

Their support and participation in an important strike in the coalmines made their turn towards a political party a definite one. They founded a periodical, AMADA (Alle Macht Aan De Arbeiders - all power to the workers), which became the first name of their party. In 1979Events January-February January 1 Sino-American relations: United States and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations January 4 State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of dead and injured in Kent State University shootings. the first congress was held, which adopted a Marxist-Leninist program and changed the name to PVDA-PTB. Ludo MartensLudo Martens (born c. 1945/48) is a Belgian historian noted for his work on francophone Africa and the Soviet Union. He is also the chairman of the Workers' Party of Belgium. In 1968 he founded the group "Alle macht aan de arbeiders" (All Power to the Wor became the first president, and is still considered the most important ideologist of the party. A noticed observer at the first congress of the WPB was Laurent Kabila, who later became president of the Democratic Republic of the CongoThe Democratic Republic of the Congo called Zaire between 1971 and 1997, is a nation in central Africa. It is sometimes called Congo-Kinshasa after its capital, to distinguish it from the Republic of Congo, or Congo-Brazzaville''. It borders on Republic o.

In recent years, the Communist Party of Belgium has virtually disappeared, leaving the Workers' Party of Belgium as the communist party of reference in Belgium. The weekly paper "Solidair / Solidaire" has some influence in the trade-unionA union labor union in American English; trade union sometimes trades union in British English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers in a parti movement in Belgium.

2 External link

• Official web page