Belgium
The inexorable rise of the Belgian Workers’ Party
The Workers’ Party of Belgium: 'At the European level we need European struggle'
Supporting Ukraine's right to self-determination: The historical example of ‘poor little Belgium’
Belgium: Towards a major confrontation after successful general strike
Strikers march on December 15, 2014.
Belgium: Left parties to form united electoral ticket
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Statement by the LCR-SAP secretariat
Belgium: Class trade unionism seeks political expression
Daniel Piron, the Charleroi regional secretary of the FGTB.
Nuclear means catastrophe: The lesson of Fukushima
People are tested for radiation exposure near Fukushima.
By Daniel Tanuro
March 17, 2011 -- International Viewpoint via Climate and Capitalism -- What has happened was entirely predictable: yet another major nuclear “accident”. At the time of writing, it is not yet certain that it will take on the dimensions of a disaster similar to Chernobyl, but that is the direction in which things, alas, look set to evolve. But whether it develops into a major disaster or not, we are once again faced with evidence that nuclear technology can never be 100% secure.
Irish crisis: A complete failure for neoliberalism
By Eric Toussaint, translated by Christine Pagnoulle in collaboration with Judith Harris
January 3, 2011 -- CADTM -- For a decade, Ireland was heralded by the most ardent partisans of neoliberal capitalism as a model to be imitated. The "Celtic Tiger" had a higher growth rate than the European average. Tax rates on companies had been reduced to 12.5% |1| and the rate actually paid by the transnational corporations that had set up business there was between 3 and 4% -- a CEO’s dream!