The thing is that there are some really serious things that are being proposed that they cannot ignore I think, otherwise people will be royally fucked in the coming years and-or decades. And simply remaining idle with some accepted strikes in between is not going to solve it, so at some point they would have to do something more serious.

Well I guess so, it was a strike. But the Trotskyist members were there on their own account instead of striking it seemed so their vision of it might be a bit skewed.

Personally I am all for (a version of) an indefinite strike but I doubt ABVV and ACV want to do that given their ties to Vooruit and CD&V so as to not jeopardize their positions on the negotiations. I also don’t feel like there is a party ready to back the unions, able to provide the neccessary context to the working class people apart from PVDA-PTB but even then I´m not too confident in how they will handle that with no allies apart from the unions. Vooruit will never back PVDA and neither will Groen I´m sure.

Thank you for linking this, I found this to be a great read.

Not to turn into big brain man here but lately I have been feeling like the focus of our party should be more on achieving things on our own merit to show people what organizing can do and funnily enough that’s exactly what the article mentions. Only now I have a way to word it better at our next meeting.

Sometimes I find myself reading theory and thinking to myself ‘man am I too stupid to understand this or what?’. I’m not but I think reading theory just doesn’t help to bring across the point that is made in the books. I feel like I need some other form of learning theory.

Ultimately there is no winning such discussions as the goal posts are constantly being moved. From ‘media said so’ to ‘well, they are bad so it could have happened you know!’. Some people live in a permanent state of delusion it seems.

Today I had a conversation with an anarchist and she accused one of our leading party figures for being a ‘China apologist’. It doesn’t even make sense as the dude in question, Jos D’Haese, is at the very best maybe lukewarm towards China in a sense that he doesn’t really mentions it ever. The same anarchist gets all her inormation on China through mainstream media, the media that she doesn’t trust on any other topic, ever.

I’m not sure how to handle it in a good way either. Usually I just ignore whatever bullshit comes from their mouths because I can’t debate it using facts as all facts regarding China are fake anyway according to them. I’d much rather focus on our internal problems and figure out a way to go forward while China does their thing regardless of the opinions of some Belgian communists and anarchists.

Also, that sub manages to watch a show about rising Christian fascisme, something happening today in real life, and somehow blame the Middle East for things in that same show

WHILE LIVING ON STOLEN LAND THEMSELVES

Yeah it does but these mofos have watched Dora the Explorer and think that if they yell I VOTED hard and often enough Swiper will stop being a fascist

Well thank YOU for joining o7

Today’s strike was fun (for a lack of a better word). There were 7000 people present at the march in my city which was honestly more than we excepted, so that’s good. Several thousands of people in other cities around the country as well. I assume many more people striking but not going to a protest.

I spoke to many different people, also from different communist parties. Mostly Trots though but still interesting to see what they are up to. Being anti-China was one of those things which I thought was funny coming from a party in the margin (duh).

I did however like their wish to become a bit more radical with the protests because holding up some quirky signs every month will probably not save our rights and our own party is not doing much different (insert Lenin’s What To Do quote).

The sun was absolutely blasting though so I feel a bit woozy from walking in the sun all day.

On the way home I got stopped by this girl working for a charity who asked me to donate. She was very passionate about the case which I thought was cool. Upon getting home however I saw that I subscribed to a monthly thing and I don’t want that given how many things I already am active for or are paying for, so I called the org to stop it so that I can make a one time payment. The lady on the phone said ‘okay, I will send a mail to the girl you spoke to to cancel it’ and I found that quite sad lol. I at least asked the lady to tell her in the mail that I still donated though so that she would not feel too bad.

How nice. The sun is shining, I’m drinking my morning coffee, preparing for the strike today, and now this. What a day!

By forcing them to own their house the CCCCCCCPPP is effectively forcing them to remain tied to the communist hell that is China. Very clever.

Well, holiday is over. Back to striking tomorrow, and 1st of May on Thursday!

The trend of countries deporting migrants protesting has me worried, as a migrant myself who is politically active. It’s not happening here but still. It might.