Biggest demo in
Belgian history
IT WAS the biggest demonstration in the whole history of the Belgian workers' movement. An equivalent demonstration relative to the size of the population would be one of 1.2 |d million workers in France, Great Britain and Italy, or of 1.5 million in West Germany.
The demonstration on May 31 in Brussels was essentially proletarian in character - in spite of the 13 per cent unemployment rate and the demolishing of several traditional working-class bastions. It shows that the Belgian working class and the workers' movement are keeping intact their potential for struggle against the attacks of capital.
This demonstration delivered a stinging refutation to all those who think that we are witnessing a perm-
"working-class cul-
BELGIUM anent decline in ture." Such of unfurled a forest red flags has never been seen before.
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resounded in-
The numerable times, taken up especially