Gas prices are going through the roof because of a dirty and illegal war waged by Trump and Netanyahu. Ordinary people will foot the bill through their heating costs or at the pump.

The attitude of European leaders towards the attack by the United States and Israel on Iran is shocking. Neither Ursula Von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, nor Kaja Kallas, the EU's "Foreign Minister", nor most European or Belgian leaders have condemned the attack. On the contrary, they have condemned Iran's response. A joint statement by the French, German and British governments even suggests that the Europeans would like to join this war of aggression in order to defend "their allies".

A European industry summit attended by 600 CEOs, an informal summit of heads of state devoted to "competitiveness", a declaration by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Davos, and repeated outings by prime minister Bart De Wever... European leaders and "captains" of industry are using the industrial crisis to impose their agenda, without even a democratic debate.

Are you an optimist? That's the question Anne Delespaul and Benjamin Pestieau - member of the direction of PVDA-PTB, were asked during the Karl Marx School organized by Comac, the PTB's student movement. "Optimism is not primarily a 'state' but a struggle,". Benjamin comes back to some of the points made.

After Venezuela, Trump, Rubio and the US government are turning to their next target: Cuba.

Thirteen days of nationwide action took place against the 'Arizona' government named after the colours of the Arizona state flag, symbolising the 5 parties in the coalition government: N-VA (Flemish right-wing nationalist party), CD&V (Flemish Christian democrat party), Vooruit (Flemish socialist party), MR (French-speaking liberal party) and Les Engagés (French-speaking Christian democrat party). At the heart of many of these mobilisations is the fight against plans to dismantle our pension scheme. Under pressure from below, the government had to review its reform. The pension malus1 and the tougher conditions for early retirement have been mitigated. As a result, the impact of these measures has been reduced by around a quarter. The figures we requested from Pensions Minister Jan Jambon clearly show that the social struggle is paying off.