140,000 people marched today, October 14, through the streets of Brussels. An exceptional mobilisation — one of the largest union demonstrations in the past 25 years.

The so-called twenty-point plan of Donald Trump for Gaza, enthusiastically received by Benjamin Netanyahu, is not a peace plan but a unilateral U.S.–Israeli ultimatum. It is an imposed capitulation that will only pause the genocide in Gaza, not end it. The international solidarity movement was moving to isolate Israel. With this plan Trump and Netanyahu want to reverse the roles. Their central aim is to isolate the Palestinians. The objective is to pressure Palestinians into accepting impossible, neocolonial conditions. If they refuse, Trump and Netanyahu will portray them as “obstructionists.” Then Washington will “pledge full support to finish the job” — meaning the full annexation of Gaza into a “Greater Israel.”

Discover the speech by PVDA-PTB president Raoul Hedebouw at the 2025 edition of ManiFiesta, the Festival of Solidarity. Saturday 13 September 2025

🤩 It's with energy like this that we're going to change the world!🔥 Thank you to the 15,000 participants of ManiFiesta Belgium 2025 for making this edition's heart beat.

The European Commission aims to inject 800 billion euros into the arms industry with the ReArm Europe plan. Using militarisation as the driving force behind reindustrialisation will lead to either war or crisis - and in both cases, to industrial decline.

On the eve of the NATO Summit in The Hague, Peter Mertens brought eight theses to explain the essence and the challenges to confront, at peace events in The Hague and Brussels.