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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.

On the eve of the NATO summit, the PVDA-PTB mobilized to oppose Trump’s 5% target and against NATO, an aggressive war machine. [Photo report]

ManiFiesta? Two days to see the world as it should be. With workers, young people and all those who want to imagine alternatives for the future, to be together, to act together...

In June, The Hague will host the 2025 NATO summit, where its members will pledge to increase defense spending, "rearm" the old continent and extend NATO's influence around the world.

The Institute for Marxist Studies (IMAST) is joining forces with national and international partners for the first edition of the Marxist Summer School in Bredene, Belgium! Join us from July 6 to July 9 and register now at: www.marxist.be

Seventy years ago, the seeds of a new world order were planted in Bandung. In the former colonial banquet hall, Sociëteit Concordia, leaders from Asia and Africa gathered to stand united against imperialism and domination. The building—once marked by a sign reading "Dogs and Natives Prohibited"—where Dutch officers, businessmen, and dignitaries had celebrated colonial power, became the stage for the Bandung Conference, a milestone in the struggle for independence and self-determination. What began as a bastion of colonial arrogance became a symbol of liberation.

At the call of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PVDA-PTB), nearly 5,000 people marched through the streets of Brussels on Sunday 27 April against social cuts and for peace.

The European Left is a platform that brings together over 40 parties from across Europe fighting for a just society. On that occasion, we were delighted to welcome Walter Baier (President of the Party of the European Left), Sira Rego (Spanish Minister of Youth and Children), and Tea Jarc (Confederal Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation) to the PVDA-PTB’s national headquarters, where they spoke alongside our General Secretary, Peter Mertens. Faced with attacks on the working class, militarization, and the climate crisis, our response must be international. These are the struggles we will continue to wage alongside the Party of the European Left, trade unions, and civil society organizations.