"There are no second-class workers. Everyone has the right to decent housing and a quality job."

The PTB reacts to the announcement of the federal government banning the TikTok application on the phones and computers of federal employees. A discriminatory decision, according to Nabil Boukili, PTB-PVDA deputy in charge of data protection issues.

The management of the Delhaize retail company announced that it would turn its 128 stores in Belgium into franchises, leading to a broadly supported strike movement.

Given the refusal of former Presidents of the Chamber Siegfried Bracke (N-VA, Flemish nationalist) and Herman De Croo (Open Vld, neoliberal) to reimburse the pension supplements they have received for years, the PTB-PVDA is launching a petition « Every euro must be returned », to put pressure on them.

Preface by Peter Mertens to the 175th anniversary edition of ‘Het Communistisch Manifest’, EPO Publishers, Antwerp, Belgium, February 2023

More than 40 organisations of the Belgian platform ‘Europe for Peace & Solidarity" - among them trade unions (CSC-ACV and FGTB-ABVV), peace movements, youth organisations, NGOs and many associations - are organising a national demonstration on Sunday 26 February 2023 in Brussels. The Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA) and its youth organisations Comac and RedFox support the initiative.

Peter Mertens at the Havana International Conference For World Balance

Dear friends, dear comrades, I would like to start by wishing you all the best for 2023. All the best to you, your family, your children, your colleagues and your friends. This is the most important thing. Times are hard. And we're all doing the best we can.