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The PTB-PVDA launches "the revolt of the angry caps", a call to lower energy prices and make Engie pay. The left-wing party is organizing the Fridays of Rage, a weekly appointment with local actions in different cities and towns of the country, to push the government to act.

In the cities of Kortrijk and La Louvière, several hundred people sent a clear message: prices must go down, Engie must pay. Against the high bills. Against this government's complicity with the energy multinationals, we will not stand idly by.

"It's about expressing our anger, but also about recreating hope." PTB president Raoul Hedebouw, in his speech at ManiFiesta 2022, called on everyone to take action against high energy bills and against the government siding with the multinationals. From 30 September, the PTB will organise a weekly day with the "Fridays of Anger". Raoul Hedebouw, Ostende, 17 September 2022

We briefly review some of the PTB's current themes and campaigns this summer.

Good news! ManiFiesta is back on the weekend of 17 and 18 September 2022 in Ostend (Belgium). A festival organised by Solidaire, the newspaper of the Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB), and Medicine for the People, PTB's network of medical centres.

On 8 May 1945, Nazi Germany signed its unconditional surrender. The May 8 Coalition commemorated this victory over fascism at the Fort of Breendonk.

May Day Speech 2022 Raoul Hedebouw, president of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB)

For 30 minutes, peace activist and long-time trade unionist Jeremy Corbyn waltzes us through his notebooks full of stories. Together with Peter Mertens, General Secretary of the PTB, they take us from soaring energy prices, through peace and war, to million-strong demonstrations in London's Hyde Park. From Chile and hope, to the red and white of Arsenal Football Club.

Demonstration Europe for Peace and Solidarity on the call of the peace movement, the two big trade unions FGTB/ABVV and CSC/ACV and 93 organizations.

The war was started by Vladimir Putin. There is no excuse for it. Russian troops must leave Ukraine. Period. Moreover, it is urgent to have a debate on how to move towards de-escalation and guarantee security in Europe.

10,000 people demonstrated last Sunday 27 February in Brussels at the "Basta!" march organised by the PTB/PVD, under the slogan: "Protect the people, not the powerful. Basta! Enough of unpayable energy bills!”

On Saturday 5 February, some 200 peace activists gathered in Brussels, in response to a call from the Belgian peace movement, under the banner 'No war for Ukraine! No money for NATO’s wars'.