https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Magnificent-success-of-the-PTB-Left-Opening-lists https://internationalviewpoint.org/Magnificent-success-of-the-PTB-Left-Opening-lists 2014-07-11T14:47:28Z text/html en La Gauche Belgium <p>Before May 25, there were no elected representatives of what is called the "radical" left in Belgium, unlike in other countries in Europe. This anomaly has now been corrected. The PTB-GO!<span class="spip_note_ref"> [<a href="#nb1" class="spip_note" rel="appendix" title="The PTB, Belgian Workers' Party, PvdA in Flemish, is a party of Maoist (…)" id="nh1">1</a>]</span> lists are in fact sending two members to the Belgian federal Chamber of Deputies (Raoul Hedebouw in Liège and Marco Van Hees in Hainaut), two to the Walloon Parliament (including the steelworker Frédéric Gillot) and four to the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital region. Apart from Vincent Decroly and Bernard Wesphael, who were elected for the Ecolo party but who continued to sit after resigning from their party (one on the feral level federal and the other in the Walloon Region), there had been no member of parliament to the left of the Socialists (PS) and the Greens since the early 1980s ...</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV474-July-2014-" rel="directory">IV474 - July 2014</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Belgium-+" rel="tag">Belgium</a>