Jozef Bossuyt | Communist Party of Belgium
I bring you the greetings of the Communist Party of Belgium. The PCB was founded 104 years ago, on September 3, 1921, and immediately became a member of the Third International. Now our Communist Party is a member of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform.
World War III began. It was planned, launched, organized, financed, coordinated and armed by NATO, the main instrument of US imperialism. The NATO war is a war, which is being fought on 4 fronts: Ukraine-Donbass, Palestine-Arab countries, Korea-China-Taiwan, Africa-Ruanda. The current world situation can be summed up in one sentence: “The flames of World War III, perpetrated by imperialism, are spreading around the world to all continents. Against this NATO war offensive, the anti-imperialist coalition, built around countries such as China, the DPRK and Russia, is gaining allies around the world. Countries such as Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Eritrea, South Africa, Venezuela and Nicaragua have joined this anti-imperialist front.
Against this NATO war offensive, the anti-imperialist coalition, built around countries as China, the DPRK and Russia is gaining allies over the world. Countries as Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, and Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Eritrea, South Africa, Venezuela, Nicaragua joined this anti-imperialist front.
Recently, new fronts have been opened. In response to the genocidal attack on the fascist state of Israel in October 2023, a new third front is being opened from Arab countries such as Yemen, Iran and Lebanon. Since August 6, 2025, the war has spread from the Donbass deep into the territory of Russia, with the invasion and occupation of the Kursk region by the Ukrainian army.
On 12 June, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that NATO would now coordinate all support from all NATO members to Ukraine. On 13 June, the G7 decided to grant Ukraine a loan of 50 billion dollars, mainly paid for by the United States. On that day, Joe Biden signed an agreement with Zelensky that in the next 10 years, the United States will help Ukraine build a military industry, train Ukrainian soldiers, and exchange information.
From 10 to 15 May, a delegation from the World Anti-Imperialist Platform visited the Luhansk Republic and sent us its report with videos and photos. Their conclusion is that the Ukrainian army is acting in this war in the same way as the Israeli army is acting in Gaza, bombing, killing the civilian population, destroying schools, hospitals, apartments, the same cruelty of genocide.
In our country, Belgium, there is the NATO headquarters in Evere, the Supreme Headquarters of Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), the NATO Central Command in Casteau and an American military air base in Chièvres. About 20 American nuclear weapons are stored at Kleine Brogel. The broad peace movement is organising meetings and actions in Belgium, demanding the withdrawal of the Kleine Brogel nuclear bombs, the end of the contracts for the purchase of F-35 fighter jets with the United States, the reduction of military spending (NATO is demanding 2% of our gross domestic product this year, then in the future even 3 and 5%, Belgium now spends no more than 1%). The peace movement also demanded the closure of the NATO offices in Evere and Casteau and the military air base in Chièvres.
From May to June 14, 2024, students from Ghent University occupied the University building, demanding that the university cease all relations and cooperation with Israel. Then they were evicted by the police. But they have left a slogan in the building: We will be back! You can’t stop the revolution!
On 31 March, the Belgian trade unions organized a national general strike. They do not accept that the government is diverting more and more money from the budget to give it to Ukraine in the form of weapons, investments and the sending of Belgian soldiers. At the same time, the government is blocking the budgets for pensions and salaries, hospitals and health care, schools, kindergartens, public services such as the post office, buses and trains.
Gaza: Stop the genocide by the state of Israel!
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has already murdered more than 54,000 people, most of them women and children. Medical personnel, like ordinary Palestinians, have been arrested, imprisoned in fearsome prisons where many are tortured and killed. Israeli troops have again cut the Gaza Strip in two since Wednesday night, March 19. Soldiers and tanks have returned to the area, a little more than a month after ending the ceasefire. Earlier in the day, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, more than twenty Palestinians had already been killed in Israeli bombings. Israel has completely restarted the war. Once again, humanitarian workers are not safe. In an attack on a United Nations building, a Bulgarian UN employee was killed and five others were wounded.
Ukraine: Fascist Zelensky regime―NATO: Out of Donbass and Russia!
In November 2013, the US funded and organized the pro-fascist Maidan uprising in Kiev against the pro-Russian government of Yanukovych. The United States therefore mobilized the most reactionary nationalist forces, supporters of the Nazi collaborator during World War II, Stepan Bandera. Om February 2014, these gangs destroyed government buildings, offices of communist and trade union organizations, monuments to Lenin and commemorating the Soviet Union, and overthrew the government. The newly installed regime was essentially fascist, Ukrainian in its forms and American in its objectives and policies. It is especially in the east of Ukraine (Donbass, Mariupol, Odessa) that the resistance has developed. Poroshenko, Ukraine’s president since May 25, violently suppressed this growing resistance. On May 2, 2014, fascist gangs burned 40 people alive in the Odessa trade union building. In the Donbass, a popular uprising has driven out the fascist representatives. The working class, especially miners and metalworkers, confiscated weapons from police stations and army barracks, and erected barricades around government buildings. In May 2014, in the Donbass (eastern Ukraine), in a referendum (with 95% and 89%), the inhabitants of the Luhansk and Donetsk districts decided to no longer be part of Ukraine and founded the Luhansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic. Poroshenko launched a military campaign against Donbas, bombing schools, hospitals, homes and power plants, killing 14,000 people between 2014 and 2022. But neither he nor the future President Zelensky was able to take the capitals Donetsk and Luhansk from the people of Donbass, who were fighting in a just, defensive, and legitimate war of liberation. Russia’s intervention in 2022 supports this war of liberation on the territory of Donbas.
From 10 to 15 May, a delegation from the World Anti-Imperialist Platform visited the Luhansk Republic and sent us its report with videos and photos. Their conclusion is that the Ukrainian army is acting in this war in the same way as the Israeli army is acting in Gaza, bombing, killing the civilian population, destroying schools, hospitals, apartments, the same cruelty of genocide.
AFRICA
The anti-imperialist struggle in the Sahel region of Africa, which has begun in earnest since 2020, culminated in the historic achievement of removing US and French troops from Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso. The method of imperialist aggression―starting with military occupation, followed by political domination and economic plunder―shows that the removal of imperialist troops is a sign of the decisive victory of the anti-imperialist struggle.
The Senegalese people waged an intense antifascist and anti-imperialist struggle against the Macky Sall regime, which had deepened its fascist repression with the backing of the imperialist camp. The regime change after 12 years is a significant achievement of the popular uprising. The achievements in the three Sahel countries and Senegal confirm that the struggle based on the revolutionary party and the working class is the only way forward for the people.
In Ruanda, US imperialism is the driving force of the Kagame-regime and its war against Congo. Between 900 people, by UN estimates, and 2,000 people, by Congolese government estimates, were killed in the offensive on Goma. The Belgian government’s stance on Rwanda and the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) : Belgium has condemned Rwanda’s actions in the DRC, including the alleged support for the M23 rebel group.
CHINA, KOREA
The deepening of US imperialism’s war drive in the east is revealed in the construction of new military bases in the Philippines, in the arming and training of proxy forces in Taiwan, in the insane provocations of the South Korean puppet state against the DPRK, and in the ratcheting up of the economic war against China to fever pitch.
NATO―OUT!
Support the anti-war, anti-imperialist global front that is forming around China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Cuba, Russia, Iran and Yemen.
In Belgium, we demand:
Netanyahu’s arrest if he shows up on Belgian territory
Belgium out of NATO!
NATO out of Belgium!
Stop all relations with the fascist state Israel!
