ACTIVITIES OF THE BRUSSELS FEDERATION OF THE BELGIAN COMMUNIST PARTY

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 13, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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1;. A Discussion Center for the elaboration of the new statutes of the Belgian
Com unist Party was opened on 20 September 1948. Meetings.wore held at
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At the "Rose Blenohe". rue du Fort? for St. Gilles, Forest, Droogen z
bock and Uccle Sections.
At the I. a.ison des Tramwaymen, for Brussels.
At the "Weil Ixelles". 37 Chaussee de Vleurgat, Ixelles for Audereheme,
Etterbeek, Ixelles and latermael-Boitsfort Sections.
At the Liaison dos Brasseurs for Schaerbeek, Evers, St. Jesse and Aldluitie-
S't.-Lambert Sections.
Attendance at these meetings numbered only about 150 people in all and was
disappointing to Communist leaders*
an At the Ixelles meeting Antoine Laurent expounded on the Marshall
Plan. which is "enslaving our industry rncl coz fierce and sere ix
unemployment among our working classes", and on the "valets of
American imperialism, Spank, Van Acker, and Company" ?, For these
reasons the BCP is laying down new principles in every aspect of
its activities. Further Discussion Centers were to be held on
93 September; 4, 12., and 18 October for a more complete' examination
these { ue scions..
b. Stum.)el ferssens was the rtai.n speaker at the I?eison des Brassours
r., ti.rz# .w z'.e stated that the main purpose of the meting was fiat
discuss the naanphlet. Taus au Travail,, which sets forth the now
principles of the Coraim-i3st` ar j. He also stated , nat, for the
!949 ree_;istraations. sections and business enterprises will require
non
!bars to show their union booklets. All militants will be obliged
s-,o tell of their political aotivity, work, income and private life
z.t public "purge" meetings, so that the Party may differentiate
b-..;waeen the real militants and those whom it ropy wish to renove.
When asked if war were inevitable Herssene said that he was
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(,,ounting; on the people of Europe not to be influenced by Iamerioan
propaganda, but that if America forced the USSR to intervene it
would be serious. "Shock troops" to reinforce the brigades which
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will see action in an,l conflict, either local skirmishes or war,
are already being recruited, These "shock troops" must be able
to fight effectively as they did before the warm The Communists
do not wish to fight but they rust be prepared to withstand any
use of force by reactionary groups.
:. The "collective education" group of the Brussels Federation of the Bahian
Comunist Party not at 36 Boulevard d?Anvers on 2? October 1948. The
meeting was presided over by Robert Jmvet. Others present were Lea (Leona)
i,otquin, Tr;mborn (fnu), Jean Dewil, Vand?rgooten (fnu) and wife, and
Juliette Pierre&
a. Discussions revealed that only from five to seven members per
Section had enrolled in the elementary courses and among these,
only three to five regulvrly attended the courses. The intellectual
standard of the students is extremely low. They understand with
difficulty and are content to study the assigned lessons word by
word without fully comprehending; them. It was felt that a more
practical r thod of elementary education is needed,
b. Professors in the federal school are not satisfied with results
there. The students read and learn without any discussion of
the subjects. Some of the assigned reading is too hard and, as
most of the students are good militants devoting, all their time
to the Party, they do not have the necessary time to, study the
problems whidh are dj-v advanced for their cultural standards.
It would be necessary to send the students to the USSR over a
period of years in order to educate them satisfactorily. In
Belgium the intellectuals who could do immediate and fruitful
work do not respond to the Party wishes.
c. Arnold Duitsch alias Joan Vp.n don Borghe, tried to justify the
Soviet position in the Berlin situation and criticized US action.
Juliette Pierre, whose husb5\nd is one of the editors of Drapeau
Rouges discussed the workings of the United Nations and .itnRT
the USSR had always used the veto for the _ood of its
people.*
d. The agenda for the next meeting on, 5 November 1948 ;reps announced
and discussion of "The case of the twelve American' Connunists"
was included.
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