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BEIGIAN SOCIALISTS RESIST RIGHT-WING ATTACK
BRUSSELS, Nov. 29 -- The Bureau [daily leadership] of the Belgian Socialist party adopted a resolution November 23 stating that the party leadership intends to place a motion before the party congress, scheduled for December 12-13, declaring that participation in the leadership of the Walloon Popular Movement and any form of collaboration with the two weeklies, La Gauche and Links, is incompatible with membership in the Socialist. party.
The news broke the next day in the Belgian daily papers. It... was important news. The proposed ban could portend a crisis for the ‘Socialist party. | a = :
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The Walloon Popular Movement was founded by the late André Renard, the leader of the left wing of the Belgian trade unions, after the general strike of December 1960-January 1961, It is closely identified with the left wing of the unions in many industrial regions of the southern part of the country, especially Lidge.
| The French-language La: Gauche and the Flemish-language Links | are very popular among left-wing members, Their combined press run is 10,000 a week.
- The decision-of the ‘reformist leadership to open up war on the left wing follows on the heels of a heavy. defeat which the. right wing suffered in a witch-hunting attempt to repress the left wing on: a local or regional scale, noe
In the Charleroi region, a right-wing attempt to expel a local section with a moderately left leadership received only forty per cent of the votes ata regional party congress.
In the Nivelles region, the. attempt of the right wing to dis-. cipline four members of the. regional committee for oppositional activities was reduced to six weeks suspension. . « as members of the regional committee, co
-sIn Liége, a right-wing move to expel Jacques Yerna, regional secretary of the trade-union movement and legal editor of La Gauche, did not receive the necessary two-thirds majority to pass. In fact the motion. got less than’ fifty per cent of the votes, ,
Following this, the right wing ‘moved to suspend Yerna for six years, When this failed they made it four years, Then three, Next. one year, ‘Finally a motion to temporarily suspend Yerna for a few: months as a member of the regional committee of the party passed,
In addition to this, the party leadership had to make a hasty retreat after an attempt to ban members of the socialist youth in September,
The right wing has now decided to disregard all these defeats and. to plunge ahead in its witch=hunting campaign. The reason ap« pears to be its fear that. the left wing will score big victories in the coming’ primaries at the end of December,. These will determine the slates to be run by the Socialist party in the general elections in 1965,
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