To the Participants at the National Conference of the Party for
Socialism and Liberation, Los Angeles, 13-14 November 2010
Dear comrades,
On behalf of the Department of the International Relations of the
Workers’ Party of Belgium we express our warmest fraternal greetings to all of
you.
As Marxist parties, we both face the challenges of the deepening crisis
of the capitalist system itself. The workers are burdened with new measures of
ever severer exploitation. The democratic and trade-union rights are threatened,
and the world peace is more and more endangered by the imperialist policy of
the USA and its NATO-allies.
The narrow and reactionary nationalist movement, which tries to
ultimately split Belgium, our country, although not a new phenomenon, is nevertheless
today part of the overall policy of the most powerful part of the bourgeoisie
in the North of our country, Flanders, the current richest region of Belgium.
They want a European Union of the richest regions and therefore, they
need to break the solidarity of the working class. They pretend that this
policy is in favor of the people – but by analysing their programme, it’s
cristal clear that they only want to break down the conquests of the working
class, the gains of hundred years of common class struggle of the workers of
the whole country.
Dear comrades,
The coming years are not only a challenge, they are also an opportunity.
Working people can understand better than ever since the Second World War that
capitalism offers no future for them. As we strengthen our parties, extend our
militant mass work, improve our organisations, we can help the workers find the
path towards socialism. That’s our common alternative to this system of
worsening conditions for the workers of our countries, for the peoples of this
earth.
We are in full solidarity with your efforts.
We wish you a very successful National Conference.
Fraternally,
Jean Pestieau,
Department of International Relations
Workers’ Party of Belgium
