Sixth major Belgian coalition march calls for a ceasefire and pressure on Israel

Farmers blocked freight access to the port of Zeebrugge during a wave of Belgian and European protests. Participants criticised low farm-gate prices, administrative requirements and environmental...

Collecti.e.f 8 maars joined the international call for a women’s strike and asked participants to withdraw from paid and unpaid work, study and non-essential consumption. The organisers connected wage...

Hundreds marched through Brussels for decent and affordable housing; police estimated about 300 participants while organisers gave a higher estimate. The coalition included housing-rights groups,...

Students from Ghent Students for Palestine and End Fossil Ghent occupied the university’s UFO building. They demanded transparent, time-bound plans on academic partnerships with Israeli institutions...

Around 40 undocumented people, many women with children, occupied a CSC Enseignement building. The Occupation Solidaires Familles Sans-papiers collective demanded collective regularisation and...

The three union confederations mobilised against proposed pension, unemployment, health-care and public-service changes. Demonstrators connected the defence of social security and purchasing power...

The World Women’s March Belgium organised a national march on International Women’s Rights Day. Police counted 10,000 participants. Organisers connected the rollback of rights with austerity,...

Platform 21/03 and allied organisations, unions and activists mobilised in Brussels against racism, discrimination and the normalisation of far-right politics. Police estimated around 2,000...

A nationwide general strike opposed the federal government’s plans and the direction of its labour and welfare reforms. Pickets, reduced public transport, shop closures and actions at hospitals and...

A coalition of housing and anti-poverty organisations concluded a week of actions with a national demonstration in Brussels. The movement called for a major increase in social housing, an end to...