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With the exception of a short post-war period, after having secured 12.6 per cent of the vote at the 1946 general elections, the Parti Communiste de Belgique (PCB) has never occupied a strong position in Belgian politics. Nevertheless, observers acknowledge that the party’s real influence, at least until the beginning of the 1980s, exceeded its electoral performances as a result of its involvement in such bodies as the socialist trade union organisation, the Fédération générale du travail de Belgique (FGTB). Communist influence was also discernible in certain associative movements such as the Peace Movement (CNAPD).
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Statuts du parti communiste de Belgique, text adopted by the second session of the 24th Congress of the PCB, Brussels, 18 December 1982, p. 15.
‘Lettre ouverte du parti communiste de Belgique aux partis communistes URSS, de Bulgarie, de Hongrie, de Pologne, et de RDA’, Le Drapeau Rouge, 23 August 1968.
Marcel Levaux, ‘D’un mal peut sortir un bien?’, Le Drapeau Rouge, 30 August 1968.
‘Communiqué de bureau politique’, Le Drapeau Rouge, 8 January 1980.
‘Pologne: nette désapprobation du parti communiste de Belgique’, Le Drapeau Rouge, 18 December 1981.
See José Gotovitch, Pascal Delwit and Jean-Michel De Waele, L’Europe des communistes (Brussels: Éditions Complexe, 1992).
Hubert Cambier, ‘Souveraine … la Roumanie choisit l’isolement’, Le Drapeau Rouge, 28 November 1989.
‘Quatrième Congrès du parti communiste, Montignies sur Sambre, 3–4 Novembre 1990’, Faits et arguments, 95 (December 1990), p. 7.
Ibid., p. 2.
Avancées démocratiques (Communist Party bi-monthly periodical), no. 98 (September 1991), p. 15.
Ibid., p. 16.
PCB document, November 1991, pp. 2–3.
Questions pour la campagne électorale, Brussels, 8 July 1991.
Ibid., p. 3.
‘Note introductive’, Conférence francophone du 15 mai 1993 du parti communiste (Brussels, 1993).
Communication de la régionale de Bruxelles du PCB à la Conférence du 15 mai 1993 (Brussels, 1993).
Ibid., p. 4.
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Delwit, P., de Waele, JM. (1994). The Decline and Fall of the Communist Party of Belgium. In: Bull, M.J., Heywood, P. (eds) West European Communist Parties after the Revolutions of 1989. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23692-3_5
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