https://www.accg.be/fr/actualite/2023...
ENGLISH VERSION / TGP TRANSL.
While the French were beating the pavement for the eleventh time against the pension reform, our journalist @CemilSanli was out of France to visit the Belgians in Antwerp.
Why?
Because it seems that the French social movement tends to be exported.
Or, at least, to meet more and more echoes of support abroad, just as many voices are raised to worry about an authoritarian drift, like the GJ period in 2019-20.
Here, Cemil takes us to the heart of one of Europe's most important seaports, where the TOTAL ENERGIES fuel depot is in the sights of Belgian workers.
While the French refiners have been on strike for several weeks, suffering requisitions and police violence, here are their Belgian colleagues who undertake, in support, an unprecedented blocking operation. Not a single drop of oil is coming out, neither for Belgium nor for France.
What concrete reasons do foreigners have to show solidarity with the French?
While France likes to think of itself as a beacon for the rest of Europe and the world in the field of revolutionary struggles, how do our Belgian neighbors view us?
But also, what is their situation here, where the legal retirement age is already set at 67?
And finally, beyond the support of the French strikers, are we witnessing an internationalization of the struggle against anti-social policies boosted by the stubbornness of the French president?
This is what we will see in this new report.
Journalist and editor : Cemil Sanli
Camera : Elie Bonneton
Official statement of the call to blockade :
https://www.accg.be/fr/actualite/2023...
Translated with DeepL