COMAC (Belgium)
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| Establishment date: | 2003 |
| Chair: | Aurélie Decoene |
| Alignment: |
communist marxist-leninist |
| Parent party: | Partij van de Arbeid |
| International connections: | World Federation of Democratic Youth |
| European connections: | MECYO |
| Website: | www.chengetheworld.be |
Comac is the youth organization of the Belgian Partij van de Arbeid (PVDA). It is active in six Belgian universities and many colleges and secondary schools as well as in some residential areas. Comac is an all-Belgian youth organization and, unlike many parties and organizations in Belgium, is not limited to Flanders or Wallonia . The Comac members are between 14 and 30 years old. A membership in the PVDA is not absolutely necessary.
history
In 2003 the Mouvement marxiste leniniste (MML) and the Marxist-Leninist Movement (MLB), which were active at the universities, and Rebelle or Rode Jeugd , who were active in the schools, merged to form COMAC.
The ten combat objectives of Comac
Comac claims to be committed to the following points:
- free, democratic and good quality education
- equal political and social rights for everyone - against racism and right-wing extremist parties
- Peace and resistance to war
- healthy and good quality environment
- good means of communication and good and free public transport
- a health care system and legal aid accessible to all
- fixed and human work
- Defense of Democratic Rights
- accessible, progressive and internationalist culture
- socialism
Self-image
COMAC should be a term in itself, referring to neither of the two national languages and was in the initial phase of the association for com (-munistische / -muniste en / et) ac (-tief / -tive). That should be the face of the new youth association.
On its website, COMAC describes itself today as an "active and revolutionary youth movement ... (which) wants to unite all young people, pupils and students who do not accept today's society". "Young people who do not accept that their future is burdened with mortgages by an exclusively profit-oriented minority who refuse to watch nature being destroyed by greed and wars for oil or money. Young people who have a just society want a society that meets people's needs and not profit. Comac wants to bring together all young people who refuse to accept the racist, nationalist and fascist logic. "
To achieve these goals, Comac offers exchanges of views and discussions. Courses, seminars and debates are intended to help "understand the world better". Comac also stands for campaigns, rallies, workshops, surprise campaigns, cultural activities, trips, etc.
This approach, our view of society, can be summed up in the slogan CHEnge the world . With a wink towards Che Guevara .
Comac describes itself as the youth association of the Partij van de Arbeid of Belgium. On the one hand, the social struggle for change needs the support of the youth; on the other hand, "it is not only the youth who will change society. They can, however, play an influential role by consistently choosing the side of the working people and the exploited peoples . "
activities
In addition to daily work activities such as rallies, film screenings, workshops, solidarity campaigns (for workers, people without papers, etc.), cultural and street festivals, there are national activities that recur every year and international solidarity trips are organized on a regular basis. In addition, COMAC regularly participates in the activities of the parent party PVDA and other progressive organizations.
Peace camp
Every year, at the beginning of the summer vacation, COMAC invites its members and sympathizers to a peace camp. This summer camp has been organized since 2004 in collaboration with the Dutch CJB .
This is Belgian
Every year Comac organizes the Dit Is Belgisch weekend , on which it claims "to get the students out of their ivory towers in order to confront them with the daily reality of working people, with life in the factories and in the people's quarters." According to Comac, this reality is "particularly tough nowadays, when the economic crisis that puts thousands of people on the streets or ensures that young people cannot find work." During this weekend, the participants do not learn by reading books or listening to a professor in the lecture hall, but by visiting the working people themselves and listening to their stories, getting to know them in their living and working world.
Karl Marx School
De Karl Marx School is Comac's annual training weekend, where members and sympathizers come together for courses, workshops and discussions about current affairs, Marxism and more.
International solidarity
As COMAC itself says, international solidarity is a matter of the heart for them. Solidarity trips have already been made to Venezuela , Cuba and South Africa as part of the World Festival of Youth and Students organized by the WBDJ . In May 2011 , the chairwoman of Comac traveled to Spain to support the protest movement on behalf of Comac and to report on it at home.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ "Marxist-Leninist Movement (MLB) - Universiteit Gent", UGent.be, 2010, UG-MLB .
- ↑ Comac - what is that? ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Comac - actief en revolutionair ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
