Ernest Burnelle

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Ernest Burnelle (born July 12, 1908 in Liège ; † August 6, 1968 ibid) was a Belgian politician and chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium ( French Parti Communiste de Belgique ).

Life

Burnelle - a teacher by profession - joined the Communist Party of Belgium in 1938. During the German occupation of Belgium (1940-1944) he participated in the resistance. After the liberation he became editor of the central organ of the KP Le Drapeau Rouge (Eng. "The Red Flag"). Since 1946 Burnelle was a member of the Central Committee, since 1954 a member of the Politburo of the CP of Belgium. From 1951 to 1953 he was First Secretary of the Liège Party Association. From 1946 to 1968 he was a member of the Liège municipal council ( French Conseil Communal ). From 1946 to 1949 and from 1965 to 1968 he was also a member of the Belgian parliament ( French Chambre des Représentants de Belgique ) for the Arrondissement of Liège. From 1961 until his death he was chairman of the CP of Belgium.

Works

French

  • Solutions belges pour le progrès social - la paix - le socialisme (Belgian solutions for social progress, peace, socialism). Société Populaire d'Editions, Brussels sd
  • Pour une politique conjoncturelle de la classe ouvrière. Revendications immédiates. Nationalizations. Deux aspects d'une même lutte (For a stimulus policy of the working class. Immediate demands. Nationalization. Two aspects of the same struggle) Matthys, Deinze 1959.
  • Le mouvement ouvrier belgium at-il un programs? (Does the Belgian labor movement have a program?). Matthys, Deinze 1960.

Flemish

  • Wat de communists sake. Complete tekst van het verslag ingediend op het XIIe National Congress of the Communist Partij van België. Ghent April 19-22, 1957 (What the communists want. The full text of the report submitted to the XII Congress of the Communist Party of Belgium. Ghent April 19-22, 1957). Matthys, Deinze 1957.
  • Om de werkloosheid te bestrijden. Onmiddellijke aktie en socialist perspektieven (To fight unemployment. Immediate actions and socialist perspectives). Matthys, Deinze 1958.

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