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PS host Fête du Progrès on 27 April
On Friday 27 April the Parti Socialiste Bruxellois will host their annual Fête du Progrès. This year’s event is taking place at the Quai du K-Nal, from 19:00. Tickets are on sale at €9 (pre-sale, includes free drink) or €10 on the night.
Executive committee minutes
Executive committee minutes from the following meetings are now available: April 2010 | May 2010 | June 2010 | September 2010 | February 2011 | March 2011 | April 2011 | September 2011 | January 2012...
New issue of Germinal now online
Open publication | Download this edition as a PDF...
S&D conference on the financial crisis
On 28 March the S&D Group in the European Parliament will host a conference on ‘The responses to the European crisis, proposals from the Appeal for a European Socialist Alternative’. More details and a registration form are available...
Jan Royall delivers the 2011 John Fitzmaurice memorial lecture
On 13 October 2011, Jan Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, delivered the John Fitzmaurice memorial lecture. A summary of the lecture is below, and the full speech can be read here. Jan Royall was very happy to be back in Brussels to deliver the 201...
Belgian local elections – don’t miss your chance to vote!
The next communal elections in Belgium will take place on Sunday 14 October. Did you realise you can vote? Electoral law in Belgium recognises the right of all EU citizens to vote in – and stand for – local elections, and casting your vot...
Visit by Joan Burton, Irish Labour Party deputy leader
Our comrades in the Irish Labour Party would like to invite Brussels Labour members to two meetings with Joan Burton TD, Irish Minister for Social Protection & Labour Deputy Leader, this Friday, 17 February: “Ireland’s Future in a Changing E...
Guest blog from Julian Priestley: Opening a New Front in France
The election campaign now well and truly underway in France probably matters more directly to us in Britain than the razzmatazz of the American elections in November (providing of course that the more gruesome Republican candidates are weeded out in...
Brussels Labour’s 40th anniversary – help us celebrate!
2013 marks the fortieth year of the UK’s membership of the EU, and it marks 40 years of Brussels Labour. At the start of 1973, a group of enthusiasts formed what was then called the British Labour Group (BLG) to bring together Labour Party members...
Next Branch meeting: Ken Livingstone’s campaign team
The next Brussels Labour branch meeting takes place this week: Peter May - London Labour Party ‘The London Mayoral elections’ Wednesday 25 January - Square Ambiorix 6, 1000 Brussels – 20:00 The meeting begins at 20:00. As this e...
Book review: The Cost of Inequality
How a dodgy ideology made the rich richer, the rest of us poorer and left the economy in ruins. Around 1980, something changed: a seemingly unstoppable evolution in western societies went into reverse. For half a century the gap between rich and poor...
Guest blog from Julian Priestley: What am I bid for a toothless, dumb, blind bulldog?
You know something is wrong when John Redwood, Boris Johnson, the Murdoch press and the Mail are calling it a triumph. Even on its own terms the December EU summit plumbs new depths of government mendacity and incompetence. Even if one accepts that t...
Does Your Commune Matter To You?
The Parti Socialiste – in collaboration with sister parties – has produced a new leaflet (click here to download the PDF) on the communal elections in Belgium. These elections will take place on 14 October 2012, and all EU citizens can re...
Christmas Pub Quiz 2011
The Brussels Labour Christmas Pub Quiz 2011 will be held on Wednesday 7 December at The Staff, Rue de Trèves 42, 1050 Ixelles. Please arrive at 19:30 for the quiz, which will be compèred by Brussels Labour’s own David Earnshaw. To register a...
Next branch meeting: Clive Betts MP
The next Brussels Labour branch meeting takes place this week: Wednesday 23 November Clive Betts MP - Chair, Communities and Local Government Select Committee ‘Localism and the Big Society – Labour’s response L’Horloge du S...
Guest blog from Julian Priestley: ‘A treaty change is not a panacea’
For certain media commentators, self-appointed spokespersons for the market, our friends outside the EU and some ministers in some EU governments who should know better, the debt crisis currently engulfing the eurozone has an easy solution. The Europ...
Germinal – new edition
The latest edition of Germinal is available to download here and to read below via Issuu, featuring coverage of branch meetings with Ellie Reeves and Emma Reynolds, and the Labour Party Conference 2011. PLEASE NOTE: The meeting with Harriet Harman MP...
This Thursday: John Fitzmaurice memorial lecture with Baroness Royall
Thursday 13 October John Fitzmaurice Memorial Lecture 2011: Baroness Jan Royall, Leader of the Labour Party in the House of Lords Press Club Europe, Rue Froissart 95, 1040 Etterbeek Venue open from 19:00, meeting starts at 19:30 Grotere kaart...
