Stan De Spiegelaere‼️ Striking against nazis, and winning ‼️
Today, in 1941, workers in Belgium started the 'strike of the 100.000', a much forgotten and underestimated historic feat of mobilizing during a NAZI occupation
Read our Jacobin piece with Daniel Kopp
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/strike-of-the-100000-belgium-anniversary-antiwar
Today, We Remember Striking Workers in Occupied Europe
On this day in 1941, workers in Belgium launched one of the first strikes in Nazi-ruled Europe. Tens of thousands of strikers risked dire repression to stand up against poverty wages — and showed the working class’s determination to resist occupation.