New guy from Belgium.

[RedArno]

Hello everyone,

I've been lurking around here for a moth or two already and made three posts or something, so I decided it's time for me to introduce myself.

I'm RedArno, I'm a 17 year old male from Belgium, still attending high school. Next year I'm planning to go to uni and study history. I'll probably also join a left-winged movement then and become more active.
I'm still pretty new with left ideologies, but I find myself very attracted to the Cuban socialist way. Especially on education, which I think is very important to be free and accessible for every single human being. Culture is power! :pThus I like reading and movies a lot.

Anyway, that's me in a nutshell. Enjoy!

Edit: Sorry if my English isn't very good, but you'll have to take it as it is. :p

[Q]

I think your English is pretty good, welcome! :)
If you're interested in socialist ideas and Belgian news on workers struggles and political activity, I suggest the LSP/PSL website (socialisme.be), which has tons of it. Maybe you could even join a public meeting which they organise very frequently :)

[Sasha]

hey hey hey q-colective, no party grooming here :lol:

welcome, dont know if your waals or flaams, but if you are flaams drop in at the dutchspeaking section as well, we could use some more people there alway. (although the belgians are already out in force there :lol:)

[An archist]

As long as we're promoting our own organisations...
If you think about studying in Leuven, check out GAL: http://galleuven.wordpress.com/

And if you're thinking about going to Gent, you might want to read this site:
http://anarchistischkollektief.blogspot.com/

Anyway, welkom!

[OneNamedNameLess]

Merry Christmas and welcome!

[BIG BROTHER]

yea welcome man, its pretty cool that you live in belgium, that's where the C.W.I. meets for its international meetings.

[Wanted Man]

Welcome, comrade from Belgium! :) Come and check out the Dutch-language forums, it's clearly the most fun part of RevLeft.

I see two people promoting different parties/collectives/whatever. I'm a member of the Communist Youth in the Netherlands myself. We work together with the Belgian movement Comac on a lot of things, their website can be seen here: http://chengetheworld.org/ From what I've seen, they are a growing movement, with increasing support at schools and universities. Also, they consistently show internationalism, including full solidarity with Cuban socialism. Something I can't say for the other groups mentioned here. But in the first place, think and see for yourself, there is a multitude of left groups everywhere, but nobody should feel pressured into joining one just because someone loudly advertises it.

Well, there is one thing, before I shut up. :p Comac also organise the "Camp for Peace" (Vredeskamp) every summer. I always go there with other Dutch comrades. It's easily both the most fun and informative event. This summer, there were 149 people, I had a great time. Pictures from this year: http://www.chengetheworld.org/nl/index.php?op=page&pid=2524

And before I forget: merry Christmas! :)

[Q]

yea welcome man, its pretty cool that you live in belgium, that's where the C.W.I. meets for its international meetings.

Yeah, every year in July/August we have the international summerschool and we just concluded the International Executive Committee meeting of the CWI (how often do they meet? Once or twice a year? Hmm, I should look that up.)

[Wanted Man]

The Dutch employment office meets in Belgium??? :laugh:

(yeah, yeah, I know what CWI means. It never gets old though...)

[Q]

The Dutch employment office meets in Belgium??? :laugh:

(yeah, yeah, I know what CWI means. It never gets old though...)

It does though, just a few more days and the "Center for Work and Income" ceases to exist :)

[Tower of Bebel]

Hello everyone,

I've been lurking around here for a moth or two already and made three posts or something, so I decided it's time for me to introduce myself.

I'm RedArno, I'm a 17 year old male from Belgium, still attending high school. Next year I'm planning to go to uni and study history. I'll probably also join a left-winged movement then and become more active.
I'm still pretty new with left ideologies, but I find myself very attracted to the Cuban socialist way. Especially on education, which I think is very important to be free and accessible for every single human being. Culture is power! :pThus I like reading and movies a lot.

Anyway, that's me in a nutshell. Enjoy!

Edit: Sorry if my English isn't very good, but you'll have to take it as it is. :p
Welcome,

You look like me when I joined in 2006. I just became 18, I wanted to study history in Ghent, I knew my English was awful (yours is better though), I intended to join a leftist grouping at univeristy and I only had a vision of an "ideal world".

What's different was that I were some sort of animal rights activist on my own (that's why my nickname was raccoon back then), that I was a reservist and that I wasn't really fond of the Cuban way. Lol.

Don't forget to visit either the Dutch or French language section (depends on the language you speak of course).

[lombas]

A warm welcome for you, comrade compatriot!

Feel at home. And we all have enough to learn to keep us busy for a lifetime!