2023-09-02 18:12:55
The PS Summer Universities were an opportunity for its president, Paul Magnette, to launch the Socialists’ pre-election campaign and to reassert itself as a workers’ party.
The PS reaffirmed itself on Saturday as the workers’ party. On the occasion of the Summer Universities, its president, Paul Magnette, launched the Socialists’ pre-election campaign by making improving working conditions and social protection for low- and middle-wage workers one of his priorities. “There is only one big party of workers, which defends all workers, it’s us, it’s the PS”, he launched in front of the militants gathered at the Théâtre de Mons.
While unemployment is falling, the number of people suffering from illness or disability is experiencing an unprecedented increase. In the eyes of the PS, the phenomenon shows the importance of leading the political fight for the quality of work, that is both bearable and a source of fulfillment.
“In the fights of the next few months, it is obvious that the issue of worker protection who have the most difficulty today must be central”, added Paul Magnette, recalling that it is in the sectors which appeared to be essential during the health crisis that we saw the harshest conditions.
An alliance with the far left is difficult to imagine
“The ecological question is today the new class struggle.”
Another issue: the environment. If it has not always been at the forefront of socialist concerns, it is different today, to hear Mr. Magnette. “We weren’t the first but we are the best,” he said. “Thanks to the work we have done, we have been able to demonstrate that in terms of climate, we are at the heart of a social divide (…) The ecological question is today the new class struggle. added the president of the PS.
The First Secretary of the French PS, Olivier Faure, was the guest of honor at these Summer Universities. The French socialists made alliance with the far left and ecologists within Nupes. Could the initiative inspire the Belgian French-speaking PS? It is in any case difficult to conceive with the Communists of the PTB, who do not intend to enter into regional or federal coalitions in 2024.
“It won’t be for a long time since the PTB has said that whatever happens, he will not go up to the government. That’s why it takes a strong PS otherwise we will have a new majority MR / N-VA”, warned Mr. Magnette, questioned on the sidelines of the meeting.
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