Manifestia, at the heart of the PTB propaganda machine

For the tenth consecutive year, the PTB brought together affiliates and supporters at Manifiesta, its two-day festival at a racecourse in Ostend. A real recruitment machine, this device is striking in its numbers. 160 events are produced in about twenty distinct structures, ranging from the marquee where anti-capitalist and anti-NATO speeches are declaimed to the Forum where various rap groups perform.

Dozens of stands offer drinks…