Armed with only one revolver, Youra Livchitz, Robert Maistriau and Jean Franklemon managed to stop a train from Mechelen heading to Germany. On board were many prisoners, mostly Jewish, heading to the extermination camps.

Despite being a heavily secured transport, the three still managed to cause enough trouble for 233 people to escape. 118 of them eventually survived, the rest was killed during the escape or recaptured afterwards.

Youra was eventually captured and killed by the Germana, while Jean and Robert managed to survive the war.

So, as it is, in Belgium, after you have reached a certain amount of worked days, you are eligible for unemployment benefits. These benefits are unlimited in time and you can theoretically work the aformentioned days, get fired and get benefits until retirement.

Unions also play a big factor in the unemployment industry so to say as they are the ones taking care of the files for the workers to get the maximum out of their rights versus the government.

This system, while it has its flaws, makes sure that the workers of Belgium are protected from falling into poverty, giving them at least some money to get by.

The new neoliberal government will now make an end to this, citing the usual crap like lazy people taking advantage of the system, the need for budget cuts, whatever. They will limit the period of benefits to a maximum of two years. You will get one initial year if you have worked for one year in the three years prior to your request, with an option to get an additional month

After some months of seemingly being free of anxiety I feel like it has returned in the last few weeks, which sucks. I probably will never be free of it because it seems that I am wired to be prone to anxiety though I can now recognize that I most of the anxious feelings are just inside my head and I am not in actual danger or whatever. Yay for progress, I guess.

Working out helps. I actively rejoined the gym months ago after my running period and some dude told me: 'well you'll see the results in around 6 months', which seemed kinda long at the time. Lo and behold some six months later and here it is: I am seeing the results. Which is nice and motivating.

Gardening also helps in calming it down. I am growing a window sill herb garden and my basil is already coming up. Still waiting for the parsley, pepper, thyme and the lemon balm but they will take some more time. On my balcony I have spinach, chamomile, salad, green onion and chives coming up soon. My native flower set up is doi

So the new season dropped and for some reason I feel like they will lib it up lol. Like, the final solution to all of it will be liberalism somehow.

Also, funny to see armed resistance being an option in the season, which will get eaten up by libs for being badass undoubtedly, all the while cOnDeMnInG hAmAs of course.

So some years back I moved to the 'big' city that is Antwerp and unbeknownst to me I accidentally moved into what was an up and coming, to be gentrified area of the city. To me it was just a nice looking appartement near the city center.

The area used to be a more working class area but it was facing some upwards social mobility so to say, with lots of development going on. There were lots of artsy folks going around, there were some fun new bars and some fun old bars and the population was kind of mixed.

In the years that I lived there (I have moved to another area recently) the area changed from this mix of people into a more homogeneous crowd of upper middle class or upper class people with good incomes or parent money. Rent has skyrocketed. Non animal milk is nowhere to be found.

In Amsterdam they call these people the havermelkelite (oat milk elite), a group of people that are a part of society's elite but who also feel the need to be somewhat woke (hence the oat milk). Mind y

Like, I wake up and see my flowers. Some bees. It's a nice sunrise. I open the news and it's just one big collapse of the west. Fascism is rapidly coming up. I'm in the middle of it but I still need to go to work to keep the make believe that is our society going. War might be imminent. Whether that's with Russia or the US.

And yet here we are, collectively pretending everything is fine.

For today, the Christian and the Socialist Union called for a nationwide general strike to protest against the plans of the newly formed neolib government.

The plans include severe budget cuts in the public sector (health education, social security), as well as retirement funds, public transport, wages and an increase in military spending.

There have been two big strikes with rallies in Brussels yet, but this is the first general strike of the year. Picket lines throughout the country in many different sectors. Almost half of schools are closed, half of public transport is not departing, troubles in the airport and the harbors.

I'm striking myself despite working at the union and will probably visit a couple of different picket lines in the city.

Massive protests against Erdogan happening right now because of the arrest of the Istanbul mayor. Our media is pushing it relentlessly which always has me wary.

Not necessarily communist but I am interested in learning about buddhism but don't know where to start, and I think some comrades on here have mentioned it before

Freezing to death to own the Ruzzians and Trump!

I wanted to share this rant which was sparked because of some anti abortion thing that got lots of replies.

Many of the replies opted to have the right to abortion written into the constitution and call it a day.

Your constitution does not, in any way, actually protect you from evil intentions. Hitler wasn't stopped by laws and he killed millions of people eventually. You have to actively recognize the danger and organize to crush it.