Charter of Quaregnon

The Charter of Quaregnon or Déclaration of Quaregnon is a statement of principle, left doctrinal and ideological program, the ancestor of the socialist party and the Communist party of Belgium, the left working Belgian (P.O.B.), made up in 1885.

The principal writer was Emile Vandervelde which took as a starting point the thought of Encyclopédistes (Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot,…) and of the great principles born of the French revolution and the Marxist theory.

Initially, it had been agreed that this congress would be held with Mons in Belgium, but because of " the échauffourée" bloody on April 17th 1893, during which the civic Garde of Mons had drawn on a column from minors borains who wanted to penetrate in the city, one decided, at the request of them Borains, to transfer the seat from the congress of the P.O.B to Quaregnon.

It was adopted the March 26th 1894, at the end two workdays, by the federations of the Parti Working Belgian (P.O.B.) joined together for their 10th Congress with Quaregnon.

If the shape of this text can appear obsolete, this proclamation however translates into seven points the universal aspirations, and always quite current, of solidarity, justice and political and social emancipation of the workers.

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