Joseph Cope
Joseph Cope born in Liege on January 16th, 1927 is a journalist and Belgian trade unionist as well as a Walloon militant.
Oreganisator with other young people inhabitant of Li2ege of the first Walloon National congress, it was engaged with the daily newspaper Wallonia where it will meet political personalities and trade-union such as Hubert Rassart, Fernand Dehousse, Freddy Terwagne, Marcel-Hubert Gregoire, Robert Gillon, Robert Lambion…
He was leader-writer as from 1957 and editor association of 1962 to 1987, chronicler of 1982 to 1998. It adheres to the Walloon Popular movement of the director of its newspaper André Renard after the creation of this movement following the General strike of the winter 1960-1961. It leaves the Belgian Socialist party after this one pronounced the incompatibility between the membership of the PSB and the Walloon Popular movement. Although press attaché of Jean-Joseph Merlot at the end of the years 1960, Joseph Cope will not reinstate the Socialist party only after the Walloon turning which Guy Spitaels in 1981 prints to him.
The Encyclopédie of the Walloon Movement devotes to him a relatively important note in p. 369 of its Volume I.
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