Max Bastin

max Bastin (Huy on December 19th, 1919 - 1971) is a Belgian personality , a militant of the Christian Labor movement (MOC) and a Walloon militant.

Laid off in history of the University of Liege, he teaches this discipline of 1943 to 1944, with the Athénée of Huy, of which he is a former student.

He worked most of his life so that one called in the years 1960 and 1970, the Rassemblement of the progressists is the meeting of the Christian wing, the socialist wing and the communist wing of the labor movement.

Resistance

Resisting, secretary the secret Armed , it is employed in his fraternal until 1953. He militates with UDB. By Andre Oleffe, it comes into contact with MOC. Vice-president of the MOC of the the Walloon Brabant, it is engaged with the daily newspaper the City from which he becomes editor association in 1955.

Decolonization

Two years later it becomes, with the Congo, the director of the Courrier of Africa, publication of Léopoldville related to the CSC which it has the role mission of Africanizing . At the time of the independence of Congo in 1960, it resigns and they are Congolese journalists who will direct it. It is then attached of cabinet of the Minister for the African Businesses then Communications.

The democratization of teaching

At the conclusion of the Walloon social Week, MOC in 1961, it creates the Information center and of popular education (CIEP), becomes the director about it. He will create then. the Institute of higher learning of Working Culture ISCO, an organization of which the goal is to democratize teaching and to train the Christian working militants. In 1967, it creates the Foundation Work-University (FTU), to which the goals are also to bring the working world closer to the university

Gathering of the progressists and Walloon autonomy

From 1962 to 1970, he also takes up many other duties within the MOC. He belongs to the organizers of the Walloon Social Weeks, where he often intervenes. He is also member of the Board of directors of the Editions Working Life. He also collaborates in the team of the New Review.

At the end of the Sixties in the tread of the General strike of the winter 1960-1961, it launches out in the adventure of the Rassemblement of the progressists. Walloon militant, It wishes also a turning on the left MOC, which will be concretized in 1972 by the creation of Objectif 72 Wallonia-Brussels where several Christian-Democrats and some Socialists find themselves. With Jacques Yerna of the FGTB, which chairs the Walloon Popular movement, it founds the group which will bear its name after its death, the Groupe B there (Bastin - Yerna), which joins together the lefts Christian woman and Socialist in order to build a common vision of the future of Wallonia and this independently of the competitions of parties . He dies on March 16th, 1971. The work which it had started to undertake will lead to the books Which Wallonia? Which socialism? (1971 and 1975), kind of common program of the left in Wallonia.

The catholic University of Leuwen founded a Chaire max Bastin

See too

Christian Labor movement Jacques Leclercq Andre Oleffe Jacques Yerna Which Wallonia? Which socialism?

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