I think so! Most arms exports laws forbid exporting to countries committing war crimes, so forcing the judiciary to make a similar ruling like in Belgium is very realistic.
Probably in Western Ukraine. Russia does not have the capability to strike anywhere in the world whenever they want (they don’t have 800 bases on every continent)
the left in belgium is broadly divided between the socdems, greens and communists (workers party of belgium, the party i was referring to). because of how the federal system in belgium works every "ideology" is split into two parties by language (french and flemish), so you have two parties for green, two for nationalists (french and flemish ones) two for liberals etc etc. the WPB is the only party that is not split between languages (bc of the unity of the working class). WPB polls around 10 percent nationally, a bit less popular in the flemish region (its more petite bourgeois). best result was in Brussels, where WPB polled at 20% with french speakers, almost overtaking socdems (22%) and liberals (25%).
but elections are a kind of a minor part of the party's work. there is a lot of focus on building relations with local communities and struggles (tenants, workers, students etc), as well as making international contacts. (the general secretary even did an interview with BT news!). the seats in government are used to amplify workers voices and challenge the current neolib coalition (the flemish nationalists, french liberals, both centrist parties, and flemish socdems). i think because of all of this on the ground work the party has a lot of legitimacy among the working class.
thats like a basic overview. i can answer more questions obviously
In its ruling, the court immediately prohibits the Flemish government from authorizing any new transit to Israel. Since 2009, there has been an agreement that no arms strengthening Israel's armed forces would be exported — a policy that in practice has been severely undermined. To enforce the ban on new transits, the court has imposed a penalty of €50,000 per shipment that still leaves for Israel. The judge criticized the Flemish government for providing little to no information and stated that Flanders gave the impression it "did not have the situation under control." This passive attitude is particularly problematic given the “crushing responsibility,” the judge said.
The Corbyn party is still hypothetical, nothing has been formalised yet. The 15% is purely based on his name recognition / hate for other parties. I assume when they create an actual program and campaign the polling would change a lot
but it would seem that the "withering away" can only truly be achieved through global proletarian dictatorship. Maybe that's how Lenin and Marx felt at the time they wrote their texts, that global proletarian revolution was just around the corner.
I would say yes and yes. It was the assumption of communists in russia that the german revolution would soon follow after the russian one, which would kickstart revolutions in europe.
one thing i want to point out is that a lot of trotskyists use the logic of "the state can only wither away after a global revolution" to argue that revolutions on the national level are useless (and that no AES state is actually revolutionary / communist). which is why they always organise into international parties
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i actually say this lol. its my favourite niche historiography