Fighting communist cells

The fighting communist Cells (CCC), founded in Belgium in clandestinity in June 1983, were the most important - and quasi only - revolutionary organization Marxist committed in the armed struggle against the capitalist system. Between 1984 and 1985, more than 28 attacks were made by the CCC. Their goal: to engage the “proletariat” in a revolutionary process. The core directing of the CCC was stopped with Namur the December 16th 1985. The organization in this form of Terrorisme will disappear then. The members of the CCC decrees will be in October 1988 and condemned by justice. Today, they all were released.

History

Clandestinely, the CCC are setting-up in June 1983. Its initiators are militants Marxist-Leninists. The first attack takes place the October 2nd 1984 and aims at the buildings of the American firm Litton, in the common inhabitant of Brussels of Evere. The attacks of the CCC then will be followed, of week in week, in the form of successive campaigns of armed propaganda . On the whole, 28 bomb attacks and actions of propaganda will be made by the CCC, between the October 2nd 1984 and the December 6th 1985. Absolute records in the history of the revolutionary movements of armed struggle credits in Western Europe.

The campaigns of the CCC are sets of themes and target those which they call of the symbols of the capitalist system, of the American Impérialisme and of the Belgian State: companies implied in the production of military materials, the seats or buildings of governmental political parties, the Belgian military infrastructures, the gendarmerie and NATO, the seats of Belgian employers and the banks. The CCC act on the whole of the Belgian territory. The December 11th 1984, they organized an operation of great scale against the Oléoduc S of NATO crossing Wallonia. It is an exploit in annals of the Western-European revolutionary actions. But, on May 1st 1985, it is the drama: two firemen are killed during the explosion of a van placed at the feet of the seat of Belgian employers, in the historical center of Brussels. Thoroughly organizing their attacks to avoid such a drama, the CCC show the gendarmerie of dysfunction then, dysfunction which according to them would have caused the death of the two “soldiers of fire”. Particularly drastic precautions will be put into force then.

The last action of the CCC takes place the December 6th 1985, jointly with a “group of Communists French internationalists”, hitherto unknown. Their target: the network of the pipelines of NATO (STOCKS). The December 16th according to, a police big operation puts an end to the actions of the CCC. Its core directing (compound of Pierre Carette and Bertrand Sassoye), like two activists coming from the legal structure of propaganda of CCC (the collective Red line) and recently last in clandestinity are arrested with Namur and are imprisoned.

To support the CCC and to continue to propagate their political theses, the Association of the parents and friends of the communist prisoners (APAPC) appear, a few days, after their arrest. After a historical lawsuit, the “four CCC” will be condemned, the October 20th 1988, with perpetuity. Several campaigns claiming their release will be organized by the APAPC. They will take a greater scale after the legal delays of imprisonment had been exceeded. Repented, Didier Chevolet is the first to be left prison, in 2000. Then that will be around Pascale Vandegeerde, the February 4th 2000, Bertrand Sassoye, the July 10th 2000 and finally Pierre Carette, the February 25th 2003. Since, the two last continue their combat for Communism in other forms.

Bonds with Direct action and Red Army Fraction

The CCC had bonds with members of the Red Army Fraction (RAF) German and the group French Direct action (AD). Common operations will be organized, on the Belgian territory, by AD and the CCC: flight of weapons in a barracks of the Belgian army (in May 1984), seized of a stock of 800 kg explosives in a clearing the next month. These explosives will be used by the CCC in Belgium, AD in France and the RAF in Germany.

In January 1985, the CCC will break with AD and the RAF, on the question of the revolutionary strategy (see below the point: Ideological filiation). Direct action will then give its support for creation to Belgium of a new clandestine organization of armed propaganda, not Marxist-Leninist like the CCC, but of libertarian gasoline: the revolutionary Face of proletarian action (FRAP).

Ideological filiation of the CCC

The CCC are asserted as being a fighting communist organization, i.e. revolutionary. Its goal is the destruction of the capitalist system and its replacement by a socialist system. The CCC have as an ideological filiation the Marxisme-léninisme. Their historical models thus remain Lénine, Stalin and Mao.

Within the revolutionary movements of years 1980 engaged in the armed struggle, two currents will be confronted: that recommending a combat purely Anti-impérialiste (against the North-American Impérialisme) and that combatant for the communist revolution. Direct action (AD) in France and the Red Army Fraction (RAF) in Germany incarnates the first current, the CCC in Belgium, the Union of the Communists combatants (UCC, resulting from the red Brigades - Communist party combatant/BR-PCC) in Italy and the PCEr/GRAPO in Spain will represent the second current.

Symbol of the CCC

It consists of a red star with five branches with C in the three higher branches. The red star was also the symbol used by other active revolutionary organizations in Western Europe.

See too

ideological Filiations

organisational Filiations

Over the years of lead

other revolutionary organizations of armed struggle of Western Europe

Leader of revolutionary movements of armed struggle

External bonds

  • fighting communist Cells: official Internet site carried out - since November 2006 - under the authority of former militants of the CCC.
  • Chronology of the armed struggle in Belgium - of 1963 to 2006: article of the Newspaper of Tuesday of December 12th, 2006 published within the framework of the file devoted to the CCC.
  • Historical of the Fighting Communist Cells (1983-1986): First historical project of topo on the Cells.
  • Answers of the prisoners of the CCC (June 2000)
  • Answers of Pierre Carette (directing from the CCC) to the charges of the Party of the work of Belgium (PTB) against the CCC
  • Proclamation and theses of foundation of the Union of the Communists combatants (October 1985)

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