Abstract
Occupation during the war left the socialist trade unions in Belgium in disarray and enabled the Belgian Communist Party to dominate the post‐war amalgamated union — the FGTB. The PCB's participation in coalition governments, and its adherence to the Cominform as the cold war got under way, enabled the Socialist Party to reassert its dominance of the trade unions. Only after 1954, when the PCB began a timid process of de‐Stalinization, was an opening created towards a reintegration in the FGTB, but by that time other factors had contributed to the decline of the PCB's fortunes, and it was never to regain its former glory.
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