High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Belgian general strikes were a peculiar phenomenon of the social, economical and political life in Belgium due to huge concentrations of workers in such Belgian cities as Ghent and Antwerp, and particularly in Wallonia, namely Charleroi and Liege but also in other places of the Walloon Sillon industriel, e.g. the Centre and the Borinage, etc. On 4 May 1869, Karl Marx thought that In some great military states of continental Europe, the era of strikes may be dated from the end of American Civil War And according to some authors, Belgium was likely the first industrial country - or at least one of the first ones - where a general strike succeeded, the Belgian general strike of 1893.Marcel Liebman quoted Cesar de Paepe who wrote in 1890: The general strike that formerly seemed a utopia, will be possible in Belgium.... Carl Strikwerda wrote that the Belgian general strike of 1893 was the first general strike in Europe Данное издание...