Working Class is a piggy bank during financial crisis!

November 2026 large number of police stormed inside a commercial gallery in Matonge, Brussels, neighborhood that is home to working class people.

First of all, whatever your position, you must respond. We must defend the right to question and to oppose. Police interventions often rely on the element of surprise, and public silence only strengthens that pattern. Do not fear being wrong in your analysis or criticism—voice your concerns, bring your worries into the public sphere, and let them be examined through open discourse. Yes, we may lack certain insights, but who else will provide them if not the people directly affected?

Matonge has long been under pressure from gentrification, steadily pushing out the authentic working-class communities for whom this neighbourhood remains one of the last accessible urban spaces for living, working, and cultural presence.

Yes, marginal drug dealing exists in Matonge, but we also know this activity was often tolerated as a way of containing rather than dispersing it throughout the city—something we have witnessed ourselves.
This is explicit form of the ''political revanchism'' that is explained in the book "The revanchist city" by Neil Smith. 
Zero tolerance policy over marginal crime with the purpose of achieving capital expansion and political points.   

People involved in minor crime are often responding to complex, multilayered social conditions. Meanwhile, we should also ask: who deals cocaine and who consumes it? We rarely see police raids in upper-middle-class or elite neighbourhoods, despite the fact that drug use exists there as well.

Deploying heavy police force in working-class neighbourhoods, especially inhabited with low income families who originate from formerly colonized countries is a form of oppression deeply rooted in the colonial, racist past. 

Storming the area and conducting large-scale "umbrella" operations that affect the majority of residents is oppressive and disproportionate to the issues at hand.

After years of tolerated conditions, this sudden crackdown appears to be driven less by security concerns and more by budgetary pressures—an attempt by the city to extract revenue wherever possible. This neighbourhood has long been treated as a “reserve” to be acted upon when convenient.