André Renard coordinated the union actions during the strike against the Single Law in the winter of 1960-1961. After the suspension of the strikes, he wanted to continue the fight for federalism and economic structural reforms, which forced him to resign from the FGTB. That same year, he founded a new movement: the Mouvement Populaire Wallon (MPW). Following the strike against the Single Law, Renard published the first copy of Combat on January 5, 1961. The magazine was both union-oriented and Walloon-federalist in inspiration. However, it had no formal ties to either the FGTB or the MPW. After André Renard's death in 1962, the editorial board was taken over by members of the FGTB with Walloon-federalist sympathies. During Combat's existence, however, the emphasis increasingly shifted to the union aspect, and the federalist perspective faded into the background. In the early 1990s, the magazine fell into crisis. From January 1991, it was no longer published weekly, but monthly. The last issue was published in March 1992.
Combat appeared weekly from January 5, 1961, through December 1990. From January 1991 through March 1992, it appeared monthly. The series is complete and has been further unlocked through OCR.
