We send our heartfelt condolences to his children, to his family, and to the PTB for this irreparable loss.
He is survived by two children – his daughter Amada and son Yakobu. On the afternoon of Sunday 5 June 2011, Comrade Ludo Martens, the founding president of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB) passed away.
Please credit the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line as your source, include the url to this work, and note any of the transcribers, editors & proofreaders above. You can freely copy, distribute and display this work as well as make derivative and commercial works. Transcription, Editing and Markup: Sam Richards and Paul SabaĬopyright: This work is in the Public Domain under the Creative Commons Common Deed. Harpal Brar Obituary: Ludo Martens (1946-2011)įirst Published: Lalkar Online July-August 2011 Whatever one's opinion about the correctness or the necessity of these splits at a certain point in history may be, it is nowadays possible to overcome these divisions and to unite the Marxist-Leninist parties, which are divided in different currents.Obituary: Ludo Martens (1946-2011) Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line Some parties, finally, maintained an "independent" position vis-a-vis the tendencies mentioned. There has been a "pro-Albanian" tendency, which also split after the collapse of socialism in Albania, and a so-called "pro-Cuban" tendency, mainly in Latin America. In the sixties, a "pro-Chinese" tendency emerged but split into various tendencies after Mao's death. According to Martens: Today, as a result of the restoration of capitalism under Gorbachov, the "pro-Soviet" tendency crumbled into innumerable tendencies. In order to develop this unification process, the Workers Party of Belgium hosts the International Communist Seminar in Brussels, which is attended by 150 organizations around the world. In addition there are "independents." Martens has put forward that while at a certain time these separations were important and based on principle, they can now be overcome and the movement can be united on the basis of Marxism-Leninism. These are the pro-Soviet groups, the pro-Chinese, the pro-Albanian, and pro-Cuban. Within the International Communist Movement, he is noted for having proposed the unification of the four main tendencies of the Marxist-Leninist movement.
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