 ludo martens (12 march 1946 â 5 june 2011) was a belgian political activist noted for his work on francophone africa and the soviet union. martens wrote on the political history of the democratic republic of the congo, where he lived and traveled extensively. in 1968 he founded the group alle macht aan de arbeiders ("all power to the workers"), which in 1979 became the workers' party of belgium. he also served as chairman of the workers' party. martens was the last foreigner to meet north korean president kim il sung prior to his death on 8 july 1994. according to a press release by the workers' party,en mÃ©moire de ludo martens (1946-2011) martens died on the morning of june 5, 2011, after a long illness. ==another view of stalin== in 1994, martens published another view of stalin (),another view of stalin. complete and free pdf of the text of the book in english.un autre regard sur staline. complete and free pdf of the text of the book in the original french. a history of the soviet union under stalin that challenges in particular the historically accepted view of collectivisation in the ussr and the great purge. he explained his motivation for writing the book in the introduction: defending stalin's work, essentially defending marxism-leninism, is an important, urgent task in preparing ourselves for class struggle under the new world order. martens writes primarily in french; however, his books, especially another view of stalin, have been translated into dutch, english, and numerous other languages. in another view of stalin, martens regards as the main factor behind the ukrainian famine (holodomor) to be bad conditions and alleged class enemy. with regard to aleksandr solzhenitsyn's research gulag archipelago, martens stated: this man became the official voice for the five per cent of tsarists, bourgeois, speculators, kulaks, pimps, maffiosi and vlasovites, all justifiably repressed by the socialist state. ==international communist seminar (brussels)== within the [[internati
1946_births 2011_deaths Anti-Revisionists Belgian_communists Belgian_historians Belgian_non-fiction_writers Flemish_writers