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Ludo Martens
President of the Workers' Party of Belgium
In office 4 November 1979 – 2 March 2008
Preceded by
Office created
Succeeded by
Peter Mertens
Personal details
Born
Ludo Martens
(1946-03-12)12 March 1946 Torhout, Belgium
Died
5 June 2011(2011-06-05) (aged 65)
Political party
Workers' Party of Belgium
Occupation
Activist
author
historian
Ludo Martens (12 March 1946 – 5 June 2011) was a Belgian activist who founded and served as the first leader of the Workers' Party of Belgium. He wrote several works on the political history of Central Africa and the Soviet Union.[1][2]
In 1968, Martens founded the group Alle macht aan de arbeiders (All Power to the Workers), which became the Workers' Party of Belgium in 1979. He served as president of the Workers' Party until 2008. Martens was the last foreigner to meet North Korean president Kim Il Sung before his death on 8 July 1994. According to a press release by the Workers' Party, Martens died on the morning of 5 June 2011 after a long illness.[3]
^Vanoost, Lode (11 March 2018). "Spreken over kolonisatie: niet langer zonder de Congolezen" [Talking about colonization: no longer without the Congolese]. DeWereldMorgen.be (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 August 2021.
^Goddeeris, Idesbald (7 January 2015). "Postcolonial Belgium: The Memory of the Congo". Interventions. 17 (3): 434–451. doi:10.1080/1369801X.2014.998253. S2CID 163672254. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
^"En mémoire de Ludo Martens (1946-2011)". Archived 9 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Workers' Party of Belgium (in French). 6 June 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
LudoMartens (12 March 1946 – 5 June 2011) was a Belgian activist who founded and served as the first leader of the Workers' Party of Belgium. He wrote...
March 2008, Mertens was elected as the successor of then party chairman LudoMartens, who was having serious health problems. Almost immediately, he began...
husband. The Belgian book Une Femme du Congo (A Congolese Woman), by LudoMartens, tells Abo's life story. China's Policy in Africa 1958-71. By Alaba Ogunsanwo...
Belgium. It was organized by the Workers' Party of Belgium (WPB). In 1992, LudoMartens, leader of the WPB initiated the conference, which gathered various tendencies...
Philippe Mahoux Olivier Maingain Jules Malou Jean-Claude Marcourt LudoMartens Wilfried Martens Philippe Maystadt Charles Michel Louis Michel Joëlle Milquet...
ISBN 978-0-7453-3758-6. Sankara, Compaoré et la révolution burkinabè, by LudoMartens and Hilde Meesters, 1989, Editions Aden, ISBN 9782872620333. American...
Machine "The Collectivization 'Genocide'", in Another View of Stalin, by LudoMartens Tony Cliff "Marxism and the collectivisation of agriculture" Kiernan...
Collectivization and Industrialization (primary documents from the period) Martens, Ludo. Un autre regard sur Staline, Éditions EPO, 1994, 347 pages, ISBN 2-87262-081-8...
charlatanism, puting his book on the same level as the works of Grover Furr and LudoMartens, while contrasting it with what called more serious authors, like Robert...
and Volksunie) Dries Van Langenhove (blogger and political activist) LudoMartens (founder of the Workers' Party of Belgium) Barbara Pas (MP for Vlaams...
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claimed to hold the premiership and behaved accordingly. According to LudoMartens, by accepting the position in Adoula's government, Kasongo "confirmed...
Stalin: Breaker of Nations. Viking. p. 331. ISBN 978-0-670-84089-2. Martens, Ludo (25 August 1995). Another view of Stalin. Progressive Labor Party (United...
He is known for his collaboration with David Arthur Skinner, Johannes Martens and Marcus Paus, and published the album Marcus Paus i 2013. He won the...
marrocain à Paris: Bickette 2012: Rouleur de Journaux of Sebastien Rougemont: Ludo 2012: Appearance in the French serie SODA 2012: Said (short film): Said 2013:...
Elizabeth. Foreign Intervention in Africa. Cambridge UP. pp. 62–65. De Witte, Ludo; Wright, Ann (2002). The Assassination of Lumumba. Verso Books. p. 127....
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