An Open Letter to Ludo Martin
“UPON THE CURRENT SITUATION, UNITY, AND IDEOLOGY – AN OPEN LETTER TO LUDO MARTENS; “PARTI DU TRAVAIL” BELGIUM;
Hari Kumar (Editor) and for Alliance-ML (North America);
W.B. Bland for Communist League (Britain);
G. Altinoglu for Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (Turkey);
March 1996; Great Britain
Preface to 2021 republication
This pamphlet was put out as a moment of realignment of Marxist-Leninist forces was taking place world-wide. It had been hoped that a dialogue between those in the Hoxhaite wing and those in the Maoist wing, would lead to a principled debate and – thereafter – hopefully a principled unity. This following text was put out by a group of three groups listed above, all who had long upheld the line of the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania under Enver Hoxha. For a short window of time, Ludo Martens, the leading representative of ‘Parti Du Travail’ appeared to be moving toward a willingness to query the views of Mao Zedong. We never received a reply.
In the intervening period, Bland, Altinoglu, and Ludo Martens have all died. Kumar was asked to re-present this work for a current audience. The only changes that have been made are punctuations, and removal of much emphases. But only minor wording changes for clarity were made, and the text unchanged otherwise. An updating to account of new materials will be issued at some later juncture, if the opportunity arises.
The appendices have not been included here, but can be found at the pages of the Alliance Marxist-Leninist repository at: http://ml-review.ca/aml/AllianceIssues/AppendicesFinal.html
Hari Kumar, November 5, 2021.
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