Your Wars Just Aren’t Worth It
The Belgian Workers’ Party is the strongest rising force on Europe’s radical left. Its general secretary, Peter Mertens, writes for Jacobin on his party’s fight against the EU’s rearmament plans.
5 Article(s) by: Peter Mertens
Peter Mertens is a sociologist and general secretary of the Belgian Workers’ Party (PVDA-PTB). His books include Mutiny and the forthcoming The Last Days of the Old Normal: Europe, Trump and Resistance.
A Mutiny Against the West’s Order
Western hegemony is in decline, and the Left has to reckon with a new international balance of power. Peter Mertens, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Belgium, spoke to us about what the “mutinies” in the Global South mean for socialist strategy.
Peter Mertens: This Pandemic Shows How Elites Have Forgotten Us
With 18,000 dead out of a population smaller than Ohio's, Belgium has suffered the world's worst rate of coronavirus deaths. Belgian Workers' Party leader Peter Mertens told Jacobin how the population has been abandoned by the country's elites — and why things didn't have to be this way.
“We Are a Marxist Party That Believes in a Socialist Future”
In Belgium, a party of Marxist-Leninist background is mounting a surprising challenge to the mainstream.
Promise on the Belgian Left
The crisis of the political center has given the Workers' Party of Belgium a new lease on life.