Peter Mertens is general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Belgium.
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.
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.
In Belgium, a party of Marxist-Leninist background is mounting a surprising challenge to the mainstream.
The crisis of the political center has given the Workers' Party of Belgium a new lease on life.