In ''Another View of Stalin'', Martens regards as the main factor behind the Ukrain famine ([[Holodomor]]) to be bad conditions and the [[class enemy]]. [http://www.plp.org/books/Stalin/node77.html#SECTION00800900000000000000] With regards to [[Solzhenitsyn]]'s research [[Gulag Archipelago]], Martens has made clear: ''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.''[http://www.plp.org/books/Stalin/node118.html#SECTION001034400000000000000]
Within the [[International Communist Movement]], he is noted for having proposed the unification of the four main tendencies of the Marxist-Leninist movement. These are the pro-Soviet groups, the pro-Chinese, the pro-[[AlbanianAlbania]]n, and pro-[[CubanCuba]]n. In addition there are "independents." Martens has put forward that while at a certain time these separations were important and based on principle, they can now be overcome and the movement can be united on the basis of Marxism-Leninism. In order to develop this unification process, the Workers Party of Belgium hosts the [[International Communist Seminar]] in [[Brussels]], which is attended by 150 organizations around the world. According to Martens, "''Today, as a result of the restoration of capitalism under Gorbachov, the "pro-Soviet" tendency crumbled into innumerable tendencies. In the sixties, a "pro-Chinese" tendency emerged but split into various tendencies after Mao's death. There has been a "pro-Albanian" tendency, which also split after the collapse of socialism in Albania, and a so-called "pro-Cuban" tendency, mainly in Latin America. Some parties, finally, maintained an "independent" position vis-a-vis the tendencies mentioned. Whatever one's opinion about the correctness or the necessity of these splits at a certain point in history may be, it is nowadays possible to overcome these divisions and to unite the Marxist-Leninist parties, which are divided in different currents.''"[http://www.wpb.be/icm/95enprop.htm]
