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INTERNATIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF ILPS
SUCCESSFULLY HOLDS MEETING IN THE NETHERLANDS
23 November 2009
The International Coordinating Committee (ICC) of the International League of
Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) successfully held its plenary meeting on 21-22 November
2009 in The Netherlands and made important decisions to strengthen the ILPS
as a broad united front of mass organizations along the anti-imperialist and
democratic line.
The ICC meeting was presided by Prof. Jose Maria Sison, ICC chairperson.
Twenty-three (23) out of 27 members of the ICC were present in person
and by proxy. All ICC members had been given due notice of the meeting
since 18 September 2009.
The ICC received the separate reports and recommendations of its officers
who composed the International Coordinating Group (ICG) and those of
commissions and territorial organs. The ICC praised the significant achievements
scored by the ILPS since the last ICC meeting in February and congratulated
the ICC organs and member-organizations concerned.
Among the most outstanding achievements of the ILPS since the ICC in
February 2009 were activities and campaigns to arouse, organize and mobilize
the broad masses of the people to fight for national and social liberation against
the relentless worsening of the crisis of the world capitalist system and against
the escalating level of imperialist plunder and war.
The ICC approved the ICC chairperson's report and recommendations to
strengthen the ICC and the ILPS as a whole. Accordingly, the ICC subjected
its officers to a vote of confidence and elected a new set of officers. ICC
chairperson Prof. Sison and others were reelected. A few were not reelected.
As a consequence, the ICG and the General Secretariat of the ILPS have
been reconstituted.
The ICC criticized the sectarian current to confuse ideological building of
parties with the ILPS as a broad united front of mass organizations along
the anti-imperialist and democratic line and misconstrue united front policy
and work as opportunism. The ICC noted that the sectarian elements had
not contributed to the building of the ILPS, had turned off prospective
member-organizations and had stifled the building of global region
committees and national chapters of the ILPS.
Since the Second International Assembly of the ILPS in 2004, the same
sectarian elements had also disrupted meetings and activities of the ILPS
by unduly raising ideological issues and derailing the approved agenda and
had sought to prevent the ICC chairperson from exercising his mandate as
chief representative and spokesperson of the ILPS.
The ICC decided on major plans of actions in order to strengthen the ILPS
politically and organizationally. Among the political plans are to cooperate
with a broad range of organizations and forces in holding seminars and
generating mass campaigns on the global economic crisis and its consequences,
an international women’s conference in Montreal, Canada in August 2010
and an international forum on political prisoners in October 2010 in Denmark.
It also decided to intensify efforts to strengthen and activate the commissions
and to build global region committees and national chapters.
The ICC directed the ICG to accelerate the processing of applications for
membership in the ILPS and to urge ILPS member-organizations to gather
and recommend new applications. The ICC also directed the ICG to make
preparations for the Fourth International Assembly.
Immediately after the adjournment of the ICC meeting, the newly composed
ICG met to discuss the tasks mandated by the ILPS charter, the Third
International Assembly and by the ICC. The ICC officers are determined
to carry out their individual and collective tasks between meetings of the
ICC.###
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