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Current concerns and prospects regarding Aquino Regime
Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison,
Founding Chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines
and Chief Political Consultant of the National Democratic Front
By Ang Bayan, June 19, 2010
1. Could you describe in brief the conduct and results of the past
reactionary elections? How would you describe the electoral victory
of Benigno Aquino III? What was the role in this of the US imperialists
(and other key forces) and how would this affect the incoming
Aquino regime?
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INTERVIEW WITH PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON
ON NOYNOY AQUINO AND RELATED ISSUES
By Roselle Valerio
Liberation International
15 June 2010
1. Noynoy Aquino seems to play the teflon game and ignore what
you say against him. But he lets others hit you and make ad hominem
attacks against you. Are you not afraid of taking on someone like
Aquino who has just been elected supposedly by a large vote
and has a powerful propaganda machinery that can be used
against you?
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ON ELECTION BY PRE-PROGRAMMING
AND OTHER MATTERS RELATED TO AQUINO
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
NDFP Negotiating Panel
12 June 2010
I believe that the new reactionary regime headed by Noynoy
Aquino is mendaciously and immorally founded on at least three
things: first, false election through pre-programming by the
foreign-controlled automated electoral system without the
required safeguards; second, his false promise of eradicating
corruption without doing away with the systemic collaboration
of the foreign monopoly capitalists and the local big comprador-landlords
like him; and third, his false promise to hold Gloria M. Arroyo
accountable for crimes of corruption and human rights violations.
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INTERVIEW WITH PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON
ON THE INCOMING AQUINO REGIME
Translation of Pilipino original
By Ilang-iIlang Quijano
Pinoy Weekly
7 June 2010
1. Why do you think Noynoy Aquino won in the last election?
JMS: Noynoy Aquino won because prior to the elections he had been
chosen by the US imperialists and the local ruling classes of big
compradors and landlords to be the new president of the ruling
system. Despite his pretense at relying on one-peso donations from
the common people, it was the big foreign and Filipino businessmen
that poured the massive financial support to his campaign.
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ILPS CONDEMNS THE ISRAELI BARBARIC ATTACK
ON THE FREEDOM FLOTILLA CARRYING HUMANITARIAN AID TO GAZA
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
1 June 2010
In the strongest terms, we the International League of Peoples' Struggle
condemn as a crime against humanity the barbaric attack by the Israeli
navy on the Freedom Flotilla of six boats from several countries, with
more than 700 unarmed people on board carrying 10,000 tons of
humanitarian aid to Gaza. Reports say that at least 19 people have
been killed and scores wounded in the attack. The boat passengers
include parliamentarians, trade unionists, journalists, academics, religious
leaders, social activists, the elderly, women and children.
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INTERVIEW WITH PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON
ON THE 2010 ELECTIONS IN THE AFTERMATH
By D. L. Mondelo
Correspondent, Bulatlat
22 May 2010
1. What can you say about the conduct of the 2010 elections?
JMS: The conduct of the 2010 elections shows the rottenness of
the US-dominated ruling system of big compradors and landlords. It
was a process dominated by the coalitions, parties and candidates
of the reactionary ruling classes. Beforehand, it excluded the leaders
of the working people who were repressed or who were without
campaign funds. It was merely a personality-based contest of the
political agents of the same exploiting classes.
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PRESS RELEASE
Prof. Jose Ma. Sison's latest books launched in Amsterdam
International Committee DEFEND
15 May 2010
Filipino political scientist and writer Professor Jose Maria Sison's latest
volumes of selected writings were launched last 15 May 2010 in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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THE FACTS AGAINST PSYWAR INTRIGUES
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
NDFP Negotiating Panel
7 May 2010
It is the consistent revolutionary position of the CPP,
NPA and NDFP, as well expressed in the recent CPP
and NPA anniversary statements, that the 2010 elections
are on the whole and in essence a rotten process of a
rotten ruling system dominated by the political agents
of US imperialism and the local exploiting classes.
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INTENSIFY THE STRUGGLES OF THE PROLETARIAT AND PEOPLES AGAINST IMPERIALISM AND REACTION
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle
1 May 2010
On this glorious day of the international proletariat, we, the
International League of Peoples' Struggle, join the workers
and peoples of the world in celebrating their struggles,
sacrifices and victories. It is of the greatest importance to
raise the banner of proletarian unity and struggle against
exploitation and oppression by imperialism and all reaction.
Once again, we renew our resolve to dismantle the monopoly
capitalist system and replace it with a just, democratic and
peaceful new world in which socialism prevails.
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FOLLOW UP INTERVIEW ON AQUINO AND VILLAR
WITH PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON
AS CHIEF NDFP POLITICAL CONSULTANT
by D. L. Mondelo
Correspondent, Bulatlat
Saturday, April 17, 2010
1. Our interview on the 2010 elections last week attracted a great deal
of attention from the top mass media in Manila and elicited reactions
from certain major political quarters. First of all, what do you think of
the reaction of the presidential spokesman Gary Olivar? He said to the
effect that because you had expressed support for Manny Villar you
accepted the existing ruling system and that you would be amenable
to a peace agreement without any revolutionary change.
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INTERVIEW ON 2010 ELECTIONS
WITH PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON,
NDFP CHIEF POLITICAL CONSULTANT
by D. L. Mondelo
Correspondent, Bulatlat
April 10, 2010
1. Claims are persistent that the Arroyo ruling clique is engineering a
failure of elections and will remain in power after the 2010 elections.
Do you believe such claims? Why?
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APPRECIATION FOR ILPS AND DEFEND COMMITTEE
AND DENUNCIATION OF FALSE ALLEGATIONS
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle
9 April 2010
I appreciate deeply the campaign of the International League of Peoples'
Struggle (ILPS) and the International Committee DEFEND demanding
that the US, Dutch, EU and other governments stop using false allegations
fabricated and supplied by the reactionary Manila government for the
purpose of persecuting me. In this regard, please visit:
http://www.petitiononline.com/DFNDJMS/petition.html
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FULL STATEMENT OF PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON
ON HIS APPEAL FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE
At the hearing of the case
before the District Court of Zutphen,
Administrative Law Sector
31 March 2010
While I was still on the so-called terrorist blacklist of the European Union,
the Dutch authorities made use of it to deny my applications for the
residence permit and work permit, to deprive me of social benefits, to
infringe on my basic rights under the pretext of restricting them, to
demonize me and rouse public hatred against me as a "terrorist."
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Ang Paborito Kong Tula
By Pinoy Weekly Staff
29 March 2010
Jose Maria Sison, makata, rebolusyonaryo
Si Mao Zedong ang paborito kong makata dahil sa kanyang
rebolusyonaryong romantisismo at lirisismo. Mahusay ang paggamit
niya ng mga kongkretong imahe, simpleng salita, ritmo at mga
makabuluhang alusyon. Pinagsasanib niya ang malawak at
malalimang pananaw ng isang rebolusyonaryong proletaryo at
ang kagalingan sa sining ng paglikha ng tula.
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ILPS SUPPORTS THE NAGA PEOPLE IN THEIR STRUGGLE
FOR SELF-DETERMINATION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson
International League of Peoples' Struggle
2 March 2010
We, the International League of Peoples' Struggle, are in solidarity with
the Naga people in their struggle for national self-determination, human
rights and a just peace. The Naga people have the right to self-determination,
including the right to establish their own state in their Nagalim homeland,
which borders on North East India and Myanmar.
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Operation Green Hunt Is a Genocidal War
Against the People of India and Must Be Stopped
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International League of Peoples’ Struggle
12 February 2010
A genocidal war has been launched by the Indian reactionary state,
acting on behalf of the imperialists, multinational corporations and
the local reactionary classes, against the people of India. The military
offensives, code name Operation Green Hunt is part of the imperialist
“war on terror” and aims to crush the people’s war and destroy
every resistance of the tribal people (adivasis) fighting against the
destruction of their lands and livelihood.
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ILPS CONDEMNS ARREST, TORTURE AND INDIGNITIES,
DEMANDS IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF 43 HEALTH WORKERS
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson
International League of Peoples' Struggle
10 February, 2010
The International League of Peoples' Struggle strongly condemns
the illegal arrest of 43 health workers and medical doctors by joint
forces of the military and police last 6 February 2010 in Morong, Rizal,
Philippines and their torture and continuing detention.
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HELP THE PEOPLE OF HAITI
REJECT US MILITARY OCCUPATION
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson
International League of Peoples' Struggle
24 January 2010
On 12 January 2010, a magnitude 7 earthquake shook
the Caribbean nation of Haiti, its epicenter hitting
west of the capital Port-au-Prince. The quake and
its numerous aftershocks have wrought death and
injury to a huge number of people and catastrophic
damage to their homes and other vital infrastructures.
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SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FIRST QUARTER STORM OF 1970
Statement in Celebration of its 40th Anniversary
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Founding Chairman, Kabataang Makabayan
Founding Chairman, Communist Party of the Philippines
January 25, 2010
We are happy to celebrate the fortieth anniversary
of the First Quarter Storm of 1970. This was the
series of protest mass actions, which began on
January 25, 1970 and continued up to March of
1970. It is chronicled by Jose F. Lacaba's Days
of Disquiet and Nights of Rage and commented upon
by Amado Guerrero's First Quarter Storm of 1970.
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END MONOPOLY CAPITALISM
TO ARREST CLIMATE CHANGE
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle
7 December 2009
Human societies have created the bases of our survival, sustenance and
advancement through the use of our natural resources in production with
rudimentary tools and rising levels of science and technology. Yet in no
time in history has environmental destruction been systematically brought
about in most parts of the world.
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INTERNATIONAL ANTI-IMPERIALIST WOMEN'S CONFERENCE IN MONTREAL
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of People's Struggle
5 December 2009
The International League of Peoples' Struggle welcomes the initiative
of the members of the Commission on Women to organize an international
conference of women with the theme:
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ON TRADE AND CLIMATE ISSUES AGAINST WTO
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of People's Struggle
30 November 2009
November 30, 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of the Battle of Seattle. We
remember this for shutting down the World Trade Organization's (WTO)
Ministerial Meeting through militant street protests and mass mobilizations
by indignant workers, farmers, students and peoples from various countries.
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THE STRUCTURE OF REACTIONARY VIOLENCE
AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson
International League of Peoples' Struggle
27 November 2009
The International Coordinating Committee and all member-organizations
of the International League of Peoples' Struggle condemn with all their
moral conviction and strength the monstrous massacre of at least 57
people, including many women and children, 29 journalists and two
human rights lawyers, in Ampatuan, Maguindanao last 23 November 2009.
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LAND AND JUSTICE FOR THE PEASANTS
AND FARM WORKERS OF HACIENDA LUISITA
Issued by the Office of the Chairperson
International League of Peoples' Struggle
16 November2009
Today, the working people of the world are launching various forms of
protest actions to mark the International Day of Action against Trade
Union Repression. This provides a meaningful context for commemorating
and protesting the massacre of striking peasants and farm workers in
Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac province in the Philippines in 2004. The
working people of Hacienda Luisita exemplify the plight and struggle
of the working people of semicolonial and semifeudal countries, who
still comprise the majority of the world’s population.
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APPRECIATION FOR FIVE MEMBERS OF DUTCH SENATE
FOR QUESTIONS ON THE PLIGHT OF PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
9 November 2009
We, the International Committee DEFEND, wish to express our heartfelt
gratitude and high appreciation to five members of the Dutch First
Chamber (Senate), who belong to various major parties, for raising
last 3 November 2009 questions aimed at upholding the rule of law
and the human rights of Professor Jose Maria Sison.
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THE PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE IN THE NIGER DELTA
Statement on the occasion of the death anniversary
of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Nine, 10 November 2009
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
Since oil was discovered in the Niger delta in the last days of British colonial
rule in the late 1950s, the lands of the Ogoni people and other indigenous
ethnic groups have been snatched away for the development of oil fields
for Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, Exxon-Mobil, Julius Berger and other oil
companies. Since then Nigeria has become increasingly dependent on
petroleum extraction as agricultural production of both cash and food
crops were abandoned. From high levels in the 1960s, Nigeria has dropped
in cocoa production by nearly half and rubber production by a third in the
early 2000s.
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ON THE REMOVAL OF MY NAME
FROM THE EU TERRORIST BLACKLIST
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant, NDFP Negotiating Panel
1 October 2009
I am very happy that the European Court of First Instance (ECFI) has annulled
all the decisions and the regulation of the Council of the European Union (EU)
that has kept my name in its so-called terrorist blacklist.
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ARROYO AND RAZON PROCLAIM
END OF GRP-NDFP PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
NDFP Negotiating Panel
17 September 2009
In their most recent statements, the de facto president Gloria M. Arroyo and her
OPAPP secretary Avelino Razon Jr. have paid lip service to peace negotiations
between the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic
Front of the Philippines (NDFP) only to proclaim the end of peace negotiations
and blame the NDFP for their own malicious action.
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PROFESSOR JOSE MARIA SISON:
ON PEOPLE'S WAR AND PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
Interview of Prof. Jose Maria Sison
by Roselle Valerio, Liberation International
Thank you for granting this interview in your capacity as the chief political
consultant of the negotiating panel of the National Democratic Front of the
Philippines (NDFP). I would like to ask some questions about the status
and prospects of the people's war and the peace negotiations of the NDFP
with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP).
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ILPS REITERATES CONDEMNATION OF 9/11
AND THE US GLOBAL WAR OF TERRORISM
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
September 11, 2009
The International League of People's Struggle (ILPS) reiterates its condemnation
of both the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the subsequent US-instigated
so-called "global war on terrorism". The 9-11 attacks killed nearly 3000 civilians. Far
worse, the US has engaged in mega-terrorism involving the killing and wounding of
millions of civilians, the systematic practice of abductions, torture, extrajudicial killing
of suspects and other forms of human rights violations and the destruction of the
social infrastructure in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere during the last
eight years.
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OSLO MEETING OF GRP AND NDFP NEGOTIATING PANELS
MAY BE PRECEDED BY MANILA MEETING OF THEIR RESPECTIVE LAWYERS
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
NDFP Negotiating Panel
1 September 2009
Secretary Avelino Razon, presidential adviser on the peace process, is
reported to have said that the lawyers of the Government of the Republic
of Philippines (GRP) and National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP)
can meet first in the Philippines.
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ILPS CONDEMNS US-ROK MILITARY EXERCISES,
DESIGNED FOR PREEMPTIVE NUCLEAR ATTACK ON DPRK
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
August 31, 2009
The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) joins the Korean
people and other peace-loving peoples of the world in condemning the
military exercises held recently by the United States and the Republic
of Korea from August 17 to 27. These exercises are designed to
prepare preemptive US nuclear attack on the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea (DPRK). They are insulting and provocative. They
threaten the peaceloving people of the East Asian region.
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RESUMPTION OF FORMAL TALKS IS STILL POSSIBLE
IF GRP RESPECTS AND COMPLIES WITH JASIG
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
NDFP Negotiating Panel
29 August 2009
It is still possible to resume the formal talks in the GRP-NDFP peace
negotiations if the GRP respects and complies with the Joint Agreement
on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG). As soon as possible, the
GRP and NDFP negotiating panels, with their respective lawyers,
should meet in Oslo in order to put in writing the most expeditious
methods of removing the impediments on NDFP consultants.
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GRP FAILS TO COMPLY WITH JASIG
AND CONTINUES TO IMPEDE NDFP CONSULTANTS
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
22 August 2009
The Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) has rendered
extremely difficult or even impossible the resumption of formal talks
in the peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the
Philippines (NDFP) by a series of deliberate acts to undermine and negate
the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG). more...
SALONGA IS OBSESSED WITH A LIE
FROM A CIA-FUNDED BOOK
By Ruth de Leon
Executive Director
International DEFEND Committee
22 August 2009
Year in and year out, former Senator Jovito Salonga dishes out the lie
that Professor Jose Maria Sison, founding chairman of the Communist
Party of the Philippines (CPP), is culpable for the Plaza Miranda bombing
of the Liberal Party meeting on August 21, 1971.
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BASICS Interview José Maria Sison of the International League of People's Struggles
By Steve Da Silva
Editor, BASICS Free Community Newsletter
9 August 2009
On the current economic crisis and the struggle for democracy and
socialism against imperialist globalization.
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A CALL TO CAMPAIGN
FOR LIVELIHOODS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
11 August 2009
The loss or erosion of livelihoods is the most concrete and widespread
impact of the current crisis of the world capitalist system on people's lives,
both in the advanced capitalist countries as well as in the underdeveloped
countries. Despite recent pronouncements from state officials and the
business press that economic recovery is in sight, the global economy
continues to tumble with the gross domestic product of the leading
capitalist countries still contracting, consumer spending still in decline
and unemployment still rising.
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Joma, Cory had 'exceptional' relationship
By Loui Galicia,
ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau
08/03/2009 10:03 AM
Jose Maria “Joma” Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines,
and his wife Juliet joined the rest of the world in mourning the death of
former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino on Saturday.
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ILPS SOLIDARITY AND SUPPORT FOR MASS ACTIONS
AGAINST FAKE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle
9 June 2009
On behalf of the International League of Peoples' Struggle and in
coordination with its Philippine Chapter, I convey the firmest solidarity
with and support for the Filipino people and all the patriotic forces
that are outraged by House Resolution 1109 and are determined
to stop the fake constituent assembly of the congressional asses
of the Arroyo regime.
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Prof. Jose Maria Sison celebrates court victory
and launches two books in Amsterdam
Issued by International DEFEND Committee
10 May 2009
Filipino and Dutch friends and well-wishers joined Prof. Jose Maria Sison in
celebrating his legal victory in the Dutch courts and launching two new
books containing his writings at the Mirror Centre in Amsterdam on 9 May
2009. The books, entitled Democracy, Socialism and Peace and Democracy
and Socialism against Imperialist Globalization, are the first two volumes of a
four-volume series to be released this year.
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TASKS AND PROSPECTS OF THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD
AMID THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS
Speech to the 25th International Solidarity Affair
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples" Struggle
May 4, 2009
On behalf of the International Coordinating Coordinating Committee and
member-organizations of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS),
I convey warmest greetings of solidarity to the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) and
to all the delegations to the 25th KMU International Solidarity Affair (ISA).
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On the Decision of the Dutch Prosecution
To Dismiss Case Against Me
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
31 March 2009
I am very happy that, because of insufficient legal and convincing evidence,
the Public Prosecution Service of the Dutch government has decided to
dismiss the case against me concerning the deaths of two security consultants
and military assets of the Philippine reactionary government.
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OPPOSE THE US INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF IRAQ,
DEMAND TOTAL, IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL WITHDRAWAL
OF US AND OTHER FOREIGN FORCES OF AGGRESSION
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson
International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
20 March 2009
After six years of brutal occupation following the widely condemned
US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the US government has found
itself more isolated than ever before. The people of the world are
outraged that at a horrendous cost the US has committed the worst
form of terrorism, the crime of aggression, in order reduce Iraq to a
puppet state, take control over its oil resources and establish permanent
US military bases on Iraqi territory.
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ILPS actively supports January 29 general strike of French People
for Resistance, Anti-imperialism, Solidarity Between Peoples
and Alternatives
by Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS)
January 28, 2009
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) actively supports the
general strike to be mounted in France starting January 29 by private and
public sector workers, including those from schools, hospitals, national TV
and radio, and the postal services; train-drivers, supermarket employees,
teachers, university lecturers, researchers, high school students, psychiatrists,
health workers, judges, lawyers, magistrates, journalists, helicopter pilots,
air traffic controllers, staff from the French stock exchange, bank staff,
ski-lift operators, the unemployed and pensioners. We commend the
major French unions CGT, CFDT, FOR, FSU, CFE-CGC, CFTC, UNSA and
SOLIDARY for coming together and calling for this strike.
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ILPS Message of Solidarity to the Beirut International Forum
for Resistance, Anti-imperialism, Solidarity Between Peoples
and Alternatives
Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson
International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
16 January 2009
On behalf of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS), I
convey the warmest and most militant greetings of solidarity to the
organizers and participants of the Beirut International Forum for
Resistance, Anti-imperialism, Solidarity Between Peoples and
Alternatives to be held on January 16-18, 2009.
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A stinking terror list
This is the European Union's terror list.
http://www.daserste.de/europamagazin/sendung.asp?uid=lgg4uh993yg55qggnav2fcpv&cm.asp
Thursday, January 15, 2009
A blacklist of terror suspects and their supporters. Those included in
the list have stopped leading a normal life. Like in the case of Jose
Maria Sison.
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ILPS DENOUNCES THE VILE RECORD OF BUSH
AND REMINDS OBAMA OF THE PEOPLE'S OUTRAGE
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committees
International League of Peoples' Struggle
13 January 2009
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) denounces as
totally reprehensible the desperate attempts of the outgoing chieftain
of US imperialism, George W. Bush, to define his own eight-year record
as less vile than what it has been.
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ILPS CONDEMNS ISRAELI GROUND INVASION OF GAZA
AND THE ESCALATING MASSACRE OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committees
International League of Peoples' Struggle
4 January 2009
Since December 27, 2008, the US-supported Zionist Israel has
carried out a war of aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
It has launched air strikes by F-16 jet planes and Apache helicopters
and artillery shelling by naval vessels in order to massacre hundreds
and injure thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and destroy their homes,
mosques, schools, public buildings, oil depots, power plants, water
facilities and other infrastructure.
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ILPS CONDEMNS ISRAELI ATTACKS
ON THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE IN GAZA
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
December 29, 2008
The International League of Peoples' Struggle condemns the murderous
and cowardly air strikes and artillery fire unleashed by Israel on the Palestinian
people in Gaza. These have already resulted in the indiscriminate killing of
more than 300 people and the wounding of more than a thousand people
and the destruction of office and apartment buildings, mosques, school
buildings, and infrastructure. The attacks are still being escalated and
the Israeli military forces have been ordered to mobilize for a fullscale
invasion and reoccupation of Gaza.
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ILPS MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY
TO THE ALL-PAKISTAN TRADE UNION FEDERATION
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
December 29, 2008
Through: Rubina Jamil, Chairperson; and Gulzar Ahmed Chaudhary, Secretary General
Email: [email protected]; or [email protected]
Dear Comrades and Friends,
The International Coordinating Committee and all organizations of the
International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) convey to the leadership
and all trade unions of the All Pakistan Trade Union Federation (APTUF)
warmest greetings of revolutionary solidarity on the occasion of its National
Congress in Lahore on December 30, 2008.
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ILPS HAILS JOURNALIST
FOR HURLING SHOES AT BUSH
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairman, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
15 December 2008
The International League of Peoples' Struggle joins the Iraqi and Arab
peoples and the peoples of the entire world in hailing the journalist
Muntadhar al-Zeidi of Cairo-based Al-Bahgdadia as a hero for hurling
his shoes at the US imperialist chieftain and No. 1war criminal and
terrorist George W. Bush.
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ILPS SUPPORTS THE GREEK PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE
AGAINST THE CRIMINAL KARAMANLIS REGIME
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
13 December 2008
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) expresses its vigorous
support to the militant people of Greece in their condemnation of the
many crimes of the right-wing Karamanlis regime against the Greek people.
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Defend Philippines Letter to Dutch Ambassador
December 09, 2008
We are members of a network called Defend-Philippines which supports efforts of Filipino political refugees such as Prof. Jose Ma. Sison as well as other Filipinos abroad to defend themselves against political persecution, involving false charges of terrorism and common crimes, the arrest of Prof. Sison and raids on the homes and the office of the members, consultants and staffers of the Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) by the Dutch police.
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On eve of International Human Rights Day
Drop false charges and terrorist tag on Joma Sison, human rights defenders ask Dutch government
Press release
December 09, 2008
Reference: Bonifacio Ilagan, Convener, Defend - Philippines (0917-6291241)
Members of Defend- Philippines , Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and the International League of Peoples' Struggles - Philippines Chapter held a picket rally at the Dutch Embassy today to reiterate their demand to drop the "terrorist" tag on and false charges against Prof. Jose Ma. Sison.
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HOSTILE REACTION OF ARROYO REGIME
TO MADRIGAL-JALANDONI JOINT STATEMENT
IS UTTERLY MALICIOUS AND DEPLORABLE
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
15 November 2008
Gloria M. Arroyo through her executive secretary Eduardo Ermita has
bitterly attacked the joint statement of Senator M. A. Madrigal,
chairperson of the Senate Committee on Peace, Unification and
Reconciliation, and Luis Jalandoni, chairperson of the Negotiating
Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
The attack is utterly malicious and deplorable.
more...
SUPPORT COORDINATED ACTIONS TO DEMAND
THE BAIL OUT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, NOT THE BANKERS
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
21 October 2008
Through our International Coordinating Committee and member-organizations in the
US, we the International League of Peoples' Struggle convey to all the organizers,
participants and the entire American people our firm and militant solidarity with and
support for the National Coordinated Actions to Bail Out the People, Not the Bankers!
From October 24 to 27.
more...
INTERVIEW WITH PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON,
CHAIRPERSON OF INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF PEOPLES' STRUGGLE
By Noel Sales Barcelona
Bulatlat.com
CBCP News Service
I am currently a correspondent of both Bulatlat.com and CBCP News service. I am
currently writing about the "emerging" China, with some information gathered earlier
through ABC News Desk - Peking senior producer Chito Sta. Romana.
more...
PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON THANKS RAMSEY CLARK FOR SUPPORT
AND PROPOSES FURTHER ANTI-IMPERIALIST SOLIDARITY
Press Statement
International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS)
September 9, 2008
Prof. Jose Maria Sison met with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark
in The Hague, The Netherlands on Monday, September 8, 2008 in order
to thank him for his moral and legal support when he (Sison) was arrested
in Utrecht on August 28, 2007 and detained by Dutch authorities in The
Hague national penitentiary up to September 13, 2007.
more...
A year after arrest, Sison’s case in the Netherlands still in limbo
By LOUI GALICIA
ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau
September 6, 2008
It has been one year since the arrest of Jose Maria Sison in Utrecht, Netherlands
on Aug. 28, 2007, yet it is still not clear where his case is headed, ABS-CBN
Europe News Bureau reported.
more...
ARROYO REGIME RENDERS IMPOSSIBLE
FORMAL TALKS BETWEEN GRP AND MILF
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
21 August 2008
Contrary to the propaganda issued by the psywar experts of the Arroyo
regime, I am not in any position to issue orders to the New People's Army
(NPA) to undertake tactical offensives in sympathy with the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF). My role as NDFP chief political consultant is assisting
peace negotiations and not issuing military orders to the NPA.
more...
ILPS Decries US Hypocrisy on the Russian-Georgian Conflict,
Demands US Imperialism and NATO to Get Out of Caucasus
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
19 August 2008
The US and its NATO allies have presented a distorted picture of the
conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
And the western media have stridently acted as the purveyor of US
imperialist propaganda. The hypocrite George W. Bush has spearheaded
the propaganda campaign by misrepresenting Russia as the aggressor
and violator of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia in the
current Russian-Georgian conflict.
more...
US AMBASSADOR KENNEY IS LYING
ABOUT US INVOLVEMENT IN MOA-AD SHAM
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
16 August 2008
US ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney is blatantly lying by
claiming that she was merely invited to witness the aborted signing
of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD),
that she was ignorant of its content and that the US government had
nothing to do with the GRP-MILF peace negotiations nor with the
controversial MOA-AD.
more...
Communist leader Sison slams US envoy
By TJ Burgonio
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Posted date: August 16, 2008
http://business.inquirer.net/money/breakingnews/view/20080816-155081/Communist-leader-Sison-slams-US-envoy
MANILA -- Communist Party leader Jose Ma. Sison is now accusing United States
Ambassador Kristie Kenney of feigning ignorance of a deal expanding the homeland
of the Bangsamoro people in the southern Philippines.
more...
PRETENSE AT GENEROSITY WITH FULL MALICE
BY US IMPERIALISM AND THE ARROYO REGIME
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
15 August 2008
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has consistently
supported the Moro people's right to self-determination. This ranges
from the right to regional autonomy in a nonoppressive state to the
right to secede from the oppressive state that exists in the Philippines.
Even an individual who finds himself or herself oppressed by a state has
the right to separate from it.
more...
Communist leader lauds freedom fighter Tañada
By TJ Burgonio
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Breaking News / Nation
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20080810-153726/Communist-leader-lauds-freedom-fighter-Tanada
Posted date: August 10, 2008
COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES founder Jose Ma. Sison paid tribute
Saturday to Lorenzo Tañada, saying the late senator’s fight for independence
and democracy remained even more relevant today.
more...
ILPS Condemns the Growing Repression in Iran
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
August 11, 2008
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) condemns the recent
executions and the rising tide of repression being carried out by the Islamic
regime in Iran against its political opponents, especially the militant progressive
movements of workers, peasants, students and youth, women, national
minorities, journalists, intellectuals and other sections of society.
more...
Joma Sison: Arroyo SONA to repeat 8-year-old lies
GMANews.TV
http://www.gmanews.tv/print/109802
Article posted July 28, 2008 - 03:39 PM
MANILA, Philippines - Jose Ma. Sison, chief political consultant of the National
Democratic Front (NDF), belittled President Arroyo's State of the Nation Address,
saying it would only repeat her annual lies.
more...
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF PEOPLES' STRUGGLE
ENDORSES AND SUPPORTS CAMPAIGN TO STOP WAR ON IRAN
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
July 31, 2008
We of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) hereby express our
wholehearted endorsement and support for the campaign to stop the war on
Iran before it starts. We are in full solidarity with the American people and organized
forces that are set to demonstrate in more than 65 cities of the US on Saturday,
August 2. We are happy to announce that the ILPS member organizations in
the US are joining this historic event.
more...
THE LIES OF ARROYO ADD INSULT TO INJURY
BUT THE PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING BACK
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant,
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
July 26, 2008
The fake president Gloria M. Arroyo has such a long record of lying that no one
expects her to describe the real state of the nation and indicate the solutions
to the problems that have grown terribly worse under her regime. She is ever
more determined to lie in a vain attempt to evade responsibility for the extremely
aggravated suffering of the Filipino people. But reality cries far louder and clearer
than her lies. These add insult to injury. And the outraged people become
ever more resolute and relentless in their struggle.
more...
U.P. CENTENNIAL CONVERSATIONS
By Roland G. Simbulan
Professor & former Faculty Regent, University of the Philippines System
Jan. 8, 2008
Amid the celebration of the University of the Philippines' 100th year, I am posting this
article by Prof. Simbulan to aid us in reviewing the university's role in nurturing a
neocolonial and semifedual Philippine society, and to inspire us to continue to
struggle for a university that truly serves the interests of the Filipino masses.
more...
ILPS: Inspiring Peoples to Fight for a New and Better World
Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison on the International
League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS)
Published on Bulatlat (
http://www.bulatlat.com)
http://www.bulatlat.com/2008/07/ilps-inspiring-
peoples-fight-new-and-better-world
BY D. L. MONDELO
Bulatlat
Vol. VIII, No. 24, July 20-26, 2008
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) is today the most outstanding
and largest anti-imperialist and democratic formation of global scale. It has attracted
to its fold a great number of member organizations, with individual members running
into millions, from the ranks of workers and peasants and the middle social strata in
various countries and continents. It has become a rallying point because of its
well-known resoluteness, militancy, self-reliance and effective campaigns.
more...
INTERVIEW WITH PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON
ON HIS OPPRESSION, PEOPLE'S WAR AND PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
By Roselle Valerio
Editor, Liberation International
June 27, 2008
Thank you for agreeing to this interview. I intend to ask you questions about your
legal and political situation, the people's war in the Philippines and the peace
negotiations between the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and Government of the
Republic of the Philippines (GRP).
Part I Interview
Part II Interview
Part III Interview
ILPS STATEMENT ON THE G-8 SUMMIT IN HOKKAIDO
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
1 July 2008
The 34th G-8 summit in Hokkaido, Toyako, Japan from 7 to 9 July 2008 is slated
to discuss and reach consensus on issues under the main themes of world economy,
environment and climate change, development and Africa and political issues. As their
imperialist character dictates, the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France,
Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia will seek to harmonize their policies in further
exploiting and oppressing the proletariat and people of the world.
more...
Press Communique on the Third International Assembly
of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS)
By the ILPS International Coordinating Committee
June 21, 2008
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) successfully held its Third
International Assembly (TIA) from June 18 to 20, 2008 in Hong Kong. The
assembly carried the theme, "Strengthen the peoples' struggle, unite to build
a new world against imperialist aggression, state terrorism, plunder and social
destruction!"
more...
ILPS SUCCESSFULLY HOLDS THIRD INTERNATIONAL ASSEMBLY
AND ELECTS NEW INTERNATIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE
Issued by the International Network for Philippine Studies
22 June 2008
The International Network of Philippine Studies (INPS) is proud to have sent
a delegation to the Third International Assembly (TIA) of the International
League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS). This assembly was successfully held in
Hong Kong from 18 to 20 June 2008 . It was guided by the theme,
"Strengthen the peoples' struggle, unite to build a new world against
imperialist aggression, state terrorism, plunder and social destruction!"
more...
TWO GLARING ERRORS IN THE 5 JUNE 2008 DECISION
OF THE HAGUE DISTRICT COURT ON MY COMPLAINT
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Plaintiff
7 June 2008
I am pleased that the District of Court of The Hague in its 5 June 2008
decision on my complaint against the prolongation of the investigation
of the false charges of murder against me and my demand for the end
of such investigation has done the following:
more...
AFP NEWS REPORT IS INACCURATE AND MISLEADING
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
June 5, 2008
The Agence France Presse issued a news report on June 5, 2008
which states: "A Dutch court (i.e. District Court of The Hague) gave
prosecutors the go-ahead Thursday to pursue murder charges against
Philippine communist leader, despite an earlier dismissal of the case."
This report is inaccurate and misleading.
more...
REACTIONARY MOVEMENT REPRESENTED BY DALAI LAMA
IS FINANCED BY US IMPERIALISM AND IS CONDEMNABLE
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
20 April 2008
The movement represented by the Dalai Lama is utterly reactionary. It is for
the restoration of a despotic and extremely exploitative theocracy in Tibet.
Worse, it is an instrument of US imperialism in its dual policy of containment
and engagement against China and the Chinese people. It is condemnable.
more...
End the Barbaric US War of Aggression
Against the People of Iraq
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson
International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
19 March 2008
The US war of aggression against the people of Iraq enters its fifth year
and the US sinks deeper into the quagmire. The cost of this criminal and
barbaric war for the Iraqi people according to the Oxford Research Bureau
is 1.3 million dead, 2 million displaced inside Iraq and 2.5 million more who
are refugees in Syria and Jordan. The Iraqi economy and social infrastructure
are in ruins.
more...
PERSONAL ATTACKS AGAINST PROF. SISON BY HONASAN
ARE MEANT TO SUPPORT ARROYO REGIME
By LUIS G. JALANDONI
Chairperson, Negotiating Panel
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
3 March 2008
Gregorio Honasan is reported to have made personal attacks against
Professor Jose Maria Sison in interviews with the Philippine Daily Inquirer
and DZBB by accusing him of having issued orders from an airconditioned
home in The Netherlands for the Filipino people to rise up against the
Arroyo regime and by demanding that Prof. Sison should return home
to lead the protest mass actions.
more...
Arroyo Regime Should Read
the Handwriting on the Wall
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle
1 March 2008
I congratulate the people and the broad united front of patriotic,
progressive and ecumenical forces for their resounding success in
massing 75,000 rallyists in the inter-faith rally at Ayala Makati
yesterday, despite the scare tactics and obstructions carried out by the
Arroyo regime in a futile attempt to reduce attendance.
more...
The Magnitude of the Protest Mass Actions Today
Will Indicate How Close Is the End of the Arroyo Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle
29 February 2008
The magnitude of the protest mass actions today will indicate how close
is the end of the Arroyo regime. If the level of 50,000 to 100,000 protest
demonstrators is reached at the focal point in the national capital region,
then we can hope that in the near future we can reach the level of
hundreds of thousands or a million demonstrators that will certainly
persuade the bureaucracy and the military to withdraw support from
the Arroyo regime.
more...
The Broad United Front of Patriotic Forces is Determined
to Mobilize the People Nationwide Against Arroyo Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
23 February 2008
I am happy to observe that the broad united front of patriotic forces
is determined to arouse and mobilize the broad masses of the people in
the national capital region as well as on a nationwide scale, including
provincial centers and localities, in order to further isolate the
Arroyo regime and cause the resignation, impeachment or ouster of the
fake president, Gloria M. Arroyo.
more...
Prospects for Resumption of Formal Talks
Are Bright if Gloria M. Arroyo Is Ousted
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
16 February 2008
Prospects for the resumption of formal talks in the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations
are bright if the broad masses of the Filipino masses and the broad united front
succeed in ousting Gloria M. Arroyo from the position of president which she
has usurped through electoral fraud and kept through brute military force.
more...
GMA Is Ripe for Ouster by the Broad Mass Movement
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
15 February 2008
Gloria M. Arroyo, the fake president, is ripe for ouster by the broad mass movement
of the Filipino people as a result of her record of moral bankruptcy, subservience to
foreign interests, brazen corruption and systematic human rights violations.
more...
‘I Turn a Bad Thing into a Good Thing’ – Sison
Published on Bulatlat (http://bulatlat.com)
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Bulatlat
Vol. VII, No. 50, January 27-February 2, 2008
NDFP chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison’s listing as a “foreign
terrorist” in 2002 brought about the suspension of his benefits and
pension, and restrictions on his right to travel. “But I turn a bad
thing into a good thing,” he said.
more...
INFORMAL EXPLORATORY TALKS CAN LEAD TO FORMAL PEACE TALKS
IF ARROYO REGIME COMPLIES WITH PRIOR GRP-NDFP AGREEMENTS
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
26 January 2008
If it really wants to resume formal peace talks, the Arroyo regime must comply
with the prior agreements between the Government of the Republic of the
Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP)
and do away with all the impediments that violate said agreements and prevent
peace talks. Informal exploratory talks in Oslo can thus lead to formal peace talks.
more...
ARROYO REGIME REFUSES TO HEED CALL
FOR PEACE NEGOTIATIONS WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
24 January 2008
It is lamentable that the Arroyo regime has refused to heed the call
of the Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform (PEPP) for the resumption
of formal talks in the peace negotiations between the Government of
the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front
of the Philippines (NDFP), without preconditions and in accordance with
prior agreements from The Hague Joint Declaration of 1992 to the Oslo
Joint Statements of 2004.
more...
Three Governments Persist in Persecuting Me
By Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
21 January 2008
In quick response to the announcement of the Dutch prosecutor that
the preliminary investigation against me would be extended to the middle
of this year, I expressed confidence that the charge would be dropped
or if not that I would certainly win the case in court. I cited as basis of
confidence the decisions of the District Court of The Hague on 13
September 2007, the Court of Appeal on 3 October 2007 and the
examining judge on 21 November 2007.
more...
QUICK RESPONSE TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF DUTCH
PROSECUTION OFFICE TO CONTINUE INVESTIGATION
OF FALSE CRIMINAL CHARGE AGAINST ME
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
19 January 2008
The Dutch Public Prosecution Service had the initiative yesterday (18 January)
in announcing to the press and the public that it would continue up to the
middle of this year to investigate my alleged involvement in the killing of the
military agents Romulo Kintanar and Arturo Tabara in 2003 and 2004, respectively.
more...
ARROYO REGIME AND ITS MILITARY AND POLICE HENCHMEN
ARE MAKING UP SCARE STORIES TO JUSTIFY VIOLENCE
AND SUPPRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS AND PRESS FREEDOM
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
19 January 2008
The Arroyo regime and its military and police henchmen are making up
scare stories about violent schemes of "destabilization" and "military
coup" in order to whip up the psychological atmosphere for the violation
of the people's right to speak and assemble and the freedom of the
press and in order to justify the use of state violence against the
impending legal and peaceful mass protests of the people.
more...
ARROYO REGIME IS OBSESSED WITH MILITARY FORCE
AND IGNORES PROPOSALS FOR EXPLORATORY TALKS
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
12 January 2008
Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal, spokesperson of the Communist Party of the Philippines
(CPP), debunked recently the false claims of the Arroyo regime and its military
henchmen that the reactionary armed forces had destroyed 13 guerrilla fronts
in 2007 and reduced the total number of guerrilla fronts to only 87 and the
fighters of the New People's Army (NPA) to less than 6000.
more...
State of UP Activism During Your Time
by Reyna Tabbada, Bulatlat
Interview with Professor Jose Maria Sison
January 8, 2008
Reyna Tabbada (RT): Describe the atmosphere of activism in UP during your time: what are
the major beliefs or ideologies that fuel the student protest movement?
How did the different elements of society, from the masses to the well-off
families, embrace and/or reject these developments?
more...
Expect Worse Economic Conditions in 2008
Fight Back News Service
Prof. Jose Maria Sison, chief political consultant of the National Democratic
Front of the Philippines, declared today his expectations of worse economic
conditions in the Philippines in 2008. His discussion of these bleak prospects
followed up his previous expose of the degradation of the Philippine economy
by the Arroyo regime in line with the US-dictated policy of “neoliberal” globalization.
more...
ILPS Condemns Arrest of People's March Editor Govindan Kutty
Demands his Immediate and Unconditional Release
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
2 January 2008
On December 19, 2007, the editor of People's March Govindan Kutty
was arrested and put in jail by the Kerala police. He was subjected to
long and harsh interrogation for a whole day. The police later filed false
charges against him and in protest against this Kutty has gone on a
hunger strike. Because of his age, the hunger strike places his life in
danger.
more...
Joma Sison belies claim of rosy economy
Breaking News / Nation
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view_article.php?article_id=109852
By Jerome Aning
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Posted date: January 01, 2008
THE COMMUNIST Party of the Philippines on Tuesday took a swipe at Malacañang's
repeated claims of a rosy economy, saying ordinary Filipinos faced more economic
and social suffering in 2008.
more...
NDFP CHIEF POLITICAL CONSULTANT EXPECTS
WORSE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN 2008
Press Release
January 1, 2008
Prof. Jose Maria Sison, chief political consultant of the National Democratic
Front of the Philippines, declared today his expectations of worse economic
conditions in the Philippines in 2008. His discussion of these bleak prospects
followed up his previous expose of the degradation of the Philippine economy
by the Arroyo regime in line with the US-dictated policy of "neoliberal" globalization.
more...
Economic, social woes to stay in '08 - Joma Sison
GMANews.TV
Article posted December 31, 2007 - 10:29 AM
Despite Malacañang's repeated claims of a rosy economy, the ordinary Filipino
will still face economic and social sufferings in 2008, Communist Party of the
Philippines founding chairman Jose Maria Sison said Sunday night.
more...
Gloria's claim of economic growth a pack of lies - NDF
By Gerry Baldo and Sherwin C. Olaes
The Daily Tribune
31 December 2007
The National Democratic Front (NDF) yesterday accused President Arroyo
of lying to the Filipino people about her alleged role in stirring the country
into joining the ranks of developed economies.
more...
JOMA SISON SLAMS ARROYO
FOR LYING ABOUT THE ECONOMIC SITUATION
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
31 December 2007
Prof. Jose Maria Sison, chief political consultant of the National Democratic Front
of the Philippines, slammed Gloria M. Arroyo for lying about the Philippine economic
situation by claiming that she is propelling the Philippines to become a "first world
country".
more...
Arroyo's Bankrupt and Deceptive Economic Policy
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
30 December 2007
Gloria M. Arroyo, the fake president, keeps on babbling that her regime is
propelling the Philippines to become a "first world country". She is obviously
lying.
more...
Sison: 'Cultural activities' to mark CPP 39th anniversary
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=103509
National (as of 12/26/2007 12:45 PM)
The founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines said
Wednesday communist guerillas will hold "cultural activities" to celebrate
the 39th anniversary of the movement.
more...
39th Anniversary : Joma Sison recalls birth of CPP in Alaminos
By Gabriel Cardinoza
Philippine Daily Inquirer
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20071226-108822/Joma_Sison_recalls_birth_of_CPP_in_Alaminos
Posted date: December 26, 2007
ALAMINOS CITY, Philippines--The Communist Party of the Philippines marks its
39th anniversary Wednesday, but few residents of this bustling coastal city in
western Pangasinan know that the CPP was born in one of their upland
barangay or villages.
more...
Why the Arroyo Regime Cannot Destroy
but Causes the Armed Revolution to Advance
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Founding Chairman, Communist Party of the Philippines
Chief Political Consultant, National Democratic Front of the Philippines
25 December 2007
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) can
best explain why the Arroyo regime cannot destroy but unwittingly causes
the armed revolution to advance. But as the CPP founding chairman, NDFP
chief political consultant and as a political scientist, I can give some explanation.
more...
Why No Ceasefire?
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
22 December 2007
It is understandable why there is no ceasefire between the armed forces
of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and those of
the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) during the Christmas
and New Year holidays.
more...
ILPS Condemns the Ban on Democratic Organizations
and the Arrest of the Revolutionary Poet Varvara Rao
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
15 December 2007
We, the International League of Peoples' Struggle, condemn in the strongest
terms the Reddy Government of Andhra Pradesh for banning many democratic
and revolutionary organizations together with the Communist Party of India
(Maoist), for undertaking brutal repressive actions against the cadres and
mass activists of the revolutionary democratic movement and for arresting
the revolutionary poet Varvara Rao.
more...
ILPS Praises and Supports the Demand
for the Ouster of the Arroyo Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
1 December 2007
The International League of Peoples' Struggle praises and supports the
vigorous protests against the Arroyo regime and the demand for the
ouster of this regime aired separately by scores of military officers and
civilian sympathizers at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati on Thursday,
November 29 and by the thousands of street demonstrators near the
presidential palace in Manila on Friday, November 30.
more...
ILPS Supports the Strikes of Both the Writers Guild of America (WGA)
and the Stagehands of For-Profit Broadway
Against the Biggest and Greediest Media Behemoths in History
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
22 November 2007
The International League of Peoples' Struggles (ILPS) supports both the strikes
of the more than 12,000-strong Writers Guild of America and the stagehands
of for-profit Broadway over just compensation issues.
more...
ILPS condemns Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule
and supports the just struggle of the people of Pakistan
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
6 November 2007
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) condemns the declaration
of emergency rule by Pakistan's military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf and the
further entrenchment of barefaced fascist dictatorship against the people of
Pakistan. We support the just struggle of the people of Pakistan for national
and social liberation against the Musharraf fascist regime and its US imperialist
master.
more...
AP Interview: Peace talks possible, says exiled Philippine communist leader
The Associated Press
Monday, October 29, 2007
UTRECHT, Netherlands: The door is open for a resumption of peace talks between
the Philippine government and communist rebels who have been waging a nearly
40-year insurgency, an exiled former rebel leader said.
more...
Removal of Arroyo from Power
Can Be a Significant Step Towards a Just Peace
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
20 October 2007
According to reliable sources in the ruling coalition, the opposition and the
legal democratic mass movement in the Philippines, the fake president
Gloria M. Arroyo is feeling insecure and isolated and is increasingly afraid
of being ousted from power before 2010 by a convergence of several
developments, which include the following:
more...
'Adviser' Sison calls Justice Ministry a puppet of the Philippines
Bart Zuidervaart
Trouw
Wednesday 10 October 2007
The Filipino opposition leader Sison remains suspect of connection with
the murder attack in his birth place, despite his release
more...
ILPS Supports the People of Burma
and Condemns the Military Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
28 September 2007
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS)
supports the people of Burma in their struggle for
democracy and condemns the Burmese military regime for
violently suppressing the peaceful mass protests. It is
the sovereign right of the Burmese people to overthrow
the military fascist regime and establish democracy
under civilian authority. It is further their right to
make sure that imperialist powers do not take advantage
of the situation to advance their own selfish and narrow
interests.
more...
La Ligue Internationale des Luttes des Peuples Appuie
le Peuple Birman et Condamne le Regime Militaire
Jose Maria Sison
Président, Comité international de coordination
Ligue internationale des luttes des peuples
Le 28 septembre 2007
La Ligue internationale des luttes des peuples (International
League of Peoples' Struggle, ILPS) soutient la lutte démocratique
du peuple de Birmanie et condamne la violente suppression par
le régime militaire des actions de masse à caractère pacifique.
Le peuple birman possède le droit absolu de renverser le régime
militaire fasciste et d'établir un régime démocratique sous
autorité civile. De plus, il a le droit de s'assurer que les
puissances impérialistes ne profiteront pas de la situation
pour faire valoir leurs intérêts étroits et égoïstes.
more...
Prof. Sison's Press Statement on His Release from Detention
By Jose Maria Sison
Thursday, 13 September 2007
Friends,
Warmest greetings! I am deeply pleased and thankful that
the Rechtbank has decided to release me from detention.
You cannot imagine how happy I am. It is extremely painful
and humiliating to be subjected to solitary confinement and
tough interrogation under overheated lamps. The ordeal is
acute because I am innocent of the false and
politically-motivated charge leveled against me.
more...
US-Arroyo regime drives the people to armed revolution
Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
By Roselle Valerio, Editor
Liberation International
26 August 2007
Roselle Valerio (RV): Gloria M. Arroyo speaks of using her remaining years in the presidential
palace to leave an unforgettable legacy. In your view, what is going to
be her legacy?
Professor Jose Maria Sison (JMS): Her legacy is one of puppetry to US imperialism, aggravated underdevelopment,
corruption, bankruptcy, electoral fraud and gross and systematic human rights
violations with impunity.
more...
Interview With Prof. Jose Maria Sison
By Enrico Piovesana
PEACE REPORTER
Via Meravigli, 12
20123 Milano, Italia
20 August 2007
Enrico Piovesana (EP): Prof. Sison, could you please tell us briefly about your personal and political
history, from your childhood up to becoming an "International terrorist"?
Professor Jose Maria Sison (JMS): I am not a terrorist. I stand for principles and actions that are for the
benefit of the people fighting for national liberation, democracy and socialism.
I am a Filipino patriot and a proletarian internationalist, not an "international
terrorist" by any suggestion. Communists are not terrorists. European governments
are wrong for following the Bush line that communists, progressive mass leaders,
national liberation movements and anti-imperialist governments are terrorists.
The imperialist powers are engaged in fascisation on a global scale.
more...
Joma Sison Attacks Anti-Terror Law
By Loui Galicia
ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau
20 July 2007
Dear Friends,
Communist Party of the Philippines founding chairman Jose Maria Sison
berated President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for the Human Security Act
of 2007 which he calls overbearing and oppressive, reported ABS-CBN
Europe News Bureau.
more...
Opening Statement
At Video Conference with Bayan Leaders & the Press
Bayan National Office
Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
18 July 2007
Dear Friends,
I am deeply pleased and honored to be invited to this video conference
with the leaders of Bayan and representatives of the mass media. I
welcome this opportunity to have an exchange of views with you on
major current topics concerning the national and democratic rights and
interests of the Filipino people.
more...
How to Resume Formal Talks and Have Ceasefire
in the GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
17 July 2007
The Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) must address
and resolve beforehand certain prejudicial questions raised by the National
Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in order to resume the formal
talks in the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations. In this regard, the GRP must
do the following:
more...
On the Concerted Hostile Reactions
of the Dutch Embassy & Arroyo Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
14 July 2007
The Dutch embassy in Manila and the officials of the Arroyo regime have
concertedly expressed their hostile reaction to the 11 July 2007 judgment
of the European Court of First Instance (ECFI) in Case T-47/03, Jose Maria
Sison versus the Council of the European Union. They denigrate this
judgment by insinuating that it amounts to nothing and has no bearing
and effect on the decision of the Council that has retained me in the
terrorist blacklist and has continued to impose sanctions on me since
28 June 2007.
more...
Judgment of the European Court of First Instance
is a Victory for the Cause of Justice
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
13 July 2007
The judgment of the European Court of First Instance (ECFI) annulling the decision
of the Council of the European Union (EU) to put me in the "terrorist" blacklist is a
victory for the cause of justice. It is not merely my personal victory. It is a victory
for all the people, my panel of lawyers, the National Democratic Front of the
Philippines (NDFP) as intervenor and the International Committee--Defend.
They have resolutely and vigorously supported me and fought for justice against
my persecution. I take this opportunity to thank all of them.
more...
Statement on the Final Decision of the Supreme Court
on the False Rebellion Charge Against Batasan 6 and Others
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
11 July 2007
I am pleased to learn that the Supreme Court of the Government of the Republic of
the Philippines (GRP) has made final its decision to dismiss the false charge of rebellion
against the Batasan 6, a number of consultants of the Negotiating Panel of the
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and others by rejecting the
motion for reconsideration filed by the Solicitor General.
more...
Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison
on the University of the Philippines
By Prof. Roland G. Simbulan
Professor in Development Studies and Public Management
July 9, 2007
Professor Roland G. Simbulan (RGS): What makes a U.P. graduate unique? Or, what is, "Tatak U.P.?"
Professor Jose Maria Sison (JMS): The U.P. graduate is unique by being part of the cream of the educated
elite. He or she is among the brightest and most competent in his or her profession.
He or she is supposed to be often at least patriotic and liberal-minded in a conservative
or progressive way or sometimes a revolutionary activist along the line of the national
democratic revolution, especially since the militant mass actions of the 1960s. Tatak
UP na pinakamatingkad ay matalino, mahusay, makabayan at progresibo. (Translation:
The most outstanding mark of the the UP is: Intelligent, competent, patriotic and
progressive.)
more...
ILPS Condemns the Unjust Arrest of Binali Soydan
and Demands His Immediate Release
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
8 July 2007
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) condemns in the strongest
terms the arrest and detention on 19 June 2007 by the German authorities of Binali
Soydan, a refugee persecuted by the fascist Turkish state. Soydan was treacherously
arrested while on his way to the German Aliens Police to apply for extension of his
residence permit.
more...
Anti-terrorism Act is a License for
and Weapon of State Terrorism
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of People's Struggle
6 July 2007
The Anti-Terrorism Act (Act No. 9372 or the Human Security Act of 2007) is part
of the global wave of fascist legislation and state terrorism generated by the so-called
global war on terror under the Bush regime of the US government. Aside from
being a tool of US imperialism, the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) is a repressive tool
of the Arroyo regime for intimidating and suppressing the people's democratic
movement and the broad range of opposition forces.
more...
ILPS Statement on the Global Forum
on Migration and Development
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
July 4, 2007
On July 9, 10 and 11, the first Global Forum on Migration and Development will
be held in Brussels, Belgium. The first day will be the Civil Society Dialogue where
the agenda of the next two days' meeting will be discussed. Recommendations
of the CSD shall then be presented to governments attending the GFMD.
more...
NDFP Position on Ceasefire
and Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
3 July 2007
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) maintains the position that
the peace negotiations between itself and the Government of the Republic of the
Philippines (GRP) are ongoing because no side has declared the termination of the
Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG).
more...
On the General Amnesty, Peace Negotiations,
Human Security Act and Summit of the Supreme Court
Interview by Pinoy Weeky
With Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
3 July 2007
Pinoy Weekly (PW): Good Day! What is your opinion on the
proposed general amnesty of the Arroyo's government for all those labeled as
"enemies" of the state?
Jose Maria Sison (JMS): The regime is just pretending to
propose the general amnesty to show that it is in a high moral and political
position. In truth, the regime is immoral and an enemy of the Filipino people
because it is treasonous and a puppet of the imperialists, corrupt and exploitative,
cruel, it engages in state terrorism and bloody violations of human rights.
more...
Hinggil sa General Amnesty, Peace Negotiations,
Human Security Act at Summit ng Korte Suprema
Panayam ng Pinoy Weekly
Kay Propesor Jose Maria Sison,
Punong Pampulitikang Consultant
ng National Democratic Front of the Philippines
3 Hulyo 2007
Pinoy Weekly (PW): Magandang araw!
Ano pong tingin ninyo sa umano'y panukalang general amnesty ng gobyernong
Arroyo sa lahat ng mga tinaguriang "kaaway" ng estado?
Jose Maria Sison (JMS): Kunwaring nagpapanukala ng general
amnesty ang rehimen para palitawin na ito ay nasa mataas na posisyong moral at
politikal. Sa katotohanan, ang rehimen ay imoral at kaaway ng sambayanang Pilipino
dahil sa pagtataksil at pagkapapet sa imperyalista, korap at mapagsamanatala, malupit,
nagpapairal ng terorismo ng estado at madugong mapanlabag sa mga karapatang tao.
more...
On Admiral Timothy Keating's Threat
to Escalate US Military Intervention
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
28 June 2007
Far worse human rights violations can be expected to follow from the statements of
US Pacific Forces commander Admiral Timothy Keating that the US is going to tighten
its "anti-terror military cooperation" with the Arroyo regime and is willing to escalate
the long-running US military intervention in the Philippines in order to fight the New
People's Army (NPA) led by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) upon the
request of the Arroyo regime.
more...
Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison
on KPFK 90.7 FM today at 5pm
Beneath the Surface
with Michael Slate
KPFK 90.7 FM (Los Angeles)
or www.kpfk.org
June 5, 2007, 5 pm
Tune in today at 5 pm to KPFK 90.7 FM as Michael Slate of "Beneath the Surface" interviews Professor Jose Maria Sison. Sison will discuss his persecution by the US and Philippine governments and most recently by the European Union.
When you think of a revolutionary, who do you envision? Some think of
revolutionaries as people who fight for their principles in order to create a
more just society. Jose Maria Sison is thought to be one of the most
revolutionary thinkers and experts on the Philippines.
more...
Opening Statement at Press Conference
on Terrorist-listing and Related Issues
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
31 May 2007
NDF Information Bureau, Utrecht,The Netherlands
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Let me first thank all of you for attending this press conference, those who
are online in other countries and the Committee to Defend Filipino Progressives
in Europe for organizing it.
more...
The Stage is Set by the Arroyo Regime
for Intensified Civil Strife in the Philippines
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
26 May 2007
The Arroyo regime has set the stage for intensified civil strife in the Philippines
by having used the most outrageous ways of vote buying, fraud and mass
intimidation to frustrate the will of the electorate, dominate the "election"
of local executive officials and the congressmen and secure the fake president
from impeachment. The delayed Comelec count in the senatorial and party list
elections has allowed the operatives of the regime to engage in further cheating
at various levels and in various ways.
more...
Happy About the Release of Satur Ocampo
But Still Indignant Over the False Charges
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
5 April 2007
I am happy about the release of Satur Ocampo from detention, temporary as it
may be at the moment. In this regard, I congratulate him for his courage and
tenacity and his lawyers led by Atty. Romeo Capulong for their high legal
competence and successful defense which should be beneficial to the co-accused
who are equally falsely charged.
more...
Permanent Peoples' Tribunal Finds Arroyo and Bush
Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle
26 March 2007
As chairperson of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS), I wish
to congratulate the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (PPT), the initiators, the
distinguished jurors from various countries, the prosecutors, the plaintiffs and
coordinators for their resounding success in the trial of the case of the Filipino
people against the Arroyo regime and its imperialist accomplices from the five-day
PPT proceedings from 21 to 25 March 2007 in The Hague, The Netherlands.
more...
False Charges of Murder and Robbery
Are Mere Propaganda Rubbish from Arroyo Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
12 March 2007
So long as the Arroyo regime remains in power, there will be a constant
flow of false charges of murder and robbery against me, whenever the
New People's Army inflicts death casualties and seizes arms and other
military equipment in tactical offensives against the military and police
forces in the Philippines.
more...
National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales
is Desperately Hatching Plots and False Charges
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
10 March 2007
National security adviser Norberto Gonzales is absolutely wrong and malicious
in claiming that I have hatched a plot for sniper teams of the New People's
Army to hit Gloria M. Arroyo, himself and Senator Jinggoy Estrada. It is
Gonzales himself who is hatching the plots and false charges against me.
more...
Charge of Multiple Murder in Leyte is a Patent Lie
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
9 March 2007
Time and again I have denied the repeated false charge by the military that I am
responsible for murders in Leyte from 1984 to 1986.
more...
Anti-terror Law Will Further Unleash State Terrorism
Against the People, Revolutionary Forces and Broad Legal Opposition
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
7 March 2007
If the targets were only Al Qaeda, Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah, the laws on
murder, kidnapping, arson, robbery and the like in the criminal code of the Philippine
reactionary government would have sufficed. But the real objective of the Arroyo
regime in enacting the Anti-Terror Law is to use it for carrying out martial rule without
having to proclaim it and without having to comply with the requirements set by the
1987 constitution.
more...
Armed Forces Should Stop Extrajudicial Killings
and Not Deflect Public Attention from These
by Maligning My Christmas Party Pictures With Ara Mina
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
3 March 2007
It was perfectly alright for me to have kodakan (picture-taking), yugyugan (dancing)
and kantahan (singing) with the Filipina movie and singing star Ara Mina, Janno Gibbs
and migrant workers during a Christmas party. It was the biggest festivity of the
Filipino community in The Netherlands. I was invited as a special guest.
more...
Alston Press Statement and Melo Commission Report
Hold Arroyo Regime and Military
Accountable for Extrajudicial Killings
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
23 February 2007
The press statement of the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions Prof. Philip Alston and the report of the Melo commission put forward important
findings and conclusions that hold the Arroyo regime and the Armed Forces of the Philippines
(AFP) accountable for extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations from 2001 to
the present.
more...
Anti-terror Act Further Emboldens Forces of State Terrorism
and Further Drives the People to Armed Revolution
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
21 February 2007
Even without the Anti-Terror Act, euphemistically called the Human Security Act
of 2007, the US-directed Arroyo regime has unleashed the counterrevolutionary
military and police forces on the people and spurred them to commit all kinds of
barbarities, including the massacre and massive displacement of people in the
countryside and the extrajudicial killing, abduction and torture of so many unarmed
legal activists. These atrocities are all in line with the Bush global war of terror and
its Philippine puppet version called Oplan Bantay Laya I and II.
more...
Demand Release of Crispin "Ka Bel" Beltran,
Condemn Unjust Imprisonment by Arroyo Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
21 February 2007
We, the International League of Peoples' Struggle, hereby express our wholehearted
solidarity with and support for the eminent labor leader and legislator Crispin "Ka Bel"
Beltran who was the first chairperson of the ILPS International Coordinating Committee
and is now the honorary chairperson of the ILPS.
more...
Panayam kay Prop. Jose Maria Sison ng Pinoy Weekly
Hinggil sa Komisyong Melo at Halalan sa 2007
Pinoy Weekly
Pebrero 4, 2007
PINOY WEEKLY (PW): Prop. Sison, Magandang
araw! Muli nais po namin kayong hingan ng ilang pagtingin/komento
sa ilang maiinit na isyu sa ating bayan:
Ano pong masasabi ninyo sa ipinalabas na bahagyang ulat ng
Komisyong Melo hinggil sa pamamaslang sa mga aktibista at kritiko ng
pamahalaang Arroyo? Bakit si Palparan lamang ang inerekomendang
kasuhan ng Komisyon at hindi na nagbigay paliwanag kung may kinalaman
ba sa mga pagpatay si Pangulong Arroyo?
more...
Interview With Singer Joma Sison
By Volt Contreras
Philippine Daily Inquirer
February 1, 2007
Volt Contreras (VC): Magandang araw po mula sa Manila, Ka Joma.
I'm a reporter for the Philippine Daily Inquirer on assignment to do a
light feature on your songs being posted on the 'YouTube' website. I'm
referring to 'Bella Ciao' and 'Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa.'
more...
Brief Statement to Bayan-USA
at Its Second Congress
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
January 14-15, 2007
On behalf of the International League of Peoples' Struggle, I wish to convey warmest
greetings of solidarity to BAYAN-USA on the occasion of its Second Congress. We
congratulate you for all your achievements. And we wish your Congress the utmost
success in paving the way for greater achievements until the Third Congress,
more...
Arroyo
Regime Violates National Sovereignty
by Surrendering Convicted Rapist to the US
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
31 December 2006
The Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) is bad enough as an affront to
Philippine national sovereignty and territorial integrity. No self-respecting
country surrenders its jurisdiction over crimes that transpire within its
boundaries. All patriotic Filipinos demand the junking of the VFA.
more...
Bush is the Biggest War Criminal
in Comparison to Saddam in the Period of 2003-2006
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
31 December 2006
US president George W. Bush is clearly the biggest war criminal and most
monstrous perpetrator of crimes against humanity in comparison to Iraq
President Saddam Hussein in the period of 2003 to the end of 2006.
more...
Clarification About News Reports
on my Opinion Regarding Ceasefire
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
NDFP Negotiating Panel
December 23, 2006
Since yesterday, news reports in the Philippines and abroad have made me
appear that I am a "communist rebel leader" speaking on behalf of the
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) about the unilateral declaration
of "ceasefire" by Gloria M. Arroyo for four days to mark Christmas and the
New Year.
more...
Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales
is an Irresponsible and Unjust Man
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
21 December 2006
Justice secretary Raul Gonzales has publicly expressed suspicion of the New People's
Army for the killing of Rep. Luis Bersamin, Jr. even as he admits that he has no
evidence whatsoever to present. He also drags in my name for the purpose of
innuendo by accusing me of declaring the all-out war policy which his boss Gloria
M. Arroyo has declared and which the Cabinet Oversight Committee on Internal
Security is directing so coldbloodedly.
more...
Panayam Kay Prop. Jose Maria Sison
Ng Pinoy Weekly
11 Disyembre 2006
Prof Joma,
Magandang araw!
Mabilis ang pihit ng sitwasyong pampulitika sa bansa dahil sa isyu ng
Cha-Cha. Niratsada ng Kamara ang Con-Ass; hindi naman pinalampas ng
taumbayan ang kanilang pakana. Natakot sa ngitngit ng mga mamamayan
ang Malakanyang kaya biglang urong sa pagsusulong ng pagpapalit ng
konstitusyon.
more...
Democratic-Republican Bipartisan Consensus
Aims to Frustrate the Will of US Electorate
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
9 December 2006
The report of the Iraq Study Group clearly tries to arrive at and promote a
Democratic-Republican bipartisan consensus in order to satisfy the US monopoly
bourgeoisie, especially the military industrial complex and the oil giants, and to
frustrate the will of the US electorate which repudiated the Bush policy of
aggression and occupation of Iraq in the 2006 US mid-term elections.
more...
Arroyo Regime's Charter-Change Scheme
is Immoral and Treasonous
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
8 December 2006
The Arroyo regime is immoral and treasonous for ramming through the
scheme to revise the 1987 charter through a sham constituent assembly
of congressmen, excluding the Senate. The fake president Gloria M.
Arroyo and Speaker Jose de Venecia deserve the condemnation and
opprobrium of the outraged Filipino people.
more...
Panayam kay Propesor Jose Maria Sison
Kaugnay ng Ika-20 Anibersaryo ng Courage
Ni Angelo L. Tesorero
Pinoy Weekly
Disyembre 4, 2006
Pinoy Weekly (PW): Prof. Sison, Magandang araw! Idaraos ng
COURAGE ang kongreso nila simula ngayong Disyembre 4-6, kasabay ng kanilang
ika-20 anibersaryo. Gayundin, idineklara ng pamahalaang Arroyo na 'National Government
Employees Week' sa susunod na linggo. Kaugnay nito nais naming hingin ang inyong
opinyon hinggil sa ilang mga katanungan.
more...
Similar Situation and Prospects of Arroyo and Bush
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
NDFP Negotiating Panel
11 November 2006
In my press statement yesterday as Chairperson of the International League of
Peoples' Struggle, I described the status and prospects of George W. Bush after
losing control over the US House of Representatives and Senate in the US mid-term
elections. For committing grave crimes, including the war of aggression on the basis
of lies, so many cases of corruption and the assault on civil and political rights, he is
liable to be impeached by the House of Representatives and convicted by the Senate.
more...
US Electorate Deals a Serious Blow on Bush Regime
as Democrats Take Over US Congress From Republicans
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
10 November 2006
The US electorate has held the Bush regime responsible for its disastrous policies and
actions and has dealt it a serious political blow by giving to the Democratic Party control
over the House of Representatives and the Senate. Bush is not just a lameduck president
for being on the last two years of his second term. He is likely to be a dead duck if the
Democrats follow the American people's expectations that Bush and Cheney .be impeached
and convicted for their high crimes.
more...
Call for Support for the International Day of Action
Against US Intervention in the Philippines
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
10 November 2006
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) calls on all its participating organizations
and all its progressive allies to join and support the International Day of Action Against US
Intervention in the Philippines on November 21, 2006 initiated by BAYAN-Philippines, a
participating organization of the ILPS.
more...
ILPS Condemns as Acts of Aggression and Terrorism
the Latest Israeli Atrocities in the Gaza Strip
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
9 November 2006
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) condemns in the strongest terms
the massive Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip that has killed and wounded many
civilians and wreaked widespread destruction on the homes, mosques and other civilian
infrastructure. To maintain its cruel occupation of Palestine, Israel is engaged in further
acts of aggression and terrorism against the Palestinian people .
more...
Impact of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
on the Communist Party of the Philippines
Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison,
Founding Chairman, Communist Party of the Philippines
By Fernando del Mundo
Chief of Investigative Team
For a Special Report in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on November 9, 2006
1. What is the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall
on the Communist Party of the Philippines?
Answer: The 1989 fall of the Berlin wall signalled the disintegration of the Soviet Union
and all the revisionist regimes in the Soviet bloc. It has vindicated the antirevisionist position
of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). At its reestablishment in 1968, the CPP
adopted the fundamental line of upholding Marxism-Leninism and opposing the modern
revisionism that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) had been spreading
since Khrushchov came to power in 1956.
more...
Sison: People's War Continues
Inquirer
Posted date: November 09, 2006
Following are excerpts from the e-mailed replies by Jose Maria Sison, founding chair of the Communist
Party of the Philippines based in Utretch, the Netherlands, to questions sent by the Inquirer.
more...
Proceedings and Death Verdict Against Saddam Hussein
by a Puppet Court are Illegal, Unfair and Invalid
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
6 November 2006
The proceedings and death verdict against Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq,
by a court of the puppet government under the US Occupation in Iraq are illegal,
unfair and invalid.
more...
ILPS Welcomes and Supports
Second Session on the Philippines
in the US and Canada
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
30 October 2006
We, the International League of Peoples" Struggle (ILPS), welcome and support the convening
of the Second Session on the Philippines under the auspices of the Permanent People's Tribunal
(PPT) of the Rome-based Lelio Basso International Foundation for the Rights and Liberation of
Peoples.
more...
ILPS Supports the October 28 Antiwar Actions
in the US and Canada
By Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
26 October 2006
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) joins the ANSWER Coalition in calling
for an end to the US war of occupation in Iraq and in condemning US war threats against
North Korea. In this regard, ILPS has called on its participating organizations in the US and
Canada to support and join the mobilizations being organized by the ANSWER Coalition on
October 28, 2006.
more...
Free Colombian Revolutionary Leader Ricardo Palmera!
US Imperialism, Hands Off Colombia!
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
22 October 2006
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) joins the freedom-loving people
of Colombia and other progressive forces throughout the world in condemning the
abduction and illegal trial in the United States of Ricardo Palmera, a leader of Fuerzas
Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), and in demanding his immediate release.
The ILPS demands that the US respect the national sovereignty of the people of
Colombia and dismantle Plan Colombia.
more...
US Military Commissions Act of 2006 is a Fascist Law
That the People of the World Must Condemn and Oppose
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
21 October 2006
The International League of People's Struggle vigorously condemns and opposes the
US Military Commissions Act of 2006 as a fascist law that flouts and violates the universally
accepted principles and conventions on human rights and international humanitarian law.
more...
Call for International Day of Action on Nov. 16
Against Trade Union Repression
and Political Killings in the Philippines
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
20 October 2006
The International League of People's Struggle (ILPS) calls on its participating organizations
and on all progressive forces throughout the world to join and support the International
Day of Action Against Trade Union Repression and Political Killings in the Philippines on
November 16, 2006. This event is aimed at condemning the intensified attacks being
carried out by the government of Gloria Arroyo against the Filipino workers and expressing
solidarity and support to the struggle of the workers and the rest of the Filipino people
for self-determination, democracy, social justice and development.
more...
UNSC Resolution 1718 Provides US Imperialism
the License to Provoke And Attack DPRK at Anytime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
16 October 2006
UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution No. 1718 condemning the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea (DPRK) and imposing sanctions on it for carrying out an underground
nuclear bomb test does not stipulate any explicit permission to the US and its cohorts
to launch an immediate military attack on the DPRK but lays down the basis and opens
the way for further sanctions and even aggressive military action.
more...
Korean People and DPRK Have the Right
to Defend Their National Independence
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
14 October 2006
The Korean people and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have all the right
to defend their national sovereignty and independence, to develop the means to protect
themselves, to pursue economic development and seek the peaceful reunification of Korea
against the hostile policy of US imperialism and its rabid followers.
more...
Arroyo Regime Pushes Anti-terrorism Bill
to Escalate State Terrorism and Install Fascism
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
13 October 2006
Under the Bush administration, the US has used 9/11 to whip up war hysteria, feed the US military-industrial
complex with fat contracts, adopt repressive laws like the USA PATRIOT Act and the Military Commissions Act
2006, unleash wars of aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq and promote state terrorism and fascism on a global
scale, all in the name of a permanent and preemptive "war on terror", which is in fact an imperialist war of terror.
more...
Interview with Professor Jose Ma. Sison
About Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines
By Masaru Takagi
Manila Bureau Chief
Nippon Hoso Kyosai (NHK)
E-mail interview prior to videocam interview
October 6, 2006
Masaru Takagi (MT): In several statements, the National Democratic Front has repeatedly named President Arroyo as behind
the extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances. What led NDF to arrive at such conclusion? What will
the Arroyo government gain or achieve to gain from these?
Professor Jose Maria Sison (JMS): The National Democratic of the Philippines (NDFP) has come to the conclusion that she is behind
the extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations on the basis of the facts, including the following:
more...
ILPS Condemns Brutal Attacks by Turkish Regime
and Supports the Struggle of Turkish People
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
30 September 2006
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) is in firm solidarity with the people of Turkey and strongly condemns
the recent brutal attacks and bombing by the Turkish regime against them for daring to stand up for their rights and to
oppose the sending of soldiers to Lebanon. Such attacks will not deter the militant people of Turkey and Kurdistan from
opposing imperialist and Zionist aggression in the Middle East.
more...
Panayam kay Prop. Jose Maria Sison Hinggil kay GMA at Thaksin
Ni Angel L. Tesorero
Pinoy Weekly
22 September 2006
Angel L. Tesorero (ALT): Prof. Sison, magandang araw! Ginulantang ang mundo
ng matagumpay na paglulunsad ng kudeta ng militar ng Thailand habang nasa UN ang kanilang punong
ministro na si Thaksin. Halos kasabay ng panawagang patalsikin sa puwesto si Thaksin ang pagpapatalsik
din kay Pangulong Arroyo. Gusto ho namin kayong hingan ng pagtingin/analisis sa nangyari sa Thailand
at iugnay ito sa sitwasyon sa ating bansa. May papel po kaya ang US sa nangyari sa Thailand?
Prop. Jose Maria Sison (JMS): Parehong sukdulang arogante, korap, mapagsamantala,
malupit at sinungaling sina GMA at Thaksin. Parehong hiwalay na hiwalay sila sa mga mamamayan. Gusto
silang ibagsak ng mga mamamayan. Mas may relative autonomy mula sa US ang Hari at mga military
officers ng Thailand kaysa sa mga military officers ng reaksiyonaryong gobyerno ng Pilipinas. Kung
nagkasundo ang Hari at military officers na ibagsak ang Prime Minister at gobyerno niya, tiyak na
matutuloy ang pagbagsak at hindi na kailangan ang pakikialam ng US.
more...
Arroyo Cannot be Expected to Comply with Memorandum of Amnesty International
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
16 September 2006
Driven by self-interest and malice, Gloria M. Arroyo cannot be expected to comply with the memorandum
of the Amnesty International for ensuring that the Melo commission is transparent, its investigation is
independently conducted and leads to accountability and justice for the victims, in accordance with
international standards and principles of inquiry for independent commissions on human rights violations.
more...
US Terrorism is Far Bigger and Worse Than Al Qaida Terrorism in 9/11
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
10 September 2006
Five years have passed since 9/11. But the US has failed to get Osama bin Laden and destroy Al Qaida.
It took less time for the Allies to defeat the Axis powers headed by Nazi Germany in World War II. However,
the US has used 9/11 to carry out propaganda campaigns aimed at scaring and deceiving the American and
other peoples of the world. It has enacted repressive laws, stepped up military production, unleashed wars
of aggression and promoted state terrorism on a global scale.
more...
Arroyo Regime Refuses to Heed European Calls for Resumption of GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant, National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle
8 September 2006
In the last three months, several European governments, human rights organizations and religious institutions
have approached the Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and urged
the resumption of the formal talks in the peace negotiations between the NDFP and the Government of the
Republic of the Philippines (GRP).
more...
I Was in Solitary Confinement in 1984
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
6 September 2006
By fabricating stories like the one about the so-called Leyte mass grave, the Arroyo regime and its military and
police minions demonstrate their extreme desperation at trying to draw attention away from their culpability
for the extrajudicial killing of 745 unarmed people, the abduction of more than 180 others and other gross
human rights violations since 2001.
more...
Call for Global Day of Action Against Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines on September 21, 2006
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
22 August 2006
On September 21, 2006, the Filipino people will remember the imposition of martial law and a fascist dictatorship
on them by Marcos upon the instigation of the US in 1972. They will commemorate their suffering and sacrifices
and honor the revolutionary martyrs and heroes. They will celebrate the victory ultimately won in the struggle
against the US-directed fascist regime.
more...
GMA is Mastermind of Nationwide Slaughter of Legal Activists
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
19 August 2006
Philippine-based and international human rights organizations and fact-finding missions have gone to the scenes
of the crimes of extrajudicial killings and abductions of legal activists. They have examined all available evidence
and the testimonies of surviving victims and other witnesses among the close relatives, neighbors, friends and
colleagues of the victims in the mass organizations, churches and professional associations.
more...
On the Occasion of the August 12 Demonstrations in the US
Statement on the Israeli-US War of Aggression Against the Lebanese and Palestinian People
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
12 August 2006
We, the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS), strongly condemn the ongoing barbaric attacks of the Israeli
military on the people of Lebanon and Palestine. Under the pretext of rescuing Israeli soldiers captured by Hamas and
Hezbollah, the Zionist Israeli government has unleashed wave upon wave of air, naval and ground attacks on the civilian
populations of Lebanon and Palestine. These unbridled acts of international terrorism are emboldened and supported by
US imperialism.
more...
Bagman of the Ruling Couple is Faking Persecution by NPA
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
27 July 2006
Everyone knows that former undersecretary of agriculture Jocelyn "Jocjoc" Bolante is running away from the findings
of the Philippine Senate that he is the key operator in the malversation of the so-called fertilizer fund amounting
to 2.8 billion pesos and the rechanneling of these for vote-buying in the 2004 presidential elections and for the
personal enrichment of Gloria M. Arroyo and Mike Arroyo.
more...
On the Collapse of WTO Talks
Issued by the Office of the Chairperson
Through the General Secretariat,
International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS)
26 July 2006
The collapse of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks on the so-called Doha Development Agenda is a welcome
development for the people of the world. It means that the imperialist powers have been stymied, even if only
momentarily, from imposing its expansive agenda of further opening up neocolonial markets. It also exposes the
emptiness of the WTO's development rhetoric: the likes of the United States (US) and the European Union (EU)
are in the end only concerned about protecting and promoting their respective monopoly advantages, supports
and superprofits. The US in particular has once again shown its arrogant and unilateralist streak.
more...
Statement on Israel's War of Aggression Against Palestine and Lebanon
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
24 July 2006
We, the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS), hereby strongly condemn Israel and the United States for the
recent barbaric attacks of the Israeli army on Palestine and Lebanon. Under the pretext of rescuing Israeli soldiers taken
captives by Hamas and Hizbollah, the Zionist Israel government has intensified its wars of aggression in Lebanon and Palestine.
These unbridled acts of international terrorism against the civilian populations are emboldened and supported by US imperialism.
more...
Arroyo Regime is Trying to Terrorize the People and Justify Assaults on Unarmed Demonstrators
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
23 July 2006
By recycling the old lie that I instead of Marcos masterminded the 1971 Plaza Miranda and by repeatedly claiming
for so many days already that the New People's Army (NPA) is poised to infiltrate and attack anti-Arroyo rallies,
the Arroyo regime and its military and police minions are trying to terrorize the people and frighten them from
joining the demonstrations on the day that Gloria M. Arroyo delivers another mendacious state-of-the-nation
address (SONA).
more...
Preconditioning the Resumption of Formal Talks with Capitulation is Completely Absurd
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
9 July 2006
It is completely absurd for Gloria M. Arroyo and her subalterns to precondition the resumption of formal talks in GRP-NDFP
peace negotiations with the capitulation of the NDFP under the guise of a permanent or prolonged ceasefire that is not
based on any agreement on social, economic and political reforms satisfactory to the people and the revolutionary forces.
more...
Arroyo Unleashes Her Fiercest Attack Dogs Against Senator Madrigal and the NDFP
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
4 July 2006
It is a good thing that a prominent peace advocate like Senator Jamby Madrigal has visited the NDFP Negotiating Panel and
the NDFP chief political consultant in order to explore the possibility of resuming the formal talks in the GRP-NDFP peace
negotiations before and after Gloria M. Arroyo exits from Malacanang palace.
more...
Why and How the AFP and PNP are Losing the War
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
1 July 2006
Oplan Bantay Laya is now on its fifth year since its formal launching in early 2002. It has utterly failed to
accomplish its declared objective of destroying the New People's Army (NPA). It has only served to fan
the flames of the armed revolution by subjecting the people to brutal campaigns of suppression in guerrilla
fronts and unleashing extrajudicial killings and abductions against the legal opponents of the Arroyo regime.
more...
NDFP Must Converse With Opposition Forces Concerning Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
30 June 2006
The Arroyo regime has repeatedly made the categorical declaration that it has shut the door to the resumption of formal talks
in the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations and is only interested in carrying out its all-out war policy and pursuing surrender talks
with local groups which they expect in vain to draw away from the centralized leadership of the armed revolutionary movement.
more...
Arroyo Regime Tries but Fails to Gloss Over its Extrajudicial Killings of Political Opponents
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
29 June 2006
By using the ploy of abolishing the death penalty for the worst common criminals, the Arroyo regime tries but fails to
gloss over its extrajudicial killings of hundreds of political opponents. The whole world knows Oplan Bantay Laya is a
national campaign plan to attack the people in suspected guerrilla fronts and those who oppose the regime in the
legal political arena. more...
Oplan Bantay Laya is Already a Proven Failure Arroyo Regime is Bluffing About Its Capabilities
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
20 June 2006
The Arroyo regime is making it appear that it is unleashing all-out war against the revolutionary forces and the people
only in recent days. But in fact, Oplan Bantay Laya, aimed at the destruction of the revolutionary movement, has been
launched since early 2002. It is under the direction of Gloria M. Arroyo and her Cabinet Oversight Committee on Internal
Security. more...
Fake President is Exhibiting Signs of Extreme Hysteria
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
17 June 2006
Gloria M. Arroyo, the fake president, is apparently under the strain of her political isolation and is exhibiting extreme signs of
hysteria by proclaiming that she can destroy the revolutionary movement in the next one or two years by simply providing
the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) with more funds and arms.
more...
Reported Murder Charges Have No Factual and Legal Basis, Are Poitically Motivated and Meant to Deceive the People
By Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
16 June 2006
Several times every year, Philippine reactionary authorities make the propaganda that they are filing charges of rebellion and the common crime of murder
against me. But always the allegations are invalid and ineffective because they lack factual and legal basis and because the Philippine authorities have no
jurisdiction over my person.
more...
Method in the Madness of the Arroyo Regime
By Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
21 May 2006
There is method in the Arroyo regime's madness of making me appear as responsible for all the alleged acts of the Communist Party
of the Philippines (CPP) and New People's Army (NPA) and for what are actually the most fantastic intrigues that the regime itself concoct
such as the lies that I have ordered the accomplished killing of the hundreds of patriotic and progressive activists in the legal arena and
the prospective killing of the fake president Arroyo, her top subalterns and opposition leaders.
more...
Arroyo Regime is Culpable for Extrajudicial Killings and is Preparing for Bloodbath at the National Level
By Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
17 May 2006
The hundreds of victims of extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances since 2001 are well-known critics and opponents
of the Arroyo regime at the municipal, provincial and regional levels. They have been brutally attacked with impunity by the armed
minions of the regime.
more...
Unconstitutional Aspects of 1017 are Knocked Down but Persecution of its Victims Like Batasan 6 Continues
By Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
4 May 2006
Proclamation 1017 was based on the big lie that the Communist Party of the Philippines and New People's Army had forged an alliance with
anti-Arroyo sections of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) for the purpose of carrying out a
coup d'etat on February 24.
more...
Arroyo Fakes the Commutation of All Death Sentences to Gloss Over 556 Extrajudicial Killings Under Her Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
19 April 2006
Gloria M. Arroyo should stop faking that she can nullify the death penalty law all by herself and make a wholesale commutation of
the death sentences of more than 1000 inmates who have been convicted of murder and other heinous common crimes.
more...
ILPS Supports the French Workers and Youth Against New Capitalist Attack on Labor
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
4 April 2006
For more than a month now, French workers, students, professionals and ordinary people in France, have poured into the streets
to protest the new law that allows capitalists to fire young workers without giving any reason. The new law pushed by Prime
Minister Villepin, First Employment Contract (CPE), allows employers to end job contracts for under-26s at any time during a
two-year trial period without having to offer an explanation or give prior warning.
more...
ILPS Extends its Solidarity with the People of the US Against the Criminalization of Immigrants and Intensification of the US War of Terror
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
April 3, 2006
The International League of People's Struggles (ILPS) extends its firm solidarity with the people of the US, especially
the millions of immigrants and their supporters who have taken to the streets in order to oppose the "Border Protection,
Homeland Security, and Illegal Immigration Act, also known as HR4437. We salute and congratulate you for your
resounding success in mobilizing yourselves and standing up for human rights against the criminalization of immigrants
and the intensification of the US war of terror against the oppressed nationalities of the Americas and in other parts of
the world.
more...
Arroyo Regime Kills GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
18 March 2006
Gloria M. Arroyo has the illusion that she can retain political power by drumming up anti-communist hysteria
and using brute force against the broad masses of the people and the broad united front of patriotic, progressive
and other anti-Arroyo forces. Thus, she has declared all-out war against the Filipino people and the revolutionary
forces, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New People's Army (NPA) and the National Democratic
Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
more...
Three Biggest Lies of Arroyo Regime Against me in Imaginary Military-Communist Coup Attempt
Prof. Jose Maria Sison
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
March 13, 2006
Gloria M. Arroyo and her loyalist retinue of bureaucratic and military psywar operatives continue to spin stories about
an military-communist coup conspiracy and coup attempt supposedly foiled on February 24. They are desperately doing
so to justify the usurpation of martial law powers through Proclamation 1071 and the continuing curtailment of civil
and political rights despite the formal lifting of said proclamation.
more...
Uphold the Militant Tradition of International Women's Day
Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson
International Coordinating Committee
March 8, 2006
In solidarity and with utmost joy, the International League of People's Struggle joins today the celebration of
women in general and their revolutionary struggle for emancipation and liberation from imperialism, feudalism
and patriarchalism. We remember and honor millions of women who trailblazed and paved the path for women's
liberation movement.
more...
Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison
by Glenda Gloria,
Managing Editor, Newsbreak Magazine
March 6, 2006
Just a few follow-up questions to your statement on the communist-military tieup. We are doing the full
story on what transpired on Feb.21-24. I'd appreciate if you could share with me your insights.
1.) My sources within the rebel military movement insist that the RAM elders held "initial talks" with the
members of the CPP central committee principally on the issue of how to bring about a better political
system post-GMA. Inevitably, how to go there-- ousting GMA first -- was discussed. Without delving on
tactical details, would such talks be against the CPP strategy or tactics? Is the CPP completely averse to
any alliance, tactical or otherwise, with what it deems to be probably "progressive" members of the
Armed Forces (of course, I'd rather not call Gringo progressive) but I have no better term for the junior
officers?
more...
Debunking the Big Lie of Arroyo About Military-Communist Coup Plot
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
5 March 2006
As in Edsa 1 and Edsa 2, the officers and units of the military and police of the reactionary government
can withdraw support from the Arroyo regime and yet do not carry out a coup d'etat because they do
not grab power for themselves and they do not violate the principle of civilian supremacy. They can play
such a patriotic role which is needed and welcomed by the anti-Arroyo broad united front and the broad
masses of the people.
more...
Reign of Terror Continues Despite Lifting of Proclamation 1017
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
4 March 2006
Gloria M. Arroyo has lifted Proclamation No. 1017 in an obvious bid to render moot and academic the complaints
filed before the Supreme Court of the Philippine reactionary government against her regime's curtailment of democratic
rights and use of martial law powers without complying with such constitutional requirements as reporting to Congress
and seeking its approval.
more...
Composition of List of People Targeted for Arrest Exposes the Falsity of the Coup Allegation
and the Vile Objective of the Arroyo Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
28 February 2006
I have read the excellent report of Sheila Coronel, titled "Government crackdown intensifies, appearing
in the February 27, 2006 issue of Inside PCIJ (Philippine Center of Investigative Journalism). The findings
of the report can help to expose the falsity of the coup allegation and the vile objective of the Arroyo
regime.
more...
Charge of Coup Conspiracy and Claim of Coup Attempt are Psywar for Fascist Dictatorship and State Terrorism
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
28 February 2006
It is a well-established and well-known fact that the broad united front of opposition parties, mass organizations
and groups of retired and active military and police officers seek to oust the illegitimate, corrupt, brutal and
treasonous Arroyo regime in a legal and peaceful way by mobilizing the broad masses to exercise their sovereign
will and democratic rights and by encouraging the military and police forces to side with the people and withdraw
support from the regime, as in Edsa 1 and Edsa 2.
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Solving Some Problems in the Broad United Front and Mass Movement to Oust the Arroyo Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
27 February 2006
It is interesting to consider some problems in the broad united front and mass movement to oust the
Arroyo regime and try to solve them. These problems are already well known to the public. It has
become commonplace for people to ask questions revolving around the main question of why the ouster
of the Arroyo cannot be accomplished quickly in a legal and nonviolent way.
more...
Proclamation 1017 is a Tyrannical Act of Desperation, Incites the People to Intensify Oust-Arroyo Movement
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
25 February 2006
Gloria M. Arroyo has issued Proclamation 1017 to combine a declaration of a state of emergency and invocation
of commander-in-chief authority to call the troops to suppress rebellion. By this proclamation, she claims to have
the power to prohibit peaceful assemblies, revoke rally permits issued ministerially by local mayors, order warrantless
arrests, suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, and so on.
more...
ILPS Call for Global Days of Action Against the Criminal and Brutal US Occupation of Iraq
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
18 February 2006
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) joins all anti-war and anti-imperialist forces throughout the
world in calling for March 18-20, 2006 to be Global Days of Action on the occasion of the third anniversary of the
US-led war of aggression against the people of Iraq.
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Was the Left Left Behind at EDSA I ?
Question from Juan Sarmiento Jr.,
Editor, Talk of the Town,
Philippine Daily Inquirer
17 February 2006
It is factually wrong and unhistorical to air brush from the so-called Edsa I the two reality levels of what is loosely called Left: the
protracted people's war led by the Communist Party of the Philippines (you may call it the underground Left) and the legal patriotic
and progressive forces (the legal Left) of the national democratic movement best represented by BAYAN.
more...
Why the GMA-De Venecia Cha-Cha Scheme is Rotten and Harmful to the People
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
15 February 2006
This resolution seeks to whip up an anti-communist hysteria, concurrently with the anti-terrorist hysteria, in order to
justify the offensives of the class dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and imperialism against the proletariat and people of
the world and in order to reinforce the political and legal infrastructure for fascism and wars of aggression under the
pretext of defending human rights.
more...
On the Anti-communist Resolution of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples" Struggle
30 January 2006
This resolution seeks to whip up an anti-communist hysteria, concurrently with the anti-terrorist hysteria, in order to
justify the offensives of the class dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and imperialism against the proletariat and people of
the world and in order to reinforce the political and legal infrastructure for fascism and wars of aggression under the
pretext of defending human rights.
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Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison on the Challenges to the Arroyo Regime
by Angel L. Tesorero
Pinoy Weekly (Filipino Weekly)
January 25, 2006
1) In our last interview, you said that "If GMA (Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo) were to last until 2006, ousting her would be
bloody. Some anti-GMA factions in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) share
your view. Recently, Presidential Chief of Staff Mike Defensor said that the Arroyo administration would confront fire
with fire the armed threat (from rebel soldiers) against the government. What do you think of this?
JMS: The violence will come from GMA and her top subalterns in the chain of command of the AFP and PNP. Those
at the top are her collaborators in electoral cheating, corruption, puppetry to the US imperialists and violating human
rights. The anti-GMA officers and members of the military and police seek to accomplish a withdrawal of support from
the GMA regime. But GMA, Mike Defensor and those in the top command proclaim a "fire against fire" policy against
them. This leaves the anti-GMA officers and members of the military and police with no choice but to seek the swift
arrest of GMA and her rabid collaborators.
more...
GRP Justice Secretary Overreaches From Padre Faura and Exposes to the World his Ignorance of the Law
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle
20 December 2005
I was informed that the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) International Office here in the Netherlands had
found out that an improperly addressed envelope (postmarked Philippines December 5, 2005) had been perfunctorily slid
into its mail slot on December 20, 2005.
more...
Ermita and Gonzalez are Engaged in a Crazy Game of Psywar
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
10 December 2005
There are indications that the special operatives of the Arroyo regime themselves are responsible for the shooting of some windows of the
LTA building owned by Mike Arroyo and the explosion of apparently "bawang" firecrackers under three cars in different locations in Manila as
well as the bomb scare texted to the US and other embassies timed with the visit of US super-spy John Negroponte.
more...
Vicious Attacks on my Person Cannot Stop the People's Resistance
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
9 December 2005
For several months already, various minions of Gloria M. Arroyo, including some cabinet members and generals, have been subjecting
me to vicious attacks. I have not answered any of these for three reasons. First, competent people have answered them. Second,
the attacks are so patently malicious that they are unbelievable and self-defeating. Third, I have more important things to do.
more...
Against U.S. Monopoly Control of Information and Communications Technology
(Statement on the World Summit on Information Society)
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
16 November 2005
The arrogance and drive for profit of the United States and other monopolists of information and communications technology (ICT) are well exposed in the World
Summit on Information Society (WSIS). The impositions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Intellectual Property Organizations render inutile any
high-sounding rhetoric about freedom and equity in the WSIS Declaration of Principles.
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Massacre of 17 Political Activists in Turkey is an Act of Terrorism by the Turkish State
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
20 September 2005
Last June 17, seventeen Turkish political activists, several of them had lived in Germany and the Netherlands and had
acquired citizenships and residencies in these countries, went back to Turkey to attend a political meeting. As they
gathered to hold their meeting, according to reports, helicopter gunships backed by some 2,000 Turkish ground troops
attacked the meeting with rockets and gunfire. Most of the activists died instantly, while several were reported to have
died later from their wounds.
more...
Reform of UN Security Council Seeks to Reinforce Imperialist System of Aggression and Plunder
Issued by the Office of the Chairperson
International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
14 September 2005
Among the issues to be taken up at the UN World Summit from September 14 to 16 in New York is reform of the UN Security Council. While talk of
reforming the Security Council has been going on since a long time ago, it was only in 1992 that serious steps were taken with a resolution by
the Non-Aligned Movement calling for reform of the Security Council, followed by a resolution of the General Assembly asking the Secretary
General to ask member states for written comments on Council reform. But the US and the imperialist powers with veto power in the UN Security
Council and with financial control over the UN will allow only that of kind of reform which reinforces and favors the interests of imperialism
against the people of the world and the client states.
more...
Support the Sept. 24 Mass Actions to Demand the End of US Occupation of
Iraq and of US Military Intervention Elsewhere
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
13 September 2005
We call on the ILPS participating organizations in the US to mobilize their forces for the national march and the mass actions in other
cities. We call on the ILPS participating organizations in South America, Asia, Middle East, Africa and Europe to support the mass
actions in the US by publicizing them, taking up the issues in meetings and sending solidarity messages to all concerned.
more...
UN Seccurity Council and Peacebuilding Commission are Instruments of Imperialist Aggression and Plunder
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
13 September, 2005
The UN World Summit on September 14 to 16 has a pretentious and deceptive agenda, from supposedly solving global poverty, debt and
development to reforming the UN's two major organs - the Security Council (SC) and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). However, the
real objective of US imperialism and its allies is to give United Nations (UN) imprimatur to the US invasion and occupation of Iraq and
Afghanistan through the creation of a Peacebuilding Commission. This is consistent with the role that the UN has played throughout much of its
sixty-year history: an instrument to window-dress the bullying by the "great powers," notably the United States, of small and weaker
developing states.
more...
ILPS Denounces U.N. Millennium Development Goals as Scheme to Aggravate Imperialist Plunder and Poverty
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
12 September 2005
Far from promoting global economic and social justice, the MDGs is a shrewd scheme of the imperialist powers to distract attention from
structural issues that are the root cause of the chronic and worsening poverty which afflicts billions of people around the world today. Worse,
the MDGs is being used to promote the same policy prescriptions of imperialist globalization that have hastened and aggravated the massive
destruction of livelihood and economic opportunities in poor countries where more than 1 billion people are forced to survive on less than US$1
a day.
more...
From 9-11 to Katrina
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
11 September 2005
Since September 11, 2001, we have witnessed three types of terrorism wreaking havoc on the lives of the people. According to order of
gravity, these are the imperialist wars of aggression of the US and its allies against Afghanistan and then against Iraq, the terrorism of
states inspired by the USA PATRIOT Act and, of course, the nongovernmental terrorism which killed 2752 people on 9-11.
more...
On the Proposed Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism
Issued by the Office of the Chairperson
International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
11 September 2005
The proposed Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT) will be one more weapon of US imperialism for oppressing under the guise
of combating terrorism persons and groups fighting for national liberation and social justice. It is principally a legal cover for the
United States to intervene in the domestic affairs of other states. Articles 3 and 6 of the current draft legally allow the United States in
conducting its "war on terror" to extend its police activities to all parts of the globe.
more...
GRP Should Accept NDFP Proposal of 10-Point Concise Agreement for Immediate Just Peace
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
August 28, 2005
The time study made by the Philippine Peace Center shows clearly that since 1992 the Government of the Republic of
the Philippines (GRP) has been responsible for so many delays, due to declarations of termination, collapse and indefinite
suspension, in previous periods of preliminary talks (1992-1995) and formal talks (from 1995 onwards) in the peace negotiations
with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (GRP).
more...
Q and A with Cosain Naga
August 6, 2005
Cosain Naga (CN): On August 08, 2005, the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao-ARMM elections will be held, we
all know that the ARMM is a fake autonomy for the Moro people. A genuine autonomy under a semi-colonnial and semi-feudal
country like the Philippines would never be provided by a reactionary government under Gloria Arroyo.
Josa Maria Sison (JMS): You are correct.
more...
Distinction Between Postponement of Formal Talks and Continuity of GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations is Important
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
August 6, 2005
So far the principal of neither the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) nor the National Democratic Front
of the Philippines (NDFP) has given to the other side a formal written notice to terminate the Joint Agreement on Safety
and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) and in effect the entire GRP-NDFP peace negotiations.
more...
Barbarism and Terrorism of the US in Atom Bombing Civilian Populations
In Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Atom Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of People's Struggle
August 6, 2005
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) joins the Japanese people and all other peace-loving
peoples in commemorating the 60th anniversary of the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We condemn
these barbaric and terrorist acts of mass murder against civilian populations and the continuing policy of the US
to use nuclear weapons as well as nuclear blackmail in carrying out imperialist plunder, wars of aggression and
military intervention against the world's peoples.
more...
Joma: Peace Talks Merely Postponed
By Vi Massart
The Philippine Star
2 August 2005
PARIS - Communist rebels will continue to hold peace talks with the government, contrary to the announcement of
Philippine-based Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) spokesman Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal that they have withdrawn
from the negotiations, exiled communist leader Jose Ma. Sison said yesterday.
more...
Mass Movement is the Key Factor for Ousting the Arroyo Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant, National Democratic Front of the Philippines
July 28, 2005
The broad united front of opposition parties and mass organizations against the Arroyo regime deserves congratulations
for having already concentrated 30,000 rallyists at Ayala, Makati on July 8, 70,000 to 80,000 at the same place on July 13
and recently 80,000 to 100,000 at Commonwealth Avenue on July 25 on the occasion of SONA (sinungaling na orasyon
ng nanlolokong Arroyo).
more...
Prolongation of Arroyo Regime Aggravates Crisis of Ruling System
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
July 17, 2005
As in counting votes, Gloria M. Arroyo and her subalterns engage in dagdag bawas (add-subtract) in counting rallyists.
They claim that the anti-Arroyo rally of 30,000 people on July 8 was only 3000 to 10,000 and that of 70,000 to 80,000
on July 13 was only 9000 to 15,000 although some pro-Arroyo journalists concede that it was 40,000 or even 50,000.
The July 13 rally in Makati was even more impressive if we consider that the police and military of the regime blocked
many of the rallyists coming from Central and Southern Luzon.
more...
CBCP Statement and Ramos Scheme Carry Points and Implications Adverse to Arroyo
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
11 July 2005
The Arroyo regime is sinking fast and is so desperate that it is trying to grasp at straws. It hypes both the statement of the
Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) and the Ramos scheme to phase out Gloria M. Arroyo from her ill-gotten
office in the next few months as endorsements for her to stay in power.
more...
ILPS Condemns the Terrorism and Barbarism of Al Qaeda and the Imperialists
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of People's Struggles
9 July 2005
We, the International League of Peoples' Struggle, consistently stand in active solidarity with the Palestinian, Arab and
other peoples of the Middle East in their revolutionary struggle for national liberation and democracy and we condemn
the grand scale terrorism that imperialist powers headed by the US and Britain have historically and currently carried out
through plunder and wars of aggression. But we do not condone the terrorism perpetrated by the Al Qaeda even if such
is of far lower scale. more...
Arroyo Regime is Disintegrating but Still has a Few Tricks to Play
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
9 July 2005
The Arroyo regime is visibly cracking up and disintegrating under the pressure of the broad united front of opposition
political parties, mass organizations, professional organizations, church people, business groups, retired military and police
officers and other forces demanding the resignation or ouster of Gloria M. Arroyo from her usurped position as president
of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP). more...
Condemn Imperialism and the G8 Big Swindle, Demand Cancellation of All Neocolonial Debts
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of People's Struggles
5 July 2005
The G8 summit scheduled for July 6-8, 2005 in Scotland is being promoted by the big corporate media of the imperialist
countries with much fanfare. The G8 promise of cancelling debts of some $40 billion for 18 Most Indebted Poor Countries
(MIPC), upon the fulfillment of certain conditionalities, is being hailed as a "historic" deal and a "victory for millions." more...
It is Immoral for Aquino and Others to Condone the Crimes of Arroyo
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
1 July 2005
It is immoral for Corazon Aquino and others to condone the crimes of Gloria M. Arroyo and help to keep her in
power. Aquino is the least qualified to advice Susan Roces on the rule of law. She never filed an electoral protest
to prove legally that she had been cheated by Marcos. Neither did she undertake impeachment proceedings against
him. She became president in 1986 through the successful democratic mass actions of the sovereign Filipino people
who ousted Marcos from power. more...
Bulatlat Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison
By Bobby Tuazon
Bulatlat
Bulatlat, a weekly online publication in the Philippines, would like to interview you as a political analyst and inspirational
leader of the national democratic movement in the country with regards the current political crisis. The current political
situation in the country, which has undergone two people's uprisings leading to the fall of two presidents (in 15 years)
and another one - in just four years - unfolding, has created both disgust and frustration among many of your compatriots.
Needless to say, the present situation is also opening opportunities for debates and mass protests over what is now appearing
to be the most singular question: Is it a matter of replacing a president who has lost all credibility or is it already a matter of
replacing a failed system. In this regard, there are at least four major options developing assuming that Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
is forced to resign or is ousted by another political uprising: first, constitutional succession; second, a snap presidential election;
third, military junta; and fourth, a transition or coalition government. more...
Arroyo Regime Prevents Formal Talks in GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
27 June 2005
The Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) headed by Luis Jalandoni and the
Peace Mission of the Special Committee on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity headed by Rep. Satur Ocampo had constructive
discussions from June 23 to 27 and were ready to sign a joint communiqué on the evening of June upon the arrival of Speaker
Jose de Venecia.more...
Interbyu kay Prof. Jose Maria Sison Tungkol sa Pagpapatalsik sa Rehimeng Arroyo
Ni Angel Tesorero
Pinoy Weekly
Ika-20 ng Hunyo 2005
JMS: Mayroon nang ilang batayang sangkap para sa pagpapabagsak sa rehimeng Arroyo. Kabilang na ang naipong galit ng
malawak na masa sa matinding hirap sa kabuhayan at sa mga trigger events ng jueteng expose at tapes, matatag na
kapasiyahan ng kilusang rebolusyonaryo na paigtingin ang sandatahang pakikibaka, panimulang pagdaloy ng protesta ng
mga legal na demokratikong pwersa, paglakas-loob ng mga opposition parties na anti-GMA, paghahati ng military at paghahati
ng dating pro-GMA coalition. Wala pang maliwanag mula sa mga imperyalistang Kano at CBCP. Puede pang 3 to 6 months na
pagsisikap ng anti-GMA opposition parties, mga legal na demokratikong pwersa at mga anti-GMA forces sa loob ng AFP at PNP
bago mahulog na sa bangin ang rehimeng Arroyo. more...
Interview from Holland
By Ma. Teresa B. Coros
People's Journal
19 Jun 2005
JMS: The Arroyo regime is now in the process of collapsing. Indeed, it is difficult to negotiate with such a regime.
The NDFP might simply have to wait for the next administration of the GRP.
more...
Ruling Parties Demand Delisting of Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Press Release
7 May 2005
A total of 50 parties and organizations coming from 38 countries, including four ruling parties, demanded in a petition that
the Council of the European Union remove the name of Philippine Prof. Jose Maria Sison from its list of "terrorist" persons,
groups and entities. more...
Reyes est criminellement
responsable de la Kampanyang Ahos
Par le professeur Jose Maria Sison
Conseiller politique en chef du Front national démocratique des Philippines
Cet article est paru dimanche le 30 janvier 2005 dans la section " Talk of the Town " du quotidien Philippine Daily Inquirer.
L'équipe de négociation du Front national démocratique des Philippines (FNDP) a été informée par le Parti
communiste des Philippines (PCPh) et le Bureau des procureurs du peuple que Ricardo Reyes fait face à des
accusations criminelles reliées à la Kampanyang Ahos (campagne " Ail ") et à d'autres crimes qui ont été commis,
et que des preuves évidentes contre lui justifient le mandat d'arrestation ayant été émis par le tribunal populaire.more...
ILPS Condemns
the US & Arroyo Regime for the Political Killings in the Philippines
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
Press Statement
7 April 2005
The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) condemns the
political killings of leaders and activists belonging to progressive people's
organizations such as Bayan Muna, BAYAN, Anakpawis, Anak ng Bayan,
GABRIELA and others by government forces in the Philippines. We
express our deep sympathy to the family, relatives, friends and colleagues
of the latest victims of state terror. We consider them heroes of the
Filipino people and hail their fine example.more...
Statement Against
US Anti-Cuba Manoeuvre in the UN Commission on Human Rights
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
Press Statement
4 April 2005
From March 14 to April 22, 2005, the UN Commission on Human Rights holds
its 61st Session in Geneva. The US government is once again using this forum to
attack Cuba in pursuance of imperialist hegemonic aims. We condemn this latest
US maneuver and express our solidarity and support to the people and government
of Cuba in defending national sovereignty.more...
GRP and PNP are Engaged in Disinformation
About the Legal Situation of Prof. Sison
By Fidel V. Agcaoili
Chairperson, NDFP Human Rights Committee
9 March 2005
Press Statement
PNP director for intelligence General Roberto Delfin recently announced that two months hence the Dutch
government would make formal charges of terrorism against Prof. Jose Maria Sison and deport him to a
country other than the Philippines. Subsequently, press secretary Ignacio Bunye publicly called on Prof. Sison
to return to the Philippines. more...
Statement of Concern
3 March 2005
As a network of progressive Filipino organizations in Canada that are in solidarity with the Filipino people's quest
for a just and lasting peace in the Philippines, we are concerned and outraged at the attacks and vilification
campaign that Walden Bello is conducting against legitimate people's organizations in the Philippines.
more...
Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison on His 1986
Release and Current Political Prisoners
By Cyril Bonabente and Isa Lorenzo
U.P. Journalism Club, University of the Philippines
28 February 2005
The Aquino administration started to release political prisoners a few days after it came to power. This was in
accordance with the commitment of Aquino as early as 1984 to release them in the spirit of building a broad
united front against the Marcos fascist dictatorship. Indeed, I was supposed to be among the first to be released.
more...
Arroyo
Regime is Interested in Pacification, not in Serious Negotiations to
Achieve Just Peace
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
Press Statement
5 February 2005
GRP President Arroyo is interested merely in ceasefire to pacify the
Filipino people’s democratic revolution. It is not at all interested
in serious peace negotiations to address the roots of the armed conflict
and arrive at comprehensive agreements on economic, social and political
reforms towards a just peace within the framework already established
in The Hague Joint Declaration and subsequent agreements. more...
US and Arroyo Regime
are Poised to End the GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
Press Statement
4 February 2005
US Ambassador Francis Ricciardone is the representative of the No. 1
terrorist power in the world and in the entire history of humanity.
And yet he shamelessly tries to misrepresent as “terrorist” the revolutionary
forces of the Filipino people’s movement for national liberation and
democracy against US imperialism and the local exploiting classes of
big compradors and landlords. more...
Europe tour
of Romulo, Deles and Gonzales is useless and counterproductive
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
Press Statement
27 January 2005
The Europe tour of Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo, Presidential
Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Deles and Presidential Chief of
Staff Norberto Gonzales is useless and counterproductive, if the objective
is to force my return to the Philippines. more...
CPP,
NPA and NDFP Uphold Human Rights
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
January 16, 2005
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) actively upholds and stands
for the full range of human rights by carrying out the new democratic
revolution through protracted people’s war. It fights for the national
and social liberation of the Filipino people against US and the local
exploiting classes. It protects and promotes the basic freedoms and
democratic rights of the people. more...
Walden
Bello Exposes Himself as a Pro-US Pseudo-Progressive
Article/Press Statement
30 December 2004
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
In his column in Viewpoints of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, December
29, 2004, Bello persists in his canard that the Communist Party of the
Philippines (CPP) is out to eliminate him and others physically just
because they hold ideas counter to the CPP and the new democratic revolution.
more...
Complaints
should be submitted to the NDFP-JMC and not to the NDFP Chief Political
Consultant
Press Statement
27 December 2004
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
It is only today that I get the full text of the open letter of Walden
Bello and Etta Rosales, reported on by Juan Sarmiento in the December
26, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer and others in other
Manila newspapers. My press statement dated December 26, 2004 has already
countered the main line of attack against me. more...
Character
Assassination and Cheap Shots By Rabid Anti-Communists and Pseudo-Revolutionaries
Press Statement
December 26, 2004
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
The article of Juan Sarmiento of Inquirer New Service, titled “Communist
Party ‘hit list’ denounced” and dated December 26, 2004, refers to an
open letter to me as CPP founder from Walden Bello and Etta Rosales,
supposedly asking me the accusatory rhetorical question, “Does this
mean you intend to kill us one by one?” more...
Long-term truce is possible
if there are basic reforms
Press Statement
21 December 2004
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
Gloria M. Arroyo can at anytime easily obtain a long-term truce and
even an alliance with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines
(NDFP) if she agrees to fight for complete national independence against
US domination and to carry out genuine land reform in conjunction with
national industrialization. more...
CARHRIHL Does
Not Allow US Combat Troops to Intrude Into Philippine, GRP or NDFP Territory
Under Pretext of Relief Operations
Press Statement
16 December 2004
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant ofNational Democratic Front of the Philippines
The entire Filipino people must condemn all pronouncements and actions
of the US government and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines
(GRP) to justify and push the entry of US combat troops in the Philippines
under such pretexts as joint military exercises, training, civic action,
and relief operations. All these are violative of the national sovereignty
of the Filipino people and territorial integrity of the Philippines.
more...
Some Questions on Kabataan Makabayan
Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison, KM Founding Chairman,
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the KM
30 November 2004
1. What internal and external events triggered the establishment
of the Kabataang Makabayan (KM)?
JMS: In the Philippines during those times, there was an intense social
crisis due to the new economic and financial crisis. The peso was rapidly
devaluing due to the depletion of the dollar reserves under the policy
of “decontrol”. There was the grave problem of high unemployment. Outside
the country, the struggle against US imperialism in Asia, Africa, Latin
America, especially in countries like Indonesia, Vietnam, Congo and
Cuba, was intensifying. Under such a situation, it was propitious and
greatly necessary to establish an organization like the KM. more...
ILPS Condemns the Massacre of 14 Workers and Children and the Wounding of
Hundreds at Hacienda Luisita
Press Statement
21 November 2004
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, ILPS International Coordinating Committee
In the strongest terms, the International League of Peoples’
Struggle (ILPS) condemns the Arroyo regime and its military and police
minions for the massacre of 14 peaceful and unarmed protestors, including
two children aged 2 and 5 years old, and the wounding of hundreds by
gunfire at Hacienda Luisita on Tarlac, Philippines. more...
Reissuance of October 21
press statement and further statement about Peace Talks
October 28, 2004
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
The propagandists of the Arroyo regime and its corrupt and brutal armed
forces keep on issuing press releases to misrepresent my October 21st
press statement as an order to the New People’s Army to intensify its
offensives. more...
GRP President has
shut the door to GRP Peace Negotiations with the NDFP
October 21, 2004
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
It is highly regrettable that GRP President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
has practically shut the door to GRP peace negotiations with the NDFP
and has so arrogantly boasted of defeating the revolutionary movement
of the people with the sword. more...
Interview
with Prof. Jose Maria Sison
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Bulatlat Online Magazine
September 21, 2004
1. In the ranks of the militant mass movement and among civil
libertarians and mainstream opposition groups, there is a perceptible
common observation that the Macapagal-Arroyo administration is treading
along the path that Marcos took in 1972. What are your comments on this?
* Reply: Indeed, there are striking similarities. The economic and social
crisis of the ruling system is again extremely severe and the people
are in deep discontent. The reaction of the reactionary ruling clique
is to use and threaten the use of force against the people. But there
are also striking dissimilarities in the situation, like the reactionary
armed forces and police are fractious and the armed revolutionary movement
of the people are far stronger than in 1972. The legal forces of the
national democratic movement are also much stronger.* more...
Two
Governments exist in the Philippines: One is Revolutionary, the Other
Counterrevolutionary
August 21, 2004
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Two governments exist in the Philippines. One is the nationwide
revolutionary government of workers and peasants based in the countryside.
The other is the counterrevolutionary government of big compradors and
landlords centered in Manila. more...
Interview Series with Prof. Jose Maria Sison on "Terrorist" Tag
by Sonny Mallari, Philippine Daily Inquirer
August 18, 2004
Ka Joma,
Unlike the GRP, which is in fact a
puppet and beggar to the US and other imperialist governments, the
NDFP is an alliance of revolutionary forces that is determined to
undertake anything (especially armed revolution) in order to
achieve the people's demand for national liberation and
democracy. What the imperialists and their puppets wish is to
blackmail and pressure the revolutionary forces with the
"terrorist" listing and to cause their capitulation and
destruction.
more...
US Has No Sovereign
Right to Interfere in Philippine Affairs and Put NDFP Under Duress
in GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines|
15 August 2004
Contrary to what officials of the Macapagal-Arroyo regime say, the
US has no sovereign right to intervene in Philippine affairs and
put the negotiating panel and consultants of the National
Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) under duress in peace
negotiations.
more...
Why the US and Some European
Governments Want to Destroy The Filipino People's Movement for
National Liberation?
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison>
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
14 August 2004
The US, British and Dutch governments represent and protect
the biggest Western monopoly interests in the Philippines. These
are the Chevron Texaco Malampaya LLC, and Royal Dutch Shell. Each
of them owns 45 percent of the total investments of at least 4.5
billion US dollars in the Malampaya deepwater gas-to-power
project. more...
Bush has done a lot of
favors to Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaida
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
August 12, 2004
Since 9/11, George W. Bush has done a lot of favors to Osama bin
Laden and Al Qaida.
He has dignified them by mixing them up with national liberation
movements, anti-imperialist leaders, religious institutions and
charitable foundations in lists designating all as "terrorists."
more...
Bush Regime is Sabotaging the
GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations and Escalating US Military
Intervention in Philippines
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
11 August 2004
The Bush regime is sabotaging the peace negotiations between the
Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) by having the
US State Department and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
of the US Treasury Department renew the listing of the Communist
Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New People’s Army (NPA) and
the NDFP chief political consultant as "terrorists".
more...
On the Withdrawal of Filipino Mercenary Troops from IRAQ and Shameless Blabbering of US Government Officials
By Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
22 July 2004
I share the joy of the Filipino nation and the family of Angelo de la Cruz over his release and homecoming. I congratulate the cause-oriented organizations headed by Bayan and Migrante International, all other patriotic forces and the broad masses of the Filipino people for successfully pressing the Macapagal-Arroyo regime to withdraw the contingent of Filipino mercenary troops from Iraq and thus pave the way for the release of Angelo de la Cruz from his Iraqi captors.
more...
So-called 10-Point Agenda of GMA is an Abominable List of Lies
By Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
7 July 2004
Information has reached me that propagandists of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
are spreading the ludicrous lie that I support her so-called
10-point agenda and in effect her rigged election to the
presidency of the reactionary government of big compradors and
landlords. more...
The US Cannot Extricate Itself from Iraqi Quagmire by Setting Up the Puppet Iraqi Interim Government
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
General Consultant
International League of Peoples' Struggle
28 June 2004
For French Translation
The US is so flagrantly hell-bent on holding on to the fruits of its criminal war of aggression against the people of Iraq. It wants to control and own the oil resources of Iraq in order to tighten its grip on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. It wants to keep 14 US military bases and more than 135,000 US troops in Iraq in order to control the entire Middle East, allow Israel to slaughter the Palestinian people and humiliate all the Arab people. It is monopolizing all kinds of business priivileges and contracts, especially reconstruction contracts and military sales, in order to appropriate the oil resources and income of Iraq.more...
Do the GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations Stop the People's Resistance?
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chiel Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
27 June 2004
Without resistance, the people have no hope of achieving
national liberation and democracy against US imperialism and the local
exploiting classes. One reactionary regime of the GRP after another
has agreed to negotiate with the NDFP because of the growing revolutionary
armed strength of the people. more...
Disappointing Outcome of the Third Round of Formal Talks in Oslo
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
Press Statement
26 June 2004
The Negotiating Panels of the Government of the Republic of the
Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the
Philippines (NDFP) made important agreements in the third round of
formal talks from 22-24 June 2004 in Oslo, Norway.
more...
NDFP Can Negotiate with the GRP
Whoever is the President
By Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
23 June 2004
It is fine that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has dispatched
the Negotiating Panel of the Government of the Republic of the
Philippines (GRP) to hold formal talks with the Negotiating Panel
of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in
Oslo. more...
Massive cheating can
ignite protest movement to topple the regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
15 May 2004
As chief political consultant of the National Democratic Front of
the Philippines, I am critical of the May 10, 2004 elections of
the reactionary government in a fundamental way. These elections
are mainly and essentially a contest for power among competing
political factions and agents of the pro-imperialist exploiting
classes of big compradors and landlords. These elections are not
really democratic exercises. They are meant to exclude the genuine
representatives of the toiling masses and other exploited people.
more...
Campaign of Hatred, Murder and
Intimidation Against Progressive Parties Must Stop
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
May 2, 2004
The campaign of hatred, murder and intimidation unleashed by the
Macapagal-Arroyo regime, especially by national security adviser
Norberto Gonzales and military and police officials, against the
progressive parties in the party list contest is dastardly and
reprehensible and must stop immediately.
more...
Why the FPJ Challenge
to GMA is Losing Steam and Weakening
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairman
International Network for Philippine Studies
Chiel Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
23 April 2004
The front runners in the current electoral contest for the
presidency of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines
are the powerful incumbent president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA)
and the supposedly popular movie star Fernando Poe, Jr. (FPJ).
more...
Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison on the Formal GRP-NDFP Talks in OSLO
By Ma. Lira S. Dalangin
Inquirer News Service
2 February 2004
Kumusta, Professor Sison.
Marie Yuvienco told me she's leaving the country soon in time
for the resumption of the peace negotiations next week.
When will it officially begin? will you meet with grp
panel in formal negotiations or backdoor talks?
What are we to expect from this meeting?
Answer: The formal talks will begin in the morning of
Tuesday, 10 February 2004, between the GRP and NDFP.
Norwegian state secretary for foreign affairs Vidar Helgesen
will deliver the welcome address and the panel chairmen will
make their opening statements in the morning. The informal
talks in October and November 2003 paved the way for these
formal talks. The formal talks will run until 13 February
2004. more...
On
Revolutionary Struggles in Imperialist and Oppresed Countries
Interview with Jose Maria Sison
Founding Chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines
By David Hungerford
December 25, 2003
Question: When you work in imperialist countries in support of
revolutionary movements in oppressed countries, what are the
specifically communist tasks?
Jose Maria Sison (JMS): Persevere in carrying out the
ideological, political and organizational tasks for developing
the revolutionary movement in the imperialist countries and for
supporting the revolutionary movements in oppressed countries.
You must have a home base for supporting the struggles of the
people abroad. more...
Interview with
Jose Maria Sison
By Juan Sarmiento
Editor, "Talk of the Town", Philippine Daily Inquirer
22 November 2003
Reply: I got some amount of hearsay and reliable
statements from various people. You must take into
acccount the distance between the Netherlands and Philippines,
particularly the time gap between a Philippine event and any
kind of report about it. By the way, you do not mention
Kampanyang Ahos, which was the very worst of the bloody
witchhunts. more...
Stand with the Filipino People Against the Imperialist Master and
the Puppet
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Founding Chairman, Communist Party of the Philippines
Chief Political Consultant, NDFP Negotiating Panel
18 October 2003
The occasion reminds
the entire nation of the malevolent relationship between the
imperialist superpower and the chief representative of local
reactionary classes in perpetuating the semi-colonial and
semi-feudal character of Philippine society, in escalating
oppression and exploitation and maintaining the current
anti-national, anti-democratic corrupt and brutal regime. more...
The US-Directed GMA-Reyes Tandem Blocks Formal GRP-NDFP Talks
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
July 30, 2003
Their trick in preventing the peace negotiations is to insult
and challenge the NDFP by repeatedly telling it to capitulate or
else suffer the worst of military campaigns. The way of
capitulation offered is the immediate signing of a "final
peace agreement" one-sidedly made by the GRP. The worst of
military campaigns are already being waged under the pretext of
war against terrorism and are sustained by US military
intervention and increased military supplies from the Pentagon. more...
Protest Action by Hundreds of Soldiers Exposes Rottenness of US-Arroyo Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines and
General Consultant
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
28 July 2003
The grievances of the soldiers have reverberated not only
throughout the Philippines but also the entire world. They are
well-grounded. They should not be obscured by retaliatory
attacks from the regime. They give the protesting soldiers the
just and reasonable cause for demanding the resignation of
President Arroyo and defense secretary General Angelo Reyes. more..
Interview With Prof. Jose Maria Sison
By Sonny Mallari
Southern Tagalog Correspondent
Philippine Daily Inquirer
July 25, 2003
Channel 7 has reported in Manila that the Dutch government has
ordered the freezing of all your bank accounts and
has also deprived you of all social benefits due to you as a
recognized political refugee.
Reply: You must be referring to the July 15 ruling of the
Utrecht municipal court that it does not have the power to grant
to me provisional measures (i.e. the restoration of social
benefits while the case about the validity of withdrawing
these is being tried in court). I have instructed my
Dutch lawyers to accelerate the consolidation of my
complaints against the punitive measures taken against me and
the violations of my rights. more...
Interview With Prof. Jose Maria Sison
By Ma. Lira S. Dalangin
Inquirer News Service
July 25, 2003
Atty. Marie Yuvienco gave me details of the Dutch finance
ministry's order to the Utrecht municipality (dated march 7, 2003)
to stop granting you your monthly allowance, monthly rent,
and medical insurance.
Reply: Atty. Marie
Yuvienco and Jayson Lamchek of Public Interest Law Center can
competently answer your questions about my cases at the Dutch and
European levels. I have sent you some materials to give you some
grounding for your questions. more...
Interview
With Prof. Jose Maria Sison
By Freedom Siyam
AnakBayan Seattle
Seattle, Washington, USA
4 June 2003
1. Can you tell us how and why Kabataang Makabayan was
established and what were its highlights?
Answer: The Kabataang Makabayan was established in response to
the need for a patriotic and progressive organization of the
Filipino youth. From the beginning on November 30, 1964, it was
committed to arouse, organize and mobilize the youth from the
toiling masses of workers and peasants and the middle social
strata for the revolutionary struggle for national liberation
and democracy. This struggle is directed against US imperialism,
feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. more...
Reply to the
Questionnaire of Grace B. Salita for Masteral Thesis in
Literature at De La Salle University
Concerning PRISON AND BEYOND, book of poems by JOSE MARIA
SISON
1. Whom would you consider as most influential in your
involvement with the concerns of the masses?
Answer: I observed closely the conditions of the peasants in
my hometown and subsequently those of the workers in Manila. In
the university, I studied the writings of the patriots in the
old democratic revolution (Andres Bonifacio, Jose Rizal,
Apolinario Mabini, etc.) up to the latest of the Filipino
progressive anti-imperialists (Crisanto Evangelista, Claro Mayo
Recto, Teodoro Agoncillo, Amado Hernandez, Renato Constantino,
etc.). Then, I studied the great communists Marx, Engels, Lenin,
Stalin and Mao. more..
Interview
with Prof. Jose Maria Sison
By Sharon Cabusao, for Pinoy Weekly
April 20, 2003
1. How is your situation over there?
The Dutch government and the European Council are still
harassing me upon orders of the US imperialists. I am still
listed as a "terrorist" in documents of the
imperialists who are the real terrorists. They continue to
withhold the social benefits due me as a recognized political
refugee. But we fight back. We defend our rights. The support of
the broad masses, competent lawyers and respected personages all
over the world further strengthens my position. more...
Condemnation
of US War of Aggression and Call on The People to Action
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
March 19, 2003
The broad masses of the people all over the world, including
those in the US and imperialist countries allied with the US,
have demonstrated their opposition to the impending war through
gigantic protest actions. These are comparable in magnitude to
those in the popular resistance against the US war of aggression
against Vietnam in years 1965 to 1975. more...
Politically
Motivated Fabrication of Murder Charge Amounts to Nothing in the
Philippines and the Netherlands
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
5 March 2003
The team includes Marie F. Yuvienco, Marichu Lambino, Rachel
Pastores and Camille Sevilla. The fifth woman lawyer will join
the team before the March 12 hearing of the complaint of the
Philippine National Police (PNP) against me regarding the
killing of Col. Rodolfo Aquinaldo. more...
NDFP
Wants Resumption of Peace Negotiations but GRP Gives Military Ultimatum for
NDFP to Surrender in Six Months or Else
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
21 February 2003
Contrary to the claims made by or ascribed to Ms. Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo, Silvestre Afable and Silvestre Bello III on
February 20 and 21, the National Democratic Front of the
Philippines (NDFP) wants to resume the peace negotiations with
the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) in
accordance with The Hague Joint Declaration and other existing
GRP-NDFP agreements. more...
PNP Murder
Complaint Has Absolutely No Basis in Fact and in Law
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
12 February 2003
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has absolutely no basis in
fact and in law to file a murder complaint against me for the
death of Col. Rodolfo Aguinaldo.
The attempt of the PNP to link me with those originally accused
of being responsible for the killing of Col. Aguinaldo is
manifestly contrived and malicious. I have no connection
whatsoever with anyone of them. more...
STATEMENT
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
5 February 2003
Brussels, Belgium
Dear Friends and Guests from the Press,
Thank you very much for your high sense of solidarity and
serious concern in coming to this forum. I wish that I were in
person here with you. But let me be with you in spirit and
express my most heartfelt gratitude. more...
Exploratory
or Preparatory Talks to Pave the Way for the Resumption of the
GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
1 February 2003
To pave the way for the resumption of formal negotiations, teams
of the GRP and NDFP peace negotiations will have to go into some
amount of exploratory or preparatory talks.
They will have to use the existing agreements of the GRP and
NDFP in order to solve problems that can impede the resumption
of the formal negotiations. more...
GRP Officials Make Fools
of Themselves
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
31 January 2003
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and some of her cabinet
officials like foreign secretary Blas Ople, defense secretary
Angelo Reyes, interior secretary Joey Lina and presidential
spokesman Ignacio Bunye, have made fools of themselves on a
global scale by demanding my extradition or expulsion from the
Netherlands to the Philippines. more...
Macapagal
Arroyo is Prejudicing Resumption of GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
28 January 2003
The military, police, paramilitary and "vigilante"
forces of the US-directed Macapagal-Arroyo regime launch killing
operations with impunity against the revolutionary forces and
the people. Since Macapagal-Arroyo came to the presidency in
January 2001, they have committed gross human rights violations,
surpassing in two years the number of similar violations during
the six years of the Ramos regime. more...
Romulo Kintanar
Had Too Many Rivals and Enemies in the Criminal World of
Military and Police Operatives
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
24 January 2003
It is idle and malicious for anyone to speculate or insinuate
that I have something to do with the killing of Romulo Kintanar.
I am being given too much credit. more...
Interview with
Prof. Jose Maria Sison, Founding Chairman, Communist Party of
the Philippines
by Arlene Burgos
Kyodo News-Manila Bureau
* what are the prospects of
the ndf resuming peace talks with the government? will the ndf
ever agree to the proposal for a single comprehensive agreement?
JMS Reply: The Government of the Republic
of the Philippines (GRP) is blocking the resumption of the
formal peace talks between the GRP and NDFP negotiating
panels. The obstacles put up by the GRP include the
following: the extreme puppetry of the Arroyo regime to
the US, the all-out war policy against the revolutionary
movement, the indecent proposal to scrap all previous joint
agreements and the threats to label the NDFP as
"terrorist" in a futile attempt to make it capitulate.
more...
On The
Golez and Ricciardone Statements at the FOCAP Press Forum in
Manila
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
14 January 2003
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines NDFP),
including the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the
New People’s Army (NPA), is interested in peace negotiations
in order to broadcast its program of fighting for national
liberation and democracy and find out whether it can arrive at
agreements with the Government of the Republic of the
Philippines (GRP) on economic, social political and
constitutional reforms for the benefit of the people and towards
a just and lasting peace. more...
Remarkable
Victory of the Broad United Front and Desperate Tricks of the
US-Arroyo Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
9 January 2003
Since the announcement of Mrs Macapagal-Arroyo that she would
not run for the presidency in 2004, the broad united front
against the US-directed Arroyo regime has already scored a
remarkable victory. more...
On the
Question of National Unity Government and Resumption of the
GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
3 January 2003
I speak as one of the national leaders specially mentioned and
invited to join a government of national unity, which has been
proposed by Speaker Jose de Venecia and approved by President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. more...
Peace
Negotiations can be Resumed
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
31 December 2002
I take this opportunity to convey warmest greetings to all
fellow Filipinos and best wishes to them in the new year.
If Macapagal-Arroyo were truly interested in overcoming
divisions and promoting national unity, then it is appropriate
for the chairmen of the GRP and NDFP negotiating panels to
contact each other for the purpose of resuming the GRP-NDFP
peace negotiations. more...
'We
Won't Capitulate to U.S. Pressure'
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
3 November 2002
Workers World reporter Lydia Bayoneta recently conducted an
interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison, the founding chairperson
of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), chief political
consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP)
and general consultant of the International League of People's
Struggle (ILPS). more...
GRP Has
Grievously Violated Agreements and Terminated Peace Negotiations with NDFP
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
3 November 2002
The Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) under
the Macapagal-Arroyo regime has grievously violated all major
agreements in its peace negotiations with the National
Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). These agreements
include The Hague Joint Declaration, the Joint Agreement on
Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) and the Comprehensive
Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International
Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL). Thus, the GRP has unilaterally
terminated its peace negotiations with the National Democratic
Front of the Philippines (NDFP). more...
Vicious
Violation of Democratic Rights and Scuttling of the GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
1 November 2002
The European Council has unjustly put my name on the list of
so-called terrorists in accordance with the request earlier made
by the Dutch government upon the prompting of the US government.
My democratic rights are viciously violated. I am criminalized
as a "terrorist" without due process. I am defamed and
demonized. My life is being threatened. I suffer moral and
material damages. more...
US
Imperialists and Arroyo Puppet Regime Collaborate to Vilify and
Intimidate Revolutionary Forces and People
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
13 October 2002
The US imperialists and the Arroyo puppet regime are
collaborating in a scheme to vilify as "terrorists"
the revolutionary forces and people represented by the National
Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). more...
Interview
with Prof. Jose Maria Sison
By Eric S. Caruncho
Sunday Inquirer Magazine
September 29, 2002
JMS Reply: I am a political refugee recognized repeatedly
by the Raad van State (Council of State, highest administrative
court in the Netherlands) in 1992 and 1995 and even by the Dutch
justice ministry in 1997. more...
Interview
of Prof. Jose Maria Sison
on US Terrorist Listing and De Venecia's Warning
By Lira S. Dalangin
Philippine Daily Inquirer
September 26, 2002
JMS Reply: It was indeed Speaker Jose de Venecia who told me
about the scheme of the US to demonize the CPP, NPA and the NDFP
chief political consultant as "terrorists" when he
phoned from Mexico in November 2001 when he was attending the
international conference of the Christian democrats. more...
Opening
Statement at Press Conference
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
18 September 2002
As soon as I learned that thousands of civilians were killed in
the September 11 attacks, I expressed deep sorrow and
wholehearted sympathy to their families, friends and the entire
American people. more...
Defending
the right to fight for liberation
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Jose Maria Sison (Philippines) on the inclusion of the CPP/NPA
in the US list of ‘foreign terrorist organizations’ more...
In
Agreement With NDFP Panel Recommendation to Put Under Indefinite Study GRP-Declared "Indefinite
Recess"
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
17 August 2002
As NDFP chief political consultant, I agree with the
recommendation of the NDFP Negotiating Panel to the NDFP
National Council to put under indefinite study the
"indefinite recess" that had been declared by the GRP
since June 2001 in the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations. more...
Interview
with Jose Maria Sison
By the Mainichi Newspapers
Could you give your statement regarding the
US designation of CPP and NPA as "Terrorist
Organization"? more...
US is Out
to Break Up GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
15 August 2002
US authorities are hell-bent on breaking up the peace
negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the
Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the
Philippines (NDFP). more...
Comment
on US Designation of CPP and NPA as Foreign Terrorist
Organizations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
10 August 2002
The US launched a war of aggression against the Filipino people
from 1899 onwards and in the process tortured and murdered
hundreds of thousands of them, mostly unarmed civilians who were
merely suspected of supporting the Philippine revolutionary
government and thereafter the succeeding revolutionary movements
in various parts of the Philippines. more...
NDFP
National Council is Reexamining the Policy of Negotiating with
the GRP
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
9 August 2002
The NDFP National Council is now re-examining the policy of
peace negotiations with the Government of the Republic of the
Philippines (GRP) and considering whether to terminate such
negotiations or hold them in abeyance until the Macapagal regime
is replaced by another regime willing to negotiate in accordance
with The Hague Joint Declaration and other agreements. more...
US-Macapagal
All-out War Policy, A Plague on the People
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
8 August 2002
It is fine that the spokesman of the Communist Party of the
Philippines, Comrade Gregorio Rosal of the Information
Department of the CPP Central Committee, has exposed as a plague
on the people the longrunning all-out war policy being carried
out by the military, police and paramilitary forces of the
Macapagal regime in various regions of our country. more...
An
Analysis, Not an Order to the NPA
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
7 August 2002
The 7-point press statement that I issued on August 6, 2002,
with the title, The People’s All-out Resistance Will Defeat
All-out War of the Enemy, is an analytical commentary as NDFP
chief political consultant in order to show a dialectical chain
of events that can ensue from the all-out war policy of the
Macapagal-Arroyo regime. more...
The
People's all-out Resistance will Defeat the All-out War of the
Enemy
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
6 August 2002
Following the imperial visit of US state department
secretary Colin Powell, the US-directed Macapagal-Arroyo regime
has become more arrogant and more aggressive than ever before.
It has ordered the redeployment of military contingents from the
Moro areas in order to augment those previously deployed against
the revolutionary people and forces of the Communist Party of
the Philippines (CPP), New People’s Army (NPA) and the
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). more...
The
People will Oust the US-Arroyo Regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
20 July 2002
It is correct to raise the slogan "Oust the US-Arroyo
regime!" The broad masses of the people welcome the call
because they suffer the ever-worsening socioeconomic crisis and
are outraged by the puppetry, corruption, mendacity and
repressiveness of the regime. more...
Interview
with Jose Maria Sison
By the Turkish Newspaper Umut Yayimcilik
Yes, I agree with your view that the imperialist
offensive continues and has even intensified using various
buzzwords like "globalisation", "new world
order" and "war on terror". At the same time, the
political and economic crisis of imperialism continues to
aggravate. more...
The
Marxist Summer University declares War… on Chauvinism !
(article published in Solidaire, 19/6/02)
The Marxist University is going
international. For the second time we have invited Marxists from
abroad to give a course. This time, we are very honoured to have
José Maria Sison, founding president of the Communist Party of
the Philippines and a frequent contributor to the International
Communist Seminar, and Ella Rule, General Secretary of the
Society for Friendship with Korea of Britain, who has just
published with Harpal Brar an important new book, Imperialism in
the Middle East. They will jointly lecture on the Marxist vision
of War and Peace. We interviewed José Maria Sison. more...
Macapagal-Arroyo
Regime has Scuttled
the GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
18 March 2002
The Macapagal-Arroyo regime has practically scuttled the
GRP-NDFP peace negotiations by announcing that it has
“suspended” the formal negotiations between the GRP and the
NDFP negotiating panels and expressing preference for
“backchannel” talks with no other purpose but to demand the
capitulation of the NDFP. more...
Macapagal
Regime is Killing GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
27 February 2002
The Filipino people should know that the Macapagal regime is
systematically killing the peace negotiations between the
Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). more...
Mass
Movement Must Pay Attention to Issues of Both Puppetry and
Corruption
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
27 February 2002
It is fine that the mass protest actions continue to condemn the
US military intervention and puppetry of the Macapagal regime. more...
US
Military Intervention
Prejudices GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
26 January 2002
The principle of national sovereignty is one of the mutually
acceptable principles guiding the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations,
as set forth in The Hague Joint Declaration.
Serious violations of said principle by the GRP prejudice
the negotiations. more...
Removal of
Macapagal Arroyo from Power is Probable Within One Year
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
19 January 2002
At the rate that Gloria Macapagal has
offended the broad masses of the people, she will face an
increasingly determined and vigorous broad-based opposition in
the second year of her administration. more...
US
Military Intervention Heightens Revolutionary Resolve of the
Filipino People
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
12 January 2002
The Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines is
like the Osama bin Laden group in one sense.
It is a US creation that has run out of US control. more...
Macapagal-Arroyo
Regime is Double-faced Regarding the GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
6 January 2002
The Macapagal-Arroyo regime is double-faced regarding the
GRP-NDFP peace negotiations and is actively engaged in scuttling
these. more...
The
US and Its Puppets Cannot Terrorize the NDFP
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
10 December 2001
Under the mutually acceptable principle of
national sovereignty in The Hague Joint Declaration, both the
Government of the Republic of the
(GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the
Philippines (NDFP) can ignore the current US list of so-called
terrorist organizations and move forward in implementing the
GRP-NDFP Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and
International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) and in proceeding with
the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations. more...
Two
Major Steps to Accelerate the GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
4 December 2001
Two major steps have to be taken in order to accelerate the
peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the
Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the
Philippines (NDFP). more...
Oppose
the US War of Aggression and the Entire Imperialist System of
Plunder and Terror.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
10 November 2001
A month has passed since the US began its war of aggression
against Afghanistan and the Afghan people on 7 October 2001.
Cruise missiles, cluster bombs, bunker busters, daisy cutters
and other types of bombs continue to hit the civilian population
and civil infrastructure of Afghanistan. more...
Electoral
Plan of Macapagal-Arroyo Will be Frustrated Before 2004.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
5 November 2001
The coup rumors may not translate into a real coup attempt
against the Macapagal-Arroyo regime soon or at any time before
the end of its term in 2004. more...
General Reyes
is Sabotaging and Scuttling the GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
4
November 2001
General Angelo Reyes is hell-bent on sabotaging and scuttling
the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations. more...
Sympathy for the
Victims and Condemnation of Terrorism.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
18 September 2001
I wish to express the deepest sympathy for thousands of civilian
victims, including a considerable number of Filipinos and
Filipino-Americans, in the deadly terrorist attacks in the
United States on 11 September 2001. Said victims were in the
twin towers of the World Trade Center and in four hijacked
planes. more...
Third
Round of Oslo Talks in August Between GRP and NDFP is Doubtful.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
26 July 2001
It is doubtful whether the third round of formal talks between
the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) can be held
on Oslo, Norway in August. more...
Reply to
Salonga's False Charge.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
19 June 2001
By a formal resolution dated March 2, 1994 of the City
Prosecutor's Office of Manila, I together with others accused of
multiple murder for the Plaza Miranda bombing of August 21, 1971
(30 years ago) have been absolved of the charge. more...
Optimism
on GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
17 April 2001
more...
NDFP is Prepared to Cease Negotiations with GRP.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
15 June 2001 (from Oslo, Norway)
On the Question of
Indefinite Nationwide Mutual Ceasefire.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
12 April 2001
more...
Congratulations
to All Involved in the Safe and Orderly Release of Major Buan.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
6 April 2001
I congratulate the leadership of the Communist Party of the
Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines
of the Southern Tagalog region, the Melito Glor Command and the
custodians of the prisoner of war, Philippine army intelligence
officer Major Noel Buan, for taking good care of him for 19
months and releasing him in accordance with the political
authority of the people's democratic government and on
humanitarian grounds. more...
Not Estrada's Arrest
but the Failure to Arrest Him Would Cause National Outrage and
Social Unrest.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
6 April 2001
Mr. Estrada and his loyalists are making a joke on themselves
whenever they say that mass unrest or civil war would break out
as a result of his arrest. more...
Release of POW Major
Buan is Certain if No Violation of SOMO and SOPO.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
5 April 2001
more...
Denial.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
14 March 2001
more...
Big
Discrepancy Between GMA Calls for Peace and Actions of
Militarists Group Around Her.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
11 March 2001
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is
waiting for an official copy of the reported order of President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to suspend offensive military and police
operations in all the Calabarzon and Mindoro provinces for 30
days. more...
Congratulations
to GRP Principal and Reiteration of Appreciation.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
5 March 2001
I wish to congratulate President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, as the
principal of the GRP negotiating panel, for prevailing over the
attempt of Mr. Estrada to reverse the political verdict of the
Filipino people and the broad united front that removed him from
power. more...
Resume the
GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiation in a Neutral Venue Abroad.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
20
February 2001
Having announced their respective negotiating panels, the
Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) should soon
be able to resume peace negotiations in a neutral venue abroad. more...
Probable
Connection Between Lagman Slay and Assassination Plot Against Me.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
10 February 2001
It is good that Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal has spoken
as chief information officer of the Communist Party of the
Philippines (CPP) to deny categorically any CPP involvement in
the killing of Filemon "Popoy" Lagman and to declare
that there have been no urgent and strong reason for the CPP to
undertake severe punitive action against him. more...
Lagman
Case Must be Thoroughly Investigated.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
9 February 2001
Filemon "Popoy" Lagman led a complicated and
controversial life and collected too many enemies, especially in
the last 14 years. more...
Macapagal-Arroyo
Regime is All Set to Become as Bad as the Estrada Regime or Even
Worse.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
8 February 2001
There are already strong manifestations that the Arroyo regime
is all set to become as bad as the Estrada regime or even
worse). more...
Estrada is Mastermind
of Assassination Plot.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
3 February 2001
Since the third quarter of last year, I have been aware of an
assassination plot against my person. This plot has been
operationalized since May 2000. It is ongoing. It has not been
stopped by those most responsible for it despite the change of
government in Manila. more...
NDFP
Welcomes Macapagal-Arroyo's Call for Resumption of GRP-NDFP
Peace Negotiations.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
23 January 2001
I appreciate and welcome the prompt public pronouncement of
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that she is interested in the
soonest possible resumption of the peace negotiations between
the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). more...
Special
Message of Congratulation to Bayan.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
22 January 2001
To Bayan as a whole and to each of its participating
organizations, I wish to convey special congratulations for the
successful ouster of the Estrada ruling clique from power. more...
Congratulations
to the Filipino People, Carry the Struggle Through to the End.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
20 January 2001
Joseph Ejercito Estrada, alias Jose Velarde, was finished
yesterday as president of the Government of the Republic of the
Philippines (GRP) as a result of the overwhelming mass actions
of the Filipino people in Metro Manila and nationwide. more...
Mass
Movement Must Surge Forward.
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
18 January 2001
Acting through his fellow rouges in the Senate, Estrada has
scuttled the Senate trial by suppressing vital evidence. He has
in effect acquitted himself in advance of teh previously
scheduled February 12 judgment day. more...
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