The Filipino People’s Democratic Revolution Is Invincible

Since after the reestablishment of Communist Party of the Philippines on December 26, 1968 and the prompt founding of the New People’s Army on March 29, 1969, every reactionary regime of the semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system in the Philippines (from the time of Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. to the present) has adopted and implemented a […]

Love binds us

I was with you in the last few hours of your life. It pained me seeing you suffer so I asked the attending doctor to ease your pain and give you morphine. I hoped it would help but I still could see you straining with pain as I watched the rise and fall of your […]

BOOKS BY PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON, 1961-2022

Since 1961, more than 50 books written by Jose Maria Sison have been published in English, Filipino and other languages. The books listed hereunder chronologically are mostly available from libraries of major Philippine, US and West European universities, Popular Bookstore in Manila and NDFP International Information Office in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

On postmodernism and identity politics

Postmodernism arose directly from a chain of subjectivist idealist trends of thought, such as existentialism as articulated by Jean Paul Sartre in the years after World War II and the structuralism inspired by Ferdinand de Saussure and followed by Louis Althusser and others.

The Revolutionary Movement In The Philippines Today

Philippine society persists as semicolonial and semifeudal. It is afflicted by foreign monopoly capitalism, domestic feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. It is dominated chiefly by US imperialism, with the new imperialist power China trying to seize the West Philippine Sea. The basic exploiting classes are the comprador big bourgeoisie and the landlord class. The basic exploited classes are the proletariat and the peasantry. And the intermediate social strata are the middle bourgeoisie and the urban petty bourgeoisie.

On revisionism

Revisionism is the systematic revision of and deviation from Marxism, the basic revolutionary principles of the proletariat laid down by Marx and Engels and further developed by the series of thinkers and leaders in socialist revolution and construction. The revisionists call themselves Marxists, even claim to make an updated and creative application of it but […]

Philippine History, Classes and Crisis, and United Front

It is the duty of every Filipino activists to study and deepen continually one’s knowledge of the history of the Philippines. Only in this manner can the historical roots of the basic problems of the people and the semi-colonial and semi-feudal framework of Philippine society be understood.

Tungkol sa buhay ni Jose Maria Sison

Bilang birthday wish, nais kong paigtingin ng mga rebolusyonaryong pwersa at malawak na masang api ang kanilang pakikibaka para sa pambansang kasarinlan at demokrasya laban sa imperyalismo ng US at Tsina at mga mapagsamantalang uri ng malalaking komprador, asendero at burukrata kapitalista. Magkamit ng ibayong tagumpay ang sambayanang Pilipino sa kanilang bagong demokratikong rebolusyon

Lies against Ninoy Aquino and the CPP

Rigoberto Tiglao and Mauro Gia Samonte of the Manila Times are so persistent in fabricating lies against the Ninoy Aquino and the CPP that many people ask whether they are paid not only by the Manila Times and the Macapagal-Arroyo interest group but also by US and Philippine intelligence agencies and by the Duterte and […]