On the Question of People’s War in Industrial Capitalist Countries
I have been asked many times by avowed proletarian revolutionaries whether protracted people’s war as carried out by Mao in China can be successfully waged in capitalist countries where the industrial proletariat has become the majority class and the peasantry has become a minority class
Prospects and challenges of the people’s struggle against the US-Duterte regime
I am elated and honored that my four most recent volumes are being launched at the same time on this occasion
Best wishes for all peoples in new year 2019! prepare for the 6th international assembly!
The ILPS as a whole and all its components have reaped in the previous year victories in the anti-imperialist and democratic struggles in many countries and in all continents.
Crisis, plunder and war
The International Organization of Migration defines forced migration as “a migratory movement in which an element of coercion exists, including threats to life and and livelihood, whether arising from natural or man-made causes (e.g. movements of refugees and internally displaced persons as well as people displaced by natural or environmental disasters, chemical or nuclear disasters, famine, or development projects)”
Resist the IMF and World Bank as imperialist tools of corporate greed
The absurd presumption is that extreme poverty would be reduced by giving free rein to the development of market-oriented solutions to address challenges such as climate change, migration and forced displacement, global health, and war and violence.
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña has exposed Duterte as the biggest protector of the illegal drug trade
He should know because Duterte´s compadre Peter Lim, one of the three biggest drug lords in the Philippines, was long based in Cebu before Duterte allowed him to escape arrest.
Saludamos la fundación del capítulo Colombiano de ILPS, luchar por la justicia social en Colombia y en el mundo
El Comité Internacional de Coordinación y el conjunto de la Liga Internacional de la Lucha de los Pueblos, dan la bienvenida y celebran la fundación de nuestro capítulo nacional en Colombia. Consideramos que este es un evento altamente significativo para el pueblo de Colombia en un momento de creciente lucha popular y empeoramiento de la crisis del sistema gobernante nacional; y para otros pueblos del mundo en un momento de intensificación de la resistencia y la crisis cada vez peor del sistema capitalista mundial.
Why the Duterte regime is isolated and hated by the Filipino people
After two years of broken electoral promises, mass murder, corruption, deterioration of the economy and sell-out of Philippine sovereign rights, the Duterte regime is isolated and extremely hated by the broad masses of the Filipino people, contrary to persistent pro-Duterte propaganda churned out by the reactionary bureaucracy and the military, mercenary poll survey firms, a major part of the mass media and troll armies deployed by Duterte and his allies.
Study Marx to resist imperialism
The study of Marxism is indispensable for understanding the current status and crisis of global capitalism. It was Marx who first uncovered systematically the laws of motion of capitalism, how the capitalist class extracts surplus value from the working class in the process of social production, over-accumulates capital and shrinks the wage fund and thereby creates the crisis of overproduction relative to the purchasing power of the working people.
Joma Sison: I’m a recognized political refugee in the Netherlands
Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison recounts how he ended up in the Netherlands, where he is seeking asylum as a political refugee.