People’s struggles and resistance to the neoliberal agenda
Three decades of neoliberal globalization and GATT-WTO have led the world to a state of fast-accelerating recurrent crisis, in which the US-led WTO has facilitated the further wholesale integration of entire economies into the world capitalist system. The system of world trade set up by the WTO has become a major tool to further open […]
People’s War in the Philippines, peace negotiations and ‘terrorist’ listing
Character of the People’s War Since its founding on 26 December 1968, the Communist Party of the Philippines has analyzed Philippine society and described it as semicolonial and semifeudal. The US formally ended its colonial rule over the Philippines and granted it nominal independence in 1946. However, it has retained indirect rule through the subservient […]
ILPS-Netherlands HOLDS FOUNDING ASSEMBLY
The Netherlands Country Chapter of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle held its Founding Assembly on 14 April 2013 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It was attended by 30 participants representing 14 member-organizations and four observers. The programme started with the singing of the ILPS hymn. Theo Droog, member of the ILPS Coordinating Committee, opened the […]
US war of aggression against Iraq: The root cause and consequences
In nearly two weeks that have followed the 10th anniversary of the start of the US war of aggression against Iraq on March 19, 2003, the officialdom and corporate media of the US and the UK have played up the issue of whether the war was caused by inaccurate or wrong military intelligence or whether […]
Celebrate the achievements of the League, resolve to further advance the struggle
I. Conception, Struggles and Achievements of the League I propose to present in broad strokes the conception, major struggles and achievements of the League in the first ten years of its existence, the worsening crisis of the world capitalist system and the rise of the people’s resistance and the tasks the League must carry out […]
TASKS OF FILIPINO WORKERS IN CONCERT WITH THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD
Present Crisis of Imperialism In the course of more than three decades, the imperialist powers headed by the US and their puppet regimes have carried out the US-dictated neoliberal policy of globalization in order to attack the democratic rights of the working class, press down the wage level, erode the hard-won social benefits and cut […]
From corporate bailouts to austerity measures
Since 2008 the major capitalist powers have wantonly used public money to bail out the big banks and corporations, thus allowing these to show profits on their balance sheets and to conjure the false illusion of recovery in financial markets but in fact aggravating the economic crisis through the contraction of production and the loss […]
On Noynoy Aquino and related issues
My main points against the automated electoral system are the following: First, it is foreign-controlled, with the US in control of the Dominion software and source code and the use of the shady Smartmatic corporation and third country agents
False sense of recovery at G-20 in Pittsburgh
The leaders of the imperialist powers and the world’s other big economies concluded their G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, USA and declared the capitalist world economy on the path to recovery. They praised themselves for arresting economic decline and stabilizing financial markets, and for starting a reform process towards “strong, sustained and balanced growth in the […]
Letter of the Council of the European Union to Jan Fermon, 25 February 2008
Letter of the Council of the European Union to Jan Fermon 25 February 2008 Click here to view document in PDF format.