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 […]
Highest Tribute to Comrade Ericson Acosta
Having participated in the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations, as an NDFP resource person, particularly on the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER), he was under the protection of the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees.
Climate Crisis Special: System change not climate change!
To this day, 84 per cent of the energy used in the world is based on fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas and methane). The imperialist powers and their oil, gas and coal monopolies obscure this fact and avoid committing themselves to any definite program of reducing dependence on fossil fuel and increasing reliance on renewable energy (solar, wind, tidal, hydrogen and so on). By a definite program, I mean solid time-bound targets by the industrialized states that will markedly slow down global warming and bring average temperatures to a lower and more stable equilibrium.
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.
In honor of comrade Jorge (Ka Oris) Madlos, outstanding Filipino patriot and communist
the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the National Operational Command of the New People’s Army paid the highest tribute to Ka Oris on November 2
On Three Viewpoints Concerning the 2022 Elections
The revolutionary movement adheres to a people’s democratic constitution, builds its own system of government and elects its officials to organs of political power. It seeks to overthrow the ruling system which is run by the comprador big bourgeoisie and landlord class and their political agents who can be classified as bureaucrat capitalists who operate […]
On the Prospects of the Struggle for National and Social Liberation
The persistent semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system, which is dominated by foreign monopoly capitalism and directly run by the comprador big bourgeoisie, the landlord class and the bureaucrat capitalists, is in ever worsening chronic crisis. The escalating conditions of exploitative and oppressive conditions drive the people to assert and fight for their national and democratic […]
On criticism and creativity
1. Calls for creativity have emerged as responses to a criticism of the Left being “passé” and “dogmatic.”The command to be creative is being considered seriously for activist practice in response to this criticism, but what does this call achieve? JMS: It is a good policy for any anti-imperialist and anti-fascist formation to pay attention […]
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.
Celebrate the 48th anniversary of NDFP
The NDFP’s most important role in the democratic revolution is to arouse, organize and mobilize the broad masses of Filipino people in their tens of millions and to seek international solidarity, support and cooperation. For the purpose, it encompasses 18 allied organizations representing all patriotic and progressive classes and sectors of Philippine society belonging to […]