On the International Situation
On the status of the US in the world The US is still the strongest imperialist power. It imposes the neoliberal policy of imperialist globalization on the entire capitalist world. It uses the Bretton Woods agreement, the Washington Consensus and supremacy of the US dollar in investments and trade. It continues to extract superprofits as […]
Labanan ang pangangalakal at pang-aalipin, palakasin ang MIGRANTE International
Ang internasyonal na pamunuan at lahat ng kasaping-organisasyon ng International League of Peoples’ Struggle ay nagpapaabot ng taos pusong pagbati at militanteng pakikiisa sa Migrante International sa ika-7 Kongreso nito. Humahanga kami sa inyong mga tagumpay at hinahangad naming umani pa kayo ng ibayong tagumpay batay sa inyong kasalukuyang lakas at sa inyong paglalagom at […]
Requisites for building the socialist future
In the emergence and development of industrial capitalism, it has been unavoidable for the capitalist class to create and expand the working class from which it extracts surplus value and enables it to accumulate capital. It is a given fact that the modern industrial proletariat is the most advanced productive force. And in the course of class struggle against exploitation and oppression, it has become the most advanced political force capable of liberating itself and other exploited classes, and of building socialism as a result of being developed ideologically, politically and organizationally to fight and overthrow the exploitative and crisis-ridden capitalist system.
Sustain global mass actions to support the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation against Israeli Zionist occupation and genocidal attacks on the people in the Gaza Strip
We , the International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS), renew our call to all our member-organizations, our allied organizations and the broad masses of the people of the world to sustain the mass actions in solidarity with and support for the Palestinian people in the just struggle for national liberation and self-determination against the US-supported […]
Ang imperyalismong US at paglaban ng sambayanang Pilipino
Sa gitna pa lamang ng ika-19 na siglo, mula 1848 hanggang 1868, ipinakita na ng Inglatera ang dalawang mayor na katangian ng imperyalismo: ang pag-aari nito sa malalawak na kolonya at ang monopolyong industryal nito na nahuhuthutan ng supertubo. Sa hanay ng mga bayang kapitalista, unang naging monopolyong kapitalismo ang malayang kompetisyong kapitalismo bilang dominanteng […]
On the growing economic cooperation between China and Russia
The International League of Peoples’ Struggle notes with interest the fast-expanding economic cooperation between the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China. The recent historic gas deal between the two major powers consolidates their partnership in contradiction with the US-EU-Japan combine as well as their role as the core in such formations as the […]
Foundation for Resuming the Philippine Revolution
BY JONAS STAAL In the spirit of internationalism, there is no paradox in discussing the importance of social, economic and political revolution in the Netherlands, a country whose wealth and privilege is defined by a long standing colonial history; the consequence being that the majority of this country have obtained the status of middle class, […]
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 […]
Global trends and the Philippine political system
A. Global Trends 1. The crisis of global capitalism and global depression continue, especially because the imperialist powers stick to the neoliberal economic policy. This has accelerated the accumulation and concentration of capital in the hands of the few through the intensified exploitation of labor, the liberalization of investment, trade and finance, privatization of public […]
Neoliberalism and imperialist crisis
The concept of neoliberalism or “new liberalism” was put forward in 1938 by a group of bourgeois intellectuals, which included Alexander Rustow, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek. They defined it as upholding “the priority of the price mechanism, the free enterprise, the system of competition and a strong and impartial state.” And they presumed […]