On the question of permanent ceasefire and a just and lasting peace
Within the first half of the six-year Duterte term, it was possible not only to have a permanent ceasefire but even a just and lasting peace based on social, economic and political reforms
Intgrate and work with the peasant masses to struggle against the Duterte tyranny
It is appropriate and timely that your theme is: Integrate, Struggle! Youth, Tighten Your Solidarity with the Peasants!
A big legal defeat for Duterte
He is thoroughly exposed among the AFP officers who are not his ass-lickers that he made an illegal order to the military to arrest Trillanes
Joma: Duterte can’t revoke Trillanes amnesty
“Duterte is really crazy,” Sison said in an online interview from his base in Utrecht, The Netherlands on Tuesday
ILPS statement of solidarity for a sovereign Kanaky-New Caledonia
France annexed this Melanesian island chain in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean in 1853 and turned it into a penal colony starting in 1864. French convicts were shipped to New Caledonia including thousands of communards after the defeat of the Paris Commune in 1871, among them Louise Michel who later on worked with the indigenous Kanak people to fight for liberation from French colonial rule even after the communards were granted general amnesty in 1879.
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.
Duterte is really crazy
The local peace and order councils and the military stage ¨peace” meetings in which military assets are misrepresented as NPA representatives or surrenderers and the captive audience is photographed and publicized as people turning against the NPA. This is a stupid waste of public money.
Joma: Series of deal breakers from Duterte side
During the stretch between March and June this year, four backchannel talks were held in Utrecht, The Netherlands to pave way for the signing of a peace accord between the government of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
Clarification on the NDFP position in the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations
In the Forum on Peace Under Siege, I made a critical review of the behavior of Duterte in relation to the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations. And I deplored among other things his failure to fulfill his promise to amnesty and release all political prisoners and his repeated whimsical termination of the negotiations as many as three times.
Political implications of the current impasse and prospects of GRP-NDFP peace talks
He has no economic program different from that of his reactionary predecessors: retention of the semifeudal character of the economy along the neoliberal line.