‘The gumamela is still red’
Like its antecedent, The Gumamela Is Still Red is mainly a book of poems but appropriately includes brief items in prose, such as narratives and correspondences, in order to contextualize the poems in historical, class and personal terms from the revolutionary viewpoint of the proletariat, all toiling masses of workers and peasants and the Lumad […]
On Mass Work
The principal objectives of mass work are to arouse, organize and mobilize the masses on long-term and immediate issues along the general political line or political program of the people’s democratic revolution defined by the revolutionary party of the proletariat in correspondence to the semicolonial and semifeudal character of current Philippine society.
On the question of ideology and political power
Duterte is stupid or out of his mind by implying that I have an ideology while he has none
CPP unilateral ceasefire takes effect in PH
In a statement, the party committee said that “the purpose of this unilateral ceasefire is to ensure and facilitate necessary, unhampered and immediate medical, health and economic assistance, support and movement of the people” and as a “gesture towards national unity.”
Comment on the anti-gay and misogynist joke of Duterte
In making a joke, Duterte has obviously invented the story that gays in the NPA brought his son Baste to the woods to be subjected to kissing, mashing and other acts amounting to molestation
Joma: Duterte’s ouster is CPP’s priority in 2019
Sison said the Duterte administration was not serious in negotiating peace with the communist group, saying it had abandoned its commitment to address the decadeslong conflict, especially in achieving a just and lasting peace in the country.
Peace talks still a go
The government and the communist-led National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) have declared agreement to continue peace negotiations, but only after a three-month lull in back-channel talks.
Holding peace talks in PH ‘recipe for destruction’: NDFP consultant
“It’s not negotiable,” he told reporters. “No way peace talks held in the Philippines can be protected and spared from sabotage by spoilers and enemies of a genuine peace process.”
(UPDATED) Govt, NDF met to discuss the postponement of the scheduled June 28 talks
The government conveyed its decision to suspend all backchannel talks with the NDF pending the three-month review of all signed agreements. But the two parties can communicate if necessary.
Significance of the Singapore summit and joint statement of DPRK chairman Kim Jong-un and US president Donald J. Trump
Indeed, the summit and the joint statement constitute an epochal event of great significance in overcoming decades of tensions and hostilities between the two countries and in committing themselves to cooperate for the establishment and development of new U.S.-DPRK relations and for the promotion of peace, prosperity, and security of the Korean Peninsula , the Asia-Pacific region and the world at large.