Comment on the Meeting of RNG Special Envoy Idun Tvedt and GRP President Duterte
For both the GRP and NDFP, it is easier and more economical to seek lasting peace through negotiations to address the roots of the armed conflict and forge comprehensive agreements on social, economic and political reforms than to rely solely on the use of military force
Joma contradicts Duterte: I’m in good health
http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/18/17/joma-contradicts-duterte-im-in-good-health MANILA – Communist Party of the Philippines founding chairman Jose Maria Sison clarified Tuesday that he is in good health, contrary to President Rodrigo Duterte’s claim that the former was “seriously sick.” Speaking to ANC, Sison revealed that he was recently hospitalized but he is now doing well. He did not give the reason […]
ILPS@COP21 People’s sovereignty against climate change
Delegates from the big industrialized countries hailed the new agreement’s goal to limit global warming to “well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels” and “pursue efforts” to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 Celsius. Representatives from non-developed countries pointed out that that the agreement failed to hold the top polluters accountable. These major polluters […]
TRIBUTE TO COMRADE LEONCIO PITAO (COMMANDER PARAGO)
Comrades and Friends, I join the Filipino people, the people’s revolutionary government, the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People’s Army, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, the revolutionary mass organizations and other revolutionary forces in mourning the death of Comrade Leoncio Pitao (Commander Parago) and in celebrating his achievements from the time […]
FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PORTLAND COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE PHILIPPINES
Warmest greetings of solidarity! On behalf of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, I wish to express high appreciation for your determination to strengthen the Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines by holding your first general assembly and ratifying your constitution.
How to organize the revolutionary movement in the Philippines
Common Understanding and Commitment to Serve the People At the very outset, let me answer the question on why my closest comrades and I who started the revolutionary movement in the Philippines were so determined to wage the revolution. We had a common understanding and commitment to serve the people. We considered the revolutionary cause […]
LITERATURE AND COMMITMENT
A Message to the U.P. Writers Club Jose Maria Sison Political Prisoner Military Security Command Fort Bonifacio I wish to express the warmest greetings to my colleagues in the U. P. Writers’ Club. I wish you all the success in your efforts to create new works, improve your literary craft and understand the social relevance […]
Youth On The March
A NATION that does not continuously renew itself through progressive-minded and militant youth cannot possibly advance. A world of timid and apathetic youth will merely feed all the regimes of injustice and exploitation with a constant flow of manpower for exploited labor and cannon fodder for unjust wars. Even a revolutionary society, say, a socialist […]
Social and Cultural Themes in Filipino Poetry (Part II of II)
On the whole, Hufana distinguishes himself as the ethnic poet of the Philippines. His volume of “a first decade”, Sickle Season, published in 1959, issues a native concern even as he displays a wide range of anthropological knowledge. This concern oftentimes becomes barbed with cynicism, but anyhow, there are the beautiful lines burrowing through rough […]