Crisis Generates Resistance

As author of the book, Crisis Generates Resistance, I wish to thank the International Network for Philippine Studies for publishing the book, the Philippine Chapter of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle and the Kilusang Mayo Uno for organizing this book launch, and the book reviewers, the cultural performers, the distinguished guests and all the […]

In Prison, writing poetry was my way of fighting, preoccupying myself and keeping my sanity

Jose Ma. Sison has been called many names, among them “terrorist” (by the government and military) and “patriot” (by his comrades and friends). But the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) is undeniably a poet, with some of his poems even receiving citations abroad. Bulatlat.com posts the following interview of Sison conducted by De La Salle student concerning Sison’s poems.

THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION

Strategic Value of the Philippines To the United States, the Philippines is a country of great strategic value. It is a meaty and juicy economic appendage with a 5S million population and rich natural resources to exploit. Huge U.S. military bases arc main­tained in this country in order to preserve an economic and political system […]

AT HOME IN THE WORLD, PORTRAIT OF A REVOLUTIONARY

Introduction: A Biographical Sketch A Revolutionary Is Not a Terrorist Fourteen points sum up the life of Jose Maria Sison in his complaint to the European Court of Justice demanding the removal of his name from the list of terrorists issued by the Council of the European Union. But no phrase in the 34-paged document […]