GABRIELA’S 14TH National Congress: Fight for National Liberation, Democracy and Socialism

Solidarity Message to Gabriela National Alliance
By Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson Emeritus, International League of Peoples’ Struggle
August 16, 2022
ILPS Webinar on the role of overseas compatriots in national and social liberation movements
ILPS Webinar on the role of overseas compatriots in national and social liberation movements
Socialism: Utopian and scientific

As background, let me cite the fact that in the Communist Manifesto of 1848, Marx and Engels had already differentiated Scientific Socialism from Utopian Socialism of three kinds:
In transition to the resurgence of the World Proletarian Revolution

I daresay that the current wave of mass protests signals the transition to a new era of unprecedented anti-imperialist and anti-fascist resistance by the peoples of the world
On the People’s Democratic Revolution

The most important aim of the national democratic revolution is to achieve full national independence and people’s democracy
On Duterte’s order to end the people’s war before the end of his brutal rule in 2022

As in the time of the Marcos fascist dictatorship, the state terrorism now under the Duterte regime incites the broad masses of the people to wage armed revolution because of extreme oppression and exploitation.
Brief Review of the Revolutionary Armed Struggle of the Filipino People

In Russian: Brief Review of the Revolutionary Armed Struggle of the Filipino People for National and Social Liberation by Jose Maria Sison, Translated by Irina Malenko
The long struggle for freedom

You are cordially invited to attend the cultural and artistic celebration
Which shall come ahead?

The blazing of forests,
The thawing of the icebergs,
The rise of the oceans,
The drowning of cities,
The parching of the land,
The whimpering death?
‘Duterte is out of his mind and is out of touch with reality’

JMS’ response to the news item ‘Duterte orders PNP chief: Wipe out NPA‘ ‘Duterte is out of his mind and is out of touch with reality. He cannot finish off in five years an armed revolutionary movement deeply rooted among the toiling masses of workers and peasants who are fighting for national and social liberation […]
