News
Joma: Fighting to stop June 14
Latest suggestion from the GRP is to start the stand down on June 21 instead of June 14. The exact date will be known only from the joint announcement to be made by the GRP and NDFP on or about June 9. […]
Writings
press statements
In honor of comrade Jose (Ka Pepe) Ebora Luneta
He inspired his comrades to resist by telling them that they were fearless because they were selfless for the people. […]
press statements
Soaring prices of basic goods and services can ignite mass protests and revolutionary upsurge
Passing on the tax burden to the impoverished people is supposed to assure the government of revenues to pay for the rapidly excalating costs of military, police and intelligence operations, budgetary and trade deficits and servicing of the local public debt and foreign loans. […]
interviews
Reply to Christian Esguerra of ABS-CBN on matters of security and health
At home, I get personal security from friendly relations with neighbors, the intercom and alarm system of the apartment building and the emergency phone number. There are also the routine police patrols in the neighborhood and possibly electronic surveillance of my phone and digicam coverage of my street. The NDF Information Office to which I go very often is located in the city center of Utrecht and is certainly covered by digicam surveillance and police patrols. […]
press statements
Once more on the question of my return to the Philippines
For my soonest possible interface with Duterte, the NDFP has considered my meeting at the signing of the Interim Peace Agreement, packaging the ceasefire agreement, amnesty proclamation and the ARRD and NIED sections of CASER either in Oslo or Hanoi. But Duterte has insisted that the meeting be in the Philippines. […]
press statements
Joma Sison, wife get P2.4-M in martial law compensation
Julie and I are grateful for the windfall, which cannot fully compensate for the torture and other human rights violations we suffered during the Marcos fascist dictatorship. The most important thing is that the dictatorship is incontrovertibly on historical record as having committed gross and systematic human rights violations […]
Messages
Most heartfelt condolences to the Columban Sisters and Family of Sister Mary Radcliffe
Julie and I convey our most heartfelt condolences to the Columban Sisters and Family of Sister Mary Radcliffe. As missionary, she served the Filipino people well, including political prisoners like us during the Marcos dictatorship. She worked with Task Force Detainees, Contak (for international solidarity) and the urban and rural missionaries. Long live her memory and good works! May these inspire future generations to emulate her example! […]
press statements
Threat of nationwide martial law persists
Within the so-called Constitutional Commission, there is the drive of certain pro-Duterte elements headed by a retired general to draw up a a draft federal charter that makes easier the declaration of martial law by citing ¨lawless violence¨ or ¨a series of offensives by the New People´s Army¨ as the basis for the declaration of martial law. […]
Messages
Pagbati sa pambansang lakas ng kilusang mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas sa ika-6 na pambansang kongres nito
Pagbati sa pambansang lakas ng kilusang mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas sa ika-6 na pambansang kongres nito […]
press statements
ILPS condemns continuing persecution of Julian Assange and efforts to silence him
Because Julian Assange has exposed the truth about the crimes of imperialism through documentary evidence, he has become the target of the most vicious attacks from the Western powers led by the US and the most reactionary forces in the world that subsist on lies. […]