PEOPLE’S WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES, PEACE NEGOTIATIONS & “TERRORIST” LISTING

Lecture at the University of Groningen, 16 May 2013

By Professor Jose Maria Sison
Founding Chairman, Communist Party of the Philippines
Chief Political Consultant, NDFP Negotiating Panel

Prof. Jose Maria Sison Speaks on People's War and Peace Negotiations Before Students of International Relations at University of Groningen, May 16, 2013

First of all, I wish to thank the Studentenvereniging voor Internationale Betrekkingen (SIB), or the Dutch United Nations Student Association (DUNSA), for inviting me to lecture on the revolutionary armed struggle being carried out by the New People’s Army (NPA) under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

I am honored and privileged to be invited because your association has high prestige and is well known to feature as guest lecturers high officials of the United Nations, the European Union and the Netherlands, including prime ministers, cabinet officials, members of parliaments, senior administrators, high military commanders, outstanding professors and journalists.

I propose to discuss tonight the character and status of the people’s war in the Philippines, in relation to the social crisis and the policies of the Manila government, also in relation to the long running peace negotiations between the Manila government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and further in relation to the issue of including the CPP, NPA and the chief political consultant of the NDFP (myself) in the so-called terrorist list of the EU.

ILPS REITERATES SUPPORT FOR THE SYRIAN PEOPLE,
CONDEMNS INTERVENTION BY US, NATO, ISRAEL ET AL.

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International League of Peoples’ Struggle
May 12, 2013

We, the International League of People’s Struggle, reiterate our support for the Syrian people in upholding national sovereignty and condemn the concerted military intervention in Syria by the US, NATO, Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. These brazenly violate Syrian national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Only the people of Syria have the sovereign right to determine what is their government.

ILPS APPLAUDS VERDICT OF GUILTY
AGAINST RIOS MONTT FOR GENOCIDE

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International League of People’s Struggle
11 May 2013

We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, applaud the historic verdict of the Guatemalan court, finding former military dictator Efrain Rios Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity for the massacre of at least 1,771 Mayan-Ixil people and sentencing him to a total of 80 years of imprisonment.

THE NEED FOR UNITED FRONT IN THE FILIPINO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION

THE NEED FOR UNITED FRONT IN THE FILIPINO
PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION

Speech in Celebration of the 40th Founding Anniversary
of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Amsterdam, Netherlands

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Founding Chairman, Communist Party of the Philippines
Chief Political Consultant, National Democratic Front of the Philippines
28 April, 2013