JOMA SHUTS DOOR ON CABINET POST

By Joyce Pangco Pañares

COMMUNIST Party of the Philippines founder Jose Ma. Sison scoffed at recent reports of a Cabinet post allegedly being offered to him by the Aquino administration.

Sison, in a message through the online social networking site Facebook, said a certain military group loyal to former Defense chief Norberto Gonzales, ANAD partylist Rep. Jun Alcover, and retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan are the ones sowing disinformation against him.

LEGAL EXPERTS PRESS PHILIPPINES’ AQUINO TO COMPLY WITH PEACE AGREEMENTS

NDFP International Information Office
Utrecht City, Netherlands
15 November 2011

A newly-formed group of international legal experts yesterday pressed the Philippines’ Benigno Aquino government to comply with past agreements forged with the revolutionary National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), as the only way forward to peacefully resolve the country’s 40-year old armed conflict.

DUTCH WRITER ASSAILS GOVERNMENT SERVILITY TO THE US IN THE SISON CASE

By D.L. Mondelo
Bulatlat correspondent
15 September 2011

Writing on his blog in “Geen Commentaar” entitled “The Netherlands in the service of the US”, Jos van Dijk, a Dutch writer/blogger has assailed his government’s servility to the US government in the effort to persecute Prof. Jose Ma Sison.

NORWAY, SUPPOSEDLY NETURAL IN GPH-NDF TALKS, PROVIDES INTEL TO US

In a February 2010 meeting with US Embassy officials, a Norwegian envoy told American officials that the communist leadership in the Philippines no longer abides by Joma Sison’s commitment to formal talks

Wikileaks:The Philippine Cables
7 September 2011: 3:27 am

MANILA – Since 2001, the Norwegians have been facilitating the peace negotiations between the government of the Philippines (GPH) and the communist-led National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), mediating the talks that were conducted mostly in Norway’s capital Oslo.

WIKILEAKS: DUTCH, PHILIPPINE GOV’T CONSPIRED TO BUILD CASE VS JOSE MA. SISON

By Jerry E. Esplanada
Philippine Daily Inquirer
31 August 2011

A 2007 cable from the United States embassy in Manila quoted then Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo as saying that the Philippines had been working for several years with the Dutch government to build a case against exiled Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Ma. Sison.

COMMUNIQUE OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF PEOPLES’ STRUGGLE

10 July 2011
Manila, Philippines

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) successfully held its Fourth International Assembly (4th IA) from July 7 to 9, 2011 held in Manila, Philippines under the theme, “Build a Bright Future! Mobilize the People to Resist Exploitation and Oppression Amidst the Protracted Global Depression, State Terrorism and Wars of Aggression”!

MARCOS VICTIMS DECRY DELISTING FROM SUIT

By Penelope Endozo
Philippine Daily Inquirer

18 April 2011

MANILA, Philippines—Lawyers who won $1,000 in compensation for each victim of abuse under the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship have been accused of injustice for disqualifying other claimants, like Jose Maria Sison and other former communist party leaders.

INTERNATIONAL DEFEND COMMITTEE LAUNCHES BOOK IN HONOR OF PROF. SISON

International Committee DEFEND
International Committee to DEFEND Filipino Progressives in Europe
Press Release
7 April 2011

The International Committee DEFEND launched recently at the NDFP International Information Office in Utrecht the book titled, Jose Maria Sison: A Celebration (Philippines: Aklat ng Bayan, 2011).