A STINKING TERROR LIST: THIS IS THE EUROPEAN UNION’S TERROR LIST

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
15 January 2009

A blacklist of terror suspects and their supporters. Those included in the list have stopped leading a normal life. Like in the case of Jose Maria Sison.

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ILPS MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY TO THE BEIRUT INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR RESISTANCE, ANTI-IMPERIALISM, SOLIDARITY BETWEEN PEOPLES AND ALTERNATIVES

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson
International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
16 January 2009

On behalf of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), I convey the warmest and most militant greetings of solidarity to the organizers and participants of the Beirut International Forum for Resistance, Anti-imperialism, Solidarity Between Peoples and Alternatives to be held on January 16-18, 2009.

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ILPS DENOUNCES THE VILE RECORD OF BUSH AND REMINDS OBAMA OF THE PEOPLE’S OUTRAGE

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committees
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
13 January 2009

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) denounces as totally reprehensible the desperate attempts of the outgoing chieftain of US imperialism, George W. Bush, to define his own eight-year record as less vile than what it has been.

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ILPS CONDEMNS ISRAELI GROUND INVASION OF GAZA AND THE ESCALATING MASSACRE OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committees
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
4 January 2009

Since December 27, 2008, the US-supported Zionist Israel has carried out a war of aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza. It has launched air strikes by F-16 jet planes and Apache helicopters and artillery shelling by naval vessels in order to massacre hundreds and injure thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and destroy their homes, mosques, schools, public buildings, oil depots, power plants, water facilities and other infrastructure.

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A POEM ON JOSE MARIA SISON

The Life and Times of a Seditious Poet
By Edgar B. Maranan

We shall line them up against the wall!   –attributed to Jose Maria Sison, UP basement canteen, ca. 1960,but could be apocryphal.

Not for him the contemplation of coconuts,
virgin or otherwise, succulent to tongue and teeth,
but the bitter crop of tales from his country
of broken peasants and rebel hunters.

Not for him pink raisins but the rose
that bleeds in thriving on thorny bush
not for him blue monks but the bluer
mounts standing sentry to the plains.

He still dreams of the pole star to the north,
a lantern that lit up his path through forests
and fields, but as the world turns, celestials
happen to spin off in their own selfish orbits
and it’s come to pass the old dragon gods

make monkeys out of us, they fiddle up
their island lackeys who have grown fat
from the barrel, the larder and the vat.

In far exile, his poems and hymns still excite
trilling like bird song, moving like the wind
stirring up old ashes of departure, the phoenix
if you will, and in our sleep, we hear him sing:

“Ay! we’ll line them up against the righteous wall
draw blood from their soul if they have one at all
and the millions will rise above this weary pall
of feudal order, the peace of a gray eternal fall.”

Note to the Author from Jose Maria Sison:

I do not remember having actually said, “We shall line them up against the wall!” But if I  said so , I certainly had in mind the worst of the oppressors and exploiters with blood debts. Those with lesser culpability can be imprisoned for rehabilitation.  It is easy to deduce that I must had said something essentially the same in so many conversations at the LA basement.  At any rate, Ed is prudent enough to say that the statement attributed to me could be apocryphal.  I like the poem. It is beautiful. I am going to have it published in my website if Ed does not mind. I will let his reference to me stand. 
Thank you. Ed.

First published in the UP Institute of Creative Writing’s LIKHAAN literary journal, Vol. 3, 2009.

ILPS MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY TO THE ALL-PAKISTAN TRADE UNION FEDERATION

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
29 December  2008

Through: Rubina Jamil, Chairperson; and Gulzar Ahmed Chaudhary, Secretary General
Email: rubinawwo@nexlinx.net.pk; or struggle0881@yahoo.com

Dear Comrades and Friends,

The International Coordinating Committee and all organizations of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) convey to the leadership and all trade unions of the All Pakistan Trade Union Federation (APTUF) warmest greetings of revolutionary solidarity on the occasion of its National Congress in Lahore on December 30, 2008.

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ILPS CONDEMNS ISRAELI ATTACKS ON THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE IN GAZA

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
December 29, 2008

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle condemns the murderous and cowardly air strikes and artillery fire unleashed by Israel on the Palestinian people in Gaza. These have already resulted in the indiscriminate killing of more than 300 people and the wounding of more than a thousand people and the destruction of office and apartment buildings, mosques, school buildings, and infrastructure. The attacks are still being escalated and the Israeli military forces have been ordered to mobilize for a fullscale invasion and reoccupation of Gaza.

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ILPS HAILS JOURNALIST FOR HURLING SHOES AT BUSH

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairman, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
15 December 2008

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle joins the Iraqi and Arab peoples and the peoples of the entire world in hailing the journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi of Cairo-based Al-Bahgdadia as a hero for hurling his shoes at the US imperialist chieftain and No. 1war criminal and terrorist George W. Bush.

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