In memoriam · 1939 – 2022

Jose Maria Sison

February 8, 1939 – December 16, 2022

Founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, chief political consultant of the NDFP, poet, and internationalist. This archive preserves his complete published writings, speeches, and statements.

2904 articles1996 – 2022English · Filipino · Spanish · DutchOpen access

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Armed struggle and peace talks

We uphold the principle that democracy is the reign of the Filipino people’s sovereign will for their common well-being. It is their sovereign right to wage armed revolution against tyranny and oppression.

Towards a National Democratic Teacher’s Movement

To speak before the fellow teachers and future teachers is always a welcome opportunity for one involved in what has come to be called the Second Propaganda Movement,…

Dialectical and Historical Materialism

The objective of studying dialectical and historical materialism is to provide the proletariat and the people with the materialist-scientific outlook in comprehending nature and society and with the materialist dialectical method in cognition or acquiring knowledge from such social practice as production, class struggle and scientific experiment.

The Social Doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church

The CNL is excellently qualified to put forward its Commentary on the basis of its long experience, sustained work, sacrifices and achievements in working with other revolutionary forces within the NDFP and with the broad masses of the people since 1972 in the people’s democratic revolution against the semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system dominated by US imperialism and administered by the state functionaries of the local exploiting classes of big compradors, landlords and bureaucrat capitalists.

Significance of the Paris commune of 1871 and its relevance to the world proletarian revolution

Again in the revolutionary spirit of the Paris Commune of 1871, I daresay that these current mass struggles are in transition to the great resurgence of the world…

On revisionism

Revisionism is the systematic revision of and deviation from Marxism, the basic revolutionary principles of the proletariat laid down by Marx and Engels and further developed by the…

On proleterian stand and outlook

Every communist must understand the three stages of development of the universal theory of proletarian revolution: Marxism, Leninism and Maoism; and learn the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in materialist philosophy, political economy, social science, party building, strategy and tactics and opposing revisionism in socialist society.