2018

President Duterte lashed at Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison for calling him a bully

President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday threatened to kill Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison if the government’s proposed peace talks with the Left fail.

France annexed this Melanesian island chain in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean in 1853 and turned it into a penal colony starting in 1864. French convicts were shipped to New Caledonia including thousands of communards after the defeat of the Paris Commune in 1871, among them Louise Michel who later on worked with the indigenous Kanak people to fight for liberation from French colonial rule even after the communards were granted general amnesty in 1879.

President Duterte lashed at Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison

GRP President Rodrigo Duterte has repeatedly issued threats against NDFP Chief Political Consultant Prof. Jose Maria Sison

“Duterte is obsessed with establishing a fascist dictatorship a la (Ferdinand Marcos Sr.), his political idol, whose extrajudicial killings of around 3,500 over 14 years of autocratic rule he has already surpassed several times in only two years,” Sison said.

ILPS in solidarity with Turgut Kaya, journalist and political prisoner

We honor journalist Turgut Kaya for his heroism in undergoing a prolonged hunger strike

The Philippine National Police has recorded more than 23,000 killings since President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office almost two years ago, data from the PNP Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management showed.

Duterte and Lorenzana should admit that you have all along been sabotaging the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations, canceling and terminating these so often due to your failure to reduce them to mere surrender negotiations and now you are so frustrated with your utter failure to make the NDFP capitulate that you are at the end of your wits by touting the absurd and stupid notion of localized peace talks