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Worsening crisis of global capitalism and the growing people’s resistance

The crisis of the world capitalist system is the worst since the Great Depression and continues to worsen. It is deepgoing and protracted because it is the result…

Rise and fall of Marcos fascist dictatorship

September 21, the formal date of the proclamation of martial law forty years ago, reminds us of the Marcos fascist dictatorship that the Filipino nation had to suffer…

Neoliberalism: A scourge to humankind

The term “neoliberalism” was coined by the German scholar Alexander Rustow at the Colloque Walter Lippmann in 1938. Ludwig von Mises popularized it as “new liberalism” in his…

JMS address and IIC report ILPS founding assembly

Address and Report of International Initiative Committee (IIC) Chairman Jose Maria Sison to the First International Assembly (Founding) of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle in Zutphen, The…

Celebrate the achievements of the League, resolve to further advance the struggle

I. Conception, Struggles and Achievements of the League I propose to present in broad strokes the conception, major struggles and achievements of the League in the first ten…

How to organize the revolutionary movement in the Philippines

Common Understanding and Commitment to Serve the People At the very outset, let me answer the question on why my closest comrades and I who started the revolutionary…

People’s War in the Philippines

The old merger party of the Communist and Socialist Parties founded the People’s Army against Japan (Hukbalahap) in 1942. This army became the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan (People’s…

Foundation for sustained development of the national democratic movement in the University of the Philippines

The US colonial regime established the University of the Philippines in 1908 in order to attract the cream of the Philippine intelligentsia towards a pro-imperialist and conservative kind…

From corporate bailouts to austerity measures

Since 2008 the major capitalist powers have wantonly used public money to bail out the big banks and corporations, thus allowing these to show profits on their balance…

The incubation of activism in the University of the Philippines

The waves of mass protest actions that followed the murder of Benigno Aquino in 1983 and culminated in the overthrow of the Marcos facsist dictatorship in 1986 would…