Category: news reports

President Duterte’s renewed order to government forces to crush the communist insurgents before his term ends on 2022 was bound to fail again.

Migrante International is extremely troubled by the reported threats against NDFP Chief Consultant Prof. Jose Ma. ‘Joma’ Sison.

The Dutch Police warned Prof. Sison that they received reports of new threats to his security

“Any threats against Professor Sison or any member of the NDFP peace panel is certain to derail any resumption of the peace talks,”

“Last Friday, March 7, the Utrecht police came to my residence around 12:30 p.m. and talked to Julie and me first about a forthcoming March 10 demonstration against me in The Hague and to take precautionary measures at home and wherever I go because there are threats against my personal safety.

One of the most instructive sections of these interviews is Sison’s insightful critique of the neocolonial administrations since the fall of Marcos up to the current fascist Duterte regime

it is premature for me to go to the Philippines before the mutual approval of the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms

At the joint book launch of Jose Maria Sison’s Reflections on Revolution and Prospects and its German edition, Ein Leben im Widerstand, NDFP International Office in Utrecht, December 21, 2019.

The attacks, Sison said, were “only two isolated incidents in places distant from each other in the entire archipelago.”

Government agencies tasked to issue official unilateral ceasefire declarations seem to have bucked President Rodrigo Duterte even as their rebel counterparts have already issued their truce order today, Monday, December 22