Topic: 1968

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…

Jose Ma. Sison has been called many names, among them “terrorist” (by the government and military) and “patriot” (by his comrades and friends). But the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) is undeniably a poet, with some of his poems even receiving citations abroad. Bulatlat.com posts the following interview of Sison conducted by De La Salle student concerning Sison’s poems.

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…

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…

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…

Introduction: A Biographical Sketch A Revolutionary Is Not a Terrorist Fourteen points sum up the life of Jose Maria Sison in his complaint to the European Court of…

The Filipino people have long suffered a history of repression and exploitation. They went through more than three centuries of colonial rule by Spain, from the 16th to…

I will share with the Court some information on the background of this case, necessary for a good understanding of the position of Professor Sison and the reasons why his name was included in the list at stake.

1) WHEREAS, Prof. Jose Maria Sison, is a political scientist, theoretician, teacher, multi-awarded poet and acknowledged leader of the patriotic and democratic movement in the Philippines fighting for…

I use the term ideology, to mean the study of ideas or a system of ideas. For the purpose of our study, I shall make some differentiation of…