Topic: activist

His detractors today deliberately understate Sison’s incarceration as if this was a sacrifice and punishment he deserved to endure as a communist ideologue. They would appear inconsistent and lose credibility in vilifying Sison’s integrity as a person and revolutionary if it’s emphasized that he bravely defied the tyrant as a writer, activist, guerilla, and prisoner.

He inspired his comrades to resist by telling them that they were fearless because they were selfless for the people.

The NDFP International Information Office (NDFPIO) led in the celebrations in Europe as it gathered more than 100 European friends, solidarity activists, Filipino supporters and allies and dozens of organizations, in a joyous celebration under the theme: ¨Build the Broadest United Front to Strengthen the Organs of Political Power and the People´s Democratic Government (PDR), last April 21, 2018 at the Ru Pare Complex in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

OPENING GATES OF PEACE — The Philippine Government (GRP) and National Democratic Front (NDF) formally opens the Fourth Round of Peace Talks in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Monday. Shown in photo are (from left) NDF Peace Panel members Asterio Palima, Connie Ledesma, Benny Tiamzon, Panel Chairman Fidel Agcaoili, NDF Senior Adviser Luis Jalandoni, Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman and NDF Chief Political Consultant Jose Maria Sison, Royal Norwegian Government (RNG) Third Party Facilitator Ambassador Elisabeth Slattum, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza, GRP Peace Panel Chairman Silvestre Bello III, House Special Committee on Peace Chairperson Rep. Ruby Sahali, GRP Peace Panel members Hernani Braganza, Angela Trinidad and Rene Sarmiento. At the back are (from left) NDF resource person Francisco ‘Isko Moreno’ Domagoso and RNG official Mirjam Ehl. (Rocky Nazareno)

The leader of the communist party of the Philippines Jose Maria Sison announced on Tuesday that negotiators from the political arm of his rebel grouping were ready to resume peace talks with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, after the Philippine leader appeared to leave the door open for a return to the negotiating table during a speech he made earlier that day.

“The cooperation of Congress is also needed to pass the laws for enabling the realization and implementation of the policy agreements to be embodied in the comprehensive agreements on social and economic reforms, political and constitutional reforms and the end of hostilities and disposition of forces,”

In the nearly 50 years since the re-establishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines, the people’s war carried out mainly by the New People´s Army to ultimately smash and dismantle the military and bureaucratic machinery of the reactionary state has spread nationwide.

You have been able to scan the horizon and raise your arms and spirit to the heavens because your feet are firmly on the ground and you voice out the crying needs, urgent demands and aspirations of the Filipino people

After firing three gunshots, the military proceeded to arrest the social activists

Sison warned that in the case of the counterinsurgency campaign, “the list of surrenderers serves as the basis for the military to fulfill their quota of killing revolutionary suspects at the variable rates of P25,000 to P100,000 per head, depending on the rank ascribable to the victim,” referring to Duterte’s recent offers of bounties for slain rebels