Topic: Netherlands

Flashback to the Founding Assembly of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) in Zutphen, Netherlands, on May 25-27, 2001 when I presided over the assembly.

NDFP Chief political consultant JMS shared his opinion about Duterte’s 3 year performance as President of the Republic of the Philippines.

I have only a simple concrete question: No doubt that it is highly commendable that you have cleared the major streets of Manila of the graft-laden anarchy of vendors

Since its founding upon its First International Assembly in Zutphen, The Netherlands from May 25 to 27, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) has grown in strength and proven itself as a reliable force of the people of the world in their struggle for greater freedom, democracy, social justice, all-round development and International solidarity against imperialism and all reaction.

Sison said Duterte now anticipates that the people “can rise in gigantic mass actions against his traitorous, tyrannical, brutal and corrupt regime and the military and police can turn against him as they did against Marcos and Estrada.”

Through progressive organizations, institutions, and individuals and his media exchanges with state propaganda and government officials, we who never lived through the darkest years of the Marcos dictatorship were introduced to Ka Joma as a thinker, peace consultant, cultural worker, poet, propagandist.

Ni J. V. Ayson Ano po ang inyong pangkalahatang pagsusuri sa katatapos lang na mid-term national and local elections? Masasabi niyo po ba na patas, malaya, malinis, at…

“I absolutely have no intention to accompany Duterte in his trip to hell, whether this be a medieval religious presumption or a figure of speech for historical infamy,” Sison said in a statement from his base in Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Exiled communist leader Joma Sison on Sunday urged President Rodrigo Duterte to save himself from damnation by restarting stalled peace talks with rebels.

“The NPA does not need anything from Duterte. He is a foolish enemy of the NPA,”