Topic: Philippines

Lopez answered that Interpol “cannot simply arrest” Sison because he is protected by the 1951 Refugee Convention.

In the entire European Union and entire world, the Duterte regime is notorious as a murderous violator of human rights

we have always admired how he moulded his humble origin, his own hard work and life with the peasants and farm workers in Hacienda Luisita

Reaksyon namin ni Julie na kalokohan ang kaso dahil sa alegasyon na isa ako sa mga nag-utos sa inimbentong masaker

The charge against me is patently false. I was under maximum security detention in 1985 and as a prisoner I had no position in the CPP or NPA at the the time.

“This position of mine is supported by the broad masses of the people, the revolutionary movement and by the most responsible leaders, organizations and institutions motivated by patriotism,”

The crisis of the world capitalist system is at its sharpest in countries like the Philippines which are semicolonial and semifeudal

Duterte and Panelo belong to my same senior age bracket and are not any much younger than I am.

Remember that the essence of protracted people’s war is not simply to maintain fighting teams that use guns—which the fascists, the Mafia, and conspiratorial terrorists also do—but to mobilize the masses in the armed struggle in order to dismantle the bourgeois-reactionary state machinery (especially its armed forces) step by step and in likewise fashion to build the revolutionary state machinery and use it to defend the people’s gains.

Legal organizations of various sectors are first red-tagged and falsely accused of being “communists” and “terrorists”