Walden Bello Exposes Himself as a Pro-US Pseudo-Progressive
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
30 December 2004
In his column in Viewpoints of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 29, 2004, Bello persists in his canard that the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) is out to eliminate him and others physically just because they hold ideas counter to the CPP and the new democratic revolution. more…
Character Assassination and Cheap Shots By Rabid Anti-Communists and Pseudo-Revolutionaries
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
27 December 2004
The article of Juan Sarmiento of Inquirer New Service, titled “Communist Party ‘hit list’ denounced” and dated December 26, 2004, refers to an open letter to me as CPP founder from Walden Bello and Etta Rosales, supposedly asking me the accusatory rhetorical question, “Does this mean you intend to kill us one by one?” more…
Long-term truce is possible if there are basic reforms
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
21 December 2004
Gloria M. Arroyo can at anytime easily obtain a long-term truce and even an alliance with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) if she agrees to fight for complete national independence against US domination and to carry out genuine land reform in conjunction with national industrialization. more…
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
16 December 2004
The entire Filipino people must condemn all pronouncements and actions of the US government and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) to justify and push the entry of US combat troops in the Philippines under such pretexts as joint military exercises, training, civic action, and relief operations. All these are violative of the national sovereignty of the Filipino people and territorial integrity of the Philippines. more…
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
21 November 2004
In the strongest terms, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) condemns the Arroyo regime and its military and police minions for the massacre of 14 peaceful and unarmed protestors, including two children aged 2 and 5 years old, and the wounding of hundreds by gunfire at Hacienda Luisita on Tarlac, Philippines. more…
Reissuance of October 21 press statement and further statement about Peace Talks
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
28 October 2004
The propagandists of the Arroyo regime and its corrupt and brutal armed forces keep on issuing press releases to misrepresent my October 21st press statement as an order to the New People’s Army to intensify its offensives. more…
GRP President has shut the door to GRP Peace Negotiations with the NDFP
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
21 October 2004
It is highly regrettable that GRP President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has practically shut the door to GRP peace negotiations with the NDFP and has so arrogantly boasted of defeating the revolutionary movement of the people with the sword. more…
Two Governments exist in the Philippines: One is Revolutionary, the Other Counterrevolutionary
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
21 August 2004
Two governments exist in the Philippines. One is the nationwide revolutionary government of workers and peasants based in the countryside. The other is the counterrevolutionary government of big compradors and landlords centered in Manila. more…
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines|
15 August 2004
Contrary to what officials of the Macapagal-Arroyo regime say, the US has no sovereign right to intervene in Philippine affairs and put the negotiating panel and consultants of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) under duress in peace negotiations. more…
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison>
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
14 August 2004
The US, British and Dutch governments represent and protect the biggest Western monopoly interests in the Philippines. These are the Chevron Texaco Malampaya LLC, and Royal Dutch Shell. Each of them owns 45 percent of the total investments of at least 4.5 billion US dollars in the Malampaya deepwater gas-to-power project. more…
Bush has done a lot of favors to Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaida
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
August 12, 2004
Since 9/11, George W. Bush has done a lot of favors to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaida. He has dignified them by mixing them up with national liberation movements, anti-imperialist leaders, religious institutions and charitable foundations in lists designating all as “terrorists.” more…
By Prof.Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
11 August 2004
The Bush regime is sabotaging the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) by having the US State Department and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury Department renew the listing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New People’s Army (NPA) and the NDFP chief political consultant as “terrorists”. more…
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
22 July 2004
I share the joy of the Filipino nation and the family of Angelo de la Cruz over his release and homecoming. I congratulate the cause-oriented organizations headed by Bayan and Migrante International, all other patriotic forces and the broad masses of the Filipino people for successfully pressing the Macapagal-Arroyo regime to withdraw the contingent of Filipino mercenary troops from Iraq and thus pave the way for the release of Angelo de la Cruz from his Iraqi captors. more…
So-called 10-Point Agenda of GMA is an Abominable List of Lies
By Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
7 July 2004
Information has reached me that propagandists of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo are spreading the ludicrous lie that I support her so-called 10-point agenda and in effect her rigged election to the presidency of the reactionary government of big compradors and landlords. more…
The US Cannot Extricate Itself from Iraqi Quagmire by Setting Up the Puppet Iraqi Interim Government
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
General Consultant
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
28 June 2004
The US is so flagrantly hell-bent on holding on to the fruits of its criminal war of aggression against the people of Iraq. It wants to control and own the oil resources of Iraq in order to tighten its grip on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. It wants to keep 14 US military bases and more than 135,000 US troops in Iraq in order to control the entire Middle East, allow Israel to slaughter the Palestinian people and humiliate all the Arab people. It is monopolizing all kinds of business priivileges and contracts, especially reconstruction contracts and military sales, in order to appropriate the oil resources and income of Iraq.more…
Do the GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations Stop the People’s Resistance?
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chiel Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
27 June 2004
Without resistance, the people have no hope of achieving national liberation and democracy against US imperialism and the local exploiting classes. One reactionary regime of the GRP after another has agreed to negotiate with the NDFP because of the growing revolutionary armed strength of the people. more…
Disappointing Outcome of the Third Round of Formal Talks in Oslo
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
Press Statement
26 June 2004
The Negotiating Panels of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) made important agreements in the third round of formal talks from 22-24 June 2004 in Oslo, Norway. more…
NDFP Can Negotiate with the GRP Whoever is the President
By Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
23 June 2004
It is fine that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has dispatched the Negotiating Panel of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) to hold formal talks with the Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in Oslo. more…
Massive cheating can ignite protest movement to topple the regime
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
15 May 2004
As chief political consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, I am critical of the May 10, 2004 elections of the reactionary government in a fundamental way. These elections are mainly and essentially a contest for power among competing political factions and agents of the pro-imperialist exploiting classes of big compradors and landlords. These elections are not really democratic exercises. They are meant to exclude the genuine representatives of the toiling masses and other exploited people. more…
Campaign of Hatred, Murder and Intimidation Against Progressive Parties Must Stop
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
May 2, 2004
The campaign of hatred, murder and intimidation unleashed by the Macapagal-Arroyo regime, especially by national security adviser Norberto Gonzales and military and police officials, against the progressive parties in the party list contest is dastardly and reprehensible and must stop immediately. more…
Why the FPJ Challenge to GMA is Losing Steam and Weakening
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairman
International Network for Philippine Studies
Chiel Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
23 April 2004
The front runners in the current electoral contest for the presidency of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines are the powerful incumbent president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) and the supposedly popular movie star Fernando Poe, Jr. (FPJ). more…
