On the so-called universality of protracted people’s war
PRISM editors are posting below the full text of a major response by Andy Belisario to the simmering debate on the “universality of people’s war”.
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PRISM editors are posting below the full text of a major response by Andy Belisario to the simmering debate on the “universality of people’s war”.
More than 120 Filipinos and their international friends in Europe gathered to celebrate 50 years of struggle for social and national liberation in the Philippines on 31 March 2019. Billed as a “Tapestry of Resistance,” the event in Amsterdam, the Netherlands resonated with many other gatherings in the Philippines and overseas that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the New People’s Army.
Professor Jose Maria Sison, chairperson of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), said that it was “hysterical fear of white genocide” that drive Australian mass murderer Brendan Tarrant to kill 50 Muslim worshipers in a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand on March 15. He further added that “the white victim complex and the hysterical assertion of white supremacy are two sides of the same coin” that led to the mass shooting. Full text of the ILPS chairperson’s statement follows.
Such a phenomenon as the yellow vest movement is welcome and praiseworthy for taking up the just grievances of the working class and the middle class and exposing the grave ills of the oppressive and exploitative capitalist ruling system. It shows that there is a wide and deepgoing mass base of social discontent and resistance that the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary party of the proletariat can avail of in winning the battle for democracy and aiming for the socialist revolution.
We joyously celebrate this year the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Third International or the Communist International (Comintern) by its First Congress in Moscow on 2-6 March 1919.
The recent electoral win of Bolsonaro is a clear-cut indication that US imperialism and its allies are behind the “soft coup” type of regime change in Brazil. They are in fact hellbent on cutting short the trend of Bolivarian or progressive-leaning governments and on setting the stage for a new wave of fascist dictatorships all over Latin America.
Prof. Jose Maria Sison, Chairperson of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, sent this message of solidarity to the Marx@200 Study Conference on 13 June 2018 at the University of the Philippines Diliman campus. The study conference was co-organized by the Institute of Political Economy, International League for Peoples’ Struggle, and Kilusang Mayo Uno (May […]
Jose Maria Sison’s paper for the Manila launch on May 5, 2018, of the bicentennial commemoration of Karl Marx’s birth is now available in Russian. PRISM welcomes comments and suggested improvements in the translation. Contact us and we will consider your suggestions.
Prof. Jose Maria Sison, Chairperson of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, delivered the keynote address to the global launch of the Marx at 200 Bicentennial Celebration at a suburban Manila university campus on 5 May 2018. The event, held at the University of the Philippines Diliman, was co-organized by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN), the […]
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