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UTRECHT, The Netherlands—“Revolutionary forces should have a very positive attitude about the Internet as a powerful vehicle for mobilizing the masses,” Jose Ma. Sison said in a talk before fellow activists at a symposium on anti-imperialist organizing and propaganda held here on February 17.

Sison, chairperson of the International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS) and founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, compared today’s Internet with the railways a century ago. “The capitalists built and operated the railways to earn huge profits and to open up new frontiers for their businesses, that’s a given,” he noted.

But capitalists could not prevent determined revolutionaries, like Lenin’s Bolsheviks, from using the same railways “to transport the underground newspaper Iskra so it could reach thousands of workers.” Today’s revolutionaries should also maximize the Internet in the same way to mobilize the masses, Sison said. “There are always ways to go around restrictions,” he added. Read more

UTRECHT, The Netherlands—A new solidarity initiative announced its readiness to offer a range of knowledge and skills resources to activists interested in pursuing mass organizing and mass mobilization, in its inception workshop held here on 14 November.

Some 60 activists of various nationalities attended the workshop organized by the People’s Resource for International Solidarity and Mass Mobilization as its first public activity after its organizational formation on August 24.

The whole-day activity featured five speakers and conducted two simultaneous workshop groups.