José Maria Sison - Resist Neoliberalism, Fascism, and Wars of Agression

Jose Ma. Sison

Julieta de Lima, Editor

Resist Neoliberalism, Fascism and Wars of Aggression

International Network for Philippine Studies The Netherlands

Copyright 2021 by International Network for Philippine Studies (INPS)

Published by

International Network for Philippine Studies (INPS)

Cover design by Janos J.L.L. Sison Book design by Alvin Firmeza

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Authors Preface

T his book Resist Neoliberalism, Fascism and Wars of Aggression compiles my articles and speeches; statements and interviews; and messages and letters that I wrote in the whole year of 2019, when the peoples in the Philippines and abroad rose up to resist imperialism and all reaction on a scale and with intensity not seen before in decades.

With the purpose of clarifying the issues, I wrote and made analysis in my various capacities as the Founding Chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), Chief Political Consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and Chairperson of the International League of Peoples Struggle (ILPS).

Since the Sixth International Assembly of the ILPS in June 2019, I have ceased to be its Chairperson after serving for 15 years from 2004 to 2019 but have become Chairperson Emeritus, with the continuing role and task of helping to articulate ILPS concerns .

Part I of the book includes sustained articles and speeches focusing on the end of the peace negotiations between the Manila government and the NDFP, the escalation of the counterrevolution by the Duterte tyranny and the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the New Peoples Army (NPA) led by the CPP.

The golden anniversary of the NPA prompted requests for a review of its history, development and prospects. The requests came from various organizations in the Philippines and abroad interested in the key role of the NPA in peoples war and in its necessary relations with the CPP, the mass organizations and the organs of political power.

My valedictory address at the ILPS Sixth International Assembly and certain articles take up the major events and issues abroad about the worsening crisis of the world capitalist system and the resistance of the people to imperialist plunder, state terrorism and the wars of aggression. I welcome the spread and intensification of the various forms of anti-imperialist and democratic struggles.

I estimate that in the underdeveloped countries, where there is still a significant proportion of peasant masses, the peoples war can arise and develop in stages in the countryside in concert with the urban-based mass movements. And in the industrial capitalist countries, armed insurrection can break out of general strikes of workers and the general populace.

Part II of the book includes the timely statements and interviews that I did on Philippine and global issues. The preponderance of content against the de facto Duterte fascist dictatorship is necessitated by the escalation of oppression and exploitation and reflects the intensity of the Filipino peoples revolutionary struggle for national and social liberation.As the NDFP chief political consultant, I am privileged to know closely the abrupt swings of the Duterte regime from pretenses for peace negotiations to calls for bloodbath and back. It has been my duty to advice the NDFP negotiating panel and to engage in tit-for-tat struggle with the tyrant Duterte and his main adjutants.

The servile connections of the Duterte regime to both US and Chinese imperialism are exposed. The regime keeps the patronage of US imperialism by pledging to destroy the revolutionary movement and to change the 1987 constitution in order to remove the restrictions on foreign ownership of land and all businesses. At the same time, the ruling clique takes bribes from high-interest loans and overpriced infrastructure projects in official transaction with China as well as from collaboration with Chinese criminal triads in the smuggling of illegal drugs, rice and other goods.

The Duterte regimes gross and systematic crimes of treason, tyranny, mass murder, corruption and deception have outraged the broad masses of the people and have driven them to wage all forms of resistance. The main thrust of the book is to amplify the struggles of the proletariat and people against imperialism and reaction in the Philippines. It is likewise done in my statements of solidarity for those oppressed and exploited in other countries.

Part III of the book contains messages and letters which are addressed to revolutionary movements and anti-imperialist and demo- cratic organizations of various types in connection with the injustices that they confront and the current struggles that they must wage. I offer the highest honor and respect to the revolutionary heroes and martyrs .

a number of comrades who rendered revolutionary service to the people and departed in 2019.

The book unfolds the intolerable conditions that the Filipino and other peoples suffer, underscores the crying need for their resistance and points to the socialist direction that the revolutionary struggles against imperialism are taking.

The intensifying anti-imperialist and democratic struggles of the people are a response to the escalating oppression and exploitation unleashed by the world capitalist system and national ruling systems. The frequent and worsening crisis of overproduction and abuse of monopoly finance capital are sharpening the class struggle and inciting the proletariat and people to take the revolutionary road to socialism. The financial crash of 2008 brought forth an economic and social crisis that has become aggravated every year. The world wide mass protests and other militant mass actions of 2019, directed in common mainly against neoliberalism and fascism, are harbingers of more and greater struggles to challenge the world capitalist system and make way for revolutionary change.

The imperialist powers and their reactionary agents seek by force and deceit to install or perpetuate regimes of unbridled greed by unleashing state terrorism and wars of aggression. But these monstrous crimes arouse the people to organize revolutionary forces and wage struggles against counterrevolutionary states. They expose the decadent and moribund character of monopoly capitalism and the world capitalist system.

The world capitalist system is being rent asunder not only by the resistance of the proletariat and the broad masses of the people in various parts of the world but also by the sharpening contradictions among the imperialist powers themselves. The US and China are now the most conspicuous of the imperialist powers in a struggle to redivide the world and gain hegemony.

The peoples democratic revolution through protracted peoples war in the Philippines continues to grow in strength and advance precisely because of the escalating oppression and exploitation inflicted on the people by the traitorous, tyrannical, genocidal, corrupt and mendacious Duterte regime.

With utmost wisdom and courage, the Communist Party of the Philippines is leading the Filipino peoples revolutionary struggle for national and social liberation. This contributes to as well as benefits from the strengthening of the anti-imperialist and democratic struggles in various countries and to the resurgence of the world proletarian revolution.