Jose Ma. Sison, founder of the Stalinist Communist Party of the Philippines, dies aged 83
To take stock of the life of Jose Ma. Sison is to document the bloody history of betrayed workers’ struggles in the Philippines of the past 60 years.
To take stock of the life of Jose Ma. Sison is to document the bloody history of betrayed workers’ struggles in the Philippines of the past 60 years.
In the space of 25 minutes, Biden declared the COVID-19 “pandemic over,” threatened a massive escalation of war against Russia and pledged US forces to a possible war with China.
The unreal spectacle has nothing to do with the passing of a slight, hunched-over elderly woman and everything to do with the royal institution that encrusted her and the monarchic principle she embodied.
The assassination of Daria Dugina carries the stench of the Ukrainian secret police and their CIA handlers, with the intention of provoking a response that will be used to escalate the US-NATO war against Russia.
The months since the election of Marcos Jr have been marked by the incremental expansion of authoritarian rule.
The outcome of the election is a result of the impact of US imperialism on the country’s history expressed in a concentrated form under the conditions of the current global crisis of capitalist rule.
The outcome of the 2022 election in the Philippines represents a victory for the most reactionary forces in the country’s politics.
On the first Monday in May each year a spectacle of excess is staged in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City – the Met Gala. The red carpet rolls out for the billionaires and their hangers-on, the politicians and parasites, and the celebrities competing in what is known as the Oscars of fashion.
Biden’s charge of “genocide” in Ukraine is a political provocation consciously aimed at whipping up a public hysteria to legitimize a massive escalation of the war, including the full-scale, open participation by the United States.
If allegations of war crimes are to be made against Putin, whatever criterion is applied to him must be brought to bear against other leaders, and, above all, against the American presidents.
It is impossible to speak in an honest fashion about war crimes while remaining silent about US imperialism.
Thirty-six years after the People Power ouster of the brutal Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr is front-runner in the country’s presidential election.
The world is in the grip of preventable mass death, and the mainstream media find cause of outrage in the culling of infected hamsters, which it has called the “latest sacrifice in China’s attempt to hold fortress COVID-zero.”
The Civilian Casualty Files are evidence of extensive war crimes. They reveal that the US military, under the Obama and Trump administrations, deliberately killed civilians, including children.
“The honest assessment of history is the bedrock of revolutionary politics. Falsifications and slander, on the other hand, are the primary weapons of Stalinism.”
The lessons of this key event in 1971 for students and workers in the Philippines today can only be drawn through a critical examination of the political forces involved, particularly the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines.
The remarks below were given by historian Joseph Scalice.
The WSWS is posting Dr. Joseph Scalice’s reply to Teo Marasigan, an apologist for the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines and its founder Jose Maria Sison. Sison has slandered Scalice as a CIA agent in response to his lecture detailing the CPP’s support for the fascistic Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and explaining its roots in the reactionary politics of Stalinism.
The bestial depiction of Leon Trotsky has its origins in the anti-semitism of the far right—a vicious heritage that Stalin embraced.
“Unable to respond to any of the substantive historical points raised in my scholarship, [Sison] has taken to repeatedly slandering me as a ‘CIA agent,’ a claim for which he has not a shred of evidence.”