Every year, on December 26, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) celebrates its founding anniversary. This year, as the Party turns 55, various celebrations will be held in the Philippines and abroad. For this issue, Liberation International highlights the masses’ participation in these celebrations through the anecdotes shared by comrades who have been part […]

On November 23, this year, the NDFP (National Democratic Front of the Philippines) Peace Negotiating Panel and designated representatives of the GRP (Government of the Republic of the Philippines) signed a Joint Statement in Oslo, Norway declaring their intention to resume the peace negotiations which were terminated by the Duterte regime in 2017. The November […]

Edmundo Legislador arrived in Bacolod, Negros Occidental in January 1973.  He was deployed from Panay Island. At the age of 22, he was appointed Head of the entire Party organization in Negros.   He was the son of two prominent familties of Oton, Iloilo. His father was a rice mill owner, while his mother, fondly called […]

Introduction The genocidal war of annihilation unleashed on the Palestinian people by US imperialism and its Zionist lackeys in the Middle East has its roots in the colonial and imperialist aggression on Palestinian land that started in 1917. The genocide in Palestine has already claimed more than 18,000 Palestinian lives, mostly women, children and the […]

The struggle of Filipino migrants, despite being away from their homeland, remain rooted in the Philippine struggle for national and social liberation. Cognizant of the semi-feudal and semi-colonial conditions back home that forced them to work abroad, Filipino migrants can be organized as a formidable force of the revolution. Statistics from the International Labour Organization […]

In the past year, the Filipino masses have witnessed (and suffered) firsthand the further deterioration of the Philippine economy. From depressed wages, ballooning food prices to persistent landlessness and maldevelopment especially in the countryside, the neoliberal economic policy of the Marcos Jr. regime stays true to form as an unequivocally anti-people scheme. Despite Marcos Jr.’s […]

Prof. Jose Maria Sison, or Ka Joma as he is fondly called, was a staunch fighter for the rights and welfare of Filipino overseas workers. As Chairperson of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) and as Chief Political Consultant of the NDFP Panel for peace negotiations he never failed to uphold the interest of […]

The recent UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) Conference of Parties (COP) in Dubai reeks of monopoly capitalist control mainly through the global oil cartel represented by the US-backed United Arab Emirates (UAE) hosting the talks. In every annual COP, western imperialist countries including the US and Europe would make pledges to cut […]