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TODOS A LA CALLE EL 15 DE OCTUBRE

GRAN MOVILIZACION CONTRA EL REGIMEN DE URIBE Y EN SOLIDARIDAD CON LA HUELGA DE LOS CORTEROS DE CAÑA
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Battle-weary AFP Troops Going Berserk in the Countryside (19 AFP Troops Dead, at least 20 Wounded in the Surigao del Sur-Davao Oriental Border Offensives) (more…)

Exclusive Al Jazeera Interview with Comrade Gaurav, head of the International Command of the Communist Party Of Nepal (Maoist) Comrade Gaurav is to be interviewed by Al Jazeera TV on (more…)

“Hence, not only the Nepalese masses are watching over curiously the upcoming CC meeting of our Party, but also the people of the world over.” (more…)

- सुशिल खड्का

भौगोलिक हिसाबले हामी मातृभूमिबाट निकै टाढा भएपनि हाम्रो गरिबीले लखेटेका लाखौ नेपालीका वीच यो मरुभुमीमा आफ्नो वर्गको हक र अधिकारका लागि संघर्षरत हाम्रो संगठन पिडित वर्गमाझ एउटा सहयोगी संगठनको रुपमा स्थापित भएको छ । हाम्रो संगठनले हिमाल देखि तराइसम्म मेची देखि महाकाली सम्मका सम्पूर्ण नेपालीका हक हितका लागि आवाज उठाउदै र संघर्ष गर्दै आइरहेकेा छ । यसको स्थापना नै प्रवासमा विपत्तिमा परेका (more…)

(M). 12 de Agosto de 2008. (Traducción de la c. Eva P. para Correo Vermello)
Esta es la era del imperialismo y la revolución proletaria. También se la conoce por la era leninista. Se caracteriza por el hecho de que el imperialismo se ha extendido a través de la explotación y el saqueo del mundo, a través de la base económica del feudalismo y de la superestructura de la burocracia y la burguesía en los países oprimidos. El capitalismo burocrático, basado en los (more…)

On the 28th of May this year, Nepal became a republic after 240 years of monarchy. This momentus occasion was the result of ten years of People’s War fought by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN (M)) and the people’s movement it led in April 2006. The events of the last 12 years have been a continuous revolutionary process. The declaration of the republic is only the latest stage in this process, albeit a very important one. The next stage of the revolution will come when the people, (more…)

The recent propaganda in western media describes Zimbabwe as a failed state ruled by a dangerous dictator. Accordingly, the source of all ills that are plaguing the country is said to be this tyrannical ruler and his one party rule. So, putting an end to the current regime, and imposing a Western-style democracy, is a highly important agenda for the liberation of Zimbabweans. Besides, in order to achieve these noblest of aims of western powers, an intervention on humanitarian grounds is (more…)

We want to call your attention to a major political change that has happened in Nepal — the (not-so-surprising) congealing of the various reactionary parties into a “stop the Maoists” alliance.
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Future of PLA in question

The rightist alliance of NC, UML and MJF has put the future of PLA in question. Recently, a Congress leader said: ‘Considering the mutinies in the armed police barracks, the integration of the PLA into the National army will be a disaster. (more…)

By Kishor Panthi
Editor
Sagarmatha Television
Nepal

1st July 2008/
Gyanendra Shah had all of a sudden become the king after the bloody massacre in the Narayanhity Royal Palace in 2001 in which his elder brother and the then king Birendra Shah and all his family members were killed mysteriously. The king who was a veteran businessman could not be as (more…)

The lessons we draw from history of proletarian revolution - Guide principles of the (new) Italian Communist Party

(from Manifesto Program of the (new) Italian Communist Party - Chapter III - The communist party struggle for making Italy a new socialist country)
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MATA TERTUJU PADA M A O B A D I : 4 ALASAN BERKAITAN DENGAN REVOLUSI NEPAL oleh Mike Elly

Suatu kejadian luar biasa sedang berlangsung. Satu generasi rakyat secara menyeluruh belum pernah menyaksikan sebuah kebangkitan gerakan rakyat yang radikal, sekuler dan revolusioner. Namun, ini lah yang terjadi pada saat ini di Nepal.
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Dear Comrades!

The Russian Maoist Party (RMP) salutes the excellent and glorious
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and its leader, Chairman Prachanda,
personally, sends you our fraternal greetings and extends to you,
comrades, our warmest and sincerest congratulations on your (more…)

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Eastern Visayas
expressed today that the Pacific Friendship 2008 ending this June – a
“humanitarian mission” by the US Navy in Samar – is but a guise for (more…)

The role of revolutionary literature on the Maoist Victory

- Florentino A. Iniego, JR

Another way of understanding the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist’ s victory is to study its revolutionary literature. As a researcher from the Philippines, I have been struggling to learn the Nepali (more…)

From Kasama
Posted by Mike E on March 27, 2008Maz calls attention to the following essay written by “A Circle of Revolutionaries in Canada.” It was originally posted on the Maoist Revolution List. It adds to the earlier discussion we have already over Maoism vs. Jihadism. I thought the following passage (which is the closing of this essay) have general importance (including to the discussion of Obama happening on our other threads.) (more…)

“Communism has revived itself from all the old experiences. New ideology, new strategy has been created by the Nepalese Maoists.”
- Prachanda

6 hours ago
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Gegen Imperialismus, gegen modernen Faschismus, kämpfen, organisieren, die Partei aufbauen!

An diesem 1. Mai ist der Imperialismus in der defensive, denn er ist mit dem vom Volkswiderstand in Irak, Afghanistan, Palästina, Kurdistan und auf der ganzen Welt konfrontiert. Bushs unbegrenzter Krieg bringt keinen Erfolg. Die imperialistische Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise wird auf das Volk und die ärmsten Volksmassen abgeladen. Elend und Hunger verbreiten sich, aber auch Revolten gegen Hunger und Elend, die von Ägypten bis Tunesien, von den Philippinen bis Indien und Vietnam unter Führung der Arbeiter/innenklass e stehen. (more…)

In their latest contribution to the debate on current resistance to imperialism (15/03/08) the Circle of Canadian Revolutionaries question wheter or not the contradiction between imperialism and the oppressed nations is the principal one in the world today. They criticise Harry Powell for not concretely arguing that this is in fact the case and lapsing into what they call “formulaic dogmatism”. (more…)

यही हो एमालेको असली अनुहार

आफूलाई कम्युनिस्ट आन्दोलनको मूल प्रवाह दाबी गर्ने नेकपा-एमाले)को असली अनुहार भने निकै घिनलाग्दो छ । नेकपा-एमाले)को विभाजनपछि मालेमा आबद्ध भएका युवाहरूले ०५५ साल चैत १ गते एउटा पुस्तिका प्रकाशित गरेका थिए । क्रान्तिकारी युवा समूह, काठमाडौंको नाममा ‘राष्ट्रघाती विर्सजनवादी एमाले नेतृत्व गुटका ५१ अपराध’ शीर्षकको सो पुस्तिकाले एमालेको असली अनुहार उदाङ्ग पारेको छ । नेपाली जनताको सुसूचीत हुने अधिकारको सम्मान गर्दै सो पुस्तिकाको सम्पादीत अंश पस्तुत गरिएको छ । (more…)

New ideology should lead nation: Prachanda [ 2008-3-16 ]
By Our Correspondent
Rolpa, March 15: A party with new ideology should lead the country after the constituent assembly (CA) election for restoring enduring peace and stability, CPN (Maoist) chairman Prachanda said addressing a mass meeting organised in Liwang of Rolpa Saturday.
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7 January 2008. A World to Win News Service. Following are excerpts from “Coup within the Coup”, an article on President Pervez Musharraf’s declaration of a state of emergency in Pakistan, in the December 2007 issue of Sholeh Javid (Eternal Flame), newspaper of the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan. Though written before the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, its information and analysis is still very relevant. The explanations in parentheses are ours. ( http://www.sholajaw id.org ) (more…)

DHAMPUS, NEPAL - On a foot-worn path in the Himalaya Mountains, there is a small checkpoint. Set up alongside a busy trekking route banked by terraced fields of grain, it consists of a stone wall used as a table and a red hammer-and-sickle flag drooping from an old shed. It demands money to pass: 300 rupees, the equivalent of only $5 or £2:50p. (more…)

The US Strategic Offensive
Riding on the back of globalization, intensifying exploitation of workers and peasants to make astronomical super profits and expanding political and military influence globally, the US , in collusion with other imperialist powers, mainly Britain , and with the support of their client states, is carrying out its strategic offensive against the people of the world to establish its empire. At this juncture, the main battleground is in the oppressed countries, targeting the masses in the Middle East , forcing a major political restructuring in the region.
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Lima, 08.10.07 Unità dell’Esercito Popolare di Liberazione maoista, attaccarono diverse basi militari ad Ayacucho, Hunacavelica y Apurimac lo scorso mese di settembre, realizzando inoltre molte azioni di proselitismo e propaganda secondo quanto rivela, in un paese totalmente avvolto dalla censura del regime fantoccio dell’imperialismo guidato dal genocida Alan Garcia, il giornale El Espreso che viene pubblicato nella capitale.
Secondo quanto riportato, le basi militari di “Morales” nella regione Pangoa-Satipo, di “Cayramayo” ad Huanta fueron colpite con armi da fuoco creando grande tensione tra le forze militari ma senza produrre perdite. Analogamente furono realizzate diverse azioni di propaganda e di occupazione di località, in Ayacucho, Apurimac y Huancavelica: concretamente si tratta delle località di Libertad nella provincia di Junín, di Churimayoc nella provincia di La Mar, di Pampa Cangallo nella provincia di Cangallo, e nella località del fiume Apurimac di Urcay e a Tayacaja nella provincia di Huancavelica.

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Obviously, the first alliance with the KMT (Guomindang) ended in awful circumstances. But initially the alliance allowed the Communists to grow and gain influence. Perhaps without some sort of alliance they would have remained a marginal group. We can see the alliance dialectically, it allowed the Communists to develop politically but ended up with a serious physical depletion of the ranks. The argument is that the latter could have been avoided if the alliance had not been taken so far by the Communists. I think the idea that some Trotskyists seem to have that in no circumstances should the Communists have allied with the Guomindang is wrong. It’s too leftist. Although in the end the first alliance became too rightest and the result was the massacre.
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In order to achieve clarity on this important issue we need to apply a materialist analysis, not an idealist one. In assessing the significance of Islamic and other reactionary groups resisting imperialism, we should primarily focus upon their objective impact on the (more…)

By Deepak Adhikari

Another Maoist insurgency is going to rock yet another country in South Asia, if the statements made by the leaders of the Communist Party of Bhutan Marxist-Leninist- Maoist (CPM MLM) are anything to go by.
“Preliminary preparations for an insurgency are over. We are going to launch it soon,” says Vikalpa, nom-de-plume of CPB MLM General Secretary.
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Txente Rekondo
Rebelión
Con los ecos de las celebraciones del aniversario del surgimiento del moderno estado indio, las deficiencias de ese proyecto y sus contradicciones internas siguen asomando estos días. Durante muchos años el conflicto de Cachemira se ha situado en el primer puesto del macabro ranking en cuanto a pérdidas humanas, sin embargo en los últimos años, el enfrentamiento de la guerrilla maoísta con el estado indio ha superado a aquél.
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Manila. (EFE).- El jefe del ilegal Partido Comunista de Filipinas (PCF), Jose Maria Sison, ha sido detenido hoy por la Policía en Holanda, donde reside exiliado desde 1988, en relación al asesinato de varias personas en su país, informaron los medios filipinos. (more…)

27 August 2007. A World to Win News Service. The US-headquartered retailing giant Wal-Mart signed an unprecedented agreement with an Indian partner to begin operations in that country 6 August. The move heralds big changes in agricultural and industrial production as well as distribution. It will accelerate the economic and social changes sweeping India as imperialist monopoly capital and domestic monopoly capital enter into new alliances and configurations. The UK supermarket chain Tesco, France’s Carrefour and Auchan, and Germany’s Metro are all eyeing India. The Wall-Mart Bharti chain, the first of its kind in India, is expected to open next year (more…)

मोती चाम्लीङ्ग प्रवासवाट
प्रवासमा स्थापित नेपाली कुटनिति नियोगको कार्यकुशलतालाई साउदी अरवमा नियाल्दै आएको सातौं वर्षरु बितिसकेका छन् । नेपालको राजनितिमा कायापलट आउनु अघि र पछि दुवै समयपरिवेशभित्र रियाद दूतावास भू.पू. राजालाई स्तुति स्तोत्र फलांक्ने राजावादीहरुको केन्द्रको रुपमा स्थापित हुन पुगेको छ । यस्तो किन र कसरी भइरहेको छ भन्ने प्रश्नको जवाफ भित्र अनेक ज्वलन्त प्रमाणहरु धारावाहिक रुपमा पेश गर्न सकिन्छ । नचाहदा नचाहदै पनि यी हकिकत ओकल्नु पर्ने अवस्था श्रृजना हुन पुगेको छ । एक चोटले ज्ञानी हुन्छ धेरै चोटले वानी होला भन्ने त्रासले पनि नेपाली दूतावास रियादको आवरणलाई छापामा धमिल्याउन अनुचित लाग्दथ्यो तर एक चोट पार्नै पर्ने वाध्यता दूतावास आफैले श्रृजना गरिदिएको छ । (more…)

CHRONOLOGY OF THE PERSECUTION OF PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON

BY THE PHILIPPINE, US AND DUTCH GOVERNMENTS

Issued by the International DEFEND Committee

18 August 2007

Since his release from military detention and the nullification of subversion and rebellion charges against him in 1986 after the fall of the Marcos fascist dictatorship, Prof. Jose Maria Sison has been subjected to a series of false and politically motivated charges in 1988, 1991, 2003 and 2006. One after the other, these charges have been dismissed and nullified by Philippine courts in 1992, 1994 and 2007. Thus, they have been proven as malicious and pure fabrications of the Philippine military, police and intelligence authorities.

But the Philippine, US and Dutch governments have used the false charges to persecute Prof. Sison. The trumped-up charges of subversion in 1988 and multiple murder in 1991 and the charges of subversion and rebellion nullified in 1986 have been used by the Dutch government to prevent the legal admission as refugee and residence of Prof. Sison in The Netherlands. Even the most unfounded propaganda attacks from the time of Marcos to 2006, which never materialized into formal complaints, have been used by the Philippine, US and Dutch governments to malign him as a “terrorist.” These governments do so even as Philippine prosecutors and courts dismiss and nullify the formal complaints and charges.

Under the Marcos fascist dictatorship, the Philippine government subjected Prof. Jose Maria Sison to arbitrary detention from 1977 to 1986 and to various forms of physical and mental torture, including water cure, punching, more than five years of solitary confinement, prolonged deprivation of basic necessities as well as medical and dental care and repeated death threats. He was arrested and detained without judicial warrant and was charged before two military commissions for subversion and rebellion. He was thus put in jeopardy of being punished twice for the same alleged offense of seeking to overthrow the Philippine government.

After the fall of the Marcos dictatorship, the Aquino regime released Prof. Sison from military detention on March 5, 1986. The two charges of subversion and rebellion against him were nullified through the dissolution of the military commissions as organs of repression. He joined the faculty of the Asian Studies Center of the state institution, the University of the Philippines in April 1986. From September 1986 onwards, he went on a tour for a series of university lectures and solidarity speeches in Oceania, Asia and Europe on the situation and prospects of the Philippines. The Philippine military authorities publicly attacked his lectures and pressured the Aquino regime to cancel his Philippine passport. They trumped up a new charge of subversion against him in September 1988. This became the basis for the cancellation of his Philippine passport.

After the arbitrary cancellation of his passport, Prof. Sison applied for political asylum in The Netherlands in October 1988. The Dutch Ministry of Justice used the false charge of subversion and related false claims against him from the Philippine government as the basis for issuing a negative decision on his asylum application in July 1990. The US State Department admitted publicly that the Philippine government intervened in the asylum case in order to oppose it. But the highest administrative court, the Judicial Department of the Council of State (Raad van State), made a judgment in 1992 annulling the unfavorable decision of the Dutch Ministry of Justice. It recognized Prof. Sison as a political refugee and criticized the ministry for using secret intelligence dossiers against him in contravention of the principle of fair administration and for delaying for more than four years the approval of his asylum application.

Despite the 1992 judgment of the Council of State, the Dutch Ministry of Justice refused to grant asylum to Prof. Sison. It also ignored the repeal of the Anti-Subversion Law by the Philippine government in 1992 and the consequent dismissal of the charge of subversion against Prof. Sison by the Pasig city court and the related nullification of the specifications against him. It likewise disregarded the resolution of the Manila city prosecutors in April 1994 dismissing as something based on pure speculation the 1991 complaint of multiple murder arising from the Plaza Miranda bombing in 1971. It continued to use the false charges against Prof. Sison and argue that to grant him asylum would run counter to the commitment and credibility of the Dutch state to its allies. Further, it cited raw intelligence dossiers to fabricate the claim that he is in contact with “terrorist” organizations. It was thus already using the “terrorist” label against him as early as in the years from 1990 to 1994.

In response to the new appeal of Prof. Sison in 1993, the Council of State, as the highest administrative court, issued in 1995 the judgment reaffirming its previous ruling that he is a political refugee under Article 1 A of the Refugee Convention and that he is under the protection of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. It ruled that Article 1 F of the Refugee Convention did not apply on him because there was no sufficient evidence against him for crimes that would exclude him from consideration as a refugee. It directed the Dutch Ministry of Justice to grant him legal admission as refugee and residence permit if there was no other country to which he could transfer without violating the Refugee Convention and without putting him at risk of ill treatment prohibited by Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. But the Dutch Ministry of Justice ignored the judgment of the Council of State and continued to refuse him legal admission as refugee and the permit to reside in The Netherlands.

Prof. Sison appealed to the newly-created Aliens Court in 1996 against the refusal of the Dutch justice ministry to grant him asylum. The court ordered the Dutch government to make a new decision. The Dutch government ultimately took the position before the Law Unification Chamber (REK, Rechtseenheidkamer) that it had the freedom of policy or discretion to refuse to Prof. Sison legal admission as a refugee and not to give him residence permit but to cease and desist from expelling him from The Netherlands in order to avoid the violation of the principle of nonrefoulement in Article 33 of the Refugee Convention and Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Being dependent on justice ministry personnel, funds and facilities, the REK upheld the position of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and dignified the brazen lie that Prof. Sison was liable for the false accusations of the Philippine government and for “contacts with terrorist organizations” on the basis of intelligence dossiers already examined and evaluated by the Raad van State in 1992 and 1995. It ran counter to the 1992 and 1995 judgments of the Raad van State, the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in the Chahal case, the dismissal of all charges against Prof. Sison in the Philippines from 1992 to 1994 and the total absence of any criminal charge against him abroad.

In April 1998 the justice secretary of the Philippine government issued an official certification declaring that there was no pending criminal charge against Prof. Sison and referred to the 1992 nullification and 1993 dismissal of the 1988 charge of subversion as well as the 1994 dismissal of the 1991 charge of multiple murder related to the Plaza Miranda bombing. From 1994 to 2003, the Philippine government, including the military and police authorities, took a rest from filing any formal criminal complaint against Prof. Sison. The Philippine military authorities merely hurled propaganda attacks against him, despite the fact that the Philippine government had already requested the US government in November 2001 to designate Prof. Sison as a “terrorist”. It was only in 2003 that they submitted to the Department of Justice a complaint against him for the June 2001 killing of the intelligence officer Col. Rodolfo Aquinaldo. The Filipino lawyers of Prof. Sison succeeded in having the complaint archived because of its patent falsity and political motivation and because of the lack of Philippine jurisdiction over him in the light of Philippine and international law.

The US government designated Prof. Sison as a “terrorist” on August 12, 2002 and the Dutch government followed suit within 24 hours on August 13, 2002 despite the completely clean legal status of Prof. Sison, despite the absence of any specific act of terrorism that can be ascribed to him, despite the absence of any kind of criminal charge or investigation involving him and despite the Hernandez doctrine in Philippine jurisprudence concerning political offenses and the absence then of any anti-terrorism law in the Philippines. The “terrorist” blacklisting of Prof. Sison by the US and other governments has placed him in a position worse than that of a convicted murderer. He is prohibited from gainful employment. He is deprived of his social benefits, including living allowance, housing, medical insurance, civil liability insurance and old age pension. His bank account is frozen. He is prevented from receiving royalty payments for the publication of his books. He is preempted from receiving compensation for damages due to him for winning his human rights case against the Marcos regime. His fundamental rights have been violated, including the right to the essential means of human existence, the right to the presumption of innocence, the right to defense, the right to be informed of reasons for the sanctions, the right to judicial protection, the right to private and family life, the right of free movement, the right against slander and defamation and the right to be secure against threats to life and reputation.

Out to please the US and Philippine governments politically, the Dutch government, with the open lobbying of Philippine authorities, pushed the Council of the European Union to blacklist Prof. Sison on October 28, 2002. Two days after the blacklist decision of the Council, the Dutch government repealed its blacklisting of Prof. Sison but persisted in violating his fundamental rights and causing material and moral damage to him by invoking the Council decision. The Dutch and British governments are the main interveners in support of the Council of the European Union in the case filed by Prof. Sison against the Council before the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg since February 2003. The Dutch government is the main source of the lies given to the court that (a) Prof. Sison is liable for “terrorism” (and not for rebellion under the Hernandez political offense doctrine of Philippine jurisprudence) for being allegedly the Chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines and head of the New People’s Army and (b) the 1992 and 1995 judgments of the Dutch Council of State and the 1997 judgment of the REK on his asylum case held Prof. Sison liable for “terrorism” (contrary to the fact that these courts recognized him as a political refugee under Article 1 A of the Refugee Convention and as someone protected by Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights).

In 2005 Arroyo and her henchmen in the Cabinet Oversight Committee on Internal Security and the Anti-Terrorism Task Force started to escalate false accusations against Prof. Sison in the mass media and pushed military officers to file baseless charges of common crimes (like murder, robbery, kidnapping and the like) against him in connection with incidents ascribed to the New People’s Army in various parts of the Philippines. The campaign of slander was obviously intended to reinforce the “terrorist” blacklisting of Prof. Sison by various foreign governments and to justify the intensified extrajudicial killing, abduction and torture of progressive legal activists. It was also intended to link Prof. Sison to a broad united front of legal political forces striving to lead the people to oust the Arroyo regime for having cheated in the presidential elections of 2004. The filing of criminal charges against Prof. Sison culminated in an omnibus charge of rebellion in April 21, 2006 against him and 50 other people, including underground revolutionary leaders, progressive congressmen and anti-Arroyo military officers. The purported facts of the charge of rebellion covered the entire period, from the founding of the Communist Party of the Philippines on December 26, 1968 to the filing of the charge on April 21, 2006 and disregarded the nullification of charges and the amnesty proclamations from 1986 to 1995.

On April 23, 2007 the Council of the European Union sent to Prof. Sison a letter with a one-page statement that repeats the two lies provided by the Dutch government, as mentioned in No. 9 above. On May 22, 2007 he sent a letter of reply and told the Council that the statement of lies had already been presented by the Council to the European Court of First Instance, has been debunked in court and does not amount to a statement of reasons as required of the Council by the court in cases of “terrorist” blacklisting. Then the Council made a new decision on June 28, 2007 blacklisting Prof. Sison on the basis of the aforesaid lies it had made before. This new decision of the Council is obviously intended to serially perpetuate Prof. Sison in the ‘terrorist” blacklist, continually violate his fundamental rights, cause material and moral damage to him and undermine or render useless any favorable judgment of the European Court of First Instance on his case against the Council of the European Union.

The European Court of First Instance issued its judgment on the Sison case on July 11, 2007 annulling the decision of the Council placing him on the “terrorist” list and freezing his financial assets. The annulment is grounded on the Council’s infringement of Prof. Sison’s right to defense, its failure to give a statement of reasons from the second time that it blacklisted him and the violation of his right to judicial protection. The court does not require the Council to pay for the material and moral damages suffered by Prof. Sison due to its decision and fails to mention that the Dutch government has invoked the decision of the Council in order to inflict material and moral damages on him. However, the court requires the Council to pay for the costs of the litigation to the lawyers of Prof. Sison as plaintiff and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines as intervener. Insofar as it can be established that the Dutch government has directly inflicted material and moral damages on Prof. Sison, he can take legal action to seek compensation for such damages. But it can be expected that the Dutch government will resort to every legal trickery to evade accountability.

In the meantime, Prof. Sison has won a resounding legal victory in the Philippines. The Philippine Supreme Court issued on July 2, 2007 a judgment nullifying the omnibus charge of rebellion and all the supposed evidence from 1968 to 2006 against Prof. Sison and his 50 other co-accused. In effect, the supposed evidence cannot be used again against all or any of them in any new charge. The solicitor general has publicly admitted that the value of the state’s stock of purported evidence has been wiped out. This is the latest instance when Prof. Sison is cleared of a criminal charge. It previously happened in 1986, 1992, 1994 and 1998. At this moment, the Philippine and foreign governments persecuting Prof. Sison should be at a loss in holding him liable for any criminal offense or any semblance of this. The Philippine government can fabricate a charge of rebellion against Prof. Sison only from the date after April 21, 2006 and a charge of “terrorism” from July 15, 2007 which is the date the Human Security Act of 2007 became effective. However, the Human Security Act of 2007 is now under fire by a broad range of democratic forces, human rights organizations and legal experts in the Philippines and abroad for being patently unconstitutional.

Prof. Sison has won a significant legal victory with the July 11, 2007 judgment of the European Court of First Instance. But he still needs to complete his legal victory by contending with the preemptive June 28, 2008 decision of the Council retaining him in the “terrorist” blacklist and by filing a new application for annulment of said decision insofar as he is concerned. He still has to defend his fundamental rights and demand compensation for the material and moral damages inflicted on him.

We expect that the Philippine, US and Dutch governments will continue to persecute Prof. Jose Maria Sison by using against him their political power and the existing fascist “anti-terrorism” laws and decisions that they have devised in order to justify state terrorism and wars of aggression. We need to continue and intensify both the political and legal struggles of democratic forces and the people of the world in order defend the fundamental rights of Prof. Sison and other victims of the global trend of fascisation and aggressive wars generated by the imperialist powers and their reactionary puppets.

We must struggle to stop immediately the persecution of progressive leaders like Prof. Jose Maria Sison and the suppression of anti-imperialist and democratic forces and peoples fighting for national liberation, greater freedom, social justice, development and world peace!!!

Fore reference:

Ruth de Leon

International Coordinator

International DEFEND Committee

Email: defenddemrights@ yahoo.com

Telephone: 00-31-30-8895306

Website: www.defendsison. be

13 de agosto de 2007. Servicio Noticioso Un Mundo Que Ganar. Los sucesos en Nepal han suscitado mucho interés entre nuestros lectores. A continuación presentamos un informe levemente revisado y abreviado sobre la situación de Nepal pronunciado en junio ante el Comité de Coordinación de Partidos y Organizaciones Maoístas del Sur de Asia (CCPOMSA) por el Partido Comunista de Nepal (Maoísta) [PCN (M)]. Salió en el número 17 (julio de 2007) del Boletín Informativo Maoísta publicado por el Departamento Internacional del Comité Central del PCR (M). La versión en inglés se halla en krishnasenonline. org/Boletí n.
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Ka Aris Francisco
Alejandro Lanaja Command
Front 3 Operations Command
New Peoples Army-Southern Mindanao
August 11, 2007

Red fighters from the Alejandro Lanaja Command-New People’s Army ambushed elements of the 72nd Infantry Battalion-Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and paramilitary Cafgu, on Friday, August 10, in Sitio Kidapang, Brgy. San Isidro, Monkayo, Compostela Province around 7:30 in the morning. (more…)

01 May 2007

Signatories updated on 10 August 2007

We, the undersigned Marxist-Leninist, Mao Zedong Thought and
Marxist-Leninist- Maoist parties and organizations, hereby issue this
declaration to reaffirm the significance and relevance of the struggle
against modern revisionism starting in 1956 in opposition to the
revisionist content of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union (CPSU) in February 1956 leading to the Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 and continuing after the
bourgeoisie seized power in China in 1976. We do so after one year of
activities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the anti-revisionist
struggle and renewing our commitment to pursue this struggle. (more…)

– Com. Gaurav

It is big news in Nepal these days that Maoist Party is striving very hard to develop its foreign relations. They also make their assessments that it has achieved tremendous success in this regard. The visits made by some of the leaders of our Party to foreign countries and our bilateral talks with the official delegations of various countries including our immediate neighbor and a tested long time friend of our country, China is being cited as the examples. This short article relates to the same subject. (more…)

- Sanjay Kumar
Monarchy in Nepal has repressed the Madeshi, a large indigenous population in the plains for ages. The deliberate process of isolating them psychologically and politically began with the myth of misquoted unification by Prthivi Narayan Shah. During Rana, Panchayat and Post 1990 regimes, the autocratic state tried to wash off her moral duties by giving a handful reactionary and feudal Madhesis representation in the state organs. The undemocratic steps of the state hurt the sentiments of the proletarian Madhesis. They got disillusioned and alienated further from the mainstream, thereby generating hatred and anger among the Madhesi people against the state and privileged class. (more…)

Hace poco, se convocó el VI Conferencia Regional de Partidos y Organizaciones Maoístas del Sur de Asia Unidos en el Movimiento Revolucionario Internacionalista en una situación en que, tanto en el sur de Asia como en el mundo, las oportunidades y los retos que enfrentan las fuerzas maoístas se intensifican en el contexto de la nueva ola emergente de la revolución mundial y de la ofensiva contrarrevolucionar ia liderada por el imperialismo estadounidense, el enemigo principal de los pueblos del mundo. Esta situación se ve especialmente en Nepal, donde la revolución de nueva democracia liderada por el Partido Comunista de Nepal (Maoísta) ha pasado a una etapa crítica. Se homenajeó a los mártires revolucionarios, (more…)

After five days of isolation and torture Krishna Sen died, the blows, boots, and lathis of the men in uniform raining down upon him. He was kept captive in the highest building in Mahendra Police Club, next to its Judo Hall. His hands were bound behind his back, and he was repeatedly asked to say “This country belongs to the king.” (more…)

Gary Leupp

The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), leading what many have considered the most advanced Maoist movement in the world for the last decade, has recently been accused of attacks on gay people and of indulging in anti-gay rhetoric. Unfortunately, the reports seem valid. In January, a senior party leader, Dev Gurung, now Minister of Local Development in Nepal’s transitional government, was quoted in the press as stating: “Under Soviet rule and when China was still very much a communist state, there were no homosexuals in the Soviet Union or China. Now [that] they are moving towards capitalism, homosexuals may have arisen there as well. So homosexuality is a product of capitalism. Under socialism this kind of problem does not exist.”
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ANAND SWAROOP VERMA, GAUTAM NAVLAKHA

In Maoist understanding, People’s War (PW) is 80 per cent politics and 20 per cent warfare. The decisive factor in a war o f this genre is not guns but the mobilisation of people for seizing power through protracted war. This is not to underplaythe (more…)

In India it is avery complex study on the Maoist
Movement.Basically, it is divided into 3 trends.The first of the
C.P.I.(Maoist) ,the second of the C.P.R.C.I.(M. L) and the third of
groups like The C.PI.(M.L)Kanu Sanyal and New Democracy Groups.The
C.PI.(M.L)Liberatio n gtoup has already capitualted to the
revisionsit Camp. (more…)

Engels said “Marx was before all else a revolutionist. His real mission in life was to contribute in one way or another to the overthrow of the capitalist society and of the state institutions that it has brought into being, to contribute to the liberation of the present day proletariat, which he was the first to make conscious of its own position and its needs, of the conditions under which it could win its emancipation.” Note 1. (more…)

KATHMANDU (AFP) - Two top rebel Maoist leaders imprisoned in India for three years arrived in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu to scenes of rejoicing.
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T
he special issue (July 22, 2006) devoted
to the Maoists in India reflects
recognition of the growing importance
that the Maoist-led movement plays in the
polity and the economy of the country. (more…)

GREETINGS TO THE PROUD MLM FLAG OF PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION OF CPI(M) IN LEADING THE 1,000 MILLION INDIAN PEOPLE
(on its third anniversary)

We send greetings. We mean what we say! (more…)

As some comrades may already know, I came to the UK very recently to begin my Phd from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. As soon as I got here I was able to make contact with Pakistani leftists who have been living in the UK. They were already talking about the need to build a (more…)

On Cooperative Party Theory And Competitive Party
Theory
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1 Introducction (more…)