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From the Introduction by Elmer A. Ordonez:
"The third volume [of the Selected Writings 1991-2009] contians the political essays of Jose Maria Sison from 2001 to 1006. This period saw ignominious and epochal events like September 11 and George W. Bush's "war on terror," the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and world-wide risings against these aggressions, the reelection of Bush and more of his failed policies, and auguries of the global economic and financial meltdown.
While these and other events inform Sison's writings largely prompted by invitations to speak in forums and gatherings, he has had occasion to draw lessons from earlier events like the Korean War, the 1955 Bandung Conference, the 1965 massacre in Indonesia, the Vietnam War, and the 1997 Southeast Asian financial crisis."
Table of Contents
1. The Mass Movement Must Surge Forward
2. Contradictions in the World Capitalist System and the Necessity of Socialist Revolution
3. Sympathy for the Victims and Condemnation of Terrorism
4. Imperialist Globalization and Terrorism
5. Analysis of the Southeast Asian Crisis of 1997
6. An Update on Imperialism, War and People's Struggle
7. Experience of the Communist Party of the Philippines in the Anti-Imperialist and Anti-War Fronts
8. US Intervention in the Philippines and Korea
9. Democracy in the NPA and the Lack of it in the AFP
10. On Revolutionary Struggles in Imperialist and Oppressed Countries
11. War, Imperialism and Resistance from Below
12. The Attack on my Human Rights and Civil Liberties is Part of US Offensive Against the People's Right to National Liberation, Democracy and Social Justice
13. Chronic Financial Crisis and the Way Out
14. Message to the International Research Conference on the 1955 Afro-Asian Summit in Bandung
15. Ideology and Religion in the Philippines
16. Socio-Economic and Political Realities and the Need for Peace Negotiations
17. Condemn Imperialism and the G8 Big Swindle, Demand Cancellation of all Neocolonial Debts
18. Barbarism and Terrorism of the US in Atom Bombing Civilian Populations
19. On the Proposed Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism
20. ILPS Denounces UN Millennium Development Goals as Scheme to Aggravate Imperialist Plunder and Poverty
21. UN Security Council and Peacebuilding Commission are Instruments of Imperialist Aggression and Plunder
22. Reform of UN Security Council Seeks to Reinforce Imperialist System of Aggression and Plunder
23. The NDFP's Defense of the Rights of the Filipino Child
24. Junk the WTO! Resist Imperialist Plunder and War
25. Reflections on the 1965 Massacre in Indonesia
26. Impact of the Communist International on the Founding and Development of the Communist Party of the Philippines
27. Global Trends, Challenges and Opportunities after 9/11
First Year of Publication: 2009
Publisher: Philippines: Aklat ng Bayan, Inc.
Extent: 270 p.
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