To the Communist Party of
the Philippines!
Dear
Comrades,
We
were informed and affected by the passing away of the great communist
thinker, knowledgeable leader, teacher, and guide of the Philippine
proletariat and torch bearer of the international communist movement,
Comrade Jose Maria Sison, better known as “Ka Joma,” in the
Philippines.
The
date of January 16, 2023, based on the call of the comrades of the
Communist Party of India (Maoist), will be set all over the world in
commemoration of the meritorious and valuable services of Comrade
Joma and his valuable contributions to the world revolution and in
the service of the international communist movement. We considered
ourselves obliged to join this call while expressing our deep sorrow
and impression for this great losing of Comrade Sison and commemorate
the date of January 16, 2023 to remember this internationalist
comrade.
Comrade
José María Sison (Joma), who was born on February 8, 1939, died at
the age of 83 on December 16, 2022, in the Utrecht hospital in the
Netherlands where he was in forced exile from his country, and can be
said certainty that we have lost one of the great
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thinker and leaders of our time.
Comrade
Joma was the one who led the oppressed masses of the Philippines for
national freedom and democracy to establish a new democratic system
in his country. He, by learning from his country's tumultuous history
and in opposition to the “Lava” revisionist group, a group that
tied itself to the revisionists of the Soviet Union, founded the
Communist Party of the Philippines on December 26, 1968. About three
months after On March 29, 1969, founded the New People's Army for
armed struggles in the Philippines under the leadership of the
Communist Party of the Philippines to establish a new democratic
revolution in its country, and by relying on the slogan (Party -
People's Army - United National Front) could found and led the
National Democratic Front of the Philippines in 1973.
Although
the People's War started with 500 members in the Philippines, but it
soon grew and spread to all areas of the country. The spread of the
People's War in the Philippines shook the fascist government of
“Ferdinand Marcos” and led to the arrest of Comrade Sison in
1977. 9 years of torture and solitary confinement for Comrade Sison
marked a difficult time for the Communist Party of the Philippines
until he was finally released in 1986 after the overthrow of the
Marcos dictatorial government. In 1988, by the fascist government of
the Philippines, his passport was canceled, and Comrade Sison was
exiled from his country, and Comrade Sison faced asylum in the
Netherlands, and from 1992 onwards, he was recognized as a political
refugee by the Dutch Council of State, who spent more than thirty
years in exile.
In
2001, Comrade Joma founded the “International People's Struggle
Union” to coordinate and support the democratic and
anti-imperialist struggles of the peoples of the world. In 2020, he
detachment from the position of the head of this union, but his
ideological leadership remained on the body of that organization.
Comrade
Joma led and directed the international associations to advance the
world socialist revolution. He lived only for the revolution until
his death. His rich contributions and glorious theoretical legacy to
advance the revolution and people's war in the Philippines stand.
The
Second Congress of the Communist Party of the Philippines, which was
held in 2016, honored Comrade Ka Joma as a “great communist
thinker, leader, teacher and guide of the Filipino proletariat and
torch-bearer of the international communist movement” and
emphasized the greatness of his services to the Philippine revolution
and the global working-class movement.
C(M)PA
sends the Maoist red greeting to Comrade Jose Maria Sison (Ka Joma)
and joins the international call of the Communist Party of India
(Maoist) and honors the date of January 16, 2023, for the founder of
that party (Communist Party of the Philippines) and will take more
committed steps than before to move forward and raise the red flag of
the revolution in the suffocating conditions of Afghanistan.
By
learning from the experiences of the leaders of the proletariat and a
specific analysis of the specific situation of the society, we will
not hesitate to make any sacrifices to advance in the path of raising
the People's national resistance and revolutionary war, the current
specific form of the people's war in the country, and to overthrow
the fundamentalist and petrified pan-Islamist system of Taliban in
Afghanistan and establish a new democratic revolution and progress
towards socialism.
Maoist
Red greetings to Comrade Jose Maria Sison (Ka Joma)!
Long
live international solidarity!
Long
live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
CC
- Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan
January
16, 2023