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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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ILPS Chairperson

Joint call to commemorate Fukushima disaster and demand the end of using nuclear power
Message of solidarity and gratitude for the launch of Selected Works
Message in honor of Amancio Samuel Villatoro, martyr and hero of the proletariat and people
Message of solidarity to Migrante Australia on the occasion of its 2nd General Assembly
Message of solidarity to Asia-Wide Campaign on 15th Meeting of AWC Campaign Coordinating Body

Highlights: 4th International Assembly

Build a bright future! Mobilize the people to resist exploitation and oppression amidst the protracted global depression, state terrorism and wars of aggression!

7 - 9 July 2011, Philippines

First Assembly, 2001

Second Assembly, 2004

Third Assembly, 2008

Fourth Assembly, 2011

First International Assembly (2001)

Art and Culture for Peoples' Liberation

Created on Sunday, 27 May 2001 02:00

By E. San Juan, Jr.
Department of Comparative American Cultures
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99163, USA

It seems felicitous that this founding event of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle and its theme of the need for international solidarity is occurring at a time when the popular struggle against capitalist globalization is reaching a new high level of militancy. We inhabit today a “New World Order” of unbridled aggression against the masses of working people by U.S.-led hegemony. Post-Cold War interventions, this time directed toward China and alleged “rogue” states, are being mounted by the militarist corporate elite. While the rightists have seized power in the United States, the revolutionary forces in the “third world” are regrouping. In the Philippines, for example, the National Democratic Front had waged a successful movement to oust the corrupt Estrada regime and convince the Arroyo government to new peace talks. Meanwhile, the reactionary forces led by benighted elements of the Church and the feudal-comprador intelligentsia have mounted a repressive campaign of censorship of media as part of a strategy of recuperating lost ground.

Parent Category: First International Assembly (2001)

Category: FIA Contributions and Speeches

Cultural work for the people in the present era

Created on Sunday, 27 May 2001 02:00

Cultural work for the people in the present era of "free trade globalization" and "new social order"

By Gelacio Guillermo
Prepared for the First International Assembly of the International League of People’s Struggle
25-27 May 2001 in Zutphen, The Netherlands

For writers and artists, journalists and other mass media and cultural workers in the Philippines, the call to orient their work towards serving the people came in the late sixties with the propagation of Mao Zedong’s “Yenan forum on literature and art” (1942) and the public lectures of Jose Maria Sison, including his subsequent messages to founding congresses of cultural organizations, such as “The tasks of cadres in the cultural field” (1971) and the much later “Writer and commitment” (1983) addressed to young writers from the maximum security prison cell where he was detained by the US-Marcos fascist regime as a political prisoner from 1977 to 1986.

Parent Category: First International Assembly (2001)

Category: FIA Contributions and Speeches

Globalization's assault on the rights of women

Created on Sunday, 27 May 2001 02:00

By Ninotchka Rosca
International Spokesperson
GABRIELA Purple Rose Campaign

The Convention to Eliminate all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) — the most-oft used reference document on women’s rights — took more than 30 years (1946-1979) to hammer out — indication of how tenacious the compulsion to continue women’s oppression and marginalization can be. Although CEDAW is considered an international treaty, the United States has not ratified it. Such reluctance is not illogical. As the home base of some of the largest transnational corporations, the US is obligated to maintain the quasi-feudal and, in some cases, quasi-slave, status of women, particularly women of color, because a large portion of the new economic order’s profits depends precisely on women’s oppression. Within the US itself, murder is the top cause of workplace deaths for women and 62% of all women murdered are killed by those closest to them.

This should provide, albeit in a casual way, an inkling of women’s status in the supposedly most advanced country in the world; and of the dangers attendant to being female in this new phase of globalization.

Parent Category: First International Assembly (2001)

Category: FIA Contributions and Speeches

Health under threat by imperialist globalization

Created on Sunday, 27 May 2001 02:00

By Bert De Belder, M.D.
Coordinator, Medical Aid for the Third World (Belgium)

Keynote Address for the Workshop on Health
Founding Assembly, International League of Peoples’ Struggle, Zutphen, the Netherlands, 25-27 May 2001

I. INTRODUCTION

More than 20 years ago at Alma-Ata, the World Health Organization defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. The Alma-Ata Declaration went on to affirm that “health is a fundamental human right” and that “the attainment of the highest possible level of health is a most important world-wide social goal whose realization requires the action of many other social and economic sectors in addition to the health sector”.

It is clear that progress towards Health for All, in the WHO’s sweet dreams to be attained by the year 2000, has been largely insufficient and uneven and is even increasingly compromised. Although the last 50 years have witnessed, on average, improvements in life expectancy and mortality rates, these achievements hide the real disparities between and within countries and between social classes.

Parent Category: First International Assembly (2001)

Category: FIA Contributions and Speeches