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
Assemblies First Assembly (2001) FIA Contributions and Speeches
First Assembly, 2001
Second Assembly, 2004
Third Assembly, 2008
Fourth Assembly, 2011
FIA Contributions and Speeches
By Luis G. Jalandoni
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP)
Contribution to Workshop #1:
National and social liberation from imperialism and all reaction
and resistance to foreign aggression and intervention
For the past hundred years, the Filipino people have been struggling for national and social liberation against US imperialism and its local agents, the big compradors and feudal lords. In the mad scramble for new colonies among the world’s old colonial and emergent imperialist powers at the turn of the 20th century, the US had acquired the Philippines from Spain for $20 M, snatching victory from the Filipino revolutionaries who were then on the threshold of liberating themselves from three centuries of colonial and feudal rule.
The 1896 Revolution, a national democratic revolution of the old type, was decisively crushed in the Fil-American War, a genocidal war of US aggression killing one-seventh of the Filipino population. Direct American colonial rule would last for half a century, imposing a semi-feudal economy that would provide US imperialism cheap raw materials and a ready market for its products. But the Filipino people’s struggle against foreign domination and feudal oppression persisted in various forms – from cleverly disguised nationalist literature to militant workers’ and peasant strikes to pocket peasant uprisings.
By Ranjit Kumar Dhar Ray
All India Anti-imperialist Forum
Dear friends and comrades,
At the outset, I offer my thanks, on behalf of the Indian people and All India Anti-imperialist Forum, for inviting me to the First International Assembly (FIA) of the International League of People's Struggle (ILPS) being held here in The Netherlands on this 25-27 May 2001. The ILPS, as I could understand, is meant to reflect the rising broad mass movement against imperialist “globalization”, recent outstanding examples of which could be found in the battles in Seattle, Washington, Okinawa, Melbourne, Prague, Quebec City and elsewhere. The ILPS is also meant to advance the rights and interests of the workers, peasants, women, youth, intelligentsia and other social sectors in the 15 concerns of the ILPS, as enumerated in its document. Here I will present my views on the topic stipulated, that is, the cause of peace against wars of aggression and against nuclear and other genocidal weapons, with an understanding that the topic emerges in tune with the cause and goal of the ILPS with which I express my solidarity.
By Abdul Hamid
Recently a global conference of Less Developed Countries was held in Brussels. As usual the result and the balance sheet of the UN & WTO sponsored conference is generally more agony for the LDC’s and more misery for the working class in particular.
We saw the result of the “Copenhagen Social Summit”, we saw the out come of the “Beijing Conference”, and we know the result of “Rio Summit”. Very recently we have the bitter experiences of “Porto Alegre Social Forum”. Whatever the agenda of these summits or conferences, whoever are the organizers, however touchy the slogans are, the outcome is almost similar. The advocacy in favor of imperialist “Globalization”, to give a cosmetic layer on the woes and miseries of the working people around the globe and so-called “humanization” of the capitalists plan of exploitations are the end result of the meets.
By Harry Shutt
Social and economic conditions in today's world can only be understood in the context of a long-term overall decline in global economic performance which has been going on at least since the early 1970s. The authorities have for long tried to conceal this reality and pretend that we are potentially on the brink of an advance towards universal prosperity – as private enterprise operating in newly liberalised and deregulated global markets is enabled to exploit the wonders of modern technology. Lately, however, even the International Monetary Fund has been forced to admit the reality of deepening stagnation, decade by decade, over the last 30 years.[i] At the same time people everywhere have become aware, especially since the early 1990s, that liberalisation and globalisation too often translates into boom and bust, jobs which are here today and gone tomorrow, fluctuating commodity prices paid to farmers and consequent generalised insecurity.
(Taking the analysis presented by Marx in Part One of Capital Forward)
By Peter Custers
Director, Bangladesh People’s Solidarity Centre (BPSC)
Introduction: The Three Forms of the Capital Circuit
In the present essay I will endeavour to round up my theoretical discussion on the issue of nuclear waste. In the first Part of Capital II, where Marx comprehensively analysed the circuit of individual capital, he proposed not just one, but three basic formulas for the circuit of individual capital. Distinguishing three forms of capital’s circuit, he elaborately discussed the meaning of each. The one we have previously encountered, is the formula M C… P … C’ M’. This formula indicates how through a series of metamorphoses, the owner of money capital (M) succeeds in creating surplus value and in enlarging the amount of milponey capital he avails of (M becomes M plus m, depicted as M’) (1). While I have taken the formula M – … M’ as the starting point for making my economic analysis of the waste issue, it in itself does not allow us to visualise what role nuclear waste and other forms of waste play in the capital circuit of individual enterpreneurs. Hence, in order to incorporate non-commodity waste into economic theory it turned out to be crucial to transform Marx’s basic formula for the circuit of capital.
By Pao-yu Ching
I am going to discuss this topic in two parts. In part one I will explain Mao’s model of development. And in part two, I will explain why the implementation of this model of development is only possible during socialist transition. The explanations in these two parts hopefully will demonstrate the validity of Mao’s model for the 21st century.
Part One: What is Mao’s model of development?
There are two fundamental elements of Mao’s model of development: one is self-reliance and the other is satisfaction of human needs as the goal of development.
