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 Fourth Assembly (2011)
First Assembly, 2001
Second Assembly, 2004
Third Assembly, 2008
Fourth Assembly, 2011
Fourth International Assembly (2011)
COMMISSION 1: Cause of National Liberation, Democracy & Social Liberations
Meet Wahu Kaara. She is from Kenya. She traveled halfway across the globe from her native Kenya to the Philippines to meet with hundreds of delegates from no less than 39 countries. It is the 4th International Assembly of the International People’s Struggle (ILPS) this July 7-9 in Manila, Philippines.
Wahu is a 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee. She ran for parliament in 2002 and 2007 and was a delegate to Kenya’s Constitutional Conference. Wahu, however, is not your ordinary parliamentarian. She is a globally renowned Kenyan educator and campaigner for social justice, serving as a director of the Kenyan Debt Relief Network, head of the East African Coalition on Economic, Social, Cultural Rights, and a coordinator at the World Social Forum held in Kenya in 2007.
Activists like Wahu will gather for the ILPS assembly not only to move ideas and things but to move peoples and nations towards a brighter future.
JULY 6, 2011, 8-9 AM
Peace Bell Area, Quezon Memorial Circle
Philippines
Signaling the start of the ILPS 4th International Assembly is the raising of the Nepalese “prayer flags,” similar to those raised by mountaineers before trekking towards the summit of Mt. Everest. Written on the flags are the people’s demands and aspirations for a brighter future, the ILPS theme for its Fourth Assembly. The event was attended by both foreign and Filipino delegates representing the 18 concerns of the League. ILPS Vice Chairperson Len Cooper and General Secretary Malcolm Guy opened the program while Ram Bahadur Thapa Magar, a member of Nepal's Parliament, led the raising of the "prayer flags."
COMMISSION 2: Socio-economic Development & Social Justice
World production of material wealth has gone global, bringing peoples and nations closer together. Yet, at the same time, poverty grips a swelling number of destitute people trying to survive on less than $2-a-day, estimated at 1.2 billion or nearly one-third of the global labor force in 2010.
Addressing the socio-economic roots of poverty, unemployment, rising food prices, budget cuts for public services and other social ills, an international gathering of progressive organizations and movements convenes in Manila, Philippines this July.
Led by the International League of Peoples’ Struggles (ILPS), hundreds of delegates from 39 countries are set to share insights, discuss and resolve to intensify the struggles for employment, decent incomes, better working and living conditions, access to social services, and control over land, water and other productive resources.
This resolution is part of the three-day event where the general call of the ILPS to build a brighter future is bannered.
By MALCOLM GUY
General Secretary
International Coordinating Committee
Comrades, fellow delegates and honoured guests, please accept our warmest revolutionary greetings from the ILPS general secretariat and staff wishing you all a very successful Assembly. Today as we look around the room we see hundreds of anti-imperialist delegates, observers and friends from around the world, In fact we constitute the biggest International Assembly of the ILPS to date! What a way to celebrate our tenth anniversary. Happy 10th anniversary ILPS. Congratulations to us all for being here on this historic occasion!
Let us all thank the secretariat, the host country committee, the staff, and all others that have volunteered their efforts, for their excellent preparations and hard work in fulfilling the decisions of the ICC to assure the successful holding of the Fourth International Assembly of the ILPS at this wonderful venue here in the Philippines. I think they all deserve a warm round of applause!
