ILPS Welcomes Release of all Cuban and Normalization of US-Cuba Relations

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chairperson, International League of Peoples’ Struggle December 22, 2014   We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, share with the Cuban people and their leadership the great joy of celebrating the  release of the remaining 3 of the Cuban 5 and the  return of all these anti-terrorist heroes to their […]

Second Open Letter to Pope Francis I

Second Open Letter to Pope Francis I from Philippine Political Prisoners (17 December 2014) ———————————————————————————– Your Holiness, Pope Francis, Again, our warm embraces! We send our joyous greets to you on your birthday, today! We trust that you continue to be well, to have more birthdays to come, and to be able to strongly push […]

Camp Bagong Diwa Political Prisoners Join Nationwide Coordinated Fasting in Act of Protest During Human Rights Week

We, political prisoners in Camp Bagong Diwa, are among some 500 presently documented political prisoners all over the country.   About half of these have been arrested and detained under the present ruling regime, while the other half have been arrested under previous ruling regimes and have remained behind iron bars for about or even […]

Open Letter to Pope Francis I

Open Letter to Pope Francis I from Philippine Political Prisoners (30 November 2014) —————————————————————————————————– Your Holiness, Pope Francis, Warm embraces! Like many, many others among our people, we, political prisoners, look forward to your projected visit to our country in mid-January next year. We hope that, aside from your scheduled visit to personally look at […]

On the CBCP President’s November 10 Message

By LUIS G. JALANDONI Chairperson, NDFP Negotiating Panel   The Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has not requested the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) President to mediate in the peace negotiations between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the NDFP. It is the firm policy of […]