Belarmino Dabalos Saguing
Rome, 09/01/2014
Prof. Jose Maria Sison |
Prof. Joma Sison’s 55 years dedicated to the struggle of
Filipinos for national and social liberation and his 75th birthday
will be celebrated with a cultural event to be hosted by the National Democratic
Front of the Philippnes (NDFP) event on Sunday, 9 February, 2014 in Amsterrdam,
the Netherlands. Luis G. Jalandoni, the NDFP Chief International Representative
and Chairperson of the NDFP Negotiating Panel holding peace talks with the
Manila government, will deliver the keynote speech for the event.
Included in the culturalpresentation are poems of Prof.
Sison among other cultural numbers to be performed through the auspices of
Linangan Art and Culture Network and the Doiruta Consort. A video showing Prof.
Sison’s personal and revolutionary background will also be shown.
Professor Jose Maria Sison was a Student leader in the
University of the Philippines where he was granted a professorship position
later after his graduation, founding Chairman of the Communist Party of the
Philippines (CPP), Chairperson of the International League of People’s Struggle
(ILPS) and Chief PoliticalConsultant of the NDFP in peace negotiations with the
government of the Republic of the Philippines.
He fought against the Marcos fascist dictatorship. He was
captured in 1977 and continued to oppose the dictatorship even while he was in
detention. While in prison, he was tortured and kept in solitary confinement in
most of his time of incarceration. After the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986,
he was released from prison and rejoined the teaching staff in UP and delivered
a series of lectures on the main thesis that, despite the fall of Marcos, the
Philippines remained semicolonial and semifeudal, and still needed a new
democratic revolution.
He went abroad in 31 August 1986 for a global lecture tour.
The military pressured President Cory Aquino in 1988 to cancel his documents in
attempt to to force his return to the Philippines. He requested political
asylum in the Netherlands. Under persistent pressure from Manila and Washington,
the dutch government, despite his established political refugee status, he was
subjected to terrorist blacklisting and was detained in the summer of 2007
under false murder charges. He later won his legal cases and was freed.
In all his years abroad, Prof. Sison has consistently
followed events and developments in his country and worldwide. And he has acted
on various issues by attending conferences, conducting research, and delivering
lectures and speeches to university audiences, labor organizations, conferences
of parties, and others. His cultural activities include participation in major
poetry festivals. He has written several volumes of books.
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