CPP Message To The Inauguration Of The Jose Maria Sison Legacy Foundation
Communist Party Of The Philippines
February 15, 2025
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) extends its warmest greetings to the inauguration of the Jose Maria Sison Legacy Foundation. We express our solidarity and support to Ka Julie de Lima, lifelong partner-comrade of Ka Joma, and other close comrades, for leading this effort.
The establishment of the Jose Maria Sison Legacy Foundation is a significant milestone in honoring the life and works of Ka Joma. This is an important contribution to continuing his legacy of advancing the revolutionary cause of the Filipino people and the international working class. Launching this foundation reminds us of the profound impact of Ka Joma’s contributions to the Philippine revolution and the global struggle against imperialism.
The current global crisis of capitalism continues to bring about unprecedented levels of poverty, inequality, and resistance. The ruling classes, in their desperation to maintain power and profits, have resorted to fascist and authoritarian measures, further exacerbating the suffering of the people.
In the Philippines, the semi-colonial and semi-feudal system continues to bring about widespread poverty, landlessness, and exploitation. The Filipino people continue to bear the brunt of imperialist domination, with the country’s economic and political system controlled by the ruling classes of big bourgeois compradors, and big landlords, and bureaucrat capitalists.
The rotten ruling system in the Philippines generates crisis and resistance. Amid worsening economic conditions and crisis of the ruling political system, the broad masses of workers, peasants and other sectors of the toiling people are waging mass struggles, not only to push forward their pressing demands, but to advance their overall struggle for national democracy and socialism. Across the world, workers and other oppressed and exploited classes are carrying forward resistance against imperialism, and attain national and social liberation.
Within this context, the establishment of the Jose Maria Sison Legacy Foundation assumes great significance, as it seeks to promote Ka Joma’s ideas and principles that form an important ideological mooring for the current struggles against imperialist oppression.
The foundation’s mission to propagate the revolutionary ideas of Ka Joma, particularly his contributions to Marxist-Leninist-Maoist theory and practice, is crucial in inspiring and guiding the struggles of the Filipino people and the international working class. Ka Joma’s writings and teachings have been a source of inspiration and guidance for countless revolutionaries and progressives around the world.
His legacy serves as a reminder of the importance of building a strong and vibrant revolutionary movement with a strong proletarian core, anchored on the basic principles of socialism and communism. The Party believes that the foundation’s work will play a vital role in advancing the revolutionary cause, not only in the Philippines but also globally.
We urge progressive individuals and organizations to join hands in promoting the foundation’s mission and activities, and to contribute to the dissemination of Ka Joma’s ideas and writings. The Party believes that the foundation’s work will help in strengthening the bonds of solidarity and cooperation among revolutionary and progressive forces worldwide, in the common struggle against imperialism and all reaction.
The Communist Party of the Philippines is committed to supporting the Jose Maria Sison Legacy Foundation. We are confident that the foundation will become a powerful instrument in promoting the ideas and principles of Ka Joma, and in inspiring a new generation of proletarian revolutionary cadres.
Source : https://philippinerevolution.nu/statements/message-to-the-inauguration-of-the-jose-maria-sison-legacy-foundation/