ILPS Chairperson

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chairperson International Coordinating Committee International League of Peoples´ Struggle August 10-11, 2018 The International Coordinating

Issued by the Office of the Chairperson International Coordinating Committee International League of Peoples’ Struggle August 6, 2018 We, the

France annexed this Melanesian island chain in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean in 1853 and turned it into a penal colony starting in 1864. French convicts were shipped to New Caledonia including thousands of communards after the defeat of the Paris Commune in 1871, among them Louise Michel who later on worked with the indigenous Kanak people to fight for liberation from French colonial rule even after the communards were granted general amnesty in 1879.

President Kim Il Sung has bequeathed to us a glorious legacy of resolute struggle for national independence, democracy and socialism against Imperialism and all reaction. His revolutionary record of 70 years is a brilliant inspiration not only to the Korean people but also to all mankind.

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chairperson, International League of Peoples’ Struggle June 17, 2018 We, the international League of Peoples’

Issued by the Office of the Chairperson Prof. Jose Maria Sison International League of Peoples’ Struggle The International League of

For several decades, we seem to be trapped in a world of recurrently worsening crises, social turmoil and wars in the era of modern imperialism and proletarian revolution. But we are now in a period of transition to a world of revolutionary flow against the evils and rottenness of decadent monopoly finance capitalism.

We make a renewed critique of capitalism and monopoly capitalism and strive to reinvigorate the revolutionary movement of the proletariat and people to end the monstrosity that monopoly capitalism has become and realize socialism preparatory to communism. As Marx has long admonished us, the point is to change the world