The following is a series of polemical exchanges between Serve the People - Communist League (Tjen Folket, Norway), and Andy Belisario, representing the People's Resource for International Solidarity and Mass Mobilization (PRISMM), which is a part of the National Democratic Front of the Communist Party of the Philippines. These polemics represent the two-line struggle currently unfolding in the contemporary International Communist Movement. The debate centers around the following question: Is Protracted People's War (PPW) universally-applicable? The Norwegian comrades hold that it is, while the Filipino comrades hold that it is not. Both sides are presented in this compilation to encourage the reader to come to their own conclusion on the matter. Other subjects that are briefly touched upon throughout the polemics include the Russian Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, the People's War in Peru, the Philippines, and India, Chairman Gonzalo, and the trend of line-struggle in the International Communist Movement in general. The only editing has been based on restructuring the format of each piece for easier reading, or for adjusting and correcting the rare grammatical error. Long live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
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Prof. Jose Maria Sison is a Filipino patriot, a proletarian revolutionary and internationalist. He is a Filipino statesman, known for his experience in and knowledge of the people's democratic government and revolutionary forces in the Philippines. He is sometimes consulted by high officials of foreign governments and by presidents, senators, congressmen and local officials of the Philippine reactionary government concerning peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and related matters. He is recognized as the leader of the Filipino people's movement for national liberation and democracy in the last 50 years. The celebration of this coincides with that of the 40th anniversaries of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People's Army (NPA). After the destruction of the armed revolutionary movement in the early 1950s in the Philippines, he was chiefly responsible for the resurgence of the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal mass movement in the Philippines since 1959. He was the founding Chairman of the Central Committee of the CPP, 1968-77. He is one of the world's leading authorities on the theory and practice of Marxism-Leninism and Maoism, on revolutionary movements in Asia and on the international communist movement. He has been a recognized poet since 1962 and awardee of the Southeast Asia WRITE Award for poetry, 1986.
