[BEST OF] Jose Maria Sison: In Conversation with Comrade Joma
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2025
⏱️ 126 minutes
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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Sep 17, 2021
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Professor Jose Maria Sison, better known as Comrade Joma, to talk about his life, how it impacted his ideology, the history of the Communist Party of the Philippines, and more! Comrade Joma is an absolute legendary figure, and it was a pleasure and an honor to be able to talk with him. A must listen conversation for anyone interested in proletarian struggles and People's War in the Global South, especially the Philippines!
Jose Maria Sison is the Founding Chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, Chair Emeritus of the International League of People's Struggle, and the Chief Political Consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. Our friends at Foreign Languages Press have several of his works available for free as pdfs or for affordable print copies on their website https://foreignlanguages.press/.
Comrade Joma passed away in Dec. of 2022, a year after this interview, at the age of 83.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, guerrilla history listeners. This is Henry. Today for you, we're going to be bringing |
| 0:05.0 | another one of our remastered episodes. Today's episode is the previous release that we had, |
| 0:11.7 | our conversation with Jose Maria Sison, the late great Comrade Joma, who sadly passed away |
| 0:18.7 | just before the new year. Comrade Joma, of course, was founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, |
| 0:26.6 | has written numerous theoretical and practical works, and was just a very lovely man in general. |
| 0:33.6 | I had the pleasure of being in email communication with him off and on over the last |
| 0:39.9 | couple of years leading up to his passing. |
| 0:43.1 | And we were really happy to have had the opportunity to have interviewed him for guerrilla history |
| 0:48.2 | to talk about his life, the struggle within the Philippines, and the foundation of the Communist Party there. |
| 0:56.5 | It was a really tremendous conversation. |
| 0:58.8 | I know that when I talk with Adnan and Brett, |
| 1:01.5 | we all agree that it was one of our favorite conversations that we've had, |
| 1:05.2 | and it was truly an excellent opportunity to be able to talk to really a transformational figure like Comrade Joma. |
| 1:12.5 | So today we wanted to remaster, fully remaster, and bring to you in the best possible audio |
| 1:18.1 | quality, our conversation with Comrade Joma. We highly encourage you if you have already |
| 1:24.2 | listened to the episode, but it has been a while to listen to it again. |
| 1:27.6 | I think that you'll appreciate the new audio quality. |
| 1:30.2 | And if you have people that you have in your life, comrades, friends, family members that you think |
| 1:35.2 | would appreciate the conversation, please send the conversation to them. |
| 1:38.9 | The audio quality now should be excellent. |
| 1:42.4 | And we think that it's a really valuable conversation and one that as many |
| 1:46.1 | people should hear as possible. So feel free and we in fact encourage you to forward the conversation |
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