Jose Maria Sison: In Conversation with Comrade Joma

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

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. He's written extensively, a great place to find some of his works is via our friends at Foreign Languages Press. They have several of his works available for free as pdfs or for affordable print copies on their website https://foreignlanguages.press/.

Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at [email protected].

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.
0:23.0	But they put some guerrilla action on.
0:39.0	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm your host, Henry Huckimacki, joined as always by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the
0:44.7	School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing?
0:49.2	We missed you last time. You weren't here for the last episode that we recorded. Yeah, doing great. Sorry to have missed
0:55.0	last time. Looking forward to this conversation. I'm glad to be with you. Absolutely. It's always a
1:00.5	pleasure seeing you with none. And I'm also joined, as always, by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary
1:05.0	Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you doing today?
1:10.2	Hello, I'm doing great.
1:11.4	And I'm really excited about this episode in particular. Yeah, me too. We have a absolutely
1:16.6	fantastic guest coming up. One of the most thoroughly, let's say, tested guests that we've
1:25.2	ever had in terms of personal trials and tribulations as a result of his
1:28.9	political activity. Our guest today is Professor Jose Maria Sison, who more commonly is known as
1:36.9	Comrade Joma, chairperson emeritus of the International League of People's Struggle, founding chairman
1:42.4	of the Communist Party of the Philippines,
1:44.5	co-founder of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, it goes on and on.
1:48.6	And currently, Professor Sisson is a political refugee in the Netherlands.
1:53.2	So we're talking about somebody who's been active in the fight against capitalism and against
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