By Prof. JOSE MARIA SISON
Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle

Human societies have created the bases of our survival, sustenance and advancement through the use of our natural resources in production with rudimentary tools and rising levels of science and technology. Yet in no time in history has environmental destruction been systematically brought about in most parts of the world.

By Prof. JOSE MARIA SISON
Chairperson, ILPS International Coordinating Committee

November 30, 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of the Battle of Seattle. We remember this for shutting down the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Ministerial Meeting through militant street protests and mass mobilizations by indignant workers, farmers, students and peoples from various countries.

By Prof. JOSE MARIA SISON
Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle

The International Coordinating Committee and all member-organizations of the International League of  Peoples' Struggle condemn with all their moral conviction and strength the monstrous massacre of at least 57 people, including many women and children, 29 journalists and two  human rights lawyers, in Ampatuan, Maguindanao last 23 November 2009.

Statement on the occasion of the death anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Nine

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, ILPS International Coordinating Committee

Since oil was discovered in the Niger delta in the last days of British colonial rule in the late 1950s, the lands of the Ogoni people and other indigenous ethnic groups have been snatched away for the development of oil fields for Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, Exxon-Mobil, Julius Berger and other oil companies. Since then Nigeria has become increasingly dependent on petroleum extraction as agricultural production of both cash and food crops were abandoned. From high levels in the 1960s, Nigeria has dropped in cocoa production by nearly half and rubber production by a third in the early 2000s.