On the People's Democratic Revolution explains the basic concepts and the instruments for achieving the Philippine revolution. The program of the people's democratic revolution seeks to realize the basic demands of the people in the political, economic, social and cultural fields in opposition to the semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system of big compradors, landlords and bureaucrat capitalists subservient to foreign monopoly capitalism. The Filipino people and their revolutionary forces have persevered in carrying out the new democratic revolution for more than half a century. They cannot accept the escalating conditions of oppression and exploitation under the semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system in chronic crisis. Sounding stronger than the psywar and gunfire of the oppressors and exploiters is the outcry of the people for national liberation, democracy, social justice and all-round development amid the worsening crises of the semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system and the world capitalist system. About the Author Jose Maria Sison led the reestablishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines in 1968 and the founding of the New People's Army in 1969. He is now among the world's most outstanding theoreticians in Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. He continues to do research and write on Philippine and global issues. About the Series: The International Network for Philippine Studies (INPS) is proud to present the fourth book of the Sison Reader Series, On the People;s Democratic Revolution. This will be followed by three successive volumes on the Communist Party of the Philippines, On the New People's Army and on the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, under the following titles: On the Communist Party of the Philippines, On Protracted People's War and On the United Front; all scheduled to be published within the last quarter of 2021.

Julie de Lima's milestone essay,"The Pen and the Gun, 1968-2018 : Fifty Years of Art and Culture in the Filipino People's Struggle for National and Social Liberation is her keynote address to the golden anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines. It is at once a comprehensive chronicle of revolutionary cultural production and an analysis of how art and literature function in a milieu of the militant struggle for national national and social liberation.

Jose M.Sison, the most prominent leader of the Philippine Left, otherwise known as the National Democratic Movement, unfolds Philippine history and contemporary circumstances, the political, economic, and social crisis of Philippine society, and the Philippine revolutionary movement in an interview with Dr Rainer Werning. Sison candidly discusses his life, times, and ideas. Since the fall of Marcos and the rise of Mrs Aquino, the fundamental problems of the Philippines have remained unsolved. In years to come, the Philippine situation and the revolutionary process will have a dramatic effect on all of society.