The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder, Jose Maria Sison, has died after being hospitalized for two weeks. He was 83.
Sison was once a youth activist but later became an exile in the Netherlands in the 1980s.
In a statement, the CPP said, ‘The Filipino proletariat and toiling people grieve the death of their teacher and guiding light.’
The CPP added that Sison was its ‘founding chair’ and a ‘great Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thinker, patriot, internationalist, and revolutionary leader.’
The party also vowed to ‘carry the revolution forward, guided by the memory and teachings of the people’s beloved Ka Joma.'”
