Jose maria sison biography of rory

Jose Maria Canlas Sison (February 8, 1939 – December 16, 2022), also known as Joma, was a FilipinoMaoist revolutionary who founded the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).^[1] He also founded the New People's Army in 1969, and the US-backed Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship imprisoned him until its overthrow in 1986.

Sison later went into exile in the Netherlands but continued to lead the party from abroad.^[2]

Early life[edit | edit source]

Sison attended the University of the Philippines during the late 1950s in the midst of the McCarthyite witch-hunt against anyone vaguely progressive.

He took part in challenging the reactionaries and formed the Student Cultural Association of the UP (SCAUP) in order to defend against their attacks and study Marxism. He graduated in 1959 with a degree in English literature before traveling to Indonesia and studying both the Indonesian language and the activities of the Communist Party of Indonesia in 1962, before ret