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The chain of armed power in the Philippines leads to US imperialism. With this understanding, the masses have a strategic hatred for US imperialism as the presiding power. They recognize that their domestic exploiters and their armed satellites are subordinated in this hierarchy of power. It is of vital importance that the masses understand how through the control of the Philippine military, the US and other imperialists are able to maintain a stranglehold on Philippine society through puppets and collaborators among the domestic ruling classes of compradors, landlords and bureaucrat capitalists. Thus, the Filipino people and their revolutionary forces are compelled to wage the struggle for national and social liberation.

Sison Reader Series Book 20, Proletarian Internationalism and International Solidarity consists of Jose Maria Sison's writings (essays, articles, speeches, messages, statements and interviews) on the subject of proletarian internationalism and international anti-imperialist solidarity. It highlights the role of international solidarity and practical cooperation in the advance of national liberation movements and proletarian revolution in countries, to raise the socialist cause around the world. The rest of the book's content consists of messages and statements of proletarian internationalism, and solidarity and support to peoples and organizations in the struggle against imperialism and all reaction. They underscore the role of the proletariat in building revolutionary parties to develop and strengthen the revolution towards socialism among all oppressed nations and peoples.

Women all over the world are driven by their dire situation to unite and fight for their rights. From year to year, as the global crisis worsens, the women's movement has raised its level of resolve and militancy and widened its various arenas of action. Women are fighting not only for their very existence but also for the lives of their children and grandchildren. Outraged, they vigorously expose, condemn and oppose the doublespeak of their own governments, which try to equate neoliberal policies to development. The nationality question can be dealt with only in historical terms. It involves correctly relating the political, socioeconomic and cultural aspects of nationality as well as the whole national formation, its parts and the world. In its origination and development, Philippine or Filipino nationality is first of all a political concept that has arisen and developed from the necessity of uniting and activating the entire people of various social conditions and cultural traits in the anticolonial and then the anti-imperialist struggles for national independence and democracy. To this day, the Marxist-Leninist teachings on the nationality question are our best guide. There is yet no experience more advanced than that of Lenin, Stalin and Mao in successfully dealing with the nationality question in the course of overthrowing the counterrevolutionary state and establishing and building socialism.

Jose Maria Sison's writings on the youth movement are a must for a comprehensive understanding and acting on the issue in the context of the Filipino people's struggle for national freedom and democracy. Sison started the resurgence of, and led the development the youth movement in the national democratic revolution to provide the cadres for the people's war.

The crisis of the world capitalist system and that of the Philippine ruling system have become worse than in any period after World War II. The US-instigated policies of neoliberal globalization, state terrorism and aggressive war have wrought havoc on the lives of the people and continue to escalate oppression and exploitation. THe Filipino people cannot tolerate their suffering and they are fighting back against imperialism and all reaction. The loss or erosion of livelihoods is the most concrete and widespread impact of the current crisis of the world capitalist system on people's lives, both in the advanced capitalist countries as well as in the underdeveloped countries. Despite recent pronouncements from state officials and the business press that economic recovery is in sight, the global economy continues to tumble with the gross domestic product of the leading capitalist countries still contracting, consumer spending still in decline and unemployment still rising.