Jose Maria Canlas Sison, well known by his stage name Joma, was a Filipino author and activist who created the Communist Party of the Philippines and incorporated Maoist principles to its ideology, which became known as national democracy.
He died on December 16, 2022. He examined the past and present events in the Philippines using the Marxism-Leninism-Maoism doctrine.
At the end of the 19th century, Don Leandro Serrano, his great-grandfather, was the largest landowner in northern Luzon.
His great-grandfather Don Gorgonio Soller Sison served as the first mayor of Cabugao under US colonial administration as well as the last gobernadorcillo of the province during Spanish colonial rule.
Ilocos Sur’s first governor was Don Marcelino Crisólogo, his great-uncle. Teófilo Sison, who was his uncle, was the first Defense Secretary in the Commonwealth administration and the governor of Pangasinan.
He was found guilty in 1946 of conspiring with the Japanese occupiers, but he was pardoned in 1947.
BREAKING! Jose Maria Sison children: Did Sison have kids?
Sison and Julie de Lima met while attending UP Diliman as students.
They became closer while attending the same study groups, got married twice—once in a civil ceremony in September 1959 and again in a Catholic church in January 1960.
There are four kids for the couple. The children’s names, however, have not been made public.
