Communist Karaoke

Recently, the Communist Party of the Philippines exiled chairman Jose Maria (JoMa) Sison was arrested in Utrecht, the Netherlands for ordering the killings of two former associates. JoMa is an interesting Communist leader in that he advocates for Protracted People's War in the countryside and for the analysis of the Philippines as "semi-feudal," but with the fax machine as his weapon of choice -- in 1992 he split his party with a fax message calling for "rectification," or as I call it a "faxtification."

Well you can add "karaoke machine" to that: JoMa's got an album. A few, actually. He sings his poetry, some revolutionary songs, and that's fine: he did win an Asian Spirit award or something back in '86 for his work. But the best part is that he sings some "popular songs" and by "popular" I don't mean proletariat (per se). Scroll down to the bottom of that page and you can hear him try his hand at "Besame Mucho," "Memories," and of course, "Mao's Way," all of which are destined to make it to a Magic Sing in the countryside real soon.