The people, their mass organizations and benign institutions have to take care of themselves against a brutal regime
It is brutal for the Duterte regime to use the military and police to ban all forms of public transport, to mass up people at so many trunk lines and checkpoints just to check identification cards, mix up the healthy with possibly the unhealthy persons and order them to return home
COVID-19 at si Duterte
The Covid-19 is a kind of virus that causes illness that manifested itself in Wuhan, China in December 2019
Welcome to Duterte’s willingness to talk peace and let backchannel talks to lay the ground
I think that formal peace talks can be resumed by reaffirming the aforesaid joint agreements, removing those obstacles that terminate and prejudice serious peace negotiations
On the current ceasefire and further steps forward
The current reciprocal ceasefire agreement between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), which was supposed to have started last December 23, 2010, will soon end on January 7, 2020.
Duterte regime goes downhill as revolutionary movement rises
By Jose Maria SisonFounding Chairman, Communist Party of the PhilippinesDecember 26, 2019 In keeping with my historic title as Founding Chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, I convey my warmest revolutionary greetings to the cadres and members for continuing to strengthen their great and glorious party as the advanced […]
How to resume talks with communist rebels? January meeting to set agenda
“The reciprocal unilateral ceasefires are a measure of goodwill and confidence-building to foster the environment for the resumption of the peace negotiations
Implications and possible consequences of resuming GRP-NDFP peace negotiations
Of course, there are big risks taken by the NDFP in agreeing to negotiate peace with the GRP and address the roots of the armed conflict by agreeing on social, economic and political reforms.
Joma Sison backs peace talks resumption
He said the signing of the IPA would contribute to the success of the talks and add to mutual confidence-building measures.
Peace talks in PH? Not yet, says Joma Sison
“I think there needs to be several steps before we could reach a point of having peace negotiations in the Philippines,”
On the so-called universality of protracted people’s war
Remember that the essence of protracted people’s war is not simply to maintain fighting teams that use guns—which the fascists, the Mafia, and conspiratorial terrorists also do—but to mobilize the masses in the armed struggle in order to dismantle the bourgeois-reactionary state machinery (especially its armed forces) step by step and in likewise fashion to build the revolutionary state machinery and use it to defend the people’s gains.