The Duterte regime’s key economic, social, security and foreign relations policies are basically a continuation of past measures which perpetuate the oppressive and exploitative semicolonial and semifeudal system. The US imperialists and the ruling big bourgeois compradors, big landlord class and bureaucrat capitalists remain the dominant forces in his government. The crisis of the ruling […]
Since yesterday, Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza and the Malacañang spokesperson have issued separate statements impugning the revolutionary forces’ seriousness to talk peace citing military actions of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Mindanao and elsewhere which they claim “disrupts the conducive and enabling environment” for peace talks. It denigrates as well the NDFP Negotiating […]
The Party acknowledges the June 17 statement of GRP Negotiating Panel Chief Silvestre Bello III. The commitment of the GRP expressed therein to proceed with peace negotiations with the NDFP is a welcome development and is well appreciated by the revolutionary forces. The Party acknowledges as well the GRP’s recommitment of its adherence to all […]
The cancellation of the fifth round of peace talks is the sole responsibility of the GRP. Its negotiating panel imposed unnecessary, last-minute and unacceptable preconditions for talks to proceed. The talks could have been an opportunity to attain substantial progress in discussing and forging the Comprehensive Agreement on Socio-Economic Reforms (CASER). The GRP cancellation of […]
It would have been good if Bello were telling the truth that Duterte’s Mindanao Martial Law is only aimed against terrorists and not against the NPA or the people in general. The facts on the ground, however, belie Bello’s statements. The burden of proving such claims are heavy on the shoulders of Bello, as well […]
GRP chief negotiator Silvestre Bello III insists that the CPP made an error in calling on the New People’s Army to intensify its tactical offensives against the AFP. He claims the declaration of martial law in Mindanao is not against the NPA. Not only is Duterte’s martial law against the NPA, it is against the […]
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) strongly denounces the Duterte regime for imposing martial law in Mindanao and subjecting the Filipino people to military rule. By declaring martial law in Mindanao, Duterte has gone beyond the threats and theatrics of the past months. The civil-democratic rights of the people across Mindanao are being curtailed […]
Mariing tinutuligsa ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP) ang rehimeng Duterte sa pagpataw ng batas militar sa Mindanao at pagpapailalim ng mamamayang Pilipino sa paghaharing militar. Sa pagdeklara ng batas militar sa Mindanao, lumagpas na si Duterte sa pagbabanta at pagdadrama ng nakaraang mga buwan. Ang sibil-demokratikong mga karapatan ng mamamayan sa buong Mindanao ay […]
(Press Release) The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) urges the Filipino people to protest the successive presence and power projection of US and China naval forces in the country and stand firm to defend Philippine sovereignty against military intervention by big superpowers which is now being allowed by the Duterte regime. The CPP said […]
The Filipino people are not laughing at GRP President Duterte’s supposed joke about forming or letting a military junta takeover after having appointed more ex-military generals to key posts in his cabinet. Duterte’s joke must be severely criticized. It smacks of contempt of the hardships, oppression and military abuses which the Filipino people were subjected […]