The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas joins the Filipino people in condemning Rodrigo Duterte for publicly endorsing vigilantism, widespread killings and impunity by calling to arm “anti-crime volunteers.”

A reading of the speech of Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), to mark the centennial of the CPC, reveals how the once “great, glorious and correct” CPC has degenerated from a party of the working class to a party ruled by modern revisionists and the bourgeoisie; from a party of socialism, to a party of capitalism; from a party of revolution, to a party of reaction. It is a party bereft of a Marxist soul. Mao Zedong, the stalwarts, heroes and martyrs of the CPC during the period of new democratic and socialist revolutions are surely turning in their graves over how Xi Jinping now presides over the CPC and imperialist China.

Since becoming president in 2016, Duterte has manifested three different positions and attitudes towards the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations and towards me.

“It’s a trap laid down by the 3rd ID to lure the revolutionaries into its milking scheme dubbed as the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP),” NPA-Negros’ Juanito Magbanua said.

The JFLAT 6 of the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC 6) in a conference last month declared stepping up its legal battle against communist rebels.