Articles in English

On Duterte's spectre of power sharing
July 10, 2018 |

Duterte is weaving a big lie in claiming that past agreements forged between the GRP and the NDFP “all end up with power sharing and a coalition government.” We challenge Duterte to stand before the public and point out specifically in which agreement did he make that discovery, instead of blabbering about nonsense such as […]

CPP twits Duterte: You will fail
July 09, 2018 |

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) strongly admonished Rodrigo Duterte for taunting revolutionary forces and vainly challenging them to continue the civil war. “You declaim, ‘Let us go to war!’ like a drug-crazed war freak,” the CPP told Duterte. “As if you gave peace a chance.” “Over the past two years, despite your peace […]

To Duterte
July 08, 2018 |

You declaim, “Let us go to war!” like a drug-crazed war freak. As if you gave peace a chance. Over the past two years, despite your peace prattle, not once did you silence the guns of war. You have never ordered your soldiers to relent in their offensives. Peaceful rural barangays are no more with […]

Reaction to Dureza’s statement today
July 05, 2018 |

Dureza’s claim today that Duterte’s doors for resuming peace talks with the NDFP “are still open” is an outright lie. This is a desperate PR stunt to obscure the fact that the GRP has repeatedly terminated the talks and make it appear that it is the NDFP which closed its doors. Notice that Dureza’s statement […]

The US-Duterte regime, a reprise
July 04, 2018 |

Today marks the 72nd year of the Philippine client-state. More than seven decades after the US colonial regime granted nominal independence to the Philippines on July 4, 1946 and handed over the reins of government to its US-indoctrinated politicians and technocrats, the country remains under US neocolonial stranglehold. Burdened primarily by US semicolonial yoke, the […]