CPP/Ang Bayan: NPA-EV military actions in response to US

Propaganda article from the English language edition of Ang Bayan posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines Website (May 21): NPA-EV military actions in response to US

“THE NEW People’s Army-Eastern Visayas’ (NPA-EV) more than 14 offensives are in defense of the people against the US and its militarist stooges in the Duterte government.” Thus stated Fr. Santiago “Ka Sanny” Salas, spokesperson for the NDF-EV, in connection with Balikatan’s conclusion in the region. He added that these likewise uphold national sovereignty and democracy.

NDF-EV’s statement is also in relation to the resumption of the fifth round of the NDFP-GRP peace talks. Fr. Salas criticized the militarists’ influence on the talks and their moves to force a ceasefire agreement which would lead to the eventual surrender of the revolutionary forces. He asserted that the matter of any ceasefire agreement should only be brought about in connection with the release of all political prisoners and the signing of the CASER.

Alongside this, progressive organizations in EV staged a protest action against Balikatan. Spearheaded by Bayan-Sinirangan Bisa-yas, national democratic organizations marched along Rizal Avenue in Tacloban City last May 12 to declare their opposition to the “Balikatan” and demand the expulsion of US troops from the region and the country. Balikatan was held in Ormoc, Leyte and Guiuan, Eastern Samar.

According to the group’s statement, exercises on “humanitarian assistance and disaster response” conceal the US objective to condition the people’s minds to accede to their basing in the Philippines. For its part, the alliance of calamity victims People Surge said that “aid” from the US cannot redress its violation of the country’s national sovereignty.

[Ang Bayan is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Philippines. Ang Bayan is published in Pilipino, Bisaya, Hiligaynon, Waray and English. Download Ang Bayan from the Philippine Revolution Web Central at www.philippinerevolution.info.  Ang Bayan is published fortnightly by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines.]
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