Propaganda article posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Nov 5, 2020): Duterte regime fails to destroy the CPP & NPA thru military suppression and anti-communist psywar
JOSE MARIA SISONCHIEF POLITICAL CONSULTANT
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF THE PHILIPPINES
NOVEMBER 04, 2020
It is impossible for the Duterte regime , its military minions and the NTF-ELCAC and its so-called Anti-Terrorism Council to suppress both the legal patriotic and democratic movement and the armed revolutionary movement so long as the entire Filipino people aspire for national and social liberation against the evil forces of foreign monopoly capitalism, domestic feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism.
These three evil forces are now represented by the Duterte regime, which is traitorous, tyrannical, genocidal and extremely corrupt. It is impossible for this regime and its military minions to destroy the armed revolutionary movement and all patriotic and democratic forces by red-tagging individuals and organizations and carrying out punitive measures, including extrajudicial killings, torture and indefinite detention and freezing of bank accounts.
History has shown that the anti-communist witch hunt in the Philippines in the 1950s and 1960s only served to challenge and drive the youth and the people to take the revolutionary road of struggle for national and social liberation. Under the pretext of anti-communism, Marcos imposed his fascist dictatorship on the people in 1972 but it served to incite more people to support and join the armed revolution. Ultimately, the fascist dictator was overthrown by the people in 1986.
The Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People’s Army, the revolutionary mass organizations, the National Democratic Front and the People’s Revolutionary Government have grown in strength and advanced because of their just revolutionary cause and program of new democratic revolution and because of their correct strategic line of protracted people’s war and accumulating strength in the countryside until they can overthrow the reactionary state in Manila.
Like all previous regimes, the Duterte regime has failed miserably to destroy the armed revolution in the countryside by unleashing brutal military campaigns of suppression and by using psywar tactics like persona non grata declarations, fake surrenders, extrajudicial killings and fake community projects. The regime and its military minions have in fact aggravated the economic crisis of the ruling system by bankrupting their own government through various forms of corruption, including pork barrel and military overspending for graft-laden equipment acquisitions, fake projects and fake operations.
The Duterte regime is bound to lose further in its armed counterrevolution by engaging in state terrorism under the pretext of anti-terrorism. The escalation of attacks on the civil and political rights of the people, organizations and individuals will only drive more people to join the armed revolution like during the time of the Marcos fascist dictatorship. The anti-communist witchhunts in the urban areas will only serve to strengthen the will of the people to push and fight back against the escalation of oppressors and exploiters.
Like their deranged master Duterte, his military minions slander me by claiming that I myself have engaged in red-tagging the legal patriotic and democratic. They have spliced a video recording to make it appear that I tagged legal democratic forces as “fronts” or facades of the CPP and are NDF forces. In fact, I differentiated the legal democratic forces from the CPP and the underground member-organizations of the NDF. The military morons deliberately obscure the fact that I have always differentiated the legal national democratic movement on the one hand and the underground CPP and National Democratic Front in particular, with 18 definite underground organizations, on the other hand.
They also obfuscate the great difference between being a communist and being a terrorist by compounding communism and terrorism. As a matter of fundamental principle and policy, the CPP is a belligerent force in a civil war and is committed to the international law on human rights and humanitarian conduct and has always condemned terrorism as a grave crime against the people.
The military morons are supposed to submit to a court of law their charge of terrorism and present the evidence against any person on group , instead of going to the press or Congress in the notorious blabbering and slandering style of General Parlade. Accusing anyone of being a witch or a communist under the notion of guilt by association has no place in a court of law or in the court of public opinion.
The likes of Parlade deserve to be called pure idiots rather than military morons. It is absolutely idiotic that Parlade, without evidence, presumes that Ms Ella Colmenares is a communist and NPA member and that therefore, also without evidence, her sister film and philanthropist Angel Locsin is also a communist and NPA fighter. There is no evidence whatsoever that the Colmenares sisters are communists or NPA or have committed any act of terrorism. They have not done even something like Duterte publicly advising business interests to pay their taxes to the people’s revolutionary government or shouting Mabuhay ang CPP, Mabuhay ang NPA!
Pressed to produce evidence and witnesses, Parlade has gone so far as to produce a fake witness under duress in the person of Jeffrey Celiz to red tag so many other individuals as CPP and NPA members. We can be certain that the hearings of the Senate national defense and security committee under the chairmanship of Sen. Panfilo Lacson serves as a platform for state terrorism and anti-communist witchhunt by the military slanderers and false witnesses spouting outright lies and hearsay not only against the CPP, NPA and NDFP but also individuals and organizations that are patriotic and democratic in character, who will be summoned and pressured to condemn the CPP, NPA and NDFP or else they will be pilloried as leaders or members of these revolutionary organizations.
The ghost of the unlamented Sen. Joseph McCarthy is being resurrected in the Philippines even as McCarthyism has long been discredited since so many decades ago. not only in the US but also in the Philippines. When Rep. Leonardo Perez thought that he could make political capital out of the Anti-Subversion Law, he launched an anti-communist witchhunt through hearings by the Committee on Anti-Filipino Activities from 1959 to 1961. The targets of the witchhunt were faculty members and students of the University of the Philippines. But the academic community rose up and literally scuttled the witchhunt with a rally of 5000 on March 15, 1961.
The anti-communist witchhunt failed to intimidate the academic community, who fought back. Instead, it encouraged more students and young faculty members like me to study Marxism-Leninism and join the anti-imperialist and democratic movement through the Student Cultural Association of the UP and then the Kabataang Makabayan in 1964. Because the evil forces of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism continued to plague the Philippines, the CPP and the NPA arose in 1968 and 1969. And when Marcos declared martial law in 1972, thousands of mass activists joined the CPP and NPA. Subsequently, the National Democratic Front was established in 1974.
No amount of state terrorism can stop the armed revolutionary movement, so long as the aforesaid three evil forces continue to afflict the Filipino nation. The crisis of the ruling system is rapidly worsening because the Duterte regime and its military minions are servile to the aforesaid evil forces and are plundering the public treasury and the social wealth of the country. And they have maliciously terminated the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations in order to block the demands of the Filipino people for full national independence, democracy, economic development through genuine land reform and national industrialization, social justice , cultural progress and peace.
The Duterte regime and its military minions have terminated the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations to engage in an unbridled rule of greed and terror under the pretext of anti-communism and anti-terrorism. They are the real terrorists enjoying the infliction of mass murder and mass intimidation on the people and plundering the social and natural wealth of the country in collaboration with the imperialists and the local exploiting classes.We hope that in the future that the peace negotiations will be revived. Otherwise, the broad masses of the oppressed and exploited people have no other choice but to continue with the armed revolution for their own national and social liberation.
https://cpp.ph/statements/duterte-regime-fails-to-destroy-the-cpp-npa-thru-military-suppression-and-anti-communist-psywar/
It is impossible for the Duterte regime , its military minions and the NTF-ELCAC and its so-called Anti-Terrorism Council to suppress both the legal patriotic and democratic movement and the armed revolutionary movement so long as the entire Filipino people aspire for national and social liberation against the evil forces of foreign monopoly capitalism, domestic feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism.
These three evil forces are now represented by the Duterte regime, which is traitorous, tyrannical, genocidal and extremely corrupt. It is impossible for this regime and its military minions to destroy the armed revolutionary movement and all patriotic and democratic forces by red-tagging individuals and organizations and carrying out punitive measures, including extrajudicial killings, torture and indefinite detention and freezing of bank accounts.
History has shown that the anti-communist witch hunt in the Philippines in the 1950s and 1960s only served to challenge and drive the youth and the people to take the revolutionary road of struggle for national and social liberation. Under the pretext of anti-communism, Marcos imposed his fascist dictatorship on the people in 1972 but it served to incite more people to support and join the armed revolution. Ultimately, the fascist dictator was overthrown by the people in 1986.
The Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People’s Army, the revolutionary mass organizations, the National Democratic Front and the People’s Revolutionary Government have grown in strength and advanced because of their just revolutionary cause and program of new democratic revolution and because of their correct strategic line of protracted people’s war and accumulating strength in the countryside until they can overthrow the reactionary state in Manila.
Like all previous regimes, the Duterte regime has failed miserably to destroy the armed revolution in the countryside by unleashing brutal military campaigns of suppression and by using psywar tactics like persona non grata declarations, fake surrenders, extrajudicial killings and fake community projects. The regime and its military minions have in fact aggravated the economic crisis of the ruling system by bankrupting their own government through various forms of corruption, including pork barrel and military overspending for graft-laden equipment acquisitions, fake projects and fake operations.
The Duterte regime is bound to lose further in its armed counterrevolution by engaging in state terrorism under the pretext of anti-terrorism. The escalation of attacks on the civil and political rights of the people, organizations and individuals will only drive more people to join the armed revolution like during the time of the Marcos fascist dictatorship. The anti-communist witchhunts in the urban areas will only serve to strengthen the will of the people to push and fight back against the escalation of oppressors and exploiters.
Like their deranged master Duterte, his military minions slander me by claiming that I myself have engaged in red-tagging the legal patriotic and democratic. They have spliced a video recording to make it appear that I tagged legal democratic forces as “fronts” or facades of the CPP and are NDF forces. In fact, I differentiated the legal democratic forces from the CPP and the underground member-organizations of the NDF. The military morons deliberately obscure the fact that I have always differentiated the legal national democratic movement on the one hand and the underground CPP and National Democratic Front in particular, with 18 definite underground organizations, on the other hand.
They also obfuscate the great difference between being a communist and being a terrorist by compounding communism and terrorism. As a matter of fundamental principle and policy, the CPP is a belligerent force in a civil war and is committed to the international law on human rights and humanitarian conduct and has always condemned terrorism as a grave crime against the people.
The military morons are supposed to submit to a court of law their charge of terrorism and present the evidence against any person on group , instead of going to the press or Congress in the notorious blabbering and slandering style of General Parlade. Accusing anyone of being a witch or a communist under the notion of guilt by association has no place in a court of law or in the court of public opinion.
The likes of Parlade deserve to be called pure idiots rather than military morons. It is absolutely idiotic that Parlade, without evidence, presumes that Ms Ella Colmenares is a communist and NPA member and that therefore, also without evidence, her sister film and philanthropist Angel Locsin is also a communist and NPA fighter. There is no evidence whatsoever that the Colmenares sisters are communists or NPA or have committed any act of terrorism. They have not done even something like Duterte publicly advising business interests to pay their taxes to the people’s revolutionary government or shouting Mabuhay ang CPP, Mabuhay ang NPA!
Pressed to produce evidence and witnesses, Parlade has gone so far as to produce a fake witness under duress in the person of Jeffrey Celiz to red tag so many other individuals as CPP and NPA members. We can be certain that the hearings of the Senate national defense and security committee under the chairmanship of Sen. Panfilo Lacson serves as a platform for state terrorism and anti-communist witchhunt by the military slanderers and false witnesses spouting outright lies and hearsay not only against the CPP, NPA and NDFP but also individuals and organizations that are patriotic and democratic in character, who will be summoned and pressured to condemn the CPP, NPA and NDFP or else they will be pilloried as leaders or members of these revolutionary organizations.
The ghost of the unlamented Sen. Joseph McCarthy is being resurrected in the Philippines even as McCarthyism has long been discredited since so many decades ago. not only in the US but also in the Philippines. When Rep. Leonardo Perez thought that he could make political capital out of the Anti-Subversion Law, he launched an anti-communist witchhunt through hearings by the Committee on Anti-Filipino Activities from 1959 to 1961. The targets of the witchhunt were faculty members and students of the University of the Philippines. But the academic community rose up and literally scuttled the witchhunt with a rally of 5000 on March 15, 1961.
The anti-communist witchhunt failed to intimidate the academic community, who fought back. Instead, it encouraged more students and young faculty members like me to study Marxism-Leninism and join the anti-imperialist and democratic movement through the Student Cultural Association of the UP and then the Kabataang Makabayan in 1964. Because the evil forces of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism continued to plague the Philippines, the CPP and the NPA arose in 1968 and 1969. And when Marcos declared martial law in 1972, thousands of mass activists joined the CPP and NPA. Subsequently, the National Democratic Front was established in 1974.
No amount of state terrorism can stop the armed revolutionary movement, so long as the aforesaid three evil forces continue to afflict the Filipino nation. The crisis of the ruling system is rapidly worsening because the Duterte regime and its military minions are servile to the aforesaid evil forces and are plundering the public treasury and the social wealth of the country. And they have maliciously terminated the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations in order to block the demands of the Filipino people for full national independence, democracy, economic development through genuine land reform and national industrialization, social justice , cultural progress and peace.
The Duterte regime and its military minions have terminated the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations to engage in an unbridled rule of greed and terror under the pretext of anti-communism and anti-terrorism. They are the real terrorists enjoying the infliction of mass murder and mass intimidation on the people and plundering the social and natural wealth of the country in collaboration with the imperialists and the local exploiting classes.We hope that in the future that the peace negotiations will be revived. Otherwise, the broad masses of the oppressed and exploited people have no other choice but to continue with the armed revolution for their own national and social liberation.
https://cpp.ph/statements/duterte-regime-fails-to-destroy-the-cpp-npa-thru-military-suppression-and-anti-communist-psywar/
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