CPP/NPA-FSMR: On Duterte’s mockery and lewd remarks against women

NPA-Far South Mindanao Region propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines Website (Feb 15): On Duterte’s mockery and lewd remarks against women

Dencio Madrigal, Spokesperson
NPA-Far South Mindanao (Valentin Palamine Command)

14 February 2018

The foulmouthed president Rodrigo Duterte exposes himself in his vaunt about commanding the soldiers to shoot women NPA members in their private parts.

Duterte’s yarn is not amusing and not a fitting joke. Mocking women and making lewd remarks against them proves Duterte’s fascist offensiveness. He is deliberately indifferent to the women’s sufferings in as much as he is uncaring to the people’s adversities. And he dissolutely promotes chauvinism and violence against women.

In reducing women to their genetalia, Duterte is demonstrating how his macho-fascist leadership belittles women. He also exposes the grave insolence of his tyrant regime to the basic rights and lives of the women and the poor Filipinos. Women are particularly affected by his tyrant and anti-poor policies such as encouraging extrajudicial killings, implementing the TRAIN law, imposing the martial law in Mindanao and others.

Duterte is waging a war to defend US imperialism and exterminate the people’s dissention. The women who joined the NPA oppose this war and they courageously fight in order to emancipate not just themselves but the entire oppressed Filipinos. They are determined to win the struggle, achieve a just society and build a better life for all.

It is a right of every woman to struggle against an oppressive state. We encourage them to join the revolutionary people’s army because it espouses the uprightness, integrity and protection of their rights. The three rules and eight points of discipline of the NPA forbid any form of oppression and violation against them. Likewise, the revolutionary movement upholds the importance of their role in social change.

https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statements/20180214-on-dutertes-mockery-and-lewd-remarks-against-women