By Jose Maria Sison, NDFP Chief Political Consultant
By rigging the 2019 midterm elections, Duterte was able to create his supermajorities in both the Senate and the Lower House of Congress. The nonrenewal of the franchise of the ABS-CBN was a foregone conclusion of congressional hearings despite the fact that this broadcast company had not violated any law to justify the nonrenewal of its franchise and its prior closure.
The attack on the ABS-CBN is an attack on press freedom. It is a major part of the Duterte campaign to intimidate and silence the entire people and facilitate Duterte’s rush to fascist dictatorship. It is aimed at stepping up Duterte’s drive to gain total control over the means of information and to monopolize political power through a fascist dictatorship in line with his law of state terrorism.
I appreciate the efforts of the broadest range of patriotic democratic forces and the best legal minds in the Philippines for filing cases before the Supreme Court to prove Duterte’s law of state terrorism as being grossly unconstitutional. It is an outright nullification of the Bill of Rights and all other provisions of the liberal democratic constitution that are pertinent to fundamental civil and political rights that are supposed to be guaranteed.
But I will be pleasantly surprised if the Supreme Court will rule in favor of the plaintiffs and the entire Filipino people despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of the justices in this court have repeatedly voted in favor of the interest of Duterte and his allies and have become notorious for being corrupt after dismissing the plunder cases against the Marcoses, Estradas, Arroyos and other big plunderers allied with Duterte.
Duterte in a Rush to Fascist Dictatorship
The Filipino people and the broad range of patriotic and democratic forces are convinced that the Duterte regime is in a rush to its goal of imposing a fascist dictatorship on the people and that the enactment of Duterte’s law of state terrorism surpasses in scope of arbitrariness and brutality even the 1972 declaration of martial law that enabled Marcos to impose a 14-year fascist dictatorship on the people.
Such law of state terrorism gives to Duterte and his armed minions the unlimited license to engage in mass arrests, indefinite detention, torture, rape and confiscation of bank assets and properties of any social activist, critic or legal opponent of his regime on the basis of mere suspicion or red-tagging as “communists” or “terrorists”.
It is fine that the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army are asserting that the No. 1 terrorist chieftain of the oppressive and exploitative ruling system is absolutely wrong in labelling them as ‘terrorist’. They are revolutionary forces which are motivated by the people’s needs, demands and aspirations for national liberation and democracy and which constantly arouse, organize and mobilize the people to wage their own new democratic revolution.
The CPP and NPA are guided and bound by the highest principles of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the policies decided by the leading organs of the CPP, NPA and the people’s democratic government, the Three Major Rules of Discipline and Eight Points of Attention and the commitment to International Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law and the GRP-NDFP Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law.
When Duterte decided to terminate the peace negotiations in 2017, the GRP and NDFP Negotiating Panels were already elaborating on the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms and they set forth genuine land reform and national industrialization as the basis of economic development to be financed by the exploitation of the oil and gas resources worth at least US 26 trillion in the exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea.
Duterte as a Double Traitor to National Sovereignty
But obsessed by his ambition to become a fascist dictator, Duterte pledged to Trump on November 13, 2017 to terminate the peace negotiations and do everything in his power with the military support of the US under Oplan Pacific Eagle-Philippines to wipe out the revolutionary movement and to deliver to US corporations the unlimited privilege to own Philippine land, natural resources, public utilities and all types of businesses.
At the same time, the double-dealing traitor Duterte kept reassuring China that he was laying aside the 2016 judgment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in favor of the Philippines against China’s false claim violative of the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea. He emboldened China to establish military bases in seven artificial islands in the EEZ of the WPS and gain vantage points over the oil and gas resources there.
At one time, he offered co-ownership of these resources with China under the guise of joint exploration under Chinese control in exchange for onerous loans and overpriced infrastructure projects. Noting the shortsighted personal greed of Duterte for quick advantage, China has delayed delivering on its promised loans by preconditioning them with Duterte’s outright surrender of the sovereign and maritime rights of the Philippines in the West Philippine Sea.
Duterte can be ultimately squeezed by his attempt to serve his own selfish interest by playing the role of double traitor to the national sovereignty of the Filipino by serving as puppet to two imperialist powers that are now increasingly in conflict with each other after decades of being main partners in implementing the neoliberal policy of imperialist globalization.
https://ndfp.org/duterte-is-in-rush-to-fascist-dictatorship-but-conditions-are-favourable-for-resistance/
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