Utrecht, The Netherlands—The Philippine underground revolutionary movement based here, led by the Communist Party of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front, said it welcomed and would cooperate with anyone in fighting the Duterte administration.
These points were stressed by Jose Ma. Sison, chief political consultant of the peace panel of the NDFP, during the launching Monday via Zoom of his much-awaited book “Upsurge of the People’s Resistance in the Philippines and the World”.
“The firm united front policy of the CPP and the NDFP relies primarily on the basic alliance of workers and peasants, including the middle and national bourgeoisie, thus they are in a position to cooperate with everyone fighting the Duterte regime,” Sison said.
There was no immediately available comment or reaction from Malacanang, only a day after President Rodrigo Duterte celebrated his 76th birth anniversary in his hometown of Davao City on Sunday.
In a statement, Sison said although Duterte became president because of the support of the US politicians he named as the Marcoses, Estradas, and Arroyos, “it would be more difficult for Duterte to stay in power beyond 2022, according to Sison.
He said US president Biden could allow Duterte to finish his term provided he kept his promise to the US to end the revolutionary movement, but that the US’ so-called deep state, which takes care of national security policy, strongly abhors and is deeply worried about China’s incursions in the south China sea and in Philippine military bases, which Duterte has allowed unhindered.
Sison, Duterte’s teacher at the Lyceum while pursuing his undergraduate course, also cautioned Duterte and his top defense and military officials against reg-tagging the communist activists.
Sison described his book as a product of his “most productive years in my entire writing life, including those which I participated in building the ideological, political and organizational foundations of the CPP, the New People’s Army, the NDFP, the revolutionary mass organizations and the local organs of political power, constituting the people’s democratic government.”
Three Dutch and Filipino youth activists read excerpts from the CPP statement on the New People’s Army 52nd founding anniversary celebrated on March 29.
Luis Jalandoni, chief international representative of the NDFP and former chair of its Peace Panel, called on those who want to end the Duterte regime via the legal and electoral process to try their best to have a strong unity and to firmly link with the basic masses and other oppressed sectors of Philippine society fighting for genuine sovereignty, their democratic rights, welfare, economic prosperity, social justice, and genuine peace.