The desperate and futile strategy of Duterte and the AFP is the following: Carry out the AFP campaign plan to destroy the NPA before the end of 2018 by launching offensives and using Tokhang methods in communities. At the same time, using the peace pretense, Duterte tries to dictate to the NDFP to negotiate in Manila and come under the control, manipulation and intimidation of Duterte and the military.

We are deeply saddened by the terrible humanitarian crisis that continues to afflict millions of Yemenis as a result of the war of aggression. The horrible destruction of the country and widespread suffering of the people have been largely played down by the Western mainstream media and Western governments that are complicit in the criminal war.

Indeed, the summit and the joint statement constitute an epochal event of great significance in overcoming decades of tensions and hostilities between the two countries and in committing themselves to cooperate for the establishment and development of new U.S.-DPRK relations and for the promotion of peace, prosperity, and security of the Korean Peninsula , the Asia-Pacific region and the world at large.

In view of the foregoing, can we ever expect the GRP under Duterte to agree with the NDFP on the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER) which favors national industrialization and genuine land reform?

signed by GRP and NDFP negotiating chairmen DOLE secretary Silvestre Bello III and Fidel Agcaoili and, as witness, RNG Special Envoy Idun A. Tvedt

The press and the public have the right to know the content of the stand down agreement that was signed on June 9, 2018 by GRP and NDFP negotiating panel chairmen DOLE secretary Silvestre Bello and Fidel Agcaoili and other GRP and NDFP representatives.

I urge the two negotiating panels to release to the public and to the press the written and signed agreements of June 9 and 10 signed by the chairmen of the GRP and NDFP negotiating panels and by the members of their respective special teams.

The study of Marxism is indispensable for understanding the current status and crisis of global capitalism. It was Marx who first uncovered systematically the laws of motion of capitalism, how the capitalist class extracts surplus value from the working class in the process of social production, over-accumulates capital and shrinks the wage fund and thereby creates the crisis of overproduction relative to the purchasing power of the working people.