The Saudi Arabia aggression started in March 2015 to re-install the puppet regime of Abed-Rabbu Mansour Hadi which was overthrown by Houthi rebels that seized Sana'a, the Yemeni capital in 2014. The rebellion is supported by the broad masses of the Yemeni people who have been subjected to decades of oppression by dictators supported by the US and Saudi Arabia.

The real terrorists are the fascist clique and armed minions of Duterte in the AFP, PNP and paramilitary groups. They seek to generate hysteria against the CPP and NPA and likewise against all legal opposition groups, social activists, critics, the churches, press and others being accused of destabilizing the tyrannical regime.

In Marawi City, the broad masses of the people derisively call Duterte DUTI or poison in the local language for having proclaimed martial law and having brought death and destruction to them, to their homes and livelihood and for placing them in humiliation, hunger, disease and grave difficulties in flimsy refugee centers and in dread of never being able to return to their former homes and lots due to the re--designation of the city as a military reservation as in colonial times and due to the certainty that if there would be any rehabilitation fund or projects these would favor only a few corporate, dynastic and bureaucrat allies of Duterte.

It is wrong for Duterte to say sweepingly that they are all communists or they are mere facade of communists. They act legally and pursue an anti-imperialist and democratic line. And they constitute themselves as a broad united front of forces for national sovereignty and democracy against puppetry, tyranny and corruption. They include people from various walks of life and represent different schools or currents of thought and belief.

Duterte is definitely dazed by Fentanyl for imagining that he can destroy the NPA while he is rapidly discredited and isolated by his own drive for fascist dictatorship and has far less ability and resources than Marcos to maintain authoritarian rule.

The ILPS supports the Kurdish people's struggle for national self-determination and their aspiration for a democratic self-administration in Rojava-Northern Syria. Even under the conditions of civil war, the people of Rojava successfully held a referendum in which they overwhelmingly expressed their desire to establish a Democratic Federalism of Northern Syria within a unified federal Syria with equal rights among the different ethnic groups in Rojava-Northern Syria: Kurds, Arabs, Syriacs, Assyrians, Armenians, Turkmen, Circassians, and Chechens.

¨The anti-Duterte movement can sustain the growing rage against Duterte and his regime. The student youth of today can and should launch huge mass marches and rallies in the national capital region and in the provinces, like during the First Quarter Storm of 1970.

Of course, when I first read the report on Duterte´s interview with Mindanews I had some misgivings that he did not mean what he said because of his notoriety for saying one thing and then saying the opposite within a short period and also because of his arrogance and anger in setting some absurd preconditions, like the CPP and NPA humbling themselves and capitulating to his tyrannical rule