"Now, Duterte looks like a fool, pasinto-sinto, by firing her after only two weeks,"

“Since the beginning, he has been afraid that she would discover from local officials and US intelligence how he actually protects the biggest drug lords under his mafia syndicate or crime family,” Sison said.

The underemployment figure is usually far higher than the unemployment figure and is always used to conceal full unemployment

The Philippine labor force is 44 million. If 10 million lost their jobs, that is a whopping 23 per cent of the labor force added to the ranks of the unemployed

It is neither the Filipino people's struggle for national and social liberation nor the far future of communism that is the cause of intolerable oppression and exploitation but the semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system

Exiled communist party founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison again inserted himself into the discussion about President Rodrigo Duterte’s health, saying his friendly advice to his former student was resign, get full medical treatment and rest

“The corrupt military and civilian officials would rather make money on fake development and fake community support projects and fake surrenders, and fake casualties for pure psywar, thus further bankrupting the reactionary government,”

Because of the militarization and fascisation of the reactionary government under the NTF-ELCAC, civil and military personnel and resources are being misallocated and bureaucratic and military corruption is heavily fed