With Duterte’s repeated order to annihilate the NPA rebels, Sison said the prospect on the possible resumption of the stalled peace negotiations with the government has long been dead

Lopez answered that Interpol “cannot simply arrest” Sison because he is protected by the 1951 Refugee Convention.

The Makabayan bloc renewed its call for the repeal of the rice tariffication law, saying it “has visibly produced disastrous impacts to farmers, millers and consumers instead of the supposed benefits.”

In the entire European Union and entire world, the Duterte regime is notorious as a murderous violator of human rights

The exiled communist leader also scoffed at the proposal of Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo for him to return to the Philippines and "face the music."

“I’m serving a notice to everyone that in the coming months – not really bloody – but there will be a little trouble. We have to finish it.”

El Barro de la Revolucion, is now off the press and ready for distribution

Remember that the essence of protracted people’s war is not simply to maintain fighting teams that use guns—which the fascists, the Mafia, and conspiratorial terrorists also do—but to mobilize the masses in the armed struggle in order to dismantle the bourgeois-reactionary state machinery (especially its armed forces) step by step and in likewise fashion to build the revolutionary state machinery and use it to defend the people’s gains.