However, the chief executive "has said worse things before and has also taken back these things," said National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultant Rey Casambre.

After over 3 decades in exile, communist leader Jose Maria Sison on Monday said he is ready to go home as soon as there is "substantial progress" in peace negotiations between his camp and the government.

PRRD has repeated so many times the threat to kill me that sometimes I surmise that the expression ¨kill¨ has actually become a term of endearment, as in some American comedies

From this working-class neighborhood by the Old Rhine river, thousands of kilometers away from home, Sison leads a revolutionary movement he began nearly half a century ago when he established the Communist Party of the Philippines

Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison recounts how he ended up in the Netherlands, where he is seeking asylum as a political refugee.

Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison says he is ready to return home once there is substantial progress in the peace negotiations. #ANCEarlyEdition #ANCRecap

For several decades, we seem to be trapped in a world of recurrently worsening crises, social turmoil and wars in the era of modern imperialism and proletarian revolution. But we are now in a period of transition to a world of revolutionary flow against the evils and rottenness of decadent monopoly finance capitalism.

President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday rejected the suggestion of his daughter Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte to reconsider peace negotiations with communist rebels