Asked if branding the CPP-NPA as a “terrorist organization” will solve the problem, Duterte admitted it won’t. “No, but it can lessen their number,” he said.

“In the interest of the Filipino people and for the sake and purpose of resuming the peace negotiations, I am willing to have serious conversations with President Duterte,” Sison said. “It would indeed be a waste if we would not interface even once, considering the success of the four rounds of formal talks since 2016.”

As revolutionary forces, the CPP, NPA and the toiling masses of workers and peasants build their own revolutionary democratic government (organs of political power) against the reactionary government of big compradors, landlords and corrupt burreaucrats represented by Duterte. On this principled basis, the CPP and NPA cannot and will not enter the court of the reactionary government to participate in proceedings.

Duterte and his cohorts are engaged in political swindling when they stay that federalism is the cure to all the big problems of the Philippines. Whatever is the form of government, the rottenness of the semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system under US imperialism and the local exploiting classes will persist.

As evidenced by this film clip attached hereto, presidential spokesman Roque, PTV and the Duterte troll group Ambag Bayan are engaged in spreading the fake news that I have become a Dutch citizen. This is similar to the previous fake news that I have been recently arrested by Dutch authorities as a consequence of Duterte´s Proclamation 374 against ¨ẗerrorism¨.

Interview by Manila Bulletin Panel of Journalists

“He should allow the GRP (Government of the Republic of the Philippines) and NDFP (National Democratic Front of the Philippines) panels to work out the comprehensive agreements on social, economic and political reforms to lay the basis for a just and lasting peace,” he said.

Peace negotiations with the Communists notably gained unprecedented advances. But what went wrong?