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CPP denies leadership row, twits NSC chief
http://www.gmanews.tv/print/142417
GMANews.TV
Article posted January 03, 2009 - 05:25 PM
MANILA, Philippines – After a long silence, the Communist Party of
the Philippines (CPP) stressed Saturday there was no change in its
leadership as claimed by National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales.
The CPP Central Committee voiced contempt for Gonzales and his
deputy, Avelino Razon Jr., for claims that came out in a series of
stories in a Manila-based newspaper.
"We officially state outright that there has been no recent change
at all in the central leadership of the Party. The Party's central leadership
remains united and strong. Gonzales and Razon's line that there are
cracks and discontent in the Central Committee is pure hogwash," it
said in a statement posted at the CPP Web site (www.philippinerevolution.net).
It said the claims of Gonzales and Razon are nothing but "malicious
disinformation to the media in a vain effort to sow intrigues" against
CPP founding chairman Jose Ma. Sison and other officials.
The newspaper articles quoted Gonzales as saying that Sison was ousted
in favor of Wilma Tiamzon.
But the CPP said such claims only betray "the utter desperation they and
their US and Malacañang bosses have turned to in their failure to stem the
growth and advance of the Party and the revolutionary movement under
its leadership."
"Gonzales and Razon's lies and intrigues are obviously aimed particularly at
Comrade Sison. They and their imperialist masters have nothing but fear
of Comrade Sison because of his effective leading role as a proletarian
revolutionary teacher and guide. They continue to make impossible his
safe return home in order to distance him from the revolutionary forces in
the Philippines. Still, Comrade Sison continues to ably serve as a highly
respected teacher and guiding beacon to the entire Party and revolutionary
movement and to all patriots, democrats and anti-imperialist fighters in the
Philippines and around the world," it said.
The CPP said the "imperialists" and their local henchmen even deployed to
The Netherlands in 1994 a team of assassins from the Philippines with
specific instructions to liquidate him.
It added the Philippine government even colluded with the US government
and Dutch police in 2007 to file trumped-up charges against Sison and throw
him in prison.
"By resorting to such foul tactics, Gonzales, Razon, and other fascist henchmen
of the US and Malacañang have only made a sorrier mess of their failed
counterrevolutionary internal security Oplan Bantay Laya 1 and 2. Their lies
and intrigues are drowned out by the accumulated and recent victories of
the Philippine revolutionary movement whose advance they are powerless
to prevent," it said.
For his part, National Democratic Front negotiating panel spokesman Fidel
Agcaoili branded Gonzales a "malicious comic and congenital liar" for his claims.
"Gonzales and Razon have long collaborated in carrying out the so-called
legal offensive of the Inter-Agency Legal Action Group whose purposes
include the fabrication of false charges against unarmed social activists,
setting them up as "enemies of the state" for either extrajudicial killing,
torture or indefinite detention, and guaranteeing to the death squads
legal cover and impunity. This latest attack on Prof. Sison could mean the
further escalation of the duo's collaborative evil scheme in seeking to harm
him as well as in killing and disappearing activists," he said. - GMANews.TV
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