Topic: AFP

The Duterte regime is hell-bent on using state terrorism under the pretext of anti-terrorism in order to impose fascist dictatorship on the Filipino people, prolong his rule in the style of Marcos beyond the constitutional limit on the presidential term of office and preserve the unjust semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system. This is a system dominated by foreign monopoly capitalism and run by the local exploiting classes of big compradors, landlords and bureaucrat capitalists to which the Duterte family, business cronies and the bureaucratic and military officials belong.

the NDFP …consider as absurd and preposterous…

This statement contains extracts from the longer message of the Central Committee on the 52nd anniversary of the CPP which will be released over the next few days.

The semifeudal mode of production in the Philippines in the light of international and national developments in the past three decades.

“I had the distinction of being the only political prisoner who was tortured just after meeting Marcos, so in my particular case, he could not deny his criminal responsibility for my torture

The overthrow of Marcos in 1986 meant that the people detested and rejected the fascist dictatorship as something evil

Comment by Jose Maria Sison

This is a time to remember the extreme suffering of the Filipino people under the Marcos fascist dictatorship

ND Line Online: On The Struggle Against The Marcos Fascist Dictatorship

PRISM editors are posting below the full text of a response by Petra P. Enduco to the controversial lecture on 26 August 2020 by Trotskyite academic Joseph Scalice on the supposed role of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its founding chairman, Jose Maria Sison, in the fascist rule of the Rodrigo Duterte regime. We will post other reactions on Scalice’s lecture and his other Trotskyite writings and pronounements on the basis of Marxism and from nationalist-democratic viewpoints as well, as these become available to us.