Topic: state terrorism

The fascists often threaten
To crush the revolution
By murdering more heroes
Of the people tempered
In the flames of the struggle.

The revolutionary movement adheres to a people’s democratic constitution, builds its own system of government and elects its officials to organs of political power. It seeks to overthrow…

The persistent semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system, which is dominated by foreign monopoly capitalism and directly run by the comprador big bourgeoisie, the landlord class and the bureaucrat…

Philippine society persists as semicolonial and semifeudal. It is afflicted by foreign monopoly capitalism, domestic feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. It is dominated chiefly by US imperialism, with the new imperialist power China trying to seize the West Philippine Sea. The basic exploiting classes are the comprador big bourgeoisie and the landlord class. The basic exploited classes are the proletariat and the peasantry. And the intermediate social strata are the middle bourgeoisie and the urban petty bourgeoisie.

Even before becoming president, Duterte tried in vain to hoodwink the Filipino nation and even the revolutionary movement that he wanted to be the first “Left” and “socialist”…

Again in the revolutionary spirit of the Paris Commune of 1871, I daresay that these current mass struggles are in transition to the great resurgence of the world…

Sa rebolusyonaryong diwa ng Komuna ng Paris ng 1871, mangahas akong magsabi na ang kasalukuyang mga pakikibakang masa ay transisyon sa malakihang muling pagsulong ng pandaigdigang rebolusyong proletaryo…

FIGHT STATE TERRORISM AND OUST DUTERTE TYRANNY
Message of Solidarity to Anakbayan-National
By Jose Maria Sison, Founding Chairman of Kabataang Makabayan

As background, let me cite the fact that in the Communist Manifesto of 1848, Marx and Engels had already differentiated Scientific Socialism from Utopian Socialism of three kinds:

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