Tag: Jose Maria Sison

Palace slams Sison for refusal to reciprocate gov’t ceasefire amid public health emergency

(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, March 20, slammed Communist Party of the Philippines founding chairman Jose Maria Sison for refusing to declare a ceasefire despite the public health emergency. “Sison is again engaged in a ranting nonsense that only highlights his perverted vision of reality as well as his insensitivity to the present grave peril that the Filipino people he professed to fight for face,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement. […]

Palace to Sison: Come home and “face the music”

(Eagle News)–The Palace on Friday, Sept. 6, urged Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison, who is in exile in The Netherlands, to return to the Philippines and face the multiple murder case filed against him. In a statement issued after Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 32 issued an arrest warrant against him and over 30 others, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Sison should “..face the music.” “His elusive, if not illusory, dream […]

Manila court orders arrest of Joma Sison, others over mass grave in Inopacan, Leyte

(Eagle News)–A Manila court has ordered the arrest of Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Joma Sison and over 30 others for multiple murder. Also ordered arrested by  Judge Thelma Bunyi-Medina of the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 32 in connection with  a mass grave in Inopacan, Leyte  were Leo Velasco, Rodolfo Salas alias Ka Bilog, Jose Luneta, and Luis Jalandoni, a senior adviser of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, among others. […]

Lacson reiterates support for localized peace talks with Communist rebels; Sison no longer in control, senator says

(Eagle News)–Senator Panfilo Lacson reiterated his support for localized peace talks with Communist rebels on Tuesday, April 16, saying Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Joma Sison no longer had “control” over the New People’s Army in the first place. “Experience has shown that while Sison asks for a ceasefire and government accommodates his request, NPAs continue conducting ambushes and raids,” Lacson said. Lacson said the government should therefore focus on these NPA leaders […]

Sison: Duterte can’t declare a revolutionary war because he is a “counter-revolutionary agent”

(Eagle News)—Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison believes President Rodrigo Duterte cannot declare a revolutionary war because he is a  “bureaucrat capitalist of the worst kind” in the first place. “Duterte cannot engage in a revolutionary war because he is a counterrevolutionary agent of foreign monopoly capitalists, big compradors and big landlords,” Sison said in a statement. According to Sison, Duterte “should not misappropriate and besmirch the noble calling of revolutionary.” […]

Palace slams Sison for saying Duterte “like an old broken record”

(Eagle News)—The Palace on Saturday, March 23, slammed Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison for saying President Rodrigo Duterte sounded “like an old broken record” with his permanent termination of peace talks. “If as Mr. Sison says the President sounds like a broken record, the cantankerous steak chieftain of the National Democratic Front is like an echo with his repeated criticisms of President Rodrigo Duterte and this administration to stay politically […]

Sison: Termination of peace talks actually benefits “revolutionary” forces, Filipinos

(Eagle News)—Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison on Saturday, March 23, said the termination of the peace talks actually benefits the “revolutionary forces” and the “Filipino people.” In a statement, Sison said this was because “it drives the broad masses of the people and the organized revolutionary forces to wage all forms of resistance to isolate and intensify them in order to isolate and defeat the tyrannical US-Duterte regime.” He said  […]

Sison on Duterte following his permanent termination of peace talks: He’s “like an old broken record”

(Eagle News)– He’s like an “old broken record.” This was the reaction of Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison to President Rodrigo Duterte’s announcement to permanently end peace talks with Communist rebels on Thursday, March 21. In a statement, Sison said “as far as the (National Democratic Front of the Philippines) is concerned, Duterte formally killed the peace negotiations on November 23, 2017, with his Proclamation 360 terminating them.” The proclamation sought […]

Communist leader Sison again hits PHL president, claims Duterte should be blamed for Jolo bombing

(Eagle News) — Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison again criticized President Rodrigo Duterte as he issued a statement claiming the Philippine leader should be blamed for the Jolo, Sulu bombings that the military said was perpetrated by young terrorists connected with the Abu Sayyaf. The communist leader issued his latest tirade against Duterte days after the Jolo terror attack which the military said was perpetrated by the so-called Ajang Ajang group […]

MTRCB official says Duterte has ordered conduct of back-channel talks with Communist rebels

Palace says it has no information on the matter (Eagle News) — A member of the Movie Television Review and Classification Board said on Tuesday, Jan. 15, that President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the conduct of back-channel talks with Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison and other high-ranking Communist rebel-officials. Avelino Andal, former chief of the Philippine Coconut Authority, said President Duterte gave him the order last week. “Nagpaabot agad ako (ng) […]

Lacson to DOJ: Follow up on court petition seeking to declare CPP, NPA as terrorists

(Eagle News)—–Senator Panfilo Lacson on Thursday, Jan. 3, urged the Department of Justice to follow up in court its petition seeking to declare the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army as terrorists. Lacson, who was referring to the petition filed by the DOJ before the Manila Regional Trial Court in March, issued the statement after CPP founder Jose Maria Sison said the Communists “principal work” this 2019 was the ouster of […]

Sison: The “principal work” of Communists this 2019 is to oust Duterte

(Eagle News)—–Communists will exert all efforts to oust President Rodrigo Duterte this 2019, saying the ouster was their “principal work” for the year. In a statement, Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison said in view of this, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines will “further strengthen itself as the most consolidated realization of the national united front” and will “cooperate with all possible allies in the broad united front..” He said […]