Duterte: With or without Reds, gov’t to fast-track land reform

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 11:18:14 +0000

Duterte: With or without Reds, gov't to fast-track land reform

With or without the communists, the government will fast-track the land reform and land distribution in the country, President Rodrigo Duterte said on Saturday.

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Lorenzana calls Joma Sison an ‘armchair general’

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 06:35:12 +0000

MANILA, Philippines — Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Friday tagged Jose Maria Sison, the exiled founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines’ (CPP) as an “armchair general”

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Palace tells left-leaning groups: ‘Work within the law’

Palace tells left-leaning groups: ‘Work within the law’

Malacañang on Tuesday reminded groups, which President Rodrigo Duterte tagged as fronts of communist rebels, to always “work within the law.”

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Like the MILF, MNLF, communists must deal with gov’t ‘in good faith’ — Gatchalian

Reds must deal with the Philippine government in “good faith“ peace talks and take inspiration from the example set by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said on Friday.

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Joma Sison slams Duterte for leaving out peace talks in SONA

EXILED Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison on Tuesday slammed President Rodrigo Duterte’s third State of the Nation Address (SONA) for showing “no remorse” in not fulfilling his promises and no mention on the termination of the peace talks in 2017. “[The SONA] shows no remorse for his glaring non-fulfillment of electoral […]

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Communist insurgents reject ‘localized peace talks’ anew

THE National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) on Tuesday is firm in rejecting the government’s proposal to localize peace talks, saying it will only isolate Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison and was a “divide and rule” tactic of the Duterte administration. In a statement, the NDFP also lashed out at […]

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