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November 7, 2018 Pahayagan ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas ANG Pinapatnubayan ng Marxismo-Leninismo-Maoismo English Edition Vol XLIX No. 21 November 7, 2018 www.philippinerevolution.info EDITORIAL NPA-Sultan Duterte’s foul lies Kudarat attacks and cruel fascism Philippine Marines TWENTY-EIGHT troopers of ver the past weeks, Duterte and his fascist cabal have shame- the Marine Battalion Landing lessly twisted facts in their vile aim to slander the Party and Team 2 (MBLT 2) were killed in revolutionary movement. This is a desperate attempt to justify offensives by the New People's Oever repressive measures to suppress the people's resistance to his Army (NPA)-Sultan Kudarat tyrannical and terrorist reign. from September-October. Red fighters ambushed the First, he ridiculoulsy accused Recently, Duterte preposter- 3rd Marine Company Recon- the NPA of being behind the October ously painted the CPP and NPA as naissance Group-Marine Bri- 20 massacre of nine peasants who anti-Lumad in a perverse villifica- gade Special Unit in Barangay were fighting for their right to till tion campaign. The AFP and their Batangbagras, Palimbang, land in Sagay, Negros Occidental. mercenary criminal traitors to the Sultan Kudarat last October This is patently absurd, especially Lumads and Duterte's flunkies are 14 at 9 a.m. The firefight las- considering that the AFP earlier ac- shameless in lying. It is the AFP ted for 15 minutes during cused the peasants of being NPA that has mounted relentless at- which seven soldiers were supporters. Duterte is washing his tacks against the Lumads to force killed. The NPA fighters were bloodied hands in the face of over- them to give up their ancestral able to withdraw safely. whelming evidence that the brutal land to be plundered by big plant- Thirty minutes later, the killings were perpetrated by the ations and mining companies. military bombed the ambush SCAA paramilitaries attached to the Duterte wants to demoralize site killing its own troops who AFP. The brutal massacre was then the masses in slandering the NPA, failed to immediately withdraw followed by the killing by state their real army which has served from the area. After two forces of the lawyer assisting the them selflessly, in an attempt to weeks of rescue and retrieval, victims’ families. "Duterte's foul...," continued on page 2 "NPA...," continued on page 3 "Duterte's lies...," from page 1 "NPA...," from page 1 smash their unity with the people's in the countryside marked with Such tactics are entirely in army. He seeks to take away their widespread killings, torture, arrests character for Duterte who is gar- moral right to resist armed sup- and detentions and other military rulous, foul-mouthed, narcissistic, pression, oppression and exploita- abuses and violations of human and a blood-thirsty fascist. Under tion. rights, and large-scale combat op- his reign, the bigger and more At the same time, Duterte erations with artillery, helicopter ludicrous and vulgar the lie, the wants to push the proscription case and drone support aided and ad- filthier and darker the secret. But to declare and tag the CPP and NPA vised by the US military. no matter how big the illusion and as "terrorists." He plans to use this To create the illusion of victory, dramatics Duterte whips up, he proscription to restrict the rights of thousands of peasants are being fails keep the secrets of his rotten various groups which the AFP ac- duped or forced to parade as "NPA rule from reeking. cuses of conspiring with the CPP in surrenderees." However, contrary Duterte's constant dramatics its "Red October" tale. to the AFP's aims, many among serve to hide the decay of the ruling Duterte aims to use the Party their peasant victims are ap- system and his moribund rule. His as a scapegoat to extend and de- proaching the NPA to complain "war against drugs," "war against clare nationwide martial law which against military abuses, seek justice corruption," anti-US pretensions has been imposed over Mindanao. and support the people's army. and advocacy for sovereignty and He is rushing this scheme to ensure In the past two years, Duterte peace are pure posturing. These the outcome of the May 2019 elec- has spewed a gargantuan amount are all complete opposites of the tions which will guarantee him a of lies. He has used his power and truth. congressional majority for his fed- wasted hundreds of billions of Duterte is insane if he believes eralism project for perpetuating his pesos of public funds to weave far- he can completely fool the Filipino power. fetched tales. people with his deceptions and Duterte's campaign of spread- He employs Hitler's fascist dramatics. It is clear to the people ing barefaced lies against the re- doctrine of Big Lies: “Repeat a lie that he is the overlord of all drug volutionary movement is in line with until it becomes the truth; the big- syndicates, mastermind of corrup- the relentless war of suppression ger the lie, the better, because who tion, a US puppet, traitor to the under Oplan Kapayapaan. The AFP would imagine a man so impudent country and peddler of its sover- has carried out a brutal all-out war to fabricate colossal untruths.” eignty, and number one fascist. Duterte is demented if he thinks ANG Contents he can silence or intimidate the people with his lies and use of state violence. Like a broken record, he Editorial: Duterte's foul lies and cruel declares he will crush the NPA by Issue XLIX No. 21 | November 7, 2018 fascism 1 mid-2019, after having failed in his NPA attacks Philippine Marines 1 Ang Bayan is published earlier declaration of crushing the NPA before the end of 2018. This is in Pilipino, Bisaya, Iloko, Duterte's biggest lies 4 Hiligaynon, Waray and English. nothing but a pipe dream. In fact, State forces kill Sagay 9 lawyer 6 Ang Bayan welcomes the armed struggle is advancing nationwide. contributions in the form Sagay massacre suspects identified 7 of articles and news items. In the face of worsening eco- Readers are encouraged Peasants resist Samar militarization 8 nomic and social crisis, burdensome to send feedback and taxes and other oppressive policies, Anti-usury campaign in Capiz 8 recommendations bureaucrat capitalist corruption, imperialist intervention and op- for improving our newspaper. 15,000 march vs. martial law 9 pression, crime and narco-politics instagram.com/sine.proletaryo Cultural work in a revolutionary base 10 and increasingly cruel armed sup- pression under Duterte, more and @prwc_info Building the Party in Peryo 12 more people are propelled to wage fb.com/groups/prwcnewsroom The Duterte regime's black budget 13 various forms of struggle. The Filipino people's determin- [email protected] Police crimes against women escalate 14 ation to struggle to end Duterte's tyranny and terrorism is unwaver- Ang Bayan is published fortnightly by the Central Committee ing. They are undaunted and are of the Communist Party of the Philippines. further galvanized to take the path of revolutionary armed struggle. 2 November 7 , 2 01 8 ANG BAYAN "NPA...," from page 1 almost 35 cadavers of soldiers were MBLT 2. barangays Mainit and Sooc, Bato, recovered. The Lumad Dulangan-Manobo Camarines Sur last October 22, at On top of this, the NPA-Far celebrated the defeat of the AFP's 4:40 p.m., killing its commander, South Mindanao Region (FSMR) campaign to protect Consunji's de- 2Lt. Jayson Frederick Pasco. An- confirmed that 21 soldiers of MBLT structive commercial operations. other soldier was wounded. 2 were killed in Barangay Sangay, They continue to support and parti- After the incident, an additional Kalamansig in successive attacks cipate in punitive actions against company of the 83rd IB was de- launched by the Red fighters DMCI and its fascist protectors. ployed to pursue the NPA in the against the military last September Quezon. The NPA-Quezon suc- area. More than a week of all-out 16-17. (See article in Ang Bayan Oc- cessfully foiled an attack by the military operations were mounted tober 7, 2018). 92nd IB in Sitio Tiklupan, Umiray, in some barangays of Bato. Ac- The MLBT's intensified military Gen. Nakar last October 27, at cording to the Edmundo Jacob campaign is designed to clear the 9:49 a.m. Two troopers were Command, "...because the masses area for the reentry of the DM killed and three were severely acknowledge the justness of what Consunji Incorporated's wounded while the NPA sus- the comrades are doing for them, massive logging op- tained no casualties. The they are provided safe haven in the erations. The firefight lasted for 20 area despite focused operations of company's oper- minutes. the mercenary army." ations have been Since May, Gen. Nakar Negros Oriental. NPA-Negros interrupted for has been under constant Oriental almost simultaneously at- more than two attack by battalion-sized tacked two camps of the Regional years due to the forces of the 2nd ID to Mobile Force Battalion (RMFP) 7 of strong opposition of the the detriment of peas- the Philippine National Police in Lumad people and the ant and indigenous Guihulngan City last October 30. NPA's armed campaign. Dumagat and Re- Red fighters fired at a police de- According to the NPA- montado residents. tachment in the boundaries of FSMR, the number of mil- barangays Balugo and Hinakpan at itary casualties is possibly Camarines 11:00 a.m. At around the same time, higher in the face of spon- Sur. The NPA they attacked the headquarters of taneous armed resistance sniped operating the RMFB 7 in Sitio Liko, Barangay of the Lumad Dulangan- forces of the Bravo Coy Bulado.
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