Khan: NTF-ELCAC harmful to peace talks efforts
Khan said the NTF-ELCAC is “outdated” and stressed that “does not take into account the ongoing prospects for peace negotiations.”
CPP on AFP’s claim of strategic victory over the NPA: ‘Dream on’
The CPP branded as ludicrous government claims that all but 14 “weakened guerilla fronts” of the NPA have been dismantled.
Reds tell Marcos officials to quit sabotaging efforts to revive talks
The CPP clarified that the GRP officials are intentionally misreading the joint statement that while it includes the phrase “ending the armed struggle,” it is accompanied and preceded by the phrase “resolving the roots of the armed conflict.”
CPP launches ‘3rd Rectification Movement’ on 55th founding anniversary
“The Central Committee calls on the entire Party to wage a rectification movement on the basis of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the Party’s basic principles as enunciated by Jose Maria Sison.”
Negros NPA to observe ceasefire despite continuing AFP offensives
Despite the absence of a reciprocal truce declaration from the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), the Apolinario Gatmaitan Command (AGC) of the NPA said its five guerrilla fronts in the south and north of the island will celebrate the CPP’s 55th founding anniversary with the peasant masses.
CPP-NPA declares 2-day ceasefire
In an announcement on its website, the CPP Central Committee as well as the New People’s Army (NPA) National Operational Command ordered all NPA units across the Philippines to suspend offensive military operations starting 00:01 of December 25 to 23:59 of December 26.
Duterte admits threatening to kill Joma, joins Sara in opposing talks resumption with NDFP
“We exchanged expletives. I told him he was a son-of-a_b****. He responded in kind. I then told him, ‘Do not go home to the Philippines, I will kill you.”–Rodrigo Duterte
NDFP: Teodoro’s insinuation of surrender by Reds ‘simply untrue’
“The NDFP reiterates that the point of entering peace negotiations is not to arrive at capitulation, but to create a space conducive to discuss mutually acceptable and principled ways of achieving just and lasting peace,” it said.
No talk of surrender in the peace negotiations, NDFP says
NDFP Executive Council member and senior adviser to the NDFP Negotiating Panel Luis Jalandoni said, “[T]here is and should absolutely be no talk or insinuation, much less demand, about the surrender of the NDFP or of the revolutionary struggle of the CPP, NPA and NDFP.”
VP Sara rebukes BBM’s peace plan, fuels speculation of rift with Marcos
By posturing as if she is the president of the country and questioning the first steps to a peace negotiation between the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the (NDFP), she is undermining the efforts to address the roots of the armed conflict in the Philippines,” ACT Teachers Party Re. France Castro said.