2/ Here for example is the campaign of Anakpawis in Mindanao. Note that Anakpawis rep Ayik Casilao is leading a Duterte fistbump during the campaign.
3/ Here is campaign truck of Bayan Muna and Anakpawis campaigning for Neri Colmenares and Duterte.
4/ Here is Anakpawis rep Ayik Casilao confirming how he voted on Facebook. Duterte.
5/ Here is Bayan Muna rep Carlos Zarate publicly signing a statement pledging his "full support to President Duterte."
6/ And here, just in case anyone forgets, is Joma Sison and leading figures of the NDFP and CPP, along with Casilao, posing with the Duterte fist-bump in Oslo in 2016.
7/ The "tactical alliance" of which you speak originated long before Duterte ever campaigned for President. It originated in support for him as mayor of Davao. He was welcomed on stage at CPP rallies. Here he is speaking at the wake of Leoncio Pitao in 2015.
8/ This alliance involved open support for the war on drugs. Anakbayan sec gen Einstein Recedes wrote, "We believe that Duterte's campaign against dangerous drugs & crime is a boon to the poor."
9/ Both the CPP and the national democratic organizations have attempted to bury their support for Duterte beneath lies and disavowals. Their refusal to deal honestly with their own past demonstrates that they will do this again.
10/ If you want clearer evidence of how Makabayan actively campaigned to make Duterte president, here are photos from Neri Colmenares' senatorial campaign.
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I regularly came across Nepomuceno in my archival research for The Drama of Dictatorship and he makes a walk-on appearance in my book at several points. 2/ cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150177…
Willie Nepomuceno took part in the famed Diliman Commune of February 1971. When the barricades were lifted, Nepomuceno, who was a member of the UP Student Council, voted in defense of the commune behind the leadership of Ericson Baculinao in a bill sponsored by Sonny Coloma. 3/
Yes, there are other factors, many of far greater objective weight.
But in a revolutionary situation it is the subjective factor -- revolutionary leadership -- that is decisive. This is why the CPP has played such a critical role. 1/
The central question in a revolutionary situation such as February 1986 is this: will the working class fight for its own political interests, will it take up the perspective of socialism?
Here the intervention of the revolutionary party is decisive. 2/
All of the other actors have their own interests, hostile to the working class -- factions of the military, Marcos' cronies, the fractious bourgeois opposition rallied behind Aquino, the hierarchy of the Catholic church. 3/
A year ago today, I wrote an assessment on the WSWS of the election of Marcos. Published the day after the election, it is a historically detailed explanation for the return of the Marcoses.
Marcos' election, I wrote, was part of the "death rattle of democracy." 1/
"The outcome is a result of the impact of US imperialism on the country’s history expressed in a concentrated form under the conditions of the current global crisis of capitalist rule." 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"The postcolonial Philippines was a country of two democracies—the democratic tradition of the masses and the formal parliamentary institutions of the elite—with no organic, historic connection between them whatsoever." 3/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
As Mr. Marcos goes to Washington, it is useful to recall the state visit of his parents to the White House in 1966.
LBJ needed to manufacture the appearance of multilateral support for America's bloody war in Vietnam and he courted the Marcoses. 1/
We know from declassified material that LBJ's National Security team told the US president that the secret to securing Marcos support was to pledge discretionary money that Marcos could pocket, and to stoke Marcos ego. 2/
Under secret auspices, the Johnson administration channeled millions to Marcos who personally stole a good deal of the money. When this was exposed by the Symington subcommittee in 1969, the Nixon administration buried the evidence to help Marcos get re-elected. 3/
Founder and lifelong leader of the Stalinist Communist Party of the Philippines, Jose Ma. Sison, died on December 16 at the age of 83.
No figure in the past half-century was more instrumental in the betrayal of the Filipino working class and oppressed masses than Joma Sison. 1/
In an article published in Sojourn last year, "We Are Siding with Filipino Capitalists," I traced the nationalist, capitalist origins of Sison's core Stalinist ideas as a graduate student at UP at the beginning of the 1960s. 2/ doi.org/10.1355/sj36-1a