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FILIPINO communist rebels have warned peace talks with the government will fail unless President Rodrigo Duterte honours his pledge to cut military ties with the US.
The first reports from Wednesday’s New People’s Army (NPA) press conference held under top secret conditions at a guerilla encampment in the Sierra Madre mountains surfaced yesterday.
Regional commander and spokesman Jaime Padilla told a small group of reporters escorted to the camp: “While the Duterte government hasn’t abrogated all these treaties, the New People’s Army will have no reason to enter into a friendship or alliance with him.
WILL DRY speaks to three former members of the armed forces about the political hypocrisy surrounding Armistice Day, how war is a function of class society, and the far right’s use of militarism and nationalism to divide working people
Huge protests against corruption and preventable deaths during flooding have rocked the government — the masses are not likely to be able to take direct control in their own interests yet, writes KENNY COYLE, but it’s a promising show of people power
