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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
EXILED Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison warned today that the country is facing “the perfect storm” for fascist dictatorship.
In a message sent to the Morning Star, Mr Sison said the political and socio-economic crisis engulfing the Philippines was becoming extreme, with the ruling class “once more incapable of ruling in the old bourgeois-democratic way.”
He drew comparisons with the brutal regime of president Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled the Philippines under martial law between 1972 and 1986, during which time thousands of political opponents were killed or disappeared.
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
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
