Questions
by the Japanese newspaper Mainichi to Prof. Jose Maria Sison, Founding Chairman
of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and chief political consultant
of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP)
Jose
Maria Sison
Chefrådgiver for Filippinernes Nationale Demokratiske Front
1.
Could you show your statement regarding the US designation of CPP and NPA as "Terrorist
Organization"?
Sison Reply: Attached hereto is my press statement
against the US designation of the CPP and NPA as foreign terrorist organizations
(FTO). (See below)
2. Philippino Gov. has changed its policy on CPP
and NPA, denouncing their activities as a terror. It was announced just before
the US designation. What do you think of the two goverment's "collaboration"
?
Sison Reply: I think that the all-out war policy declaration of Macapagal
and the US designation of the CPP and NPA as FTO are calculated to pave the way
for the escalation of US military intervention and possibly for a US war of aggression
against the Filipino people. They also want to reestablish US military bases against
the Filipino, Chinese, Japanese and other Asian peoples. Ms Macapagal thinks that
by following the dictates of the US she can ensure her election in 2004 or impose
an open rule of terror on the people like Marcos did.
3. According to Arroyo
administration, it will resume peace talks with NDF regardless of its policy-shift
toward CPP-NPA. How will you and your organization deal with it? What is your
current policy toward Philippino Gov.?
Sison Reply: The GRP-NDFP peace
negotiations can be resumed anytime if the GRP agrees to negotiate with the NDFP
in accordance with The Hague Joint Declaration and subsequent mutually approved
agreements. The problem is that Macapagal and her military advisors want to scrap
the agreements, prolong the back channel talks until the NDFP capitulate and escalate
the campaigns of state terrorism to destroy the revolutionary movement and subjugate
the people. In brief, the US and Macapagal regime are not interested in the peace
negotiations.
4. Apparently President Arroyo is going to launch severe measure
to NPA, as a part of "War against Terrorism". Do you have any plan to
cope with it? Are you going to intensify your fight against Philippino Gov.?
Sison Reply: I presume that the organs of leadership and masses of the CPP, NPA,
NDFP and the people's
revolutionary government and the broad masses of the
people are determined to defend themselves and intensify their revolutionary struggle
for national liberation and democracy against the escalation of oppression and
exploitation by the U.S. and the local exploiting classes of big compradors and
landlords.
They are not at all afraid of the US and Filipino puppets, especially
because the Philippine ruling system and the US and world capitalist system are
in grave crisis.
COMMENT ON US DESIGNATION OF CPP
AND NPA
AS FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS
By
Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
The US
launched a war of aggression against the Filipino people from 1899 onwards and
in the process tortured and murdered hundreds of thousands of them, mostly unarmed
civilians who were merely suspected of supporting the Philippine revolutionary
government and thereafter the succeeding revolutionary movements in various parts
of the Philippines.
The latest count done by a group of scholars and researchers in the History Department of the University of the Philippines shows that the aggressor troops of US imperialism killed more than 1,400,000 Filipinos from 1899 to 1914. Consequent to its bloody conquest of the Philippines, the US has subjected the Filipino nation to the daily violence of exploitation in connivance with the local reactionaries.
US imperialism is the biggest terrorist force that has ever afflicted the Filipino people. And yet it has all the malice and temerity to misrepresent as terrorist every revolutionary force that arouses, organizes and mobilizes the Filipino people in a resolute struggle for national liberation and democracy against US imperialism, domestic feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism.
It is utterly ridiculous that in representation of the biggest terrorist force in the world, US State Secretary Colin L. Powell, in consultation with the US Attorney General and Secretary of the Treasury, has designated the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People's Army as "foreign terrorist organizations" since yesterday, August 9, 2002.
Among the objectives that the US seeks to achieve by such designation are to bar suspected officers and members of the CPP and NPA from entering the US, to prohibit and punish any kind of activity suspected of being helpful to them, to freeze any suspect bank account and to signal all other countries to act against those whom it designates as terrorists.
But anyone who knows the principles and policies of the CPP is aware that it does not send its members or Red fighters of the NPA abroad to attack any US entity. The CPP has also repeatedly pointed out that Americans can enjoy the basic rights and freedoms of the foreign guest in the Philippines, unless they are deployed for combat operations against the revolutionary forces and people.
It is
silly for anyone to imagine that the CPP has any amount of money in US banks or
elsewhere. The US government will certainly be abusing Filipinos, Americans and
other people in the US and violating civil liberties by carrying out a witchhunt
against those suspected of working for or supporting the CPP and NPA and keeping
money for them.
The US is whipping up the line of preemptive first strike
on the basis of mere suspicion at the level of the state relations with private
organizations and individuals within or outside its jurisdiction and likewise
at the level of state-to-state relations. The US is already violating the civil
liberties of the American people (e.g., those who have been detained indefinitely
and in solitary confinement just because they were known to be Muslim immigrants
or they looked Arabic) and is possibly provoking certain states that it has threatened,
to physically attack the US before they are attacked.
Under the guise of combating terrorism, the Bush administration is generating fascism in the US and the entire world. It is trying to push Europe and Japan as well as neocolonial states to adopt more and more repressive measures against the people, especially the migrants. The US is promoting wholesale state terrorism to suppress the growing social discontent and resurgent revolutionary resistance, amidst the rapidly worsening crisis of the US and world capitalist system.
It is highly probable that the US and Manila government are in cahoots with each other in the designation of the CPP and NPA as terrorists in a futile psywar attempt to intimidate and push them towards capitulation. The CPP, NPA and NDFP cannot be intimidated. They dared to fight the Marcos fascist dictatorship and in the process grew in strength even while the US military bases were still in the Philippines and were used for delivering war materiel and training Filipino puppet troops.
The designation of the CPP and NPA as terrorists is likely to lead to the termination of the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations and to the intensification of the civil war and even to a war of national liberation against US aggression, if the US troops join the puppets in combat against the NPA. Said designation has been done by the US apparently as a psywar preparation for doing away with the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations and for rationalizing the escalation of US military intervention or aggression against the revolutionary forces and people.
Being the sole superpower in the world, US imperialism is being carried away by extreme arrogance. It has the notion that it can do anything it pleases in order to oppress and exploit the people under the slogan of "free market" globalization. It has the illusion that it can wage several wars of aggression and to suppress revolutionary movements in several continents all at the same time.
Those who are resolutely fighting US imperialism and its puppets know very well that the US itself is now in a serious prolonged economic crisis and is already overextended financially and militarily. They are taking advantage of increasingly favourable conditions to advance their revolutionary struggles. They are steadily gaining strength and preparing for great upswings in the near future.
Se også
THE
PEOPLES ALL-OUT RESISTANCE WILL DEFEAT THE ALL-OUT WAR OF THE ENEMY
Udtalelser
fra Jose Maria Sison, Filippinernes Kommunistiske Parti 6. og 10. august 2002
Netavisen
19. august 2002