ANGELES CITY- The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) denied yesterday reports that its ranks has splintered further amid alleged conflicts regarding the May elections and peace talks with the government.
In a statement issued through its media officer Marco Valbuena, the CPP said “no one in the CPP, the NPA (New People’s Army) and the entire revolutionary movement, much less in the leadership, carries the simplistic notion that revolutionary armed struggle and parliamentary struggle are anathema to each other.”
“There is no conflict in strategy and tactics within the leadership and ranks of the CPP and the entire revolutionary movement,” the CPP said, in reaction to the recent statement of Armed Forces Civil Relations Service chief Brig. Gen. Francisco Cruz that a “third split” has arisen in the CPP-NPA due to such conflicts.
The CPP dismissed Cruz’s claim as a “worn-out psy-war spin.” Cruz had claimed that the conflict “has something to do with the May 10 elections” and is between CPP members pursuing Maoist strategy of armed struggle and those who perceive the elections and the peace talks as an opportunity to grab state power.
“The entire CPP and the national-democratic revolutionary movement under its leadership are one in the conviction that it is revolutionary armed struggle that will guarantee the eventual victory of the revolutionary movement ,” said the CPP statement.
The CPP noted that “the entire revolutionary movement welcomes and persistently works for the attainment of substantive or even tactical gains for the revolution and the Filipino people through peace talks, parliamentary struggle and all other forms of legal struggle, without at any moment abandoning or relegating to secondary status the revolutionary armed struggle.”
The CPP dismissed Cruz’s statements as “intrigues concocted in the face of the armed revolutionary movement’s continued advance.”
In the 1990’s, some CPP members broke away to form the Marxist-Leninist Party of the Philippines (MLPP) arising from alleged ideological differences. While the CPP has the NPA as its armed force, the MLPP formed the Rebolusyonaryong Hukbo ng Bayan (RHB) for its armed counterpart.
In a statement issued through its media officer Marco Valbuena, the CPP said “no one in the CPP, the NPA (New People’s Army) and the entire revolutionary movement, much less in the leadership, carries the simplistic notion that revolutionary armed struggle and parliamentary struggle are anathema to each other.”
“There is no conflict in strategy and tactics within the leadership and ranks of the CPP and the entire revolutionary movement,” the CPP said, in reaction to the recent statement of Armed Forces Civil Relations Service chief Brig. Gen. Francisco Cruz that a “third split” has arisen in the CPP-NPA due to such conflicts.
The CPP dismissed Cruz’s claim as a “worn-out psy-war spin.” Cruz had claimed that the conflict “has something to do with the May 10 elections” and is between CPP members pursuing Maoist strategy of armed struggle and those who perceive the elections and the peace talks as an opportunity to grab state power.
“The entire CPP and the national-democratic revolutionary movement under its leadership are one in the conviction that it is revolutionary armed struggle that will guarantee the eventual victory of the revolutionary movement ,” said the CPP statement.
The CPP noted that “the entire revolutionary movement welcomes and persistently works for the attainment of substantive or even tactical gains for the revolution and the Filipino people through peace talks, parliamentary struggle and all other forms of legal struggle, without at any moment abandoning or relegating to secondary status the revolutionary armed struggle.”
The CPP dismissed Cruz’s statements as “intrigues concocted in the face of the armed revolutionary movement’s continued advance.”
In the 1990’s, some CPP members broke away to form the Marxist-Leninist Party of the Philippines (MLPP) arising from alleged ideological differences. While the CPP has the NPA as its armed force, the MLPP formed the Rebolusyonaryong Hukbo ng Bayan (RHB) for its armed counterpart.
