THE INEVITABLE happened – the demise of this over 50-year communist insurgency. All that’s left are the noisy useful idiots in the University of the Philippines and the pseudo-communist party-list representatives in Congress.
The Communist Party of the Philippines / New People’s Army / National Democratic Front of the Philippines (CPP/NPA/NDF) is dead save for its corpse’s involuntary spasms. Quite ironic. All their leaders are either dead or septuagenarians more concerned with adult diapers and maintenance medicines.
From the 1960s up to the 1980s, they were all communists / anarchists fighting for the withering away of the state into a worker’s paradise (of course it didn’t happen as all communist countries eventually embraced capitalism). Nowadays, they’re gender warriors fighting for their pronouns, men wearing women’s clothes demanding to pee in women’s toilets.
The parallel is uncanny; these “wokes” / ”transgender activists” vehemently deny what they are despite the obvious facts, i.e. insisting they’re female / male when obviously they’re not, and going berserk when people don’t validate them. Likewise, these so-called leftists / activists would also deny to high heaven that they’re communists, pseudo communists or “useful idiots” notwithstanding the obvious telltale signs, and immediately bring out the “victim card” a.k.a. “red tagging” when they’re identified as such.
Aside from being the main source of NPA recruits and “useful idiots”, the University of the Philippines is now offering a course on Taylor Swift (good God, the epitome of kabaduyan) and they fancy themselves the premier institution of higher learning in the country. A total waste of taxpayers’ money.
The Department of Finance says free college tuition should only be for deserving students. I agree. Perhaps they should start by defunding UP. That state university seems to be only producing pseudo-communists, “useful idiots” and social climbing wokes who worship at the altar of their demi-god the late Joma Sison, including of course, Taylor Swift.
And speaking of demise…there is no active NPA guerrilla front in the country as of December last year courtesy of the government’s anti-communist insurgency campaign, according to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
“Now, we can report that there is no active NPA guerilla front as of December 2023. So, we will continue to fight for it,” he said.
The President expressed elation over the government troops’ achievement in addressing the country’s insurgency problem by wiping out active NPA guerilla fronts.
Last November, the Philippine government and the CPP/NDF agreed to a “principled and peaceful” resolution of the armed conflict.
Of course, the NTF-ELCAC doubted the CPP/NPA/NDF’s sincerity considering their history of failed negotiations, violent nature, and inconsistent statements.
The CPP/NPA/NDF demanded for the resumption of peace talks, yet it launched a “3rd Rectification Movement” calling for the NPA, to intensify the “protracted people’s war” against the government during its 55th anniversary last year.
And we segue to desperation…Perhaps out of pity for the jeepney drivers, President Marcos extends deadline for the compliance and consolidation of transport services entities and individual operators which unfortunately the pseudo-communists exploited for propaganda.
It is public knowledge that public transport group PISTON, infiltrated by the CPP/NPA/NDF, orchestrated this pigheaded resistance to the implementation of the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP) as a last-ditch, desperate effort to keep alive their agenda of overthrowing the government by conducting destabilization operations in urban centers.
Take note that every time PISTON-Panay would stage a transport strike, those who refuse to join would be harassed by armed bandits a.k.a. CPP/NPA/NDF.
PISTON also withheld information from gullible jeepney drivers who joined their transport strike that affiliation ensures continued operation and a daily dividend of P500, even without receiving a modernized unit.
In a turn of events, Edgar Salarda, former head of PISTON Panay is now with Alliance for Peace and Sustainable Development Transport Cooperative (APSDTC) that is composed of former rebels that chose to become productive members of society. The cooperative is showcasing the government’s sincerity in their reintegration to normal lives. Salarda served as resource person during the congressional hearing on the PUVMP.
Incidentally, the Iloilo City Government endorsed APSDTC to the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board for a proposed route within the city and a planned expansion for provincial routes.
Finally, I never insult anyone. I just describe them properly./PN
