By Jose Maria Sison, NDFP Chief Political Consultant

There can be no end to the new democratic revolution through protracted people’s war in the Philippines so long as the Filipino people are plagued by imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism.

As in the time of the Marcos fascist dictatorship, the state terrorism now under the Duterte regime incites the broad masses of the people to wage armed revolution because of extreme oppression and exploitation.

Duterte has completely failed to accomplish his yearly and constant order to his armed minions to destroy the revolutionary movement of the people for national and social liberation. He will fail again and again.

Calling on his armed minions to destroy the revolutionary movement before the end of his 2022 is the latest admission of Duterte that he has failed to destroy the revolutionary movement. His term will surely end before he can end the revolutionary movement.

Duterte is serving notice to the people that he does not want a just peace by addressing the roots of the armed through negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. He is unwittingly confirming the justness of the revolutionary cause of the people.

Duterte has emerged as the worst president that the semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system has ever produced. In so short a time, much shorter than that of Marcos, he has accomplished the mass murder of more than 30,000 people without due process.

He will go do down in history as a butcher and foul-mouthed ruffian who knows nothing but to kill people and intimidate them. He is unwittingly but truly an excellent recruiter of the armed revolution. Because of his barbarism, more people are joining the armed revolution.