We need books like this that can temper our biases and allow us to better understand the process that started with “guarded optimism” but ended with the government resuming its scorched earth policy against the CPP and NDF.
Why the peace talks ended
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Prospects for peace seem dim under Marcos Jr. administration
It has been more than a week since Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son, and namesake of the late dictator, was inaugurated. But prospects for peace remain uncertain with the newly-installed administration neither having a peace adviser nor a clear stance on how it will proceed with the peace process.
Presidential candidates’ stand on resuming peace talks, addressing roots of armed conflict
Xandra Bisenio, daughter of detained peace consultant Rey Casambre, said the next president should address the root causes of the armed conflict.
ATC list is proof why Anti-Terror Law should be struck down – peace consultants
“ATC’s terrorist designation is just another nefarious device concocted by those who reckon they can and must go around or against the Constitution and the rules of law, fair play and common decency to silence those who speak and clamor for change.”
Duterte, not the Reds, obstacle to peace
“It is important that peace talks continue as this is one of the avenues to resolve the roots of armed conflict.”
CPP asserts revolution is not terrorism, says ‘terror tag’ sets the stage for further repression
“The regime is setting the stage for all-out suppression of democratic rights using ‘anti-terrorism’ as pretext.”
Continuation of peace talks, not red-tagging, key to achieving peace – advocates
Advocacy group Pilgrims for Peace declared that the state’s penchant for red and terror-tagging “not only further exacerbates the human rights crisis in the Philippines, but it worrisomely undermines peace efforts.”
Kaninong usapan? Kaninong kapayapaan?
Mula pa noong panahon ng pananakop ng mga Espanyol, hanggang sa kasalukuyan, nabibigo ang mga usapang pangkapayapaan dahil hindi nito tinutugunan ang dahilan ng pagrerebelyon ng mga tao.
Duterte urged to stop all-out war, resume peace talks
“If there’s an opportunity [for peace talks to continue], we will support it,” Bisenio told Bulatlat in an interview. “But we also know that the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] is hell-bent on continuing its militarist approach,”
Mapping the course: Peace talks and red bashing
Peace talks comes primarily because in the country’s hinterlands, a people’s army, guided by a communist party, is building organs of democratic political power. And in various sites, the communist bid for land redistribution, national industrialization, and a participatory planned economy through socialism is paralleled by organized, institutionalized and legitimate endeavors pursuing the same vision. This is enough for a government that is provisionally hijacked by compradors and imperialists to talk peace and reforms.
NDFP condemns arrest of another peace consultant
“The Duterte regime remains on a fascist rampage that adds more and more obstacles to the resumption of the peace negotiations with the NDFP.”