On The Duterte Regime And The 50th Anniversary Of The Founding Of The CPP: An Interview With Jose Maria Sison
Interview with Jose Maria Sison
Founding Chairman, Communist Party of the Philippines
By Dr. Rainer Werning for Neues Deutschland
December 27, 2017
1) President Duterte initially seemed very enthusiastic to strike a deal with the NDFP/CPP/NPA. Since the end of 2017, he has changed his policy and is calling all these organizations “terroristic”. What’s behind such a drastic change? Is he physically and mentally fit to lead the country?
JMS: Duterte is a political swindler. He called himself a Leftist and socialist. But even when he was still the mayor of Davao City, he was already engaged in double-dealing by pretending to be cooperative with the revolutionary movement but actually serving the mining, logging and plantation interests and his own bureaucrat capitalist interests; and providing information to the reactionary intelligence agencies against the revolutionary movement.