National Democratic Front  of the Philippines   Chief Political Consultant

 

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ESTRADA HAS MADE IMPOSSIBLE

RESUMPTION OF GRP-NDFP NEGOTIATIONS

By Jose Maria Sison

NDFP Chief Political Consultant

January 4, 2000

The Estrada regime has made impossible the resumption of the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations.

Estrada has time and again declared that he wants to crush the revolutionary movement. In fact, he has escalated gross human rights violations under his Oplan Makabayan.

He has put to waste all previous GRP-NDFP peace negotiations and agreements. He is pushing his futile scheme of localized surrender negotiations, employing long discredited renegades and traitors like Arturo Tabara and the late Conrado Balweg, in order to bury further the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations.

He considers the resumption of the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations, particularly the aborted negotiations on social, economic and political reforms, as contrary to his drive to rewrite the 1987 constitution of the GRP for the purpose of selling out national sovereignty and patrimony.

In response, the national leadership of the people's revolutionary government has announced that the revolutionary forces and the people are determined to fight the US-Estrada regime in every necessary and possible way.

They are well prepared because of the resounding success of the Second Great Rectification Movement, the consolidation and expansion of the mass base and the politico-military training of the New People's Army for protracted people's war along the national-democratic line.

The broad masses of the people, especially the workers and peasants, are more interested in the progress of the armed revolution than in the resumption of the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations.

Because there are no more GRP-NDFP negotiations, I am very happy to have more time for my research and writing projects. I consider as futile, no matter how vicious, the personal attacks and threats against me from the Estrada regime. #