Duterte Matutulad ang Kapalaran kay Marcos -CPP NPA Founder Joma Sison

When Marcos proclaimed martial law in 1972, Sison said the NPA had only a few guerrilla zones concentrated in Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya, Tarlac and Pampanga provinces.

“But thanks to Marcos and his martial rule, his terror tactics and flagrant human rights violations drove the patriotic and progressive mass organizations and thousands of activists to the underground for deployment in the countryside for armed struggle. As in the time of Marcos, the battle cry of the revolutionaries today is: people’s war is the answer to martial law,” Sison said

Duterte would suffer the same fate as Marcos in fighting the NPA. he added

Sison said some of the “patriotic and progressive” military officers are concerned that Duterte is misusing the AFP and PNP as if these were his personal armies.

“They are critical of the promotion of officers on the basis of their friendship and personal loyalty to Duterte. But they are most aghast by his termination of the peace negotiations,” he said.

Sison said the faction in the military and police are worried that Duterte is practically forcing the communists to fight back under conditions favorable to them.

“They are alarmed that the NPA is frequently launching tactical offensives from more than 100 guerrilla fronts on a nationwide scale. Each guerrilla front is usually as large as a district of several municipalities. It carries at various levels the party organizations, the various types of underground mass organizations, NPA units, people’s militia, self-defense units and organs of political power. When a guerrilla front is under encirclement and concentrated enemy attack, it is directly and indirectly assisted by other guerrilla fronts,” Sison said.

He said the NPA units could fight and defeat the government by seizing the initiative in a war of fluid movement, involving major tactics of concentration, dispersal and shifting according to circumstances.

“In close to five decades, they have waged extensive and intensive guerrilla warfare on the basis of an ever widening and deepening mass base. They can deliver annihilative blows where their enemy do not expect them. And they can use annihilative tactics in order to force the enemy into a defensive mode or guard duties,” Sison said.

He said the latest weapons that Duterte has boasted of having acquired from the US and other countries will eventually end up in the hands of the NPA.