10/08/2026
“Peacetalks” daw, mas maganda pa tawagin itong “scam talks”. Maraming beses ng na scam ang pamahalaan. Parang batang magdadabog pag hindi maibigay ang gusto. Pero pag nagdabog ang CPP NPA may namamatay dahil ang NPA ang gumagawa ng pagdadabog. Buti na lang halos nawala na ang armadong NPA, thanks to the NTF ELCAC supported by the AFP/PNP. Pag ma scam pa rin ang admisnistrasyon na ito, abangan natin ang gagawin ng AFP/PNP. Nagmamatyag ang taombayan.
NDFP challenges GRP to launch genuine peace talks
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) challenged the Marcos regime on August 1 to prove through concrete measures the claim of Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) Secretary Mel Senen Sarmiento that its government is open to peace negotiations.
NDFP Peace Negotiating Team chairperson Juliet De Lima said the GRP cannot simply talk about peace talks while it continues policies that undermine the conditions for a meaningful resumption of peace negotiations.
"If there is to be a “mutual agenda” as propounded by Secretary Sarmiento, then the GRP must do away with its declared agenda of seeking the capitulation and surrender of the revolutionary movement," de Lima said.
Genuine peace negotiations are premised on the recognition that armed conflict is rooted in deep social, economic and political issues, she said.
"There can be no meaningful peace talks when one side prematurely demands the surrender of the other," de Lima said.
She said the GRP should not consider negotiations as an instrument for the "demobilization and disarming" of the New People's Army, instead of a process to solve the roots of the civil war.
Without this, she added, the GRP's declaration of openness will remain empty and unconvincing.
For the reopening of talks to be meaningful, the GRP must release the imprisoned peace consultants and hundreds of political prisoners. In addition, the government should recognize the past agreements signed over more than three decades.
"If past agreements are not recognized, agreements he will sign will carry no significance in the future, reducing peace negotiations to a spectacle for political grandstanding," De Lima warned.
The NDFP also questioned the GRP's sincerity because of the contradictory statements of its officials. While Sarmiento expressed "openness," Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro and other militarist officials strongly opposed peace talks to resolve the roots of the armed conflict.
Likewise, while the NDFP took Sarmiento's words as the official position of the Marcos government, its policies remain in place, such as treating the Communist Party of the Philippines, the NPA and the NDFP itself as "terrorist organizations."
"Persistently branding one side as 'terrorist,' and subjected alleged members and supporters to surveillance, harassment and prosecution only poisons the atmosphere for dialogue," de Lima said.
"The Filipino people deserve a just and lasting peace founded on agreements that address the problems of widespread joblessness, landlessness, and poverty," De Lima said. "Such a peace will not emerge from demands for surrender, the continued incarceration of hundreds of political prisoners, or the militarist thinking of war-hungry hawks inside the GRP."
