(Eagle News)—Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison believes President Rodrigo Duterte cannot declare a revolutionary war because he is a “bureaucrat capitalist of the worst kind” in the first place.
“Duterte cannot engage in a revolutionary war because he is a counterrevolutionary agent of foreign monopoly capitalists, big compradors and big landlords,” Sison said in a statement.
According to Sison, Duterte “should not misappropriate and besmirch the noble calling of revolutionary.”
If he “formally proclaims the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus or even martial law nationwide, he will only succeed in further enraging the people and inciting them to wage all forms of revolutionary resistance.”
“The real revolutionary war is against his ongoing counterrevolutionary war,” he added.
President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, April 5, warned critics he would declare a revolutionary government if he was “pushed to the wall.”
Duterte made the comment after slamming Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, who had cautioned the government against reviewing and cancelling contracts it has already entered into.
Drilon was reacting to Duterte’s order for the review, after the chief executive learnt of a contract with Maynilad that bans the government from interfering in any manner that will reduce or delay the implementation of water rates.