When I think of the arrest of Communist Party Chairman Benito Tiamzon and his wife Wilma Austria Tiamzon, I hear , to quote the words of a poet, “the drop of chains.” There is a sense of release and liberation in this development.

Jose Maria Sison and his closest comrades will doubtless continue to proclaim that the Communist armed struggle will go on. But the Tiamzons’ arrest is a very big deal—for the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New People’s Army (NPA), and for the Philippine government and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

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