Gone is the liar

By Charlie V. Manalo

Jan 10, 2023 12:00 am

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WHEN Jose Ma. Sison was released from prison in 1986, he could not immediately reassume his post as CPP chairman, and that time, the movement was teeming with leaders who had somehow seen through the lies of his protracted people's war. Like the Lavaites and Sison's Plaza Miranda bombing cohorts before them, these communist leaders want victory at all cost — and fast.

Activists raise posters featuring photos of the late Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Ma. Sison at different stages of his life during a march at the University of the Philippines campus in Diliman, Quezon City on Dec. 19, 2022. PHOTO BY JOHN ORVEN VERDOTE

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