CONTRARY TO what officials of the Macapagal-Arroyo regime say,
the US has no sovereign right to intervene in Philippine affairs
and put the negotiating panel and consultants of the National Democratic
Front of the Philippines (NDFP) under duress in peace negotiations.
In acting as if they had such right, the US imperialists like George
W. Bush, Colin Powell and the proconsul Francis Ricciardone merely
succeed in sabotaging the peace negotiations.
The incorrigible puppets in the Macapagal-Arroyo regime welcome
the US interference. But the NDFP would rather postpone the negotiations
indefinitely than submit itself to any imperialist pressure.
If the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) were
at all interested in the continuity of the peace negotiations, it
should have at the least criticized the US renewal of the US "terrorist"
listing as a gross violation of the following GRP-NDFP joint agreements:
1. The Hague Joint Declaration which upholds the principle of national
sovereignty and jurisdiction of the Filipino people over events
that transpire in the Philippines;
2. The Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees which
protects all negotiators, consultants and other persons duly authorized
to participate in the work of the peace negotiations; and
3. The Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and
International Humanitarian Law which guarantees the fundamental
rights of all Filipinos and upholds the Hernandez political offense
doctrine.
The GRP has neither self-respect nor shame for proclaiming in effect
the sovereign right of the US to trample on the national sovereignty
of the Filipino people and interfere in the internal affairs of
the Philippines.
Against the extraterritorial arrogance of the US and European imperialists
and the puppetry of the Macapagal-Arroyo regime, the Filipino people
and the revolutionary forces have the sovereign right and duty to
intensify their revolutionary struggle for national liberation and
democracy.
They must exert all efforts to reclaim the natural and social wealth
robbed from them by foreign monopolies. They must stop the US, British
and Dutch imperialists from plundering the Malampaya and Camago
oil and gas resources.
They must thwart every attempt of the imperialists and puppets
to use the "terrorist" listing to force the capitulation
or outright destruction of the revolutionary forces and people represented
by the NDFP.
They can have just and lasting peace only by waging a resolute
and militant revolutionary struggle to achieve national independence,
democracy, social justice and development against the imperialists
and the local exploiting classes of big compradors and landlords.
