{"id":112764,"date":"2017-08-17T23:31:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T03:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=112764"},"modified":"2017-08-17T23:31:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T03:31:36","slug":"duterte-lambasts-joma-anew-how-can-i-not-be-a-socialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/17\/duterte-lambasts-joma-anew-how-can-i-not-be-a-socialist\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte lambasts Joma anew: How can I not be a socialist?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE PHOTO\/ Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison (left) and President Rodrigo Duterte (right). (Facebook photos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday took a swipe against his former professor and founding chairman of the Communists Party of the Philippines (CCP) Jose Maria Sison for allegedly saying the former was not a socialist.<\/p>\n

\u201cKaya ito si Sison, isa ring ugok\u2026gusto niya siya lang ang sosyalista. Ako daw, peke. Paano \u2018ko hindi maging sosyalista? (For Sison, that fool, he want to be the only socialist. He said I’m fake. How can I not be a socialist?) I\u2019m always left because migrants lang kami dito sa Mindanao (We are migrants in Mindanao),\u201d Duterte said in a speech before policemen in Ozamiz City.<\/p>\n

The president accused Sison of labeling others as fake leftists or socialists if they would not join the armed struggle against the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust because you are not joining the armed struggle, peke ka na (You’re fake). Ang sa kanya kasing inisip, ugok, \u00a0maging leftists ka o sosyalista ka, na kailangan sumali ka sa New People\u2019s Army, makipag-away ka. (He thinks, that fool, you’ll be a leftist or socialist if you joined New People’s Army, you’ll fight) That\u2019s not my style. Eh gusto mo daan natin sa pulitika lilipat kaagad ako sa partido ninyo (You like to join politics them I would jump to your party),\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not want to kill a Filipino just because of \u2013 ayaw mo yung\u2026 Ang armed struggle ang ayaw ko diyan, hindi ko gusto. (I don’t like armed struggle, I hate it.) That\u2019s the problem,\u201d the president added.<\/p>\n

He added that NPA acts like they have \u201cthe monopoly of talent in the world\u201d and that they are only \u201cthe ones who have principles in life.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a Facebook post on Sunday, Sison shared a transcript of an interview where he remembered Duterte saying he was a socialist and not a communist in their Skype conference before the 2016 presidential elections.<\/p>\n

Sison said crisis conditions in the country are ‘worsening’. He slammed Duterte for not fulfilling his promises during the campaign, saying the latter cannot solve social problems in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut such fake popularity is eroding fast because crisis conditions in the Philippines are worsening. He cannot fulfill many of his big electoral campaign promises and he cannot solve the social problems because he sticks to a neo-liberal economic policy and a brutal security policy directed by pro-US military officers,\u201d Sison said.<\/p>\n

Duterte and Sison had been waging a word war following\u00a0the failure on peace talks between the government and the communist party. Duterte expressed anger on Sison\u2019s group for attacking government troops even members of his Presidential Security Group (PSG).<\/p>\n

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