International Department
Communist Party of the Philippines
28 January 2005

The International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) drew up the political diagram i question as an educational material for cadres in international relations work. As in the case of other diagrams the ID has prepared, the purpose is to guid the revolutionary forces in applying the policy and tactic of the united front and conducting the method of unit and struggle in dealing with various political forces an individuals in order to advance the worldwide struggl against the principal enemy, which is US imperialism

This particular diagram seeks to show the various grouplets that have originated from elements who had tried to instigate a split in 1992 after our Party’s Central Committee launched the Second Great Rectification Movement (SGRM). It traces how these elements put up their own grouplets and, in turn, how these have fragmented further into even smaller grouplets that vainly try to magnify themselves and their attacks on our Party in the Philippines by linking up abroad with various Trotskyite factions and some social democrats.

The diagram is used in educational sessions as well as in briefing sessions for foreign comrades from parties and progressive organizations with which the CPP has relations. It is only one of a series of diagrams in a political map that our cadres in international work use as a guide in approaching other parties and organizations or entertaining approaches from the same for mutual support and cooperation.

In a visit to the office of Ang Bayan early last year, one of our ID staff members gave Ang Bayan staffers a briefing on the state of our international relations work, updated them on the linkages of pseudo-Left groups in the Philippines, shared with them the diagram with the caption “CONTRA relations with Trotskyites and others, as of January 2004”. This is basically what Ang Bayan subsequently published under the title “Links of counterrevolutionary groups with Trotskyites and social-democrats”.

As you have well informed us, these grouplets in their political practice have made the CPP, the NPA and the NDFP their main targets of attack. We, in the International Department, have observed that because their attacks on the revolutionary forces do not find resonance among progressive circles in the Philippines, they project their attacks abroad through various Trotskyite factions and certain institutions run by social democrats. They then feedback the foreign echoes of their attacks to the conservative media in the Philippines. This is now what Bello and company are doing in their hysterical spin against the revolutionary forces in the Philippines, and in particular, the NDFP chief political consultant, Prof. Jose Maria Sison.

The most brazenly false conclusions from the political diagram have been drawn by the likes of Walden Bello and his imperialist-funded NGO, Focus on the Global South, and their international supporter Pierre Rousset of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire of the French Section of the Fourth International and his Trotskyite friends in Hungary, Ireland and elsewhere.

Pierre Rousset of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire who is in the secretariat of the GUE-NLG (United European Left-Nordic Green Left) in the European Parliament has long been using his position therein to spread poison against the forces of national liberation and democracy, glorify as martyrs certain armed agents of the reactionary armed forces of the Philippines like Romulo Kintanar and Arturo Tabara and witchhunt Prof. Jose Maria Sison and blame him for the actions of the New People’s Army and thus reinforcing the “terrorist” listing made by the US, European Council and other governments.

In the current campaign of Walden Bello and the like to vilify and slander the forces of the Filipino people’s struggle for national liberation and democracy, our diagram is in the main being validated and we can observe, trace and further diagram the links among US-financed anti-CPP groups and Trotskyite factions.