Warmest revolutionary greetings!

Thank you for your letter dated February 9, 2005.

We have observed with keen interest the orchestration of US-GRP maneuvers in the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations and the propaganda attacks against the CPP, NPA, NDFP and the NDFP Chief Political Consultant.

We agree with you that the slander campaign initiated by Walden Bello and partylist representative Etta Rosales and others of Akbayan and the Focus on the Global South is related to and augments the US-initiated “terrorist” listing of the CPP/NPA and the NDFP Chief Political Consultant and the demand for pacification and capitulation in the peace negotiations.

In response to your request, we hereby issue a formal denial of the malicious claims being circulated by Walden Bello and others:

1. The political diagram that was published in the December 7, 2004 issue of Ang Bayan is not a hit list. It is a diagram issued by our International Department for informing CPP members regarding the status and Trotskyite connections of certain anti-CPP groups in the Philippines. Attached hereto is a memorandum given to us by our International Department explaining the circumstances of the diagram in question.

2. Walden Bello and his cohorts in the anti-CPP campaign are liars. We condemn their attempt to stigmatize and isolate the revolutionary forces in the Philippines by carrying out a witchhunt on legal patriotic and progressive forces in the Philippines under the pretext of urging them to use their purported links to and influence on the CPP to stop a threat that these spinners of lies themselves have maliciously fabricated. We also condemn their attempts to hoodwink certain prominent personalities in some institutions, organizations and other agencies and turn them against the CPP on the basis of these fabrications.

3. As you yourselves have already been doing so, let us inform everyone, especially those whose understanding of the workings of the CPP is very superficial, that our Party upholds, defends and promotes human rights in accordance with the bill of fundamental rights in the Guide for Establishing the People’s Democratic Government, the NDFP Unilateral Declaration of Undertaking to Apply the Geneva Conventions and Protocol I and the GRP-NDFP Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL).

4. We should further inform the public that anyone who has any complaint of human rights violation on any organization, agency, unit or personnel of the people’s revolutionary government can present such complaint to the Joint Monitoring Committee, which exists and operates under the provision of the CARHRIHL. It is utterly malicious for anyone to address such complaints to the NDFP Chief Political Consultant, Prof. Jose Maria Sison in order to blame and pillory him in the corporate mass media and other rumor mills.

You may disseminate our letter, together with your letter, to shed light on the malicious fabrications and provocations being made by anti-CPP detractors.

Thank you for communicating with us directly. In conclusion, we commend the NDFP Negotiating Panel for standing up firmly against the attacks and pressures being made to bear on you by the US imperialists and their agents.

With best comradely regards.