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|March 29, 2025
ROSES & THORNS
While these organizations try to maintain a legal facade, former rebels have confirmed their deep ties to the CPP-NPA-NDF. The Party Group (PG) system ensures that the communist party directives flow into the legal organizations, subtly steering their activities toward supporting the insurgency.
"You cannot separate the legal from the armed struggle because they work hand in hand. The parliamentary struggle exists to support the armed struggle," a former rebel claimed. To prevent this connection from being exposed, which effectively crippled the party's ability to recruit new members, these party-list groups and all the party's allied organizations have been pushing for the criminalization of what they call "red-tagging."
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