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WHATS the big fuss over communism and being a communist? Communism had been decriminalized a long time ago. The problem here is that Jose Ma. Sison refused to dismantle the New Peoples Army and that is the root cause why Red tagging becomes a controversy. If the government has Bureau of Internal Revenue that collect taxes, the NPA is both the tax collection arm of Joma and his armed militia rolled into one.

The agenda why Communism was decriminalized was basically to invite those who find communism and its ideology better than Socialism, Capitalism, and other isms. The arena was to be the parliament not on the battlefield.

Lets have a quick look at the two isms.

In theory, the objective ofsocialismandcommunismis to create a society where everybody is equal. There is no social classification like a,b,c, d, and e which we are familiar with especially in survey statistics. When Khmer Rouge overthrow the government to establish a communist regime, it did not only slaughter over 2-million people but leveled the city to remove all vestiges of a capitalist society. . There are shades of differences however. Cuba is a good exhibit of a socialist country. I love it when Fidel Castro roars, no quieren ni libertad sin pan, ni pan sin libertad(I do not believe in liberty without food, or food without liberty)". Indeed, liberty is vibrant in Cuba where people dont go hungry while in other communist or authoritarian regimes basic liberties are denied.

By description and tagging there is really no difference between being a communist or being Red. Red is merely symbolism. So whats the big issue there? It is not actionable in court. It is another story if one is tagged as an NPA for that means you bear arms to overthrow the government. In short a terrorist.

Abhorrence to the term communist led to the semantics legal front. The leftists' political parties whose members adhere to the tenets of communism are in this category. Comes regular elections, we are made to choose a party list and not a few of these legal fronts participate. Which is good. On a personal note, I always vote for Gabriela because of their womens advocacy. I always believed that the best market place to peddle ones ideology is via parliamentary deliberation or to submit oneself to the election.

Communists are all over the globe. They are in the Americas, Europe, Asia. Outside of Russia and China communist parliamentarians are most active in Europe and this could be the reason why Joma is at home in his Utrecht, Netherlands. You might wonder why he loves it there rather than China. My take is that first, this NPA chieftain is a Leninist, second, there is no love between Chinese and Russian commies. This is also his fetish for screaming red colors which we see among their street parliamentarians.

In this digital age, capitalism, communism, and socialism continue to evolve. Sadly Joma and his commandos and comrades are stuck in a banal plot to take over the helms of power by way of armed struggle to overthrow the government. The NPAs even paint their faces red so there you are. The current brouhaha over red-tagging is actually superfluous. A commie is red because it is. It is neither a threat nor meant to scare. A communist or Red is not a terrorist but an NPA is. The US of A and the European countries had long tagged the Sisons Communist Party of the Philippines and its New Peoples Army as a terrorist organization. However, it is a sublime irony, that the Netherlands cuddles Jose Ma. Sison, the CPP/NPA founder, and supremo.

The legal fronts, including the party lists, become suspects only because of their stealthy activities. Like, why and what are they doing with minor children of indigenous people in Davao del Norte herding them without parental consent then teach them how to dismantle and assemble guns, sing different anthem instilling hatred against the government, and training them to shoot.

Gen. Antonio Parlade is unnecessarily verbose that when he said he warned Liza Soberano against participating in the activities of Gabriela, he was promptly accused of Red-tagging her. The fronts had ganged up on him others evoking McCarthyism, a fear rumor-mongering warning of Russias eventual successful inroads in establishing communism in the US. They omitted the fact that in the years to come America woke up to realize that it is nightmarish for Russia to do that as a communist America might actually rule Russia.

So what will this sudden furor over Red-tagging mean to us? At its face value is pure and simple propaganda versus propaganda with some political undertones as the 2022 regular elections is drawing near. As to its ideological values, I do not know where and how the CPP/NPA will succeed. Joma and his ilk had been peddling the idea for decades and oftentimes through hard sell means aided by its armed militia, the NPA. With the evolution of communism and the emergence of new regimes in Russia and in China, Jomas dogma had become irrelevant. From among the peasants in China and the workers in Russia are the new rich. In Russia, the Romanovs and their palaces and the Bolsheviks have been relegated to history and spices of tourism fare. In China, following its free-market economy, the world marvels over the number of billionaires that many of them have become; a phenomenon that stuns the west and made them angry with envy to the point that they have to put barriers to their trade with China. In the meantime, with the exception of Joma, his foot soldiers are still in the wilderness.

But give it to General Antonio Parlade, Jr. and Usec Lorraine Badoy. Not a few members of the NPA combatants have returned to the folds of the law and lived a life of normalcy.

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The battle of 'isms' and Red-tagging - pna.gov.ph

Editor,

Is it COMMUNISM OR FREEDOM? When we vote in November will determine the future of the Supreme Court, Constitution, whether or not we have borders, keep our guns, and continue the great economic comeback created by President Trumps policies, and many other issues. If Biden wins, communism will run the show. China has wanted the U.S.A. for years. They will own all factories, your homes, your property, money, your soul. They will take our guns first. About 75 years ago I read if communism ever takes the U.S.A. the streets will run RED with blood.

The Democrats plan is free health care, free college tuition for all, unrestricted immigration, allow inmates to vote, and abolish the Electoral College. Our taxes will have to double or triple. That is just the beginning.

Faith and Freedom Coalition survey recent poll shows that 70% of todays Democrat voters favor socialism, and many in our government openly support socialism. A lot of people say Communist is hiding behind the Democrats name. Over the last 75 years I have known a lot of Democrats, and they didnt want to destroy this great country.

The left has made it clear they will lie, cheat, steal, and do anything to win.

I have read the communists put four families in one house sometimes. The communists have police power and they say they really enforce it. They will shoot you for almost anything.

Mr. Trump wants to keep the capital gains tax rate at 20% and possibly lower. Joe Biden proposes the capital gains tax to 39.6%, a fast track to crash the stock market. Who knows that may be the plan.

It appears the communists have taken over most of the TV stations and newspapers. More and more, it is becoming fake news. Its plan, communist news here in the U.S.A. Why on earth are we not calling a spade a spade? We dont even call homosexuals by their real name anymore. These people often prey on under age males probably destroying thousand of young boys lives through molestation.

The issues are black and white. There is very little gray.

If you want to save the U.S.A., vote Republican. If you want it run by the socialists or communists, vote Joe Biden. And may the Lord help you.

Cecil Howard

Leighton

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In the first decades of the twentieth century, American citizens went from euphoria to sadness. The Great Depression of 1929 led to the dismantling of the economy and pushed hundreds of people into unemployment. The American way of life, blown to the four corners of the planet as an earthly paradise, became an uncontrolled nightmare, especially for the poorest sections of the population.

Fearing the worsening of the crisis and seeing no signs of improvement in the short term, many people migrated to other countries looking for more decent living conditions. This was the case of the African American Robert Robinson, who suffered not only from the effects of economic collapse but also from the horrors of racism that insisted on scourging a part of the citizens.

On the other side of the world, seven years before the American crash, a countries confederation was founded under the aegis of communism. In mid-December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was made official, which brought together interests from different countries aiming at a common goal: to strengthen communism in eastern Europe and in parts of Central and Northern Asia.

The formation of the Soviet bloc had profound consequences, visible to the present days, and facilitated negotiations with foreign powers. Among the agreements signed, it ensured the importation of qualified workers to supply the shortage of professionals in certain functions in the incipient communist industries. There was a great demand for manpower since the Soviets wanted to transform the predominantly rural socialist confederation into an industrialized superpower.

At the height of the Great Depression, the Soviets took advantage of the disintegration of American factories and entered into agreements with capitalist entrepreneurs, including Henry Ford. In the negotiations, it was decided that the Ford Motor Company would build a factory in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod and provide all necessary assistance for consolidating the company.

In addition to that, the Soviets were allowed to regularly visit the facilities of the American headquarters (The Ford River Rouge) to study assembly line production techniques and to invite workers interested in spending a season working in the socialist state. Once the agreement was ratified, the factory construction began immediately.

In 1930, a Soviet delegation arrived in the United States and the commissioners spent a few days at The Ford River Rouge headquarters. From this moment on, Robinsons life would change: resting at home, he received a phone call: the communists invited him to work in USSR.

The offer was tempting, especially in the context of racism, the economic crisis, and the imminent threat of unemployment. The job offer included double the salary that Henry Ford was paying for his work, 30 days of paid vacation, car, housing, free access to and from the communist bloc and some other perks. His role was to be a mechanical engineer, his original graduation at the Stalingrad Tractor Factory current Volgograd, located 969 km south of Moscow. Robinson did not hesitate, accepted the invitation and left for the other side of the continent.

Born in Jamaica in 1906, Robinson migrated to Cuba in the company of his mother a Dominican doctor. On the Caribbean island, he had the opportunity to study and graduated as a mechanical engineer. From there, they moved to Dearborn, Michigan (USA), where Robinson got US citizenship and a job at the Ford Motor Company. Being the only black employee in a factory with 700 workers, discrimination was part of everyday life.

Ever since he arrived in the United States, Robinson noticed the treatment that black people received and felt the effects of racism on his own skin. The Ku Klux Klan was very active, terrorizing black people from the north to the south of the country, and racist nationalism was the dogma practiced by white people whether or not they belonged to the supremacist organization.

With constant killings and explicit prejudice sponsored by the state, Robinson, at 23, feared being the next to suffer lynching, something that had happened to people close to him.

When the soviets made the proposal, he only knew Russia from the travelers reports and newspapers circulating in Detroit at the time. He had little information about the Bolshevik Revolution that established communism in the country, but he decided that he would accept the invitation to escape discrimination and save a little money to offer a better life to his mother, who, despite being a doctor, could not find a job. Thus, he joined the entourage of 370 Americans who settled in the USSR and went to work at the Stalingrad Tractor Factory.

Welcomed with enthusiasm by the hosts in the late 1930s, the Americans were housed in new apartments, received supplies regularly, had their own restaurant, medical center, jazz dancing afternoons and even the English newspaper Spark of the Industry. It was a different treatment from the one offered to nationals themselves, who did not enjoy the same privileges. But racism chased Robinson like a shadow and episodes of discrimination, starting from American workers, began to pop up regularly.

One afternoon, while finishing lunch in the cafeteria, he started a discussion with two officers who ridiculed him and called him filthy black. The chatter became a beating; the Soviet colleagues separated the fight, but the repercussion of the case ended up going beyond the limits of the factory and reported in the press.

The other workers strongly supported Robinson, including demanding the deportation of the two racist workers, who were judged and expelled by the firms board.

Welcome to the Soviet, comrade Robert

The Stalinist machine decided to use the incident for advertising purposes. The case became an example publicized by the Soviets of American racism and US-sponsored violence against black citizens.

Reluctantly, Robinson became a well-known celebrity by the press and the aggression was so publicized that it inhibited his return to the United States. In his autobiography Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union (Acropolis Books, 436 pages), he wrote about the episode: In the eyes of the Russians, I became a true hero, the personification of good that triumphs over evil. I was bombarded with letters of support and sympathy sent from different regions of the USSR.

But it did not stop there. Robinsons name was frequent in workers conversations, guest of honor at several public events, and his fame as a proletarian hero spread all over the places. In 1934, he was promoted to another post, also on a compulsory basis: unanimously, he was elected as a representative of the Moscow Soviet, one of the regimes most important workers councils.

Regarding the election, he later declared: I was stunned and frantically thinking: What did they do to me? What did I get involved in? I am an American citizen, I am not a politician, I am not a communist, I do not approve either the communist party or the Soviet system. I am not an atheist, nor even an agnostic, I believe in God, I pray to Him and I am faithful only to Him.

Robinsons election to the Soviet sparked the anger of US officials in Moscow. Accused of being a communist by his countrymen, he was pressured to return immediately to the United States. He even tried to return to the country, but his reputation as a communist agitator undermined any possibility of return and he was forced to remain in the Soviet Union, where he received Russian citizenship.

Here is a parenthesis: the United States had the largest communist party in the world outside the USSR. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in fact, was known as red due to the statist policies he envisaged. But then World War II came, and ideologies took over political guidelines. So, with the witch hunt, being a communist was a dangerous charge. Closed parenthesis, lets continue with the text.

Communism advertising boy, Robinson gave lectures, classes at universities, acted in two movies and gave autographs on the streets of Moscow. But not everything was made of happiness, especially in that acute period of Stalinism. When Sergei Mironovich Kirov, Stalins likely successor, was executed by rivals, the preference for American workers ended and the lives of foreigners drastically deteriorated.

In addition, the Stalinist Great Purge, between 1936 and 1938, caused many of Robinsons acquaintances to disappear. Fearing again for his life, he decided to return to the United States but was prevented by the communists. The fame, although involuntary, took a high price from comrade yankee.

The letters he sent to his mother were opened, read and often censored. He had no contact with family members, only workers from the factories he worked in and some neighbors. Annually, Robinson submitted to the Soviet authorities an application for a visa to leave the bloc, but the request was repeatedly denied. Only in 1973, when he obtained clemency from some African ambassadors, he was allowed to visit Uganda.

At 67 years old, he packed his bags and left immediately. In Uganda, he requested refuge and was promptly attended to by dictator Idi Amin. The autocrat dealt directly with Robinson, offered positions at the University, Ugandan citizenship, housing and several other perks. The engineer kindly declined the offer and expressed his desire to restore his American citizenship.

Despite the expressed desire to return to his native country, he stayed in Uganda for a few years where he married an African-American teacher. It was only in 1986 that he managed to revalidate his citizenship and obtain authorization to enter the United States. When he landed, however, he discovered his mother had already passed away years before he was present at the funeral. It was one of the greatest sorrows of his life, he would report later.

During the 44 years he spent in the Soviet Union, Robinson survived Stalinism, the Nazi invasion and experienced the first decades of the Cold War. He was not a communist, but he contributed greatly to the modernization of the Soviet bloc. He left the United States because of racism and seeking better living conditions. However, although he was safe from the Ku Klux Klan, he was forced to serve as an AD boy for the Communist Party in order to survive Stalinism.

Hated by communists and despised by capitalists, he spent his last years ostracized, suffocated by oblivion, until he died in 1994 in a small hospital in Washington, DC, at 88 years old.

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I wrote this back on Oct. 14, 2015. If Trump would not have won the election, we would now be living in misery, communism, and not free, or fighting a civil war.

If he loses this election, then the same thing is going to happen.

The leftist's agenda hasn't changed, and they have increased the intensity of their attacks on all the values that makes this country the best in the world. Control the media, create chaos, blame, obstruct and lie about the sitting president. If they get their way, we will become a communist third world land and no, we have no bananas, just political morons and those that vote for them.

Watched the so called democratic "debate" last night and I wasted two and a half hours of my life, although it cured my insomnia.

As a refugee and immigrant to this country, I was taught to work hard and contribute to the greatest country in the world. We did not expect or let the government take care of us. We did not demand that everything be printed in our native language. We knew that through the generosity of the American people, we could live in freedom and we had to embrace the culture, the language, and the Constitution. The American Dream was something that was (and still is) attainable through hard work, not something that was handed down because everyone is entitled to it. I watched these buffoons and they made The Three Stooges look like members of Mensa International.

"Black lives matter " not "all lives matter"? So, do we need to pull out all of our courageous African American men and women who serve and police our country and just let other races handle the dangerous job because they (other races) don't matter? We were all created by one God and everyone matters! Talk about political pandering by five rich white people.

The biggest threat to our security is Global Warming! Stupid humans had to inhabit this planet and create global warming! Don't worry about all those Muslim extremists and other evil people that want to kill us. We need to open our borders and let them in. After all, the only lives that matter are black! I think the biggest threat to our security is electing one of these five. More political pandering.

Free college for everyone, we will let the rich and the 1% (a group that all 5 belong to) pay for it! So, then we will have the highest unemployment rate of educated people in the world. Oh wait, a lot won't bother to graduate, since it won't cost them anything. Man, we got screwed, we had to pay for ours, and my sons had to go to war to get the G.I. bill to pay for theirs. We even have to pay for our cell phones! More political pandering.

Raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour, then our paramedics in Madison County can get a big raise by going to work at McDonalds! A Big Mac will now cost $18.99, but your order will be correct. More political pandering. Starting to see a pattern here?

Mandatory paid leave time, so you can hop from job to job and collect a paycheck for not being there. Never mind that your employer will soon go bankrupt. We will make the rich and 1% pay for being successful!

And when the rich go broke, who is going to pay for this?

Create jobs by rebuilding infrastructure? Remember Obama's stimulus package? Trillions spent and the roads in the city of Madison make your teeth chatter when you drive over them, but I-10 gets paved every couple of years, need it or not?

And do these men really want to be POTUS? They had a chance to go after Hellary on Benghazi and her emails but chose not to discuss this. Perhaps they are scared after what happens to anyone that crosses the Clintons. Its all the N.R.A's fault! And Hellary deserves to be POTUS because she is a woman! And no more wars. The world loves us and will let us live in peace, and we don't have to read anything we vote on!

Now I have friends that support the democratic agenda and that is their right, and this is not meant to offend anyone. Having lost my birth country to socialists who later embraced communism and destroyed freedom and the country, I am Blessed to live in a country that allows me to express my opinion and where my life matters.

Juan Botino

Recently I celebrated my 59th Thanksgiving, having arrived at the greatest country ever in 1961. I am grateful to all Americans, the most generous people in the world. I have friends on the opposite side of me politically. I still love them and respect them, just like I love my friends that practice a different denomination. After all, this would not be America if we did not allow free thinking and individual freedom. We were all created by one God and we will all one day die and be judged by Him.

My wish is that while we are on this journey called life, we could all get along, respect each other, and have civil discussions. My views are mine, based on my experiences as a young child growing up in communist Cuba. I never want my or your children and grandchildren to experience what I did.

Many brave men and women have sacrificed so that we can continue to live in freedom. Unfortunately, there are those that advocate for socialism and communism. I strongly oppose those ideals.

I'm not willing to give up my right to worship my God again. I'm not willing to give up my right to own a weapon to defend myself and my family again or to be told what I'm allowed to own. I'm not willing to go hungry again or to be told where I can go, what job I'm going to do, what I can study, what I'm allowed to say, and what I'm allowed to read.

Being humans, we will never be perfect, and there is always room for improvement...our country is not perfect, but it is the best there is. It offers hope, success for those willing to work for it, and most of all, freedom to be ourselves. May God continue to Bless America the land that I love.

Juan Botino

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By Nikos Mottas.

On November 3rd, the people of the United States of America will vote for the new President and vice president of the country. The two major contestants, current President Donald Trump and the Democratic nominee Joe Biden, are the two sides of the same coin. It is an undeniable truth that they both express the general strategic interests of the U.S. monopoly capital.

The differences in the political proposals between Trump and Biden reflect the sharpening of the competition between different sections of the U.S. capital. Indeed, a look at the top donors of the two presidential campaigns is indicative of the fierce rivalry that is taking place in the backstage between large monopoly groups.

Indeed, Trump and Biden, the Republicans and the Democrats, may have different political recipes and approaches in a series of issues. Trump, for example, stands as a defender of oil and gas industry, while Biden supports the so-called green development through the Renewable Energy Sources. They compete with each other on who is more capable on bringing the country out of the economic crisis and bring more development. But, in the end of the day, they hide that the economic development they pledge will benefit the big capital and the upper classes not the workers and the poor masses.

When it comes to the pandemic, Biden blames Trump for the disastrous management of the situation and Trump blames... China. But, actually, none of the two candidates speaks about the commercialized healthcare system which is based on the cost-profit formula. None of the two speaks about the exploitation of the pandemic by large private health business groups which rushed to take advantage from the absence of a free and universal healthcare system in order to boost their profits.

All those who detest Trump's far-right, hate mongering, nationalist-populist rhetoric must not fall victims of Biden's softly-spoken outwardly progressive words. Do not forget the example of Barack Obama, who campaigned and became President with populace-pleasing progressive slogans and seductive rhetoric but governed according to the interests of the capitalists, the big monopoly groups and the standards of imperialist military institutions.

Writing about the 1912 U.S Presidential Elections, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was pointing out the diminishing distinction between the Democrats and the Republicans. Their fight has not had any serious importance for the mass of the people. The people have been deceived and diverted from their vital interests by means of spectacular and meaningless duels between the two bourgeois parties, Lenin was stressing out in a text that could have been written today.

The millions of working class families in the U.S. must reject this single Property Party of the capitalists. Neither Trump, nor Biden will ever defend and promote the interests of the workers.

Being in its highest, imperialist stage, capitalism can offer nothing but misery, poverty, unemployment, deepening of social inequalities, wars and refugee crises. The real change for the people of the U.S. will not come from political messiahs or reformist social democrats, such as Bernie Sanders, who spread illusions about the supposed humanization of capitalism.

What is truly needed is a revolutionary Communist Party, based on marxist-leninist principles, which can lead the struggle of the country's working class towards the socialist transformation of society. So that the American people will become masters of their own destiny, owners of their own wealth, in a society without exploitation of man by man.

* Nikos Mottas is the Editor-in-Chief of In Defense of Communism.

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