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Article: Reds implode: Communist Party hitlist takes aim at global activism.(THE PHILIPPINES)
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- New Internationalist
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- August 1, 2005
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The spectre of Stalinism still lingers as the Communist Party of the Philippines steps up its programme of assassinating political opponents.
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In the December 2004 issue of a publication of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), a diagram identified 15 individuals and organizations spanning much of the non-CPP Left in the Philippines as 'counter revolutionaries'. Among those listed are Walden Bello, the Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, prominent international anti-debt campaigner Lidy Nacpil and Etta Rosales, head of the Human Rights Committee of the Philippine House of Representatives.
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