(Pedxingismo S02.Ep28)
According to the book Secrets of the Eighteen Mansions, before the Plaza Miranda bombing, AG (Amado Guerero, Joma Sison’s nom de guerre) told the CPP Cadres who were assigned to do Party work in China:
“…tell our comrades there, we’ll force Marcos to declare Martial Law following the Liberal Party miting de avance at Plaza Miranda..People will rise up…”*
And so it was, the Plaza Miranda bombing happened. A week after Martial Law was declared, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines issued their statement entitled, “Overthrow the US-Marcos Dictatorship To Achieve National Freedom and Democracy”. This statement was issued through a Special Release of Ang Bayan (the Official Publication of the CPP) on October 1, 1972.
“As a result of the complete self-exposure of the US-MarcosDictatorship, the conditions for the rapid advance of the Philippine revolution against US Imperialism, Feudalism, and Bureaucrat Capitalism have become far more excellent than ever before. The ranks of the revolutionary movement have rapidly broadened and the various forms of revolutionary struggle, principally armed struggle, have further intensified.
A new level of revolutionary struggle has come about. All over the country, the people are brimming with revolutionary hatred for the US-Marcos dictatorship, the violent opposite of national freedom and democracy which they cherish. It is starkly clear to everyone that a fascist dictatorship, seeking to perpetuate itself through counterrevolutionary violence, can be overthrown only through revolutionary violence. The US-Marcos clique has only dug deeper its grave.” (Central Commitee of the Communist Party of the Philippines, October 1, 1972)
*(From Dr. Mario Miclat’s novel, Secrets of the Eighteen Mansions, page 344. His book’s dedication read: “To an unidentified boy whose life was cut short by a terrorist bomb in Plaza Miranda, August 21, 1971.”)