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Phillippines: Left to Ponder Glasnost

The downfall of Soviet communism may finally bring out into the open a long simmering internal debate over strategy and vision within the Communist Party of the Philippines. Ramon Isberto of IPS reports from Manila.
THE fall of communism In the Soviet Union may ultimately force Philippine communists, who have been waging South-east Asia's longest running Insurgency war. Into practising, some sort of "glasnost" of their own.
The Communist Party of the Phillippines (CPP) has so far refrained from commenting on the stunning collapse of Bolshevik rule in what used to be the heartland of socialism.
But analysts say recent events may finally bring out into the open the long simmering internal debate In the CPP over strategy and tactics and its vision for building a socialist society.
The only public comment here so far has come from Satur Ocampo, detained leader of the CPP — led National Democratic Fronl(NDF).
He downplayed the impact of events In the Soviet Union, stressing that It was domestic conditions that would matter more in setting the direction of the Phillipptne revolutionary movement.
Analysts say Ocampo's remarks were meant chiefly to counter government statements capitalising on the worldwide retreat of communist and leftwing movements and dismissing the local communist movement as "ideologically bankrupt."
In fact, leaders of the CPP and other leftwing or socialist movements here are acutely aware* of how badly their respective causes have hurt from the downfall of socialist
regimes in Eastern Europe and Soviet Union.
These events have placed all socialists on the defensive," said Randolf David, who chairs Bisig, an alliance of socialist groups which have opted for open, parliamentary political activity.
For lhe CPP , the ideological and political dilemmas posed by events in the Soviet Union have come to them in a round about way.
Established in 1968 by a group of young leftwing students who rebelled against he leaders of lhe old communist party, the CPP was heavily influenced in its birth by China which was then in the throes of the Cultural Revolution.
It adopted the Maoist critique of lhe Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) as a revisionist party which was furtively restoring capitalism in the Soviet Union.
For CPP leaders, the Soviet Union stood at best for a badly flawed socialism. To them, the CPSUs downfall is the inevitable result of its revisionist policies.
Thal view continues lo be
voiced by Jose Ma Sison, the CPP founding chairman who now lives in exile in the Netherlands. .
"Since 1956, the USSR has been a centre for propagating capitalist-oriented reforms, starting from Krushchev who made a breach in the communist system, " Sison toM IPS.
"After lhe coup, Gorbachev came out as anil-communist and as bourgeois as (Boris) Yeltsin," he added. "His plan was to liquidate anyway the revisionist communist party and turn 11 into a social democratic parly."
That view, however, does not seem to have full support within the CPP. In its January-February issue this year, the Ang Bayan (The People), a publication of the CPP central committee, the paper's editors said there two points of view on this question.
Aside front the " restoration of capilulism" school of thought, the CPP paper said another view was that the crisis of socialism has been caused mainly by "the Stalinist distortion" which created a
"thoroughly bureaucraltzcd state and party machinery governed by a privileged stratum."
The same issue of the paper was remarkable for its openness, announcing a new editorial polity the paper would
become a forum for airing views on a broad range of issues.
The editors published ah essay by Joe Slovo, general secretary of lhe South African Communist Party ("Ilas
Socialism Failed? ) and the final section of the 22nd CPP founding anniversary state-, me nt which dealt with developments in Eastern Europe.
Slovo was supportive of Gorbachev's policies of "glasnost" and "perestrokia", while the CPP statement was highly critical of them."
Informed sources say the Ang Bayun editors were later reprimanded for implementing such a far-reaching shift in editorial policy without clearance from the central commit, tee.
Analysts say the paper's foray in to glasnost journalism was sign of how strongly the wind* of debate are blowing within the CPP.
Party leaders have been holly arguing over various issues since the CPP committed the blunder of boycotting the 1986 snap presidential elections which isolated lhe party from the popular movement that unseated Ferdinand Marcos and pul Corazon Aquino in power.
One such issue was the proposal of some part cadres lo revise the CPP's strategy of seizing power through a protracted guerrilla struggle in the countryside in favour of a more urban-focused, insurrectionary-style strategy.
But the debate over socialist models goes deeper. And analysts say the CPSU's full from power is likely lo make Ihat discussion even more lively and more public than ever.