Manila, April 4 -- The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) on Friday scored the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) over its continued call for a revolutionary struggle, which has been rejected by the Filipino people.

In a statement, NTF-ELCAC Executive Director Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr. said this call revealed the CPP as a despotically desperate bureaucratic clique-out of touch with reality, as it continues to chase "the mirage of an armed revolution despite the Filipino people's resounding rejection. "

The group made this call as its armed wing, the New People's Army (NPA), observed its 56th founding anniversary on March 29.

"As the nation strides forward, leaving behind decades of commu...