‘Sison out of touch with Red fighters’

Malacañang on Saturday hit back at Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison following his statement that he would fight the “puppet” government of President Rodrigo Duterte when he returns to the country from exile in the Netherlands.

In a statement, Palace spokesman Ernesto Abella said Sison’s remarks “only highlight his apparent disconnect” with communist fighters on the ground “who seem to have deteriorated from ideologues to plain criminals and extortionists.”