The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) expresses its firm solidarity with the Jordanian Communist Party (JCP) in the face of the recent arbitrary arrests of its leaders. We strongly condemn the detention of comrades Dr. Omar Awad and Osama Zein Aldin, members of the Jordanian Communist Party’s Political Bureau last March 8 in Amman, as well as the earlier arrest of university student activist Bahauddin Hisham Ahmed.
The arrest of leading comrades of the JCP are but desperate attempts by the reactionary Jordanian government to pressure the revolutionary movement to abandon its struggle for national and social liberation. Such acts of intimidation and fascist repression are clearly intended to weaken the Party’s commitment to defending the rights and interests of the Jordanian people and to silence voices critical of prevailing political and economic policies, including the reactionary Jordanian government’s complicity in the ongoing US-Israel war against Iran.
Across the world, reactionary regimes employ similar methods to force revolutionary movements into submission. In the Philippines, the Marcos Jr. regime, backed by US imperialism, continues to pursue a campaign of repression against the Philippine revolutionary movement, pressuringit to capitulate and abandon armed struggle. These efforts mirror the same logic behind the repression faced by the JCP, meant to break the will of peoples who refuse to surrender their just struggle for liberation.
History has repeatedly shown that no amount of fascist attacks can extinguish the aspirations of the people for freedom and social justice. The NDFP stands in solidarity with our comrades from the Jordanian Communist Party, and all those struggling to defend the people’s right for a just and liberated world.
