It presents and addresses weaknesses and defeats in its anniversary statements and in numerous memoranda on various issues. Chanco’s description of the CPP’s weaknesses and defeats, however, are either too impressionistic when general (“raising political consciousness or putting an inspiring alternative to the status quo”) or too petty when particular (“slandering candidates in personal terms”).
Ang lohikal na tinutumbok nila ay ang ilantad at labanan ang gobyerno ni Duterte, halos walang kaibahan sa naging pagharap ng Kaliwa sa kakatapos ng rehimeng Aquino. Iyan ang tinutungo ng mabangis nilang bansag-pagsusuri rito: “maka-Kanang populista na nagtatago sa kasuotang ‘sosyalista’,” “gustong palakasin ang neoliberalismo,” at may layuning “palakasin sa halip na hamunin ang kapitalismo.”