How the CPP planned and executed the Plaza Miranda bombing

The bombing's mastermind in 1986 as romanticized in the UP's newspaper First of 3 parts SO long indeed does Truth overtake Lie. In one of his recent columns, Ambeth Ocampo reported that it was one Joseph Salice who in his 2017 PhD thesis provided evidence that it was Jose Ma. Sison who ordered his closest Communist Party cadres to bomb the opposition miting de avance. This is wrong. Salice relied almost entirely on his conclusions on journalist Gregg Jones’ book, Red Revolution: Inside the Philippine Guerrilla Movement published 28 years ago, in 1989. It is a remarkable, courageous piece of…