Jesus Baltazar Lava (May 15, 1914 – January 21, 2003) was the Secretary General of the
first Communist Party of the Philippines (PKP) from 1950.
Career
Jesus Lava became the Secretary General of the pro-
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
PKP after the arrest of his brother
José Lava. In 1968, part of the membership of the party split to create a new
Maoist
Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). Lava, the General Secretary of the already disappearing PKP, was labelled a "counterrevolutionary revisionist".
Family
Jesus Lava was the youngest of nine children of Adeodato Lava and Maria Baltazar. The Lava's were a prominent family in
Bulacan
Bulacan, officially the Province of Bulacan ( tl, Lalawigan ng Bulacan), is a province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the city of Malolos. Bulacan was established on August 15, 1578, and part of the Me ...
in the Philippines.
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Photo of Jose Lava
1914 births
2003 deaths
Filipino communists
Filipino revolutionaries
Communist Party of the Philippines politicians
University of the Philippines alumni
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