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{{Short description|Filipino communist politician (1912–2000)}} |
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| name = José Baltazar Lava |
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| office = [[Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas| |
| office = [[Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas|General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Philippines]] |
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| term_start = 1948 |
| term_start = May 1948 |
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| term_end = February 1951 |
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| predecessor = Jorge Frianeza |
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| successor = [[Jesus Lava]] |
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| birth_date = 1912 |
| birth_date = 1912 |
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| birth_place = [[Insular Government of the Philippine Islands|Philippine Islands]] |
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| birth_place = Philippines |
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| relatives = {{hlist|[[Vicente Lava|Vicente]]|[[Jesus Lava|Jesus]]}} |
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| children = Aida Lava Dizon |
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| death_date = 2000 |
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|1912}} |
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| party = [[Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930|Communist Party of the Philippines]] |
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'''José Baltazar Lava''', also known as '''Peping''' or '''Harry''',<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Dalisay Jr. |first=Jose |date=1998 |title=The Lava Brothers: Blood and Politics |url=https://cids.up.edu.ph/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-Lava-Brothersl-vol.2-no.3-July-Sep-1998-5.pdf |journal=Public Policy |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=87–112}}</ref> was the general secretary of the [[Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930]] (PKP), from 1948 until his arrest in 1950. He spent the following two decades in prison and another two decades in exile in [[Prague]], Czechoslovakia. |
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== Early life and political career == |
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Politburo member and brother to communist leader Jesus Lava, Jose - known as Peping or Harry - was also the chief of the Communist Party's finance committee. In the mid-1940s, Lava became one of the leaders of the Communist Party. |
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Lava was born in 1912 to a moderately affluent landowning family of six brothers and three sisters in Bulacan.<ref name=":1" />{{Rp|page=87}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dalisay |first=Jose Y. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JdpwAAAAMAAJ&q=jose+1912 |title=The Lavas: A Filipino Family |date=1999 |publisher=Published and exclusively distributed by Anvil Pub. |isbn=978-971-27-0822-0 |pages=4 |language=en}}</ref> He obtained a degree in accounting at the University of the Philippines School of Business after graduating high school in 1929. He then went to the [[University of the Philippines College of Law]] in 1933 and graduated in 1937.<ref name=":1" />{{Rp|page=95}} He became a Communist Party member right after passing the bar late in 1937.<ref name=":1" />{{Rp|page=95}} |
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Lava became general secretary of the Central Committee of the PKP in May 1948, shortly after his brother [[Vicente Lava]] died in 1947.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Fuller |first=Ken |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ALvDH3MuXwUC&q=movement+divided+philippine+communism |title=A Movement Divided: Philippine Communism, 1957-1986 |date=2011 |publisher=University of the Philippines Press |isbn=978-971-542-662-6 |language=en}}</ref>{{Rp|page=4}} Lava was previously a politburo member and the chief of the party's finance committee. |
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The PKP began a violent insurrection against the government in 1948 and was banned by the government the same year. In early 1950, the PKP established the People's Liberation Army ({{lang|fil|Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan}}), which was made up of about 10,000 soldiers. The entire secretariat of the Central Committee of the PKP, including Lava, was arrested on October 18, 1950, following the earlier capture of the politburo in Manila. Lava was succeeded by his other brother [[Jesus Lava]] in February 1951. |
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Lava was sentenced to life imprisonment in May 1951. He was released from prison on 4 January 1970 and fled to [[Prague]], Czechoslovakia.<ref name=":1" />{{Rp|page=108}} While living in self-imposed exile, he authored several books on the communist movement in the Philippines. |
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After the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989, |
After the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989, Lava returned to the Philippines in 1990 and died there in 2000. |
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*[http://www.retrato.com.ph/photodtl.asp?id=PP00103 Photo of Jose Lava] |
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José Baltazar Lava
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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Philippines | |
In office May 1948 – February 1951 | |
Preceded by | Jorge Frianeza |
Succeeded by | Jesus Lava |
Personal details | |
Born | 1912 Philippine Islands |
Died | 2000(2000-00-00) (aged 87–88) |
Political party | Communist Party of the Philippines |
Children | Aida Lava Dizon |
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Alma mater | University of the Philippines |
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José Baltazar Lava, also known as PepingorHarry,[1] was the general secretary of the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 (PKP), from 1948 until his arrest in 1950. He spent the following two decades in prison and another two decades in exile in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Lava was born in 1912 to a moderately affluent landowning family of six brothers and three sisters in Bulacan.[1]: 87 [2] He obtained a degree in accounting at the University of the Philippines School of Business after graduating high school in 1929. He then went to the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1933 and graduated in 1937.[1]: 95 He became a Communist Party member right after passing the bar late in 1937.[1]: 95
Lava became general secretary of the Central Committee of the PKP in May 1948, shortly after his brother Vicente Lava died in 1947.[3]: 4 Lava was previously a politburo member and the chief of the party's finance committee.
The PKP began a violent insurrection against the government in 1948 and was banned by the government the same year. In early 1950, the PKP established the People's Liberation Army (Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan), which was made up of about 10,000 soldiers. The entire secretariat of the Central Committee of the PKP, including Lava, was arrested on October 18, 1950, following the earlier capture of the politburo in Manila. Lava was succeeded by his other brother Jesus Lava in February 1951.
Lava was sentenced to life imprisonment in May 1951. He was released from prison on 4 January 1970 and fled to Prague, Czechoslovakia.[1]: 108 While living in self-imposed exile, he authored several books on the communist movement in the Philippines.
After the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989, Lava returned to the Philippines in 1990 and died there in 2000.