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 Union PKP after the arrest of his brother José Lava.
In 1968, part of the membership of the party split to create a new
Maoism 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 Lavas were a prominent family in
Bulacan in the Philippines.
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