The Philippines legalized the Communist Party Tuesday, which had been outlawed for 35 years, and urged leftist rebels to lay down their arms and make peace with the government.
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President Fidel Ramos approved a law repealing the 1957 anti-subversion act declaring the party an illegal organization and prohibiting membership in it.The lifting of the anti-communist ban has been been described by officials as a major government step toward ending southeast Asia's longest-running Marxist insurgency.