These reports indicated that the communists were attempting to disrupt the continuing pacification program, and were also using the area to rest, retrain and refit.
As communists learned the news, they immediately decided to launch a preemptive strike against the nationalist guerrilla despite absolute numerical inferiority.
He later described his position as right-wing and opposed to the socialo-communists and other right-wing parties, which he deems are not real right-wing parties.
This policy was however challenged by the communists, which claimed that the workers' sport movement could not abstain from taking part in revolutionary struggle.
Some students, avowed communists and socialists, were given credit and in one case, a scholarship, for organizing and participating in demonstrations, protests and pickets.