Jesus Lava
Jesus Baltazar Lava was the Secretary General of the first Communist Party of the Philippines from 1950.
Jesus Lava became the Secretary General of the pro-soviet PKP after the arrest of his brother Jose Lava. In 1968, part of the membership of the party split to create a new maoist 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.
