Waging a people’s war for national liberation is justified!
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines, as well as its allied organizations in the province of Laguna, offer a red salute for the 54th anniversary of the New People’s Army!
On this occasion, the NDFP Laguna would like to extend its highest tribute and salute to all the martyrs of the people who offered their lives and strength in advancing the people’s democratic revolution. We cannot achieve the present stage of revolution had they not struggled in serving the people until the very end.
Over the past five decades, the NPA led and continues to lead the advance of the armed struggle, with the goal of claiming victory in the present stage of the national democratic revolution. It is armed with the theory of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and abides by the strategic line of protracted people’s war in the form of encircling the cities from the countryside.
The NPA has developed its tactics and techniques until it can launch a nationwide comprehensive and expansive guerrilla war. It launches campaigns for agrarian revolution and it assists in establishing the peoeple’s democratic government inside the liberated zones. Most of all, the NPA strengthens its deep links with the masses, and thrives through the people’s continuing support.
The NPA’s key role in advancing the people’s democratic revolution towards victory remains. The NPA establishes revolutionary political power while fending off the forces of reaction. The NPA has a primary role in ending the continuing social crises and destroying the rotting semi-colonial and semi-feudal Philippine state.
The objective conditions show that there is a worsening crisis in Philippine society. US imperialism keeps the vast countryside backwards and feudal, while bureaucrat capitalists feast on plundering our natural resources and controlling the reactionary state. The economic crisis worsens while splits within the ruling classes become more apparent.
The nation is facing the largest crisis of inflation and price hikes in 14 years. The prices of basic goods and crude oil keep on increasing while wages for industrial and farm workers remain depressed. Despite this, the state continues to rely on neoliberal policies such as entering into the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and other forms of free trade between the Philippines and other countries.
The Marcos-Duterte regime is actively killing local industry in manufacturing and agrikulture while increasing importation for basic goods like onions, rice, sugar, fish, and so on. Under the guise of “Build Better More,” the state funds and supports destructive infrastructure projects such as the Laguna Lakeshore Road Network and the Ahunan and Belisama Dams, with the goal of attracting more foreign investments.
On the other hand, Marcos Jr. is posturing himself as a loyal lapdog of the United States. In line with the US’ Indo-Pacific Strategy, the regime signed of the construction of four new US military bases under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement. No less than 12,000 American soldiers will also enter the Philippines under the Balikatan exerciss. All of these are provocations from the US against China, under their inter-imperialist rivalry for position and influence in East Asia.
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The state is using its reactionary army, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, alongside the Philippine National Police, CAFGU, and other civilian intelligence units, in an attempt to crush the revolutionary forces. Their Oplans are outlined under the US Counter-Insurgency Guide and with the blessing of the Joint US Military Advisory Group. Under the “whole-of-nation” approach, it is throwing the entirety of the state’s machineries towards counter-revolutionary war.
The state is conducting a dirty war against the democratic mass movement in the cities in an attempt to take away all democratic spaces from the people. They are conflating the revolutionary movement and the democratic mass movement and calling both as terrorism, despite the fact that the state is the only one pursuing a campaign of White Terror in the Philippines. It is using laws like the Anti-Terrorism Law and the SIM Card Registration Act to plunge the country in a de facto state of Martial Law.
The US-Marcos-Duterte regime aims to be a loyal dog of foreign imperialism. It is ready to give the Philippines wholly to foreigners while doing all it can to remain in power, including militarization, disinformation, and threats of charter change.
It is the immediate task of all revolutionary forces to smash the existing system and crush the rotting state! We can achieve this through launching a decisive and anti-imperialist war, under the leadership of the proletariat. The proletariat can achieve this through its Party, the Communist Party, and through the absolute leadership of the People’s Army.
To revolt for New Democracy is justified. The NPA has a leading role in dismantling foreign imperialism, native feudalism, and bureaucrat capitalism through a comprehensive and all-encompassing armed struggle. It is supported by the ever-expanding number of revolutionary mass organizations under a united front, committed to the victory of the national democratic revolution with a socialist perspective.
The unity of all classes and sectors is key to victory in the people’s war. The people’s army is not only a military force, but also organizers and propagandists in the countryside. It launches agrarian revolution, it strengthens the basic worker-peasant alliance, and it establishes organs of political power in liberated zones.
We are challenged with the expansion and consolidation of all revolutionary forces who support the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army. We must invigorate our campaigns, expansion, and consolidation within our ranks. We must encourage the largest number of people to join our revolutionary mass organizations and launch sweeping and comprehensive propaganda-agitation-education work.
We must popularize Marxist-Leninist-Maoist study and studying theory about armed revolution. We must disseminate the writings of great Communist thinkers, as well as those of Comrade Jose Maria Sison, partikularly Philippine Society and Revolution, Our Urgent Tasks, and Specific Characteristics of Our People’s War
Let us show the masses that participating in the people’s war is justified and meaningful. Let us expand the support for the NPA from the countryside up to the urban centers, and show that victory is certain if we are united in a singular goal.
Most of all, we must launch a widespread campaign for answering the NPA’s call to join as a Red fighter. The guerilla zones are open and the masses are ready for those who wish to serve the people.
Advance the people’s war until genuine victory!
Long live the New People’s Army!
Long live the Communist Party of the Philippines!
People of Laguna, go to the countryside, serve the people! Join the NPA!
