In the Occassion of NPA's 30th anniversary
�Fight the enemy until victory is won in the new-democratic revolution!�

Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

From the message of Armando Liwanag,
Chairman, Central Committee
Communist Party of the Philippines

March 29, 1999. In 81 guerrilla fronts all over the country and even in the cities and overseas, the indomitable spirit of the New People�s Army (NPA) reverberated on its 30th founding anniversary. There was resounding reaffirmation of the masses� determination to attain victory in the struggle for genuine liberation from the clutches of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. Cultural presentations, military exhibitions, discussions and study sessions depicted the strength accumulated in 30 years of armed struggle based on an ever-expanding and everdeepening mass base.

In his anniversary statement, Armando Liwanag, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), saluted all Red commanders and fighters for the great victories won by the NPA in its heroic struggle for the national and democratic rights, interests and aspirations of the Filipino people.

�Its place in Philippine history is assured,� said Comrade Armando Liwanag, referring to the NPA as the principal weapon of the Party and the Filipino people in launching armed struggle, the primary form of revolutionary struggle. The New People�s Army has surpassed all other armed struggles launched these past hundred years�that of the Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon ( People�s Army Against the Japanese or Hukbalahap) and the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan (People�s Liberation Army or HMB)�for national liberation, whether against colonialists or US imperialism and local reactionaries. The NPA was able to do this by launching a protracted people�s war along the line of the new-democratic revolution with a socialist perspective. The strength that the NPA has already accumulated repeatedly debunks the enemy�s propaganda that the people�s army is on the verge of disintegration.

The NPA is certain of continued advancement until victory: From having practically nothing on March 29, 1969, it was able to accumulate significant strength. It unwaveringly confronted the vicious terror of the Marcos fascist dictatorship, gained political and military victories and persevered in intense guerrilla warfare based on an ever-expanding and ever-deepening revolutionary mass base. It continues to overcome serious disadvantages and advances from victory to victory.

But Comrade Armando Liwanag added that the brilliant victories of the NPA have been paid for by sacrifice, hard work and intense struggle and this must be kept in mind. He called on the revolutionary forces to be neither complacent nor content with the victories that have already been achieved, but rather, to remain vigilant and militant for as long as the reactionary state stands and has not been smashed completely.

Comrade Armando Liwanag enumerated the NPA�s fighting tasks in relation to its central task of destroying the counterrevolutionary state of the comprador big bourgeoisie and landlord class and enabling the working and peasant classes to establish the people�s democratic state. He stressed that it would be best if the revolutionary forces would focus their strength on achieving this task. The reactionary Estrada regime is increasingly becoming isolated from the broad masses due to its continued servility to its imperialist master that causes brutal harm to the Filipino people. It is further isolated as it continues to disparage the revolution and act arrogantly in its attempt to conceal its embarrassment due to the NPA�s arrest of the regime�s high-ranking military officials and in arbitrarily ending the peace negotiations.

The chronic and worsening crisis of semicolonial and semifeudal Philippine society provides extremely favorable conditions for further advancing the people�s war. Likewise, the crisis of the world capitalist system, unprecedented since the 1930s, is driving the proletariat and the people in colonies, neocolonies and even in the industrialized countries to unite and rise up in arms against imperialism, modern revisionism and all forms of reaction.

As a closing statement, Comrade Armando Liwanag declared: �Now and in the future, the Philippine revolution serves not only to realize the national and social liberation of the Filipino people but also to make its contributions to the advance of the world proletarian revolution and the broad anti-imperialist struggle of the people of the world.�

04 March 1999
English Edition

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