Hail the 30th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines!
 Party Cadres and members and the revolutionary masses celebrated last December 26 the reestablishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). Gatherings big and small that featured education and cultural presentations were held in the more than 80 guerrilla fronts and in hundreds of urban communities. Underground groups assigned to special lines of work also launched celebrations, as with comrades overseas.
Discussed were the brilliant victories of the Party in leading the revolution for the past 30 years, especially since the Second Great Rectification Movement was launched. The most prominent subject dealt with clarifications on how to daringly expand and strengthen the Party and the revolutionary movement in the face of the very grave crisis of the capitalist system and the local semicolonial and semifeudal system. Another leading subject concerned the reaffirmation of our stand for and promotion of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the general line of people's democratic revolution.
Comrade Armando Liwanag, chair of the Party's Central Committee, issued his statement entitled "Hail the 30th Anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines!" Comrade Liwanag clarified in broad but concrete terms the Party's major victories, the current international and national situation, the current situation of the Party and movement, and the tasks of the Party, including the long-term tasks of the people's democratic revolution.
The Party received greetings and messages of solidarity from more than 50 Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations from different global regions. The messages were one in acknowledging and lauding the victories of the Second Great Rectification Movement, the steady resurgence of the Party and the revolution, and the significant contributions of the Party in advancing Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, in struggling with modern revisionism, in critiquing imperialism, particularly the neoliberal and international crisis these have created, and in advancing the regrouping and restrengthening of proletarian revolutionaries the world over.
In his message, Comrade Armando Liwanag hailed the CPP as the advanced detachment of the working class guided by the universal theory of Marxism-Leninism- Maoism. Through 30 years of persistent, heroic and colorful revolutionary practice, the Party has been able to build its leadership and that of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism over Filipino workers and the new-democratic revolution against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. | Through 30 years of persistent, heroic and colorful revolutionary practice, the party has been able to build its leadership and that of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism over filipino workers and the new-democratic revolution against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. |
Revolutionary martyrs, fulltime and local Party cadres and members, Red commanders and fighters, activists and militant members of mass organizations, allies and the broad masses of the people were saluted and honored. It is their hard struggle and sacrifices that have made it possible for the national-democratic revolution to continue reaping victories.
Comrade Armando Liwanag comprehensively analyzed from the Marxist-Leninist viewpoint the unprecedented world crisis, changes in the condition and operation of imperialism and their implications on the resurgence of proletarian revolution. He demonstrated that the international crisis has aggravated the socio-economic crisis in the country, further accelerated the degeneration of the reactionary ruling system and further intensified rivalries within the ranks of the reactionaries.
He described the revitalization of the forces of the revolution consequent to the Second Great Rectification Movement. He called for the exertion of the utmost effort to advance revolutionary work and struggle and resolutely further the long-term tasks in the struggle drawn from the ten-point general Program for a People's Democratic Revolution.
In his summing-up, he firmly declared that: "The Party is confident that Mao's theory and practice of continuing revolution under proletarian dictatorship shall guide it in consolidating socialism, combating revisionism and preventing capitalist restoration until the people of the whole world shall have defeated imperialism and made possible the realization of the ultimate goal of communism."
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