Editorial:
Intensify the anti-imperialist, antifeudal and antifascist struggle

Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

The puppet Arroyo regime and the entire ruling system in the Philippines are now mired in a crisis of unparalleled intensity. The local reactionary system is being battered by an extremely grave socio-economic crisis, unbridled corruption, puppetry and repression.

The semifeudal economy is collapsing based on all major indicators. The Arroyo regime's complete subservience to the US policy of "free market" globalization has condemned the economy to further bankruptcy. The regime has turned a deaf ear to all issues related to economic sovereignty, protection of the national patrimony, land reform and national industrialization.

In its attempt to recover from its bankruptcy, the regime is further weighing down the people with an even heavier debt and tax burden even as it continues to pour funds into unproductive ventures such as the military, police, debt service, corruption and various luxuries enjoyed by big bureaucrats and the ruling classes. Thus, the people suffer even more and are being denied even the most basic social services.

With the ruling classes scrambling over dwindling resources, corruption in the Arroyo regime has become quite brazen. The Arroyos are themselves implicated in major cases of plunder. It is but fitting that they be prosecuted and stand trial for their crimes. The soldiers who mutinied in July 2003 likewise exposed grave cases of corruption in the AFP and government.

Resistance is met with fascist violence. Of all the regimes that have ascended to power since 1986, it is the Arroyo regime that has the worst record of violating both the people's socio-economic and civil and political rights.

Bigger and more widespread battles between the forces of reaction and revolution in the country are looming. The reactionary ruling system is desperate to bail itself out of crisis, and is thus mercilessly squeezing the people dry, especially the most exploited and oppressed classes and sectors.

The victims of the system's greed and brutality have endured the unendurable and are seething with anger.

With the gravity of the situation, the toiling masses and other exploited and oppressed sectors desire intensely to overthrow the Arroyo regime.

The revolutionary forces must take advantage of this most intense economic and political crisis to exert all efforts to raise the level of guerrilla warfare, the mass movement and the united front. The anti-imperialist, antifeudal and antifascist struggle must be intensified to more effectively lead and mobilize the broad masses against the large-scale repression and violation of their rights and welfare.

The reactionary puppet Macapagal-Arroyo clique remains the principal target of people's struggles. We must continue to expose, assail and isolate it. At the same time, we must prepare for the growing possibility that the present ruling clique may be replaced with another principal reactionary puppet because of its rapid isolation. Thus, we must raise the people's consciousness of the fact that there is no guarantee that whoever replaces Arroyo will be fundamentally different.

07 January 2004
English Edition

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