Ka Roger�s open letter to soldiers and police personnel propagated
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) spokesperson Gregorio �Ka Roger� Rosal once again released an open letter to ordinary soldiers and policemen and junior officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) on November 13. The open letter was released in the face of widespread disgust among ordinary soldiers over corruption scandals involving the AFP�s top generals.
 Enclosed with the letter of Ka Roger was the �Ten points of action for the armed personnel of the reactionary state to advance their welfare and the people�s interests.� The call to action also serves to guide revolutionary forces on how to conduct organizing work within the AFP and PNP.
Ka Roger explained in his letter that corruption �is the biggest reason behind the many hardships and oppression being experienced� by ordinary soldiers and policemen. He cited, among others, the delayed wages, slashed benefits, lack of decent housing, the lack, and the poor quality of, equipment, expired medicines administered to wounded and sick soldiers, and pension funds being pocketed as but a few of the results of corruption.
Ka Roger belied claims by some officers that the present corruption scandal will result in a cleansing of the �rust corroding the AFP.� He said that this will not happen because �the rust is at the very core of the military� and because corruption in the military is but part of the thoroughly rotten system that it defends and is ruled by big bureaucrat capitalist kleptocrats.�
Ka Roger however said that even if ordinary soldiers and policemen are part of the machinery that primarily defends the rotten and oppressive ruling system, they themselves are also oppressed and made to suffer.
It is but just, says Ka Roger, for military and police personnel to take action to demand redress for their grievances, but admonished them to be �creative� in carrying out their protest actions since the expression of grievances within the AFP and PNP would be violently suppressed. He encouraged them to link up and cooperate with the revolutionary forces in their respective localities or even within their camps to advance their interests within the AFP and PNP and help in advancing the interests of the Filipino people.
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