Why the Arroyo regime cannot destroy but causes the armed revolution to advance
Prof. Jose Ma. Sison National Democratic Front of the Philippines Chief Political Consultant
December 25, 2007
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines
(CPP) can best explain why the Arroyo regime cannot destroy but
unwittingly causes the armed revolution to advance. But as the CPP
founding chairman, NDFP chief political consultant and as a political
scientist, I can give some explanation.
The Filipino people's armed revolution for national liberation
and democracy against imperialist and feudal domination is a just
cause. It is therefore understandable why this armed revolution is
indestructible and has successfully persevered against the Marcos
fascist dictatorship and the subsequent pseudo-democratic regimes.
There are three reasons we can define fora more ample understanding of
the indestructibility and success of the armed revolution.
First, the crisis of the semifeudal and semicolonial system
was grave enough to result in the 14-year long Marcos fascist
dictatorship. Since then it has become further aggravated and deepened
by such US-instigated policies as "neoliberal" globalization and the
global war of terror that involves state terrorism, global fascism and
acts of US military intervention and aggression under the pretext of
combating terrorism.
As the worst representative of the ruling system today, the
Arroyo ruling clique has escalated the oppression and exploitation of
the Filipino people from year to year.It inflicts intolerable suffering
on the broad masses of the people through its policies and acts of
national betrayal, corruption, deception and brutality.
Second, the Filipino people are desirous of revolutionary
change. They are driven to wage revolutionary armed struggle and other
forms of struggle by the ever worsening crisis of the ruling system and
by the relentless oppressiveness and exploitativeness of the Arroyo
regime. The Arroyo regime is thus currently the best recruiter of the
armed revolution.
The people detest the fake president as the paragon of social,
economic, political and moral bankruptcy. She has unwittingly incited
the broad masses of the people to take the road of armed revolution
because she has blocked the avenues to basic reforms. She has callously
used the brute force of the state to engage in gross and systematic
human rights violations in a vicious attempt to suppress the patriotic
and progressive forces and keep herself in power.
Third, the CPP as the revolutionary party of the working class
is resolutely and effectively leading the Filipino people's national
democratic revolution. The political line, policies and actions of this
party is well-grounded on the concrete analysis of the concrete
conditions of the Philippines. It aims to achieve national liberation
and democracy against imperialist and feudal domination before carrying
out a socialist revolution.
The CPP wages armed struggle in combination with agrarian
revolution and building the people's democratic government and mass
organizations. It builds the national united front by relying mainly on
the alliance of the working class and peasantry, winning over the
middle social strata and taking advantage of the splits among the
reactionaries in order to isolate and destroy the power of the worst
reactionary clique at every given time in a protracted people's war.
Many keen observers of the people's war in the Philippines
notice that the reactionary military and police forces cannot occupy
and control even only ten per cent of Philippine territory and cannot
concentrate their maneuver units on more than ten per cent of the
guerrilla fronts at every given time. They observe that the forces of
Oplan Bantay Laya have failed to permanently destroy any guerrilla
front since 2002.
The current issue of Ang Bayan reports that the New People's
Army completely frustrated and defeated the objectives of Oplan Bantay
Laya I from 2002 to 2006 and that Oplan Bantay Laya II is faring even
worse as a result of bad planning by the fascists and the effective
offensives by the NPA. The NPA has succeeded in seizing the initiative
and launching tactical offensives in guerrilla fronts under attack as
well as in the far more numerous guerrilla fronts and other areas
beyond the control of the reactionary armed forces and police.
The top strategists of the reactionary armed forces have
admitted that their forces have become fatigued, factionalized and
demoralized and that they cannot destroy the NPA in 2010. In sharp
contrast, the NPA is seen as gaining in strength and advancing. It is
increasing its platoon-size and company-size offensives and is looking
forward to the building of mobile and more effective regional centers
of gravity and to the development of relatively stable base areas on
the basis of the guerrilla fronts.###
REFERENCE: Ruth de Leon Executive Director NDFP International Information Office Tel.+31-30-2310431 Fax+31-84-7589930 Email: [email protected]
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