Article X. THE ROLE OF THE PARTY IN THE UNITED FRONT

Section 1. To ensure that the democratic revolution is of a new type and has a socialist perspective, the working class is the leading class through its advanced detachment, the Communist Party of the Philippines. The vanguard role of the working class shall be upheld by all Party members in the united front in general and explicitly, implicitly, informally or in practical terms in concrete united front arrangements.

As a matter of principle and practice, the Party is the comprehensive leader and center of the Philippine revolution in both national democratic and socialist stage. It leads the armed struggle, the united front, mass movement, the organs of political power and eventually the People's Democratic Republic of the Philippines.

Section 2. The foundation of the united front is the basic alliance of the working class and the peasantry. It is of crucial importance to the united front and the national democratic revolution that the Party links the working class with the peas antry by carrying out the armed struggle, land reform and build ing of mass base and organs of political power in the countryside.

Section 3. The Party shall engage in united front through bilateral and multilateral relations of various types with other entities on the basis of consultations and consensus to achieve common purposes and fight common enemies and problems. The united front may or may not be through a formal organization.

The scope of the united front includes the open legal al liances on the basis of class, sectoral and multisectoral inter ests or common issues; coalition with other political parties; the discreet informal relations with various entities; the under ground united front organizations for armed struggle under working class leadership like the National Democratic Front and the building of the organs of political power at various levels along the united front line.

Section 4. The Party shall maintain its independence and initiative in the united front and shall not enter into any arrangement in which it shall lose these. It shall always seek common ground in political agreements with its allies but shall not allow itself to be dictated upon by them or subordinate itself to them.

Section 5. The National Democratic Front (NDF) is the most consolidated underground united front organization of basic revolutionary forces, explicitly under working class leadership and for armed struggle along the general line of national democratic revolution. The NDF is the most important part of the entire national united front.

The National Democratic Front is a distinct and integral united front organization, characterized by its essential tasks of helping forge national unity, strengthening its component organizations, winning over other forces to become either components or cooperators and paving the way for the establishment of organs of democratic power, especially at levels higher than that of the barrio.

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