Highlights of the CPP Central Committee's message on the CPP's 40th anniversaryDecember 24, 2008
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP-CC) has released ahead of the actual date of its anniversary a comprehensive 20-page statement in line with the Party's forthcoming 40th anniversary on December 26, 2008. The statement is addressed to the CPP's membership, Red fighters of the NPA, the revolutionary mass organizations, people in the revolutionary territories and the public in general.
Hereunder are highlights of the statement:
On the current global capitalist crisis
- The CPP sees the current capitalist crisis as the worst since the Great Depression of 1929 (and anticipates that it may turn out even worse than that)
- "the US and global capitalist system is beset by the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression" and may even turn out as "unprecedented in the last 100 years"
- "The solutions made so far, like the bail out for the financial institutions, aggravate the problem... a case of further robbing those who have been robbed to bail out the thieves. (It is) also a case of throwing money after bad" as "it does not at all revive production, employment and effective demand. ... The bailout money is simply being used by the strongest finance monopoly groups to consolidate and enlarge their monopoly positions"
- The CPP anticipates by the coming year the bursting of the US national debt bubble, the further fall of the US dollar and the collapse of the international bond market.
- "Worst of all, the national debt bubble is growing and is about to burst. The market for treasury bonds and corporate bonds is expected to collapse next year … China has become the biggest foreign creditor of the US ...(it) is vulnerable to the looming collapse of the bond market and the fall of the US dollar".
- The CPP says the present crisis which has already been deepening for more than a year will last several more years
- "It took decades for the current financial and economic crisis to grow before bursting. This will not be solved in the short term or one or two years... From year to year, we can expect the rise of various legal and illegal forms of mass resistance by the people."
On the domestic situation
The CPP sees the chronic crisis in Philippines as worsening amidst the global capitalist crisis and causing widespread unrest
- "The depression of the Philippine economy will worsen. The decrease of export income, foreign loans and remittances of overseas contract workers will mean less resources for Philippine production and consumption."
- "The demand for jobs, decent wages, industrial development, land reform, adequate social services and respect for the democratic rights of the working people will ring louder and move the broad masses of the people to march and rally on the streets and convene at various public places."
- "The people will increasingly desire and demand a revolutionary way out of the economic and social crisis as the counterrevolutionary rulers employ deception and violence to mislead and suppress them."
The CPP says the Arroyo regime is "embarking on treason in exchange for prolonging itself in power" by pushing for "cha-cha" that casts away economic sovereignty and national patrimony and allowing foreign investors 100% ownership of land and all kinds of enterprises to get US support
- "The Arroyo ruling clique is preparing to rig the 2010 elections in order to protect its loot and secure impunity for its criminal liabilities." At the same time, "It is preparing to employ massive electoral fraud and terrorism to secure the election of its own candidates."
The CPP says the Arroyo regime "is comparable to the Marcos facsist dictatorship in pupppetry to US imperialism."
- "It caninely follows the US-dictated policies of 'neoliberal globalization' and 'war on terrorism' despite the bankruptcy and total discredit of these policies."
- "The US imperialists have instigated the Arroyo regime to unleash barbaric military campaigns of suppression against the people and the revolutionary forces and to prevent the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations from proceeding to address the roots of the armed conflict with social, economic, political and constitutional reforms.
The CPP says the Arroyo regime has closed doors on peace negotiations with NDF and MILF
- "The Arroyo regime has closed the door to peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front by casting away the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) and demanding the resumption of informal talks without the MOA-AD."
- "It has also closed the door to the resumption of formal talks with the NDFP by preconditioning it on the violation of The Hague Joint Declaration and all other previously signed agreements."
On victories of the Communist Party of the Philippines
CPP cites great victories in the past forty years.
- "...the Communist Party of the Philippines has won great victories which are of lasting value and have served to advance the new democratic revolution of the Filipino people."
CPP declares as failures all attempts to destroy the armed revolution.
- "All attempts to destroy the armed revolution have failed … We must underscore the fact that the new democratic revolution through protracted people's war has endured and has advanced in a big and all-round way in a country, which has long been a major base of US imperialist hegemony in the entire East Asia. This is a great victory which is ever inspiring to the Filipino people and other peoples of the world."
The CPP cites the growing strength of the Party and revolutionary forces
- "The Party membership runs into several tens of thousands."
- "It leads the thousands of fighters of the New People's Army and millions of organized peasants in 120 to 130 guerrilla fronts in 70 provinces, more than 800 municipalities and more than 10,000 barangays."
- "The Party cadres within the people's army and in the localities have formed the organs of political power and the mass organizations of workers, peasants, women, cultural activists and others."
The CPP says the New People's Army has grown and has become the largest revolutionary army ever built in the Philippines.
- "It is larger than the Philippine revolutionary army against Spanish colonialism in the period of 1896 to 1898 and then against US imperialism from 1899 onwards."
- "It is far larger than the Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon or the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan."
- "... the NPA is stronger than what it was in the 1980s in both political and military terms…"
CPP plans for qualitative leap of armed revolution
The CPP Central Committee urges the formulation of a new five-year central plan to "bring the new democratic revolution to a new and higher level of development or a qualitative leap"
- The overriding objective of the plan must be to increase the strength of the revolutionary forces and approach the goal of destroying the ruling system and replacing it with the people's democratic state."
The CPP's plan encompasses eight points:
- "Educate and train Party cadres and members on the ideological line of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the general political line of new democratic revolution"
- "Accelerate the recruitment of Party candidate-members from the revolutionary mass movement and expand the Party boldly"
- "Intensify the campaigns to arouse, organize and mobilise the people along the general line of the new democratic revolution".
- "Intensify the revolutionary armed struggle and hit the targets to maximize the political and military victories...
- intensify guerrilla warfare in order to wipe out enemy units, destroy enemy facilities, interdict enemy lines of supply, force the enemy to take guard duties and go on the defensive.
- dismantle the landgrabbing operations of foreign and local agri-corporations, mining companies, logging companies for export, real estate companies and similar enterprises that reduce the land for agriculture and land reform.
- deal with the impunity of high bureaucrats and military officials in perpetrating treason, plunder and human rights violations... Retirement from reactionary government service does not free the suspects from criminal liabilities, arrest or battle."
- "Raise land reform to a new and higher level towards the maximum level
- raise land reform to a new and higher level towards the maximum land reform, wherever possible ... dismantle and render unprofitable the operations of these land-greedy entities and thus forcing them to leave the land ... landless tillers must be organized to take over the land
- The minimum land reform program may be maintained wherever it is still advantageous to the tillers and the requirements for the maximum land reform are not yet present ..."
- "Develop the guerrilla fronts toward becoming relatively stable base areas
- The guerrilla fronts must be increased to the level of 168. This means having a guerrilla front in every congressional district in all the provinces.
- anticipate and work for the emergence of relatively stable base areas from the increase, merger, integration or expansion of existing guerrilla fronts under a base area command"
- "Suppress and drive away the oppressors and exploiters and dismantle the reactionary organs of political power over extensive areas
- The Party, the people's army, the revolutionary organs of political power and the mass organizations must attain a new and higher level of development.
- As internal security is maintained by the people's militias and the self-defense units of the mass organizations, the NPA fighting units can increase and intensify their tactical offensives and carry out battles with short rest periods."
- "Develop the various alliances under the united front policy in order to reach the people in ever larger numbers"
- "Uphold proletarian internationism and broad anti-imperialist solidarity...(and) further develop its relations with parties, people's organizations and institutions abroad not only to garner support for the Filipino people in their struggle for national liberation and democracy but also to contribute what it can and participate in the efforts of all peoples to attain greater freedom, democracy, social justice, development and world peace."
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