The suffering of the Filipino people continues to deepen and worsen due to the anti-poor, anti-people programs and policies of the Marcos regime, that favor large foreign capitalists and their local agents, landowners, and bureaucratic capitalists.

The Marcos family, cronies, and sycophants gobble up government funds and indulge in privileges, while the majority of Filipinos struggle to survive. Workers and the toiling masses labor tirelessly. Wages are grossly low in the face of rising prices and charges. Millions are unemployed. Meager earnings barely touch the hands of the impoverished masses. More and more people resort to desperate measures just to feed their children.

The people are outraged at the Marcos regime for its lack of concern for the masses who suffer in poverty, and for exacerbating the economic crisis and people’s hardships. Marcos is turning a deaf ear to the widespread calls of the people. He ignores the cries of the masses for living wages, jobs, genuine land reform, fishing rights, increased budget for free social services, and the expansion of local production, among other urgent demands.

Instead, Marcos is preoccupied with superficial displays that bring no relief to the people, such as the staging the grand drama of reshuffling his cabinet (where only three were replaced), the promise of rice at ₱20 per kilogram (which benefit only a few, and only temporarily), free rides on the LRT (which lasted only four days), and various other hollow gimmicks. To deceive the public, Marcos and his officials release statistics to cover up the ongoing deterioration of the economic crisis, the rising prices of goods, and the increasing poverty of millions of Filipinos.

The Marcos regime ruthlessly trample on the rights and livelihoods of the working masses. To attract foreign capitalist investors, Marcos keeps workers’ wages low to exploit their cheap labor. In the countryside, Marcos uses fascist military forces to facilitate widespread land grabbing for plantations and mining operations, displacing hundreds of thousands of farmers and indigenous peoples from their land. Fisherfolk, jeepney drivers, and other small workers are deprived of their livelihoods. In the name of austerity, Marcos plans to reduce the government workforce, which will further worsen public services.

Not only is Marcos a burden on the people, he jeopardizes the country’s security by his blind obedience to the dictates of his US imperialist master. Marcos aligns himself with the US Indo-Pacific Strategy to encircle and counter the rise of China. More and more US military bases and facilities are being established in the Philippines to station thousands of American troops across the country. Marcos drags the Philippines into a war that the US wants to ignite by continuously conducting war exercises and preparations, and stockpiling more and more powerful US weaponry aimed at its rival China.

By oppressing and betraying the nation, the ruling regime is becoming increasingly isolated from the Filipino people. Marcos issued Memorandum Circular No. 83 to brutally instill fascist terror to suppress the people’s struggle. However, Marcos cannot stop the advance of the militant mass movement, because it is a force of the multitudes determined to end hunger and repression.

Marcos is trying to consolidate his power by appointing over 200 generals in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and placing new personnel in government-controlled companies, while being shaken by a political crisis amid the ongoing and intensifying conflicts among rival factions.

Desiring to perpetuate his family’s hold on power, Marcos want to crush the Dutertes to thwart his rival’s 2028 plan to return to power. However, he seems to be toying with the people by having his allies in the Senate delay the impeachment proceedings against Vice President Sara Duterte, indicating a possible accomodation among corrupt reactionary factions. The fire of the people’s anger is spreading rapidly in response to attempts to thwart calls to conduct the impeachment trial and hold Sara Duterte accountable over plunder of public funds and other serious offenses against the people.

The bureaucratic capitalist, fascist, and puppet Marcos regime will bring no relief to the lives of the Filipino people. Amid the sharpening crisis, the suffering and oppressed masses have no other option but to struggle. The situation is pushing workers, farmers, the semi-proletariat, and other oppressed classes and sectors to unite and fight for their livelihoods and democratic rights, and direct their anger and protests against the Marcos regime, US imperialism, and its fascist minions.

In factories, schools, communities, and various towns and provinces, the urgent issues and demands of the masses must be identified. On the basis of these issues, the solid force of the masses must be built in the form of unions and organizations, and their consciousness raised. Stage marches or rallies to demonstrate the people’s widespread unity and amplify their cries. Strengthen or establish branches of the Party and underground revolutionary mass organizations to serve as the backbone of the broad masses. Guide them in their struggles and elevate these to confront the ruling Marcos regime.

There should be persevering efforts to strengthen and expand the New People’s Army as a weapon wielded by the people to completely end the system that oppresses and exploits them. Recruit as many workers, farmers, semi-proletarians, fishermen, and petty-bourgeois intellectuals to serve as Red fighters and commanders of the New People’s Army.

In the face of the extreme cruelty and brutality of the ruling regime, the New People’s Army stands firm in fighting for the welfare and rights of the masses, and their just and long-term aspirations and interests. Marcos cannot deceive the revolutionary forces, even if he wears a mask of “peace” to hide his fascist fangs. The Red fighters will firmly wield their weapons. They are ready to fight for the nation until the last drop of their blood is shed. They are determined to advance the people’s war until victory.