The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and its allied organizations are intensifying efforts to expand and deepen their grounding among the Filipino masses, both in urban and rural areas. The NDFP’s activities surged strongly after the revolutionary movement launched a rectification movement in December 2023.

On its 53rd anniversary, the NDFP affirms its role as the most consolidated organized force of the Filipino people’s united front for a people’s democratic revolution. It draws lessons from its victories and mistakes since its formation on April 24, 1973.

According to the NDFP National Secretariat, its vitality as a revolutionary alliance depends on strengthening its constituent revolutionary mass organizations. It currently has 18 allied organizations.

The NDFP has convened conferences of underground mass organizations in the past two years to unify positions on pressing issues and to exchange experiences and problems in organizing and mobilization. Also planned here are coordinated activities for mass education and the conduct of protest actions such as lightning rallies, paint and paste operations (OP-OD), and cultural programs.

The NDFP also urged its allies to publish their own newspapers and provided regular trainings in propaganda work. Study activities of mass organizations became more vigorous, recorded modest expansion, allowing some allied organizations to hold national congresses and national council meetings. The NDFP and its allies firmly advanced the alliance’s 12-point program.

Amid imperialist wars and current US aggression, the NDFP called on its allies and the Filipino people to advance an active, independent, and peaceful foreign policy to defend the country’s security. It said the people’s democratic revolution must be vigorously advanced as the sole response to the crisis caused by US imperialism.

Anniversary celebration

NDFP allies recently carried out various activities to mark its 53rd anniversary. They launched separate lightning rallies, OP-OD, leaflet distribution, and discussions and study sessions.

These were carried out by Kabataang Makabayan (Patriotic Youth), Katipunan ng mga Gurong Makabayan (Alliance of Patriotic Teachers), Liga ng Agham para sa Bayan (League of Scientists for the People), Makabayang Samahang Pangkalusugan (Patriotic Health Association), Artista at Manunulat ng Sambayanan (Artists and Writers of the People), and Compatriots. Some were held in Metro Manila and Batangas, as well as in Australia. In guerrilla areas, the New People’s Army also celebrated together with the Pambansang Katipunan ng mga Magbubukid.

Other allied organizations and its chapters issued statements of solidarity with the NDFP. International parties and organizations, including Friends of the National Democratic Front/Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle, also conveyed greetings.