Revolutionary organizations of teachers, women, and Filipino migrants celebrated with fervor the 56th anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on December 26. In separate statements, three National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) allied organizations paid tribute to the Party’s shining and fully determined leadership of the Philippine revolution.

“From the ranks of the special revolutionary organizations of women in the Philippines, we pay tribute to all the leaders and the entire membership of the CPP,” said the Makabayang Kilusan ng Bagong Kababaihan (Makibaka) (Revolutionary Movement of New Women). The group shared that “we cannot help but marvel at the mutually reinforcing principles, aspirations, and tasks [of the CPP and Makibaka] for the liberation of women, especially from the toiling class of peasants and workers.”

It said the history of the two organizations proves that women’s issues and the women’s movement, as well as other gender issues, should be integrally woven into the class movement and the movement of the entire people. “Makibaka will continue to stand and view women’s and gender issues with a scientific and class perspective to combat and defeat any form of revisionism, sectarianism, radicalism, and other deceptions and attacks of imperialism and its minions in the economy, politics, and even in culture,” the group stated.

In its statement, the Katipunan ng mga Gurong Makabayan (Kaguma) (Patriotic Teachers League) honored the martyrs of the Party and the Philippine revolution. “Kaguma also wholeheartedly recognizes the foundation laid by CPP Central Committee founding chairman Prof. Jose Maria Sison, in the correct application of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete conditions of Philippine society,” it said.

Comrade Joma passed away two years ago, but according to Kaguma, “every communist and Filipino revolutionary carries the great lessons he wrote, studied, and practiced them in their daily work and advancement of the tasks.”

Kaguma also emphasized that amid the worsening political and economic crisis in the country, “there is no other way to end the cycle of suffering and poverty of teachers and the entire people except by directly participating in and, at the very least, actively supporting the armed struggle to achieve the democratic national revolution.”

Meanwhile, Compatriots affirmed its adherence to the rectification movement the Central Committee called for last year. “All chapters of Compatriots-NDFP commit ourselves to this ideological campaign, and to all revolutionary tasks laid out for us by the Party in order to overcome present weaknesses and reach new heights,” the group stated.

The group added that under the leadership of the CPP, their struggle shines no matter how far they are from the motherland. “It weaves together our fight with the entire Filipino nation’s struggle for national sovereignty, genuine democracy, and for a country to which we can return home and to be with our family,” the group said.

In the Party Central Committee statement on December 26, the leadership declared that “steady efforts to rebuild the underground revolutionary organizations allied with the NDFP” have been ongoing in the past year. These steps, according to the Central Committee, come from the almost complete neglect in building the underground revolutionary movement arising from the error of legalism and reformism.

The Central Committee stated that “there are plans and target for recruitment, building new chapters, promoting and supporting the revolutionary armed struggle in the countryside. Efforts are being exerted to reinvigorate enlistment campaigns for Red fighters and political officers for the New People’s Army.” However, the leadership shared that much remains to be done to address the urgent need for new recruits, especially from young workers and intellectuals.