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CPP@56

December 21, 2024

Message of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines

Holding high the Red banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and ever determined to lead the Filipino people’s national democratic revolution, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines extends its ardent revolutionary greetings to all the Party’s cadres and activists, Red fighters of the New People’s Army, allies in the National Democratic Front and the broad masses of the Filipino people, on the occasion of the Party’s 56th founding anniversary.

On this occasion, we call on the entire Party and all revolutionary forces to:

Deepen and broaden the rectification movement! Further strengthen the Party! Strike deeper roots among the masses and firmly lead their struggle against the US-Marcos fascist and bureaucrat capitalist regime! Persevere in advancing the people’s democratic revolution!

Today, we honor Ka Jose Maria Sison, founding chair of the Central Committee, whose Marxist-Leninist-Maoist theoretical writings continue to illuminate the revolutionary path of the Filipino people. The new generation of Party cadres and fighters will forever remember and draw inspiration from Ka Joma’s lifelong communist dedication to the proletariat and all oppressed and exploited classes.

We pay tribute to all the heroes and martyrs of the Filipino people who led selfless lives for the Filipino people’s national democratic cause. We give special recognition to all Party leaders and Red fighters of the New People’s Army who fell in the course of waging people’s war and fighting the US-Marcos fascist regime during the past year. Their names are forever etched in the annals of the Philippine revolution.

On the occasion of the Party’s anniversary, we also extend militant revolutionary greetings to all anti-imperialist, progressive and democratic parties, organizations and movements around the world resisting US imperialism and fighting imperialist wars and threats of war. We extend fraternal greetings to all communist revolutionary forces who are studying, promoting and applying Marxism-Leninism in their countries, and leading the workers and people in the struggle for national liberation and socialism.

We mark the Party’s 56th anniversary acutely aware how the rapidly worsening international and domestic economic and political crisis is generating conditions favorable for waging revolutionary struggle.

The global capitalist system continues to be marked by economic slowdowns, widespread unemployment, and growing threats of stagflation and recessions. The US imperialists are fueling and stoking armed conflicts in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Workers and peoples are resisting imperialist wars, proxy wars, fascist oppression, public spending cuts, rising prices, and are raising their voices for higher wages and other urgent democratic demands.

The ruling system in the Philippines is mired in economic and political crisis. The socioeconomic conditions of tens of millions of Filipinos are sharply deteriorating from the relentless decline of the import-dependent and export-oriented local economy. The constant weakening of local agricultural and industrial production results in rising unemployment and widespread economic displacement. On the other hand, foreign capitalist profits and domestic oligarch wealth continue to soar from the exploitation of workers and natural resources and from debt-financed public spending and subsidies. Corruption and political repression has worsened under Marcos’ bureaucrat capitalist and fascist regime. The ruling system is mired in an increasingly virulent political crisis. The Marcos regime’s subservience to US geopolitical interests is pulling the country into the vortex of inter-imperialist war.

The worsening economic and political crisis of the ruling system under the Marcos regime continues to rouse the Filipino people to take action and wage collective resistance to fight for their urgent demands. This is generating ever favorable conditions for the Party to strike deeper and wider roots among the masses in order to lead them in the struggle against the US-Marcos regime.

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