The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) offers unwavering solidarity to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and all revolutionary forces in India as they observe their memorial week (July 28 to August 3) to honor their heroes and martyrs who paid the ultimate sacrifice for the national and social liberation of India.

We join the CPI (Maoist) in extolling their fallen leaders, namely Comrade Dama (Sujan Singh Madkam, Rajesh), Comrade Joganna (Cheemala Narasayya), and Comrade Sagar (Anne Santosh, Sridhar).

The oppressed and exploited masses of India will have no revolutionary movement to hinge their hopes on for freedom from imperialist domination and exploitation without the sacrifices of all their revolutionary martyrs. The same holds true for the masses of workers, peasants and other oppressed and exploited classes and sectors in the Philippines, whose aspirations for a bright future cannot be realized without the sacrifices of the martyrs and heroes of their national democratic revolution.

The CPI (Maoist) has demonstrated profound commitment to international proletarian solidarity by including fallen Filipino revolutionaries during their memorial week. We express our deep appreciation to the Indian revolutionaries for recognizing and remembering Ka Toto (Dionisio Micabalo), member of the CPP Political Bureau, Ka Sandy (Josephine Mendoza), member of the CPP Central Committee, and Ka Jude Fernandez, proletarian stalwart of the workers’ movement in the Philippines.

Amid deep-going and prolonged crisis, the imperialists and reactionary classes are bound to unleash even greater counterrevolutionary violence against workers, peasants and all other classes, in their desperation to perpetuate the rotten system. Thus, to overthrow the old system based on oppression and exploitation, and replace it with a new, just and progressive system, the Party cadres and the broad masses of the toiling people must be ready to wage a life-and-death struggle.

Indeed, there can be no revolutionary victory without revolutionary sacrifice.