Communist Party of the Philippines calls for big advance in armed struggle and mass resistance in 2013

 

 

 

"Mass demonstrations are bound to intensify and jolt the ruling political system currently under the antipeople, anti-democratic and puppet Aquino regime... The demand to put an end to imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism, and for an overhaul of the ruling semicolonial and semifeudal system will be advanced vigorously by the toiling masses."

PRESS RELEASE
CPP Information Bureau
31 December 2012

CPP calls for big advance in armed struggle and mass resistance in 2013

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today called on the Filipino people and their revolutionary forces to strive for a big advance in armed struggle and mass resistance in 2013 in response to the Aquino regime's policies that exacerbate the socio-economic conditions of the Filipino people and further open up the country to US government intervention and foreign economic domination.

"The Aquino regime's continuing resort to deception, statistical distortion and half-truths, media spins, manipulated surveys and publicity gimmicks cannot conceal the worsening conditions of the Filipino people or placate their seething discontent over Aquino's failure to deliver on promises of change in the people's lives," said the CPP.

"After close to three years, the Aquino regime has miserably failed to address the problems of unemployment, landlessness, homelessness, low wages, spiralling prices, hunger and poverty, disease and epidemics," added the CPP.

"It has waged a campaign of suppression resulting in a wave of human rights violations, especially in the countryside where the AFP imposes martial law in peasant communities that are active in land reform struggles and in opposing mining and plantation operations."

"It has become crystal clear that the Filipino people have no other recourse but to intensify their revolutionary mass struggles and armed resistance," said the CPP.

"In the coming year, the Filipino people must raise their level of struggle against oil price increases, wage freezes and the two-tier wage system, the demolition of urban poor communities, land grabbing, incursions of mining operations, the corporatization of public health service, the K to 12 program, the privatization of public schools and hospitals through so-called Public-Private Partnership programs, charter change efforts to embed IMF-imposed policies into the Philippine constitution and other attacks against their national and democratic interests," said the CPP.

"Mass demonstrations are bound to intensify and jolt the ruling political system currently under the antipeople, anti-democratic and puppet Aquino regime," said the CPP. "The demand to put an end to imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism and for an overhaul of the ruling semicolonial and semifeudal system will be advanced vigorously by the toiling masses."

"Over the past years, the New People's Army has accumulated enough firepower, organizational strength and mass support to heighten its initiative and further intensify the armed struggle," said the CPP.

"This coming year or two, the NPA can achieve a big advance," pointed out the CPP. "More tactical offensives and military campaigns can be launched and coordinated at the inter-front, inter-regional and national levels in order to frustrate Aquino's Oplan Bayanihan war of suppression and deliver more lethal blows against the enemy and seize firearms at a faster rate than in the past decade."