Fight and defeat the US-Aquino regime and fulfill the requirements for advance toward the strategic

Pahayagan ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas Pinapatnubayan ng Marxismo-Leninismo-MaoismoANG Special Issue March 29, 2011 www.philippinerevolution.net I n celebration of the 42nd founding anniver- sary of the New People’s Army (NPA) on March 29, 2011, we the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines salute all the Red commanders and fighters. This is a time to honor our revolutionary martyrs and heroes, take stock of our strength and achievements and re- new our resolve to advance the people’s war to a new and higher stage. Together with the entire Party and the entire Filipino people, we celebrate the accumulated victories of the NPA in the revolutionary struggle for national liberation and democracy against US imperialism and the local exploiting classes. We congratulate and commend the NPA for defeating Oplan Bantay Laya and for scoring significant vic- tories in the process. We are well prepared and highly confident to confront and defeat one more US-designed plan to suppress the revolutionary forces of the people. Fight and defeat the US-Aquino regime and fullfill the requirements for advance toward the strategic stalemate Message of the CPP Central Committee to the NPA Red commanders and fighters This is Oplan Bayanihan, which is being un- leashed by the new Aquino puppet regime of big compradors and landlords. It is dressed up and heavily made up in a vain attempt to make it look different from the much discredited Oplan Bantay Laya. But it is the same brutal continuation of its immediate predecessor and earlier antecedents from the time of Marcos. Due to the persistence and increased rapacity of foreign monopoly capitalism, domestic feudal- ism and bureaucrat capitalism, the broad masses of the Filipino people are suffering exploitation and oppression more than ever before and are ready to rise up against the Aquino regime and the entire ruling system. They are further out- raged when the regime and its armed minions misrepresent revolutionary resistance as the cause of underdevelopment, poverty and other dire social conditions in the country. Protracted crisis of the world capitalist system There is no letup in the worsen- ing crisis of the world capitalist system. The US and other imperial- ist powers dogmatically stick to the bankrupt policy of neoliberal globaliza- tion. Thus, the global economic crisis is protracted and is heading towards a worse stage. The entire capitalist world is actually in a state of depression and disorder. The imperialist and puppet states con- tinue to attack the rights of workers, press down wages and cut back on government social spending. They do so in order to provide more op- portunities to the monopoly bourgeoisie for rap- id capital accumulation and profit-making through tax cuts, state supply contracts, trade and investment liberalization, privatization of 2 ANG BAYAN March 29, 2011 public assets, financial specula- tion and manipulation, deregu- lation and denationalization and plunder of underdeveloped economies. The finance oligarchy and the rest of the monopoly bour- geoisie, who are responsible for unprecedented economic plun- der in the last three decades and for the current grave crisis continue to amass superprofits by gobbling up public funds and passing the burden of the crisis on to the working people and the underdeveloped countries. The public money doled to bail out the banks and key cor- porations has been used by these to show book profits and not to generate production and employment in order to counter the crisis and stimulate demand. Now confronted by huge public debt and deficits, the imperial- ist governments have adopted austerity measures at the ex- pense of public sector employ- ees, social services and the peo- ple in general who are obliged to pay higher taxes and service fees. The crisis that used to be traced to the bursting of the housing bubble due to the abuse of household debt and the far greater abuse of corpo- rate debt and derivatives in the financial markets has dramati- cally become the uncontrollable crises of imperialist and puppet states in the form of public deficits and public debt. At the base of the financial crisis is the crisis of overproduc- tion that besets the whole world and extends from raw materials, semimanufactures and basic in- dustrial goods to high-tech electronic goods. The overcon- centration and overcentraliza- tion of capital in the hands of the monopoly bourgeoisie have reached unprecedented levels while production stagnates and the livelihood of the workers and working people and the economies of the third world are devastated. In the imperialist countries, the monopoly bourgeoisie are intensifying the exploitation and oppression of the people. Thus, the people are incited to resist and the working class is aroused to wage class struggle against the monopoly bour- geoisie. Outbursts of mass protests of the workers, the youth, women, immigrants and other people are occurring in North America, Europe, Japan and elsewhere. Anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist formations are steadily developing. The monopoly bourgeoisie is using chauvinism, racism, reli- gious bigotry, fascism and war- mongering to divide and manip- ulate the people and draw them away from recognizing the roots of the crisis in the iniquitous system of capitalism and impe- rialism. But the rising reac- tionary currents generated by the monopoly bourgeoisie out- rage the people and drive them to wage resistance and build their organized strength. While the imperialist coun- tries are still united against the people and the underdeveloped countries, they are increasingly at odds with each other over grave economic, financial, trade, security and other prob- lems. In one summit after an- other, the imperialist leaders have failed to solve these prob- lems and to stabilize the world situation. The traditional impe- rialists have serious contradic- tions with such new entrants as China, Russia, India and Brazil to the circle of global players. The sharpest contradictions between the imperialist powers and the broad masses of the people are most flagrant in the underdeveloped countries. Sub- jected to the worst forms of ex- ploitation and oppression by the imperialists and their local pup- pets, the people have begun to rise up in entire countries and global regions. Mass move- ments are surging forward along an anti-imperialist and demo- cratic line of march. The current widespread mass uprisings and armed revolutions in South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East are harbingers of more to come. They are bound to create the conditions for the rise of proletarian revo- lutionary parties and anti-impe- rialist and democratic mass movements. In the particular case of Libya, the social turmoil has turned into a civil war between the Gadaffi regime and the op- position raising the old monar- chist flag. The imperialist pow- ers headed by the US have launched a war of aggression against the national sovereignty of Libya and the Libyan people under the pretext of humanitar- ian intervention to save civil- ians. The US pretends to yield chieftainship to the NATO that it in fact directs and controls. The latest of the wars of ag- gression instigated by the US, UK and France has laid bare the contradictions among the impe- rialist powers. Germany and Russia, together with China, In- dia, Brazil and other less devel- oped countries are critical of the war and refuse to join it. The states of the Arab League are divided over the issue, while those of the African Union op- pose the war of aggression. Maoist parties are growing in strength and advancing in In- dia, the Philippines and other countries and are taking the lead in advocating and waging people's war. They are in al- liance with other revolutionary parties and mass formations in various countries and on a glob- al scale. The Aquino regime is bound hand and foot to the US policy of neoliberal globalization. 3ANG BAYAN March 29, 2011 As it protracts, worsens and deep- ens, the crisis of the world capitalist system poses the danger of more im- perialist wars of aggression. At the same time, it favors the rise of revolu- tionary movements throughout the world in both the developed and underdeveloped countries. Even before the imperialist powers can stem or alleviate the crisis that dramatically occurred in 2008, well substantiated and well reasoned estimates point to its new and worse stage occur- ring in 2016. Within this time frame, the Aquino regime and the entire ruling system face a dismal future as they remain servile to the policies dictated by the imperialist powers head- ed by the US. Further rotting of the domestic ruling system Under the weight of the worsening crisis of the world capitalist system and due to its backward character and chronic crisis, the Philippine ruling sys- tem of the big comprador bour- geoisie and landlord class is be- coming ever more rotten and more exploitative and oppres- sive. It is hated by the broad masses of the people. The Aquino regime is bound hand and foot to the US policy of neoliberal globalization. Its so-called Philippine Develop- ment Plan hews closely to this policy and serves to further vio- late the political and economic sovereignty of the people and auction off our natural resources and the rest of the national pat- rimony in order to let the for- eign banks and firms and the big compradors and landlords like the Aquino and Cojuangco families rake in profits. The Philippine economy continues to be ravaged by the ne- oliberal policy of de- nationalization, trade and investment liber- alization, privatiza- tion of public assets and deregulation. It is being made ever more dependent on the export of cheap raw materials and cheap labor, on low value-added processing for reexport on call- center employment and rising levels of foreign and local pub- lic debt. No cap whatsoever is effec- tively restraining public borrow- ing from abroad and from local sources. At the same time, the Aquino regime has an entire program of raising taxes and fees on social services. It has adopted a policy of austerity. It has allowed the prices of oil, food and other basic commodi- ties to soar. The people are al- ready fed up with the regime in such a short time because of their growing poverty and hard- ship, the failure of the regime to offer solutions to their basic problems and its obsession with gimmickry and triviality. They are endlessly insulted by claims that the popularity of the regime rises on the basis of ma- nipulated poll ratings even as the prices of basic commodities are rising. The Aquino regime is shame- lessly following the US global war of terror and the US Coun- terinsurgency Guide in coming out with its own new internal security plan aimed at deceiving the people and destroying the revolutionary movement. The new campaign plan of military suppression is a viciously vio- lent wolf masquerading as an amiable sheep. It is essentially a continuation of Oplan Bantay Laya as a futile antipeople at- tempt to defeat the armed revo- lutionary movement through brutal human rights violations perpetrated with impunity. The regime makes false promises to the people to en- gage in good governance, deliv- er social services, engage in economic development and un- dertake security reforms. The military is assured of priority funding, despite the rampant corruption of military officers and the far more urgent need for economic development and so- cial services. The military is under orders to mouth demagogic slogans to dress up its antipeople, antina- tional and anti-democratic char- acter and objectives as “whole of nation approach” or “people- centered” strategy and its mili- tary operations as “winning the peace”, “peace and develop- ment” efforts and “respect for human rights”. But in fact, the military openly declares that it is still focused on its triad operations (synchronized combat, intelli- gence and civil-military opera- tions) in order to defeat threats to the security of the reac- tionary state. The non-combat operations serve mainly to strengthen the intelligence net- work and intensify combat oper- ations. They are used to deceive the people, slander the revolution- ary forces, mobilize the govern- ment agencies and nongovern- mental organizations for the counterrevolutionary war and cosmetize the appearance of the military in order to facilitate combat operations against the revolutionary forces and the people. As in the case of the killing of botanist Leonardo Co, the AFP endlessly dishes out disinformation and outright lies in order to cover up its fascist crimes and human rights viola- tions. Local officials and govern- ment agencies and NGOs aligned with the regime are also assured of US and other foreign funding 4 ANG BAYAN March 29, 2011 and local budgetary appropria- tions in order to deliver dole- outs and palliatives with the de- vious aim of inveigling the peo- ple and communities in the guerrilla fronts into turning against the NPA and force them into providing intelligence for precise strike operations by the AFP against the NPA. Cynically, the Aquino regime believes that it can continue to rule by carrying out US-dictated policies, avoiding to offer any real solution to the basic eco- nomic, social and political prob- lems and engaging in mere gim- mickry and psywar. The regime pretends to be unaware that the people have a growing con- tempt for its failure to fulfill its promises to hold the Arroyo regime accountable for corrup- tion and human rights viola- tions and to end poverty by eliminating corruption. The basic contradictions in Philippine society continue to sharpen and flare up.The broad toiling masses of workers and peasants as well as the middle social strata are increasingly re- volted by the escalating ex- ploitation and oppression in- flicted on them by foreign mo- nopoly capitalism, domestic feudalism and bureaucrat capi- talism. As the broad masses of the people are restive, the contra- dictions among the reactionar- ies are bursting out recurrently in violent ways. The various competing political factions of the ruling classes have private armed groups and their own po- litical and criminal cliques with- in the reactionary military, po- lice and paramilitary forces. The people and the rivals of those in power increasingly see the Aquino regime as excessive- ly servile to foreign interests, incompetent and corrupt and prone to the use of violence de- spite its own self-serving claims to the contrary. Possibilities from the crisis conditions The crisis conditions are fa- vorable for advancing the peo- ple’s war from the stage of strategic defensive to the strategic stalemate. The Party is correct in setting the line of march for the revolutionary movement in the medium term. It is the duty of the NPA to wage the people’s war and ad- vance from stage to stage in or- der to realize the people’s aspi- rations for national liberation and democracy. The armed counterrevolution must be frus- trated and defeated in its plan to destroy or reduce to inconse- quentiality the armed revolution and thus leave no way for the people to achieve national and social liberation. Oplan Bayanihan is the same creature as Oplan Bantay Laya, wearing the signature lipstick of “internal peace and security plan”. It advertises itself with the slogan of “winning the peace” and misrepresents its brutal military campaign of sup- pression as “peace and develop- ment” outreach operations in order to camouflage the escala- tion of the triad operations of synchronized combat, intelli- gence and civil-military opera- tions. In pursuit of the US Coun- terinsurgency Guide 2009, the Aquino regime can pay lip serv- ice to peace and reconciliation and use peace negotiations as a mere disposable tactic or ploy. But why resume the formal meetings of the peace negotia- tions between the reactionary government and the National Democratic Front of the Philip- pines at this time? The peace negotiations are a means for the people and the revolutionary forces to proclaim the program of the new-democratic revolu- tion and challenge those in the reactionary government to agree to address the roots of the civil war with basic social, economic and political reforms in order to lay the basis for a just and last- ing peace. Under pressure by the crisis of the ruling system and the growing strength of the armed revolutionary movement, the Aquino regime is being remind- ed of the option to come to a peace agreement with the revo- lutionary movement or persist in using the peace negotiations as a futile attempt to deceive and undermine the fighting will of the people and the revolution- ary forces and to dream of their capitulation or destruction. The enemy’s use of the peace negotiations to deceive the peo- ple is preempted by the declara- tion of the revolutionary forces that the line for a just and last- ing peace is no different from the line of people’s revolution- ary armed struggle for national liberation and democracy. The NDFP has frustrated every at- tempt of the reactionary gov- ernment to frontload the end of hostilities in the peace negotia- tions or to engage the NDFP in ceasefires that obscure and lay aside the need to address the roots of the armed conflict through basic reforms. The revolutionary movement is exerting extra efforts to ac- celerate the progress of the peace negotiations and has even gone so far as to offer an immediate alliance and truce on the basis of a concise declara- tion to assert national inde- pendence, expand democracy, The revolutionary mass movement is capable of removing the Aquino ruling clique from power in the same manner that the Marcos and Estrada ruling cliques were removed and the Arroyo ruling clique was almost removed. 5ANG BAYAN March 29, 2011 develop the economy through land reform and national indus- trialization and undertake inter- national relations for the pur- pose of peace and development. The Aquino regime cannot take comfort from the notion that the revolutionary move- ment cannot yet overthrow the ruling system in the next five years or from any scheme for the counterrevolutionary armed forces to destroy the revolution- ary movement, render it incon- sequential or make it capitulate. The revolutionary mass movement is capable of remov- ing the Aquino ruling clique from power in the same manner that the Marcos and Estrada rul- ing cliques were removed and the Arroyo ruling clique was al- most removed. Some errors in the conduct of the mass move- ment allowed the regime to ma- neuver and survive through sheer brutality and terrorism. Lessons must be learned from the failure to overthrow the Ar- royo ruling clique despite its ex- treme isolation and unpopulari- ty. Errors must be reviewed and rectified so that the revolution- ary mass movement can realize the full potential of the favor- able objective situation. The crisis conditions, the growing strength of the revolu- tionary movement, the rapid rate at which the Aquino regime is being exposed as antipeople, antinational, anti-democratic, corrupt and brutal are such that the revolutionary forces can build a broad united front and generate a mass movement to isolate and remove the Aquino ruling clique from power in a relatively short period of time. The rising prices of oil, food and other basic commodities are a signal for a brewing political storm that in other countries and regions of the world is al- ready raging. The combustible issues of corruption are bound to catch up with Aquino despite the propaganda that he is per- sonally clean. The people are taking him to task not only for failing to pros- ecute and imprison the Arroyos for corruption and g