From the CPP Website (Nov 29): Intensify the people's war and celebrate great victories on the 150th birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) joins the Filipino people in marking the 149th birth anniversary of working class hero Andres Bonifacio on November 30. Let us usher in celebrations of his 150th year on November 30, 2013 with great revolutionary victories. In the course of the next year, the CPP and the revolutionary forces look forward to further intensifying the people’s war nationwide and raising higher the red banner of the national democratic cultural revolution. The significance of Andres Bonifacio’s revolutionary lifestory is not lost on the Filipino people. The oppression and exploitation of the Filipino working class by foreign big companies, their local big business partners and big landlords are not essentially different from the grave socio-economic and political conditions under Spanish colonial rule. Such conditions then and now rouse the Filipino people’s fervor for revolutionary change and spur armed resistance and democratic mass struggles.
Driven by patriotism, Andres Bonifacio and the Katipunan carried rallied the Filipino people around the banner of national freedom to wage a revolutionary war of resistance against three centuries of colonial rule. The Katipunan-led armed uprisings of 1896-1898 succeeded in defeating the Spanish colonial forces and establishing the first independent revolutionary government, before being usurped by the bigger, more modern and extremely brutal US colonialists. The history of the Filipino people is a continuum of revolutionary armed resistance against colonial and neocolonial subjugation. For the past four centuries, they have been launched innumerable armed uprisings and waged guerrilla warfare to resist the brutal suppression of their democratic rights and achieve national and social liberation.
The extensive and intensive guerrilla warfare being waged by the New People’s Army (NPA) forms part of the Filipino people’s uninterrupted history of armed resistance. For more than four decades now, the NPA, under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has been achieving unprecedented victories in armed revolution and is bound to achieve even bigger victories in the next few years.....
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/intensify-the-people-s-war-and-celebrate-great-victories-on-the-150th-birth-anniversary-of-andres-bonifacio
The commies love to wrap themselves up in the mantle of Philippine nationalism. They embrace Bonifacio because he is revolutionary and nationalist. CPP and its front organizations often attempt to hijack the symbols and history of Philippine nationalism in support of their "national democratic movement." I can remember seeing a banner from the political wing of the CPP, the National Democratic Front, that stated "NDF--the continuation of the revolution of 1898."
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