CPP/Ang Bayan: NPA-Panay ready to launch island-wide tactical offensives

From the English edition of Ang Bayan, the official news (propaganda) organ of the CPP (Apr 7): NPA-Panay ready to launch island-wide tactical offensives

The New People’s Army (NPA) in Panay has reached the capability to launch island-wide tactical offensives. This forms part of the NPA-Panay’s efforts to gain the initiative in the people’s war, according to a statement by the Regional Party Committee in the island. In this regard, the guerrillas have spurned the tendency to base themselves too long in one area, to set up camp for defense, mainly within the guerrilla base and to become passive amid an enemy attack, explained Ka Concha Araneta, Regional Committee spokesperson.

The NPA in Panay is currently developing its capability for active defense and sustained military actions within and outside guerrilla fronts to draw the enemy from pursuit operations or garrisoning big forces. On the other hand, the enemy will be tied in its narrow area of concentration and will become unable to wreak havoc so easily.

In particular, the Regional Committee defined the following tasks:

1. Actively resist and thwart intensifying enemy attacks in the island. Seize the initiative, mainly through tactical offensive campaigns throughout the island, especially in the guerrilla fronts. This is the key to defending Red power that has already been established and gaining strength and to making the revolutionary movement’s influence felt.

Show that armed revolution is the genuine alternative to thoroughly change the corrupt and exploitative system of landlord-compradors in power, such as the Cojuangco-Aquinos and Roxases. Armed revolution is likewise the alternative to the dynasties that have been given the go-signal to rule through dirty and fraud-ridden bourgeois elections.

2. Further develop company-size guerrilla fronts as a source of additional forces and strong Red power. Expansion is likewise a must to add to the contiguous guerrilla fronts towards the formation of a theater of war. We must seize on the opportunity where the enemy pours enormous resources into its “keyhole approach” and neglects the wider plains and mountainous areas. Increase the number of Red fighters and expand the mass base, which will crush the enemy and disperse him.

3. Vigorously advance the movement to defend the lands being seized by the US-Aquino regime for destructive projects and training camps of the 3rd ID and PNP. Carry forward a wider campaign to relieve the hunger and poverty of the people, most of whom are peasants. Expose the inutility of projects like 4Ps.

4. Continue exposing and opposing the US-Aquino regime’s deceptions and its exploitative and oppressive policies in the island such as “eco-tourism” and the multi-billion peso Jalaur River Project. Thwart the deceptive and brutal Oplan Bayanihan.

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