Communist Party of the Philippines
The central leadership and entire membership of the Communist Party of the Philippines as well as all Red commanders and fighters of the New People’s Army join the Filipino people and all their revolutionary forces in extending the most ardent revolutionary greetings to the Kabataang Makabayan on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
The CPP pays tribute to all the revolutionary martyrs and heroes from among the ranks of the KM and the revolutionary mass movement of youth and students. They inspire the current generation of youth to rise up and serve the people’s democratic revolution.
KM’s 50th year is an important milestone in the history of the Filipino people’s revolutionary struggles. It is a testimony to the perseverance of the Filipino youth and people in waging revolutionary struggle to put an end to the oppressive and exploitative semicolonial and semifeudal system.
KM is celebrating its 50th year, yet it remains young and vibrant, having thousands of young students and youth in its ranks raising its red banner and promoting the people’s democratic revolution under proletarian leadership. KM and, through it, the CPP, continue to strike deep roots among the students and youth.
Basic Role of the KM
In his essay celebrating KM’s 50th anniversary, Prof. Jose Ma. Sison, KM founding chair, describes their effort during the 1960s in laying the foundations for the reestablishment of the CPP and building the NPA. Indeed, every KM member and proletarian cadre in the youth and student movement must carefully study Ka Joema’s essay in order to gain a comprehensive grasp of KM’s history and past contributions and define clearly the tasks ahead.
As communist juniors among the students and youth, the basic role of the Kabataang Makabayan is to assist the revolutionary party of the proletariat in carrying out its work in leading the people’s democratic revolution. Such role is basically unchanged since its foundation. The KM reaches out to the broadest ranks of the students and youth, raises their patriotic, pro-people and scientific consciousness, trains them as propagandists, teachers and organizers and prepares them for deployment in the various fields of revolutionary work.
KM reaches out to the broadest ranks of the students and youth by addressing their day to day concerns such as incessant increases of tuition and other school fees and the reactionary state’s policy of commercialization and social spending cutbacks. The KM also addresses issues such as overly restrictive school policies and the suppression of civil, political and human rights in campuses. It promotes the youth’s demand for a nationalist, scientific and mass-orientated education.
KM raises the patriotic consciousness of the students and youth by exposing how the Philippine educational system is oriented to serve foreign big business interests, particularly by churning out skilled and semi-skilled labor and producing research work that justifies IMF-WB policy impositions. KM exposes as well the various laws, policies and agreements which perpetuate US economic, political and military dominance and semicolonial rule. KM deepens the revolutionary commitment of the students and youth by linking with the toiling masses and supporting their democratic struggles.
KM exposes and fights the dominant reactionary, reformist, petty-bourgeois and pseudo-progressive mode of thinking that counters the development of a patriotic, scientific and pro-people culture and consciousness. It conducts more thorough studies of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism among its advanced cadres in order to train them in the scientific method of thinking and urge them to go through the process of remoulding through criticism and self-criticism.
Taking stock of the objective and subjective situation
It is the task of the KM and youth and student Party cadres to take stock of the objective conditions and the subjective strength of the revolutionary forces in order to define a program of action that serves the overall program of the Party.
The overall socio-economic conditions, as well as the particular conditions confronting the students and youth continue to be exceedingly favorable for arousing, organizing and mobilizing large numbers of students and youth in a mass movement that advances the cause of national and social liberation.
The mass movement of students and youth is always fertile ground for training and recruiting activists and proletarian revolutionary cadres. The more widespread the mass movement, the bigger the number of potential cadres who can join the CPP, become Red fighters and commanders of the New People’s Army, serve as cadres in the mass movement of peasants, workers and other democratic sectors and other areas of work.
The chronically worsening socio-economic conditions permit the mass movement of students and youth (as well as the people’s mass movement in general) to constantly progress from one level of strength to the next. It permits the KM to constantly accumulate quantitative strength; and periodically achieve qualitative growth. Even taking into consideration such factors as enemy suppression or one or several errors in planning which may cause fluctuations in strength, the prevailing conditions permit the mass movement to advance in an overall upward trajectory.
The CPP is currently leading the protracted people’s war from the current stage to a qualitatively higher stage. The projected transition to a higher level is based on having accumulated the critical mass necessary to leap forward to a qualitatively new phase in the development of the people’s war. The worsening crisis of the ruling semicolonial and semifeudal system and the prolonged global capitalist recession favor the continued growth of the revolutionary forces.
The CPP estimates that it in a period of one or two five-year programs, it can double or triple its current membership to more than 250,000 and raise NPA firepower and the number of NPA Red fighters to 25,000. It can also increase exponentially the mass base, the number of organs of political power and their level and reach and the achievements in land reform and socio-economic planning in the guerrilla base areas.
KM must set its sights on assisting the Party and the Filipino people advance the people’s war to the stage of strategic stalemate. The leadership and cadres of the KM must take stock of its current strength and project what quantitative and qualitative growth in strength it can achieve over a certain period. KM’s periodic programs of action must be geared squarely towards this objective.
From its current strength, KM can achieve qualitative growth in a few years’ time in terms of its membership, the number of schools organized and organizations influenced or allied. Viewed strategically, the KM can aim to achieve an unprecedented number of annual CPP and NPA recruits, sustain this for several years and surpass this again in another few years time.
Expectations from KM after 50 years
The CPP and all revolutionary forces expect the Kabataang Makabayan to exert all-out effort to achieve big advances in the coming years.
The chronic crisis of the ruling system continues to worsen and victimize the students and youth. The prevailing system of backward agrarian production and export-oriented and import-dependent manufacturing has remained basically unchanged for over seven decades. It is starkly clear that this system deprives the students and youth and the oppressed and exploited masses of a progressive and modern future.
Amid the prolonged crisis of the global capitalist system, the crisis of the ruling system is set to worsen further as foreign monopoly capitalists seek to intensify the plunder of Philippine mineral resources, take control and establish large plantations and exploit cheap labor. The US military is determined to increase its presence to protect US economic interests in the Philippines and in the region.
To perpetuate the current system amid intensified crisis, the ruling classes of big bourgeois compradors and big landlords collaborate with the US imperialists to carry out a political and ideological offensive with the aim of drawing away the people’s attention from their basic problems and destroy their unity. They bombard the youth and people with pro-imperialist propaganda employing the instruments of big media and the internet.
The KM and the mass movement of students and youth are expected to be at the forefront of a political, ideological and cultural resistance to counter the imperialist bombardment in the universities, in the commercial big media, in social media and other cultural and propaganda agencies. They must advance a national democratic propaganda offensive to counter the ideas of neoliberal theories and various anti-Marxist philosophical trends posing as “postmodern” but which are actually a throwback to the idealist and metaphysical philosophies of old.
In order to counter the political and ideological offensives of the imperialists and their local cohorts, the KM must assiduously conduct studies and research on theory, history and concrete conditions. Parallel to their study courses, KM members are expected to conduct social investigations to know firsthand the conditions of their fellow youth and students, of workers in factories and their communities and peasants and minority peoples in rural communities.
KM members are expected to emulate their founding members who untiringly studied the writings of communist thinkers and carefully applied the universal theories of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to concrete conditions. Like their predecessors, KM cadres of today must exert great effort in studying basic and advanced communist writings, as well as key documents and publications of the CPP and other revolutionary organizations.
Owing to the physical proximity of schools to factories and communities and with the majority of KM members coming from the middle to lower petty-bourgeoisie and working class, members of KM are expected to assist the workers’ movement in a big way. Such an expectation becomes doubly significant in the face of the need to wage an epic class struggle to reverse the policies of flexible labor that have attacked the right to a minimum wage, to job security, to an eight-hour work day and other such basic workers rights won through hard struggle over the past century.
The KM and the mass movement of students and youth are expected to link up with the peasant movement and mobilize the youth to carry out rural service and help in implementing the revolutionary land reform program in the guerrilla zones.
As the people’s war advances to the stage of the strategic stalemate, the New People’s Army expects yearly hundreds and eventually thousands of KM members and young cadres and mass activists to become Red fighters and join the people’s war. The KM must conduct propaganda in schools, communities and factories calling on the youth to join the NPA. The KM can coordinate with the NPA to conduct summer training camps for potential recruits from among the KM members.
The Kabataang Makabayan continues to be one of the critical forces of the Philippine revolution. Having been at the very inception of the resumption of the national democratic revolution, KM is determined to see the Filipino people’s revolutionary struggle through to the basic completion of the new democratic struggle with the overthrow of the puppet state to be succeeded immediately thereafter by socialist revolution and construction.
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/20141130_long-live-the-kabataang-makabayan-on-its-50th-anniversary
The CPP pays tribute to all the revolutionary martyrs and heroes from among the ranks of the KM and the revolutionary mass movement of youth and students. They inspire the current generation of youth to rise up and serve the people’s democratic revolution.
KM’s 50th year is an important milestone in the history of the Filipino people’s revolutionary struggles. It is a testimony to the perseverance of the Filipino youth and people in waging revolutionary struggle to put an end to the oppressive and exploitative semicolonial and semifeudal system.
KM is celebrating its 50th year, yet it remains young and vibrant, having thousands of young students and youth in its ranks raising its red banner and promoting the people’s democratic revolution under proletarian leadership. KM and, through it, the CPP, continue to strike deep roots among the students and youth.
Basic Role of the KM
In his essay celebrating KM’s 50th anniversary, Prof. Jose Ma. Sison, KM founding chair, describes their effort during the 1960s in laying the foundations for the reestablishment of the CPP and building the NPA. Indeed, every KM member and proletarian cadre in the youth and student movement must carefully study Ka Joema’s essay in order to gain a comprehensive grasp of KM’s history and past contributions and define clearly the tasks ahead.
As communist juniors among the students and youth, the basic role of the Kabataang Makabayan is to assist the revolutionary party of the proletariat in carrying out its work in leading the people’s democratic revolution. Such role is basically unchanged since its foundation. The KM reaches out to the broadest ranks of the students and youth, raises their patriotic, pro-people and scientific consciousness, trains them as propagandists, teachers and organizers and prepares them for deployment in the various fields of revolutionary work.
KM reaches out to the broadest ranks of the students and youth by addressing their day to day concerns such as incessant increases of tuition and other school fees and the reactionary state’s policy of commercialization and social spending cutbacks. The KM also addresses issues such as overly restrictive school policies and the suppression of civil, political and human rights in campuses. It promotes the youth’s demand for a nationalist, scientific and mass-orientated education.
KM raises the patriotic consciousness of the students and youth by exposing how the Philippine educational system is oriented to serve foreign big business interests, particularly by churning out skilled and semi-skilled labor and producing research work that justifies IMF-WB policy impositions. KM exposes as well the various laws, policies and agreements which perpetuate US economic, political and military dominance and semicolonial rule. KM deepens the revolutionary commitment of the students and youth by linking with the toiling masses and supporting their democratic struggles.
KM exposes and fights the dominant reactionary, reformist, petty-bourgeois and pseudo-progressive mode of thinking that counters the development of a patriotic, scientific and pro-people culture and consciousness. It conducts more thorough studies of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism among its advanced cadres in order to train them in the scientific method of thinking and urge them to go through the process of remoulding through criticism and self-criticism.
Taking stock of the objective and subjective situation
It is the task of the KM and youth and student Party cadres to take stock of the objective conditions and the subjective strength of the revolutionary forces in order to define a program of action that serves the overall program of the Party.
The overall socio-economic conditions, as well as the particular conditions confronting the students and youth continue to be exceedingly favorable for arousing, organizing and mobilizing large numbers of students and youth in a mass movement that advances the cause of national and social liberation.
The mass movement of students and youth is always fertile ground for training and recruiting activists and proletarian revolutionary cadres. The more widespread the mass movement, the bigger the number of potential cadres who can join the CPP, become Red fighters and commanders of the New People’s Army, serve as cadres in the mass movement of peasants, workers and other democratic sectors and other areas of work.
The chronically worsening socio-economic conditions permit the mass movement of students and youth (as well as the people’s mass movement in general) to constantly progress from one level of strength to the next. It permits the KM to constantly accumulate quantitative strength; and periodically achieve qualitative growth. Even taking into consideration such factors as enemy suppression or one or several errors in planning which may cause fluctuations in strength, the prevailing conditions permit the mass movement to advance in an overall upward trajectory.
The CPP is currently leading the protracted people’s war from the current stage to a qualitatively higher stage. The projected transition to a higher level is based on having accumulated the critical mass necessary to leap forward to a qualitatively new phase in the development of the people’s war. The worsening crisis of the ruling semicolonial and semifeudal system and the prolonged global capitalist recession favor the continued growth of the revolutionary forces.
The CPP estimates that it in a period of one or two five-year programs, it can double or triple its current membership to more than 250,000 and raise NPA firepower and the number of NPA Red fighters to 25,000. It can also increase exponentially the mass base, the number of organs of political power and their level and reach and the achievements in land reform and socio-economic planning in the guerrilla base areas.
KM must set its sights on assisting the Party and the Filipino people advance the people’s war to the stage of strategic stalemate. The leadership and cadres of the KM must take stock of its current strength and project what quantitative and qualitative growth in strength it can achieve over a certain period. KM’s periodic programs of action must be geared squarely towards this objective.
From its current strength, KM can achieve qualitative growth in a few years’ time in terms of its membership, the number of schools organized and organizations influenced or allied. Viewed strategically, the KM can aim to achieve an unprecedented number of annual CPP and NPA recruits, sustain this for several years and surpass this again in another few years time.
Expectations from KM after 50 years
The CPP and all revolutionary forces expect the Kabataang Makabayan to exert all-out effort to achieve big advances in the coming years.
The chronic crisis of the ruling system continues to worsen and victimize the students and youth. The prevailing system of backward agrarian production and export-oriented and import-dependent manufacturing has remained basically unchanged for over seven decades. It is starkly clear that this system deprives the students and youth and the oppressed and exploited masses of a progressive and modern future.
Amid the prolonged crisis of the global capitalist system, the crisis of the ruling system is set to worsen further as foreign monopoly capitalists seek to intensify the plunder of Philippine mineral resources, take control and establish large plantations and exploit cheap labor. The US military is determined to increase its presence to protect US economic interests in the Philippines and in the region.
To perpetuate the current system amid intensified crisis, the ruling classes of big bourgeois compradors and big landlords collaborate with the US imperialists to carry out a political and ideological offensive with the aim of drawing away the people’s attention from their basic problems and destroy their unity. They bombard the youth and people with pro-imperialist propaganda employing the instruments of big media and the internet.
The KM and the mass movement of students and youth are expected to be at the forefront of a political, ideological and cultural resistance to counter the imperialist bombardment in the universities, in the commercial big media, in social media and other cultural and propaganda agencies. They must advance a national democratic propaganda offensive to counter the ideas of neoliberal theories and various anti-Marxist philosophical trends posing as “postmodern” but which are actually a throwback to the idealist and metaphysical philosophies of old.
In order to counter the political and ideological offensives of the imperialists and their local cohorts, the KM must assiduously conduct studies and research on theory, history and concrete conditions. Parallel to their study courses, KM members are expected to conduct social investigations to know firsthand the conditions of their fellow youth and students, of workers in factories and their communities and peasants and minority peoples in rural communities.
KM members are expected to emulate their founding members who untiringly studied the writings of communist thinkers and carefully applied the universal theories of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to concrete conditions. Like their predecessors, KM cadres of today must exert great effort in studying basic and advanced communist writings, as well as key documents and publications of the CPP and other revolutionary organizations.
Owing to the physical proximity of schools to factories and communities and with the majority of KM members coming from the middle to lower petty-bourgeoisie and working class, members of KM are expected to assist the workers’ movement in a big way. Such an expectation becomes doubly significant in the face of the need to wage an epic class struggle to reverse the policies of flexible labor that have attacked the right to a minimum wage, to job security, to an eight-hour work day and other such basic workers rights won through hard struggle over the past century.
The KM and the mass movement of students and youth are expected to link up with the peasant movement and mobilize the youth to carry out rural service and help in implementing the revolutionary land reform program in the guerrilla zones.
As the people’s war advances to the stage of the strategic stalemate, the New People’s Army expects yearly hundreds and eventually thousands of KM members and young cadres and mass activists to become Red fighters and join the people’s war. The KM must conduct propaganda in schools, communities and factories calling on the youth to join the NPA. The KM can coordinate with the NPA to conduct summer training camps for potential recruits from among the KM members.
The Kabataang Makabayan continues to be one of the critical forces of the Philippine revolution. Having been at the very inception of the resumption of the national democratic revolution, KM is determined to see the Filipino people’s revolutionary struggle through to the basic completion of the new democratic struggle with the overthrow of the puppet state to be succeeded immediately thereafter by socialist revolution and construction.
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/20141130_long-live-the-kabataang-makabayan-on-its-50th-anniversary
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