CPP/Ang Bayan: Advance the national-democratic propaganda movement!

English language translation of an Ang Bayan propaganda statement posted to the CPP Website (Feb 7): Advance the national-democratic propaganda movement!

The following was excerpted from the message of the Communist Party of the Philippines to the Kabataang Makabayan (KM) on the commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the First Quarter Storm of 1970.

The KM is one of the Party’s arms. It is a challenge to you to massively arouse, organize and mobilize the youth to contribute to the advance of the Philippine revolution. As an arm of the Party among the intellectuals, the Party looks forward to seeing thousands of fighters spring forth from KM’s ranks in the arena of the propaganda movement and mass struggles and in the field of armed struggle.

Propaganda and counter-propaganda is war. As warriors, you must train and develop expertise in propaganda. Read. Conduct research. Study and review. The propaganda war is a contest for the people’s hearts and minds. To arouse the masses, you must be humble and listen to them, know their situation, their experiences, views, language and taste.

Turn the campuses into centers of protest. Advance the rights and welfare of the youth in education. Fight commercialization. Relate the problems of the youth to national problems. Let protests against the MRT and LRT fare hikes; privatization, inadequate education and health budgets; low wages and lack of jobs; landgrabbing; military abuses; corruption and plunder resound within campuses.

Turn campuses into centers of cultural revolution. Smash colonial mentality, individualism, consumerism, selfishness and disorganization among intellectuals. Advance the mass line: recognizing the masses as the source of knowledge and creator of wealth. Study and develop expertise in communist theory. Propagate Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the scientific class understanding of society and history.

Enkindle patriotism among the youth. Always remind them of the history of the Filipino people, especially the Filipino-American war. This stage in history has been forcibly suppressed in the schools. Teach everyone about this to remind the people about their continuing struggle for national liberation.

Wherever you put your sights in the city, the propaganda warriors of the youth-student must be there: in the markets, terminals, inside buses, jeeps or trains, in the factories, offices, malls, parks, communities and streets. Distributing leaflets. Putting up posters or newsletters on walls. Waging propaganda over the internet.

In various parts of the country, the people’s army, the people’s militia and the mass organizations are growing, and armed struggle and agrarian revolution are raging. The Party is badly in need of new blood, new cadres and fighters to enthusiastically shoulder the growing tasks in the current stage.

The Party challenges the Kabataang Makabayan to recruit in the next few years more than 1,000 new Red fighters annually from among the youth and students. They will be added to the bigger numbers of peasant and worker youth who will be recruited into the NPA to intensify guerrilla warfare nationwide.

To the young communist comrades, develop your minds and bodies to prepare for the bigger tasks that lie ahead. Train and prepare to accomplish new organizing and leadership tasks from the various urban sectors up to the peasant movement and armed struggle in the countryside, as fighters and commanders of the New People’s Army and cadres and leaders of the Party.
 

[Ang Bayan is the official news organ of the Communist Party of the Philippines and is issued by the CPP Central Committee. It provides news about the work of the Party as well as its analysis of and views on current issues. Ang Bayan comes out fortnightly and is published in Pilipino, Bisaya, Ilokano, Waray, Hiligaynon and English.]

 http://www.philippinerevolution.net/publications/ang_bayan/20150207/advance-the-national-democratic-propaganda-movement