CPP lauds NPA on 47th anniv, urges intensified armed struggle

From the Daily Tribune (Mar 29): CPP lauds NPA on 47th anniv, urges intensified armed struggle

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has called on the New People’s Army (NPA) to intensify its tactical offensives to seize more weapons to arm more guerrilla formations nationwide.

In its editorial for the March 21, 2016 issue of Ang Bayan entitled “Intensify people’s war with Aquino exit and installation of new puppet regime,” CPP stressed in its message released on March 21 that “with the coming reactionary elections set to end the old puppet regime and start a new one, the task of intensifying the people’s war across the country is clear to the NPA and all revolutionary forces.”

The message was issued as the NPA celebrates its 47th anniversary on March 29.

“The people’s wrath over the Aquino regime’s six years of rotten, criminal, fascist and puppet rule is interminable. Drive the momentum of tactical offensives across the country to greet the new puppet regime to be installed and affirmed by US imperialism through the May elections,” CPP goaded the NPA.

The party emphasized that the offensives should be carried even within the very seat of Aquino’s political power.

“Under the new puppet regime, the people are bound to confront efforts to pave the way for greater US military intervention (in collusion with rising militarism in Japan), changes to the 1987 constitution to make it more congruent with the interests of foreign big capitalists and put the Philippines under the US Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and other issues of national freedom,” the Ang Bayan editorial stressed.

“The new regime will serve as implementor of policies that are set to cause further exploitation and greater hardship to the workers and peasants, youth and students, teachers and ordinary employees, small professionals and other exploited classes and sectors. Whoever among the candidates wins, he or she will don the masks of ‘pro-poor,’ ‘anti-corruption,’ ‘anti-crime’ and promoter of ‘clean government’ and ‘service to the people,’” CPP argued.

“In fact, they all represent the interests of big foreign capitalists and big compradors and are involved in the criminal operation of bureaucrat-capitalists that employ state power to serve their businesses and interests. Let us immediately rip the mask of the incoming regime and not allow it to deceive the people. Intensify the armed struggle together with strengthening the democratic mass struggle. Combine tactical offensives from all sides with rising street marches,” the party said.

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