Maria Laya Guerrero
Spokesperson
Kabataang Makabayan
Spokesperson
Kabataang Makabayan
Hundreds of members of revolutionary youth organization Kabataang Makabayan (KM) marched in downtown Manila on Wednesday morning, November 30, to call on the youth to take up arms and join the communist revolution and assail President Rodrigo Duterte’s refusal to discontinue Oplan Bayanihan, the state’s counterinsurgency plan implemented since the past Aquino regime.
Carrying banners with the call “Join the revolution! Join the New People’s Army!” defiant youth and students marched to commemorate KM’s 52nd founding anniversary.
“As we commemorate Kabataang Makabayan’s storied past, we march today to show the reactionary state that the underground youth movement is very much alive, young, exuberant, and very much ready to take up arms and further intensify the revolution in the countryside,” Maria Laya Guerrero, spokesperson of Kabataang Makabayan, said.
“The Philippine revolution waged by the CPP may have been raging for almost five decades now, yet the revolution remains young and full of vigor – literally and figuratively – for millennial revolutionaries are ready to take the helm of the revolution, and take the place of our elders in our intensifying fight for national liberation. We take pride in noting that most of our Red fighters now are in the prime of their youth, and many more are set to replenish the growing ranks of the NPA!” Guerrero stressed.
“We also march today to express the underground youth movement’s strongest contempt over GRP President Rodrigo Duterte’s hard-headed and duplicitous stance on the continuation of the reviled Oplan Bayanihan,” Guerrero said.
Guerrero was referring to a statement issued by the president wherein he told the media that he will not reign in the deployment and continued operations of the military and the police in rural areas.
“I have been very clear and categorical to them. This is the Republic of the Philippines. So the soldiers and police should be anywhere and everywhere,” Duterte told reporters on Monday.
The president’s comment comes after several units of the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), reported that the military continues to implement its internal security plan Oplan Bayanihan, and continue to militarize rural areas – especially those near guerilla zones – despite the ongoing unilateral ceasefire issued separately both by the government and the CPP.
“What is clear from the president’s pronouncement is that, first, he cannot and will not reign in the mercenary Armed Forces of the Philippines, even as both parties are engaging in a peace negotiation. Second, the president’s refusal to discontinue Oplan Bayanihan – which has wreaked havoc not only to the revolutionary forces but also to families and communities of rural peasants especially – shows us that ‘tunay na pagbabago’ may indeed be nothing but an election catchphrase,” Guerrero explained.
“The continued deployment of the military and their continued counterinsurgency efforts through Oplan Bayanihan bodes ill on the outcome of the ongoing peace negotiations between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP),” Guerrero stressed.
KM is a member organization of the NDFP.
‘Fascism is not heroism’
KM also weighed in on the issue of the late dictator’s burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, noting that many martyrs and victims of the Martial Law era were members of the revolutionary youth organization.
“It was Marcos who forced KM and its members to go underground. It was Marcos that began the relentless persecution and killing of youth activists and revolutionaries. Never can KM, whose members became primary targets of the fascist dictatorship, recognize – much less honor – Marcos as a hero,” Guerrero said.
The revolutionary youth leader added, “Rehabilitating the image and legacy of the late dictator is tantamount to endorsing state fascism. By greenlighting the late dictator’s burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, President Duterte and his government is actually systematically emulating the fascist reign of the Marcoses.”
“The system that has produced and enabled the tyrannical rule of Ferdinand Marcos remains largely intact. Duterte is moving precariously near this path to fascist rule. His recalcitrant and unapologetic stance regarding Oplan Bayanihan is telling,” Guerrero added.
KM urged the youth to not only study history and review the excesses and crimes of Martial Law, but also to deeply analyze the socio-economic ills that the country still faces.
“The root causes of armed revolution remain vastly unchanged. The compelling reasons to take up arms and become Red fighters persist. Thus the revolutionary youth movement will continue to enjoin youth and students to join the NPA and fight for genuine independence!” Guerrero ended.
https://www.cpp.ph/millenial-revolutionaries-hold-lightning-rally-assail-dutertes-refusal-scrap-oplan-bayanihan/
Carrying banners with the call “Join the revolution! Join the New People’s Army!” defiant youth and students marched to commemorate KM’s 52nd founding anniversary.
“As we commemorate Kabataang Makabayan’s storied past, we march today to show the reactionary state that the underground youth movement is very much alive, young, exuberant, and very much ready to take up arms and further intensify the revolution in the countryside,” Maria Laya Guerrero, spokesperson of Kabataang Makabayan, said.
“The Philippine revolution waged by the CPP may have been raging for almost five decades now, yet the revolution remains young and full of vigor – literally and figuratively – for millennial revolutionaries are ready to take the helm of the revolution, and take the place of our elders in our intensifying fight for national liberation. We take pride in noting that most of our Red fighters now are in the prime of their youth, and many more are set to replenish the growing ranks of the NPA!” Guerrero stressed.
“We also march today to express the underground youth movement’s strongest contempt over GRP President Rodrigo Duterte’s hard-headed and duplicitous stance on the continuation of the reviled Oplan Bayanihan,” Guerrero said.
Guerrero was referring to a statement issued by the president wherein he told the media that he will not reign in the deployment and continued operations of the military and the police in rural areas.
“I have been very clear and categorical to them. This is the Republic of the Philippines. So the soldiers and police should be anywhere and everywhere,” Duterte told reporters on Monday.
The president’s comment comes after several units of the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), reported that the military continues to implement its internal security plan Oplan Bayanihan, and continue to militarize rural areas – especially those near guerilla zones – despite the ongoing unilateral ceasefire issued separately both by the government and the CPP.
“What is clear from the president’s pronouncement is that, first, he cannot and will not reign in the mercenary Armed Forces of the Philippines, even as both parties are engaging in a peace negotiation. Second, the president’s refusal to discontinue Oplan Bayanihan – which has wreaked havoc not only to the revolutionary forces but also to families and communities of rural peasants especially – shows us that ‘tunay na pagbabago’ may indeed be nothing but an election catchphrase,” Guerrero explained.
“The continued deployment of the military and their continued counterinsurgency efforts through Oplan Bayanihan bodes ill on the outcome of the ongoing peace negotiations between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP),” Guerrero stressed.
KM is a member organization of the NDFP.
‘Fascism is not heroism’
KM also weighed in on the issue of the late dictator’s burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, noting that many martyrs and victims of the Martial Law era were members of the revolutionary youth organization.
“It was Marcos who forced KM and its members to go underground. It was Marcos that began the relentless persecution and killing of youth activists and revolutionaries. Never can KM, whose members became primary targets of the fascist dictatorship, recognize – much less honor – Marcos as a hero,” Guerrero said.
The revolutionary youth leader added, “Rehabilitating the image and legacy of the late dictator is tantamount to endorsing state fascism. By greenlighting the late dictator’s burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, President Duterte and his government is actually systematically emulating the fascist reign of the Marcoses.”
“The system that has produced and enabled the tyrannical rule of Ferdinand Marcos remains largely intact. Duterte is moving precariously near this path to fascist rule. His recalcitrant and unapologetic stance regarding Oplan Bayanihan is telling,” Guerrero added.
KM urged the youth to not only study history and review the excesses and crimes of Martial Law, but also to deeply analyze the socio-economic ills that the country still faces.
“The root causes of armed revolution remain vastly unchanged. The compelling reasons to take up arms and become Red fighters persist. Thus the revolutionary youth movement will continue to enjoin youth and students to join the NPA and fight for genuine independence!” Guerrero ended.
https://www.cpp.ph/millenial-revolutionaries-hold-lightning-rally-assail-dutertes-refusal-scrap-oplan-bayanihan/
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