A decisive battle between the Duterte tyranny and the Filipino people is set to erupt in the coming months. The evil forces of tyranny and fascist terrorism are quickly consolidating, on the one hand, while on the other, the broad ranks of people’s progressive and democratic forces against tyranny are coming together. Whatever outcome of this battle will surely bring the ruling political system to even deeper crisis.
This battle presently centers on the presidential elections this coming May and Duterte’s end of term as president. In the coming five months, all political forces are set to vigorously push to attain their objectives.
The Duterte, Marcos and Arroyo alliance of tyrants presently dominate the electoral battle because they wield power. They control the military and police that are used to harass, intimidate and suppress the anti-tyranny forces. Majority of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials were appointed and in Duterte’s hands. He also controls the automated counting system used in 2019 to install his minions in the Congress and Senate.
Above all, the Duterte-Marcos-Arroyo alliance controls gargantuan amounts of wealth and state resources. The Marcoses are pouring billions of their ill-gotten wealth plundered during the dictatorship to buy the loyalty of politicians, pay for their rallies and motorcades, dominate mass media advertisements, and overwhelm social media to create the illusion of widespread support. Funds are also pouring from big businesses who once partnered with the dictatorship, as well as from big bourgeois compradors who fear reprisals under the scenario of the Marcoses dominating the elections.
The tyrants are now in a united alliance, even if there is undeniable rifts among them. Duterte continues to use threats of disqualification against Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to wring out bigger concessions and assurances of protection. Duterte has already demonstrated that there are no limits to his avarice for power and wealth, thus, it would come as no surprise if he will betray Marcos and support whoever will bow to his dictates.
The various anti-Duterte parties failed to unite and select a united ticket. Leading the biggest opposition parties is Leni Robredo of the Liberal Party, although she has yet to show her capacity to lead and unite the people. It does not help her chances of winning that she has distanced herself from the national democratic parties and organizations who are among the most reliable forces fighting Duterte’s tyranny and have an electoral mass base of a few million votes.
The opposition forces must continue to build their alliance. However, even if there is no formal coalition or electoral alliance, the opposition forces must forge the broadest movement to counter the restoration of the Marcoses to power and the perpetration of the Duterte dynasty—a movement against the fascists, plunderers and liars. They must unite in efforts to ensure that ballots are counted right and resist any attempt to steal the election results. They must be ready to rise and act upon the exposure of the widespread electoral cheating of the Marcoses and Dutertes.
The national democratic parties and organizations must unite the leading anti-tyranny parties and urge them to support the patriotic and democratic demands. Among this is the demand for justice for the thousands of victims of the sham “war on drugs,” the release of all political prisoners, wage increases, land for the tillers, an end military dominance in government and society, serious peace negotiations and putting a stop to the war against civilians in the form of military and police occupation of villages, forced “surrenders,” and aerial bombing and shelling.
While advancing the political struggles in the cities and countryside, the revolutionary armed struggle must be strengthened to resist the fascist attacks against the masses and carry forward the democratic struggles of the peasant masses.
The New People’s Army (NPA) must exert all effort to extend and intensify guerrilla warfare on the basis of a deepening and widening mass base, in order to frustrate the declared objective of the AFP to crush the armed struggle before the end of Duterte’s term.
In the coming months, the AFP will definitely carry out large-scale military offensives against NPA units. The fascist terrorism of military and police officers makes the justness of bearing arms and joining the armed struggle ever clear to the people.
The NPA must continue to raise its capacity in guerrilla maneuvers and methods of work to deny the enemy of a target while strengthening, recruiting new Red fighters, expanding its territory, establishing new mass organizations, consolidating guerrilla fronts and opening new fronts, and launching tactical offensives with certain success.
For the Party, the coming months will serve as a fitting opportunity to widely rouse, organize and mobilize the Filipino people. The Party must firmly lead the people’s struggles and armed resistance to further expand and strengthen. The upcoming anniversary of the Party will serve as occasion to prepare our minds and strengthen our ranks to shoulder the ever arduous tasks as we march forward along the difficult path of struggles.
[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.]
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