KABATAANG MAKABAYAN-NEGROS ISLAND
NDF-NEGROS ISLAND
November 30, 2021
Statement of Kabataang Makabayan – Negros on its 57th founding anniversary and the 158th birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio
It is no coincidence that on the 158th birthday of Andres Bonifacio, we are also celebrating the 57th founding anniversary of Kabataang Makabayan. This represents a continuum of the ongoing epic that is the Philippine revolution: the new blood picking up where the old has left off.
Through us, the nationalist youth of today, the revolutionary spirit of Andres Bonifacio and the Katipunan lives on. Under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and with a socialist perspective, we are now tasked to continue the frustrated national democratic aspirations of the 1896 Philippine revolution until victory.
Headed by US imperialism, the current neocolonial world order is rife with crises of its own making: the global pandemic, the rise of fascist dictatorships, the worsening economic recession, and many more. That which bears the brunt of it all are those from its neocolonies, including the Philippines. What we are experiencing is a full expression of the moribund stage of capitalism.
To cope with such crises, US imperialism in cahoots with the local bureaucrats and compradors intensify their attacks on the Filipino people. We see this in the increasing fascism of the US-Duterte regime, and its desperate clinging to power. Duterte has facilitated in selling off our sovereignty and allowing imperialists to easily plunder our natural resources, not just to the US but also to the growing imperialist China.
That Marcos Jr. is now eyeing a presidential seat and conniving with the most rotten and reactionary factions of the Arroyos, Dutertes and Estradas rouses the legacy of Kabataang Makabayan. Like how the Filipino people have united to oust his father, dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., we shall also ensure to resist his comeback to power and the rehabilitation of their family’s bloody legacy.
External factors favor the strengthening of the revolutionary movement against the triad of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. However, we, as the internal force, are decisive in the triumph of the national democratic revolution of the new type. Like Andres Bonifacio in leading the Katipunan, the nationalist youth of today shall carry the painstaking work of arousing, organizing and mobilizing the broadest masses as they suffer from sharpening socio-economic conditions.
The Kabataang Makabayan must lead the youth into the path of armed struggle under the leadership of the proletariat, veering away from the pacifism that the reactionary state endorses and benefits from. Class contradictions between the ruling class—the oppressor and exploiter—against the oppressed and exploited in society are antagonistic and cannot be merely resolved through non-antagonistic means.
Another important task of Kabataang Makabayan is to lend full support to the New People’s Army, under the absolute leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines. They are the true inheritors of the legacy of the Katipunan and a full expression of the worker-peasant alliance. Without the New People’s Army, we have nothing to move the revolution forward.
In Negros, the fascist army prides itself of obliterating the revolutionary movement with its thousand of fake surrenders, most of which are from the peasant youth. While the intensified attacks of the reactionary state have indeed posed many challenges for us, it is never enough to kill the revolutionary vigor of the militant youth. For as long as there are injustices and feudal exploitation continues to ravage our island, the revolutionary movement will continue to grow in strength. As vanguard of the militant youth, Kabataang Makabayan must serve as a space for more guerilla fighters to bloom in order to lend the much needed forces to the countryside.
Thus, it is no surprise that the reactionary state particularly focuses its fangs on the youth. They are afraid of what an organized militant youth, who seek to unite with the broad masses under the banner of national democracy, could achieve. The youth are being confined inside the auspices of a colonial, commercialized, and anti-democratic education. The repressive state is also pulling out so-called “subversive” books from University libraries; scared of what a revolutionary education can do. The fascist army paints revolutionaries as “terrorists” when they truly are the ones that sow terror in the cities and in the countryside.
Kabataang Makabayan must serve as an organization which supplies the youth’s ideological needs, to raise their level of consciousness of class struggle and of two-line struggle, and equip them with the eternal science of Marxism. Kabataang Makabayan must develop young activists tempered in mass struggles and integrated with the peasants and workers. Advancing in the revolutionary tasks they undertake, a new generation of Andres Bonifacios will grow.###
https://prwcinfo.wordpress.com/2021/11/30/the-ongoing-epic-that-is-the-philippine-revolution-the-new-blood-picking-up-where-the-old-has-left-off/
November 30, 2021
Statement of Kabataang Makabayan – Negros on its 57th founding anniversary and the 158th birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio
It is no coincidence that on the 158th birthday of Andres Bonifacio, we are also celebrating the 57th founding anniversary of Kabataang Makabayan. This represents a continuum of the ongoing epic that is the Philippine revolution: the new blood picking up where the old has left off.
Through us, the nationalist youth of today, the revolutionary spirit of Andres Bonifacio and the Katipunan lives on. Under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and with a socialist perspective, we are now tasked to continue the frustrated national democratic aspirations of the 1896 Philippine revolution until victory.
Headed by US imperialism, the current neocolonial world order is rife with crises of its own making: the global pandemic, the rise of fascist dictatorships, the worsening economic recession, and many more. That which bears the brunt of it all are those from its neocolonies, including the Philippines. What we are experiencing is a full expression of the moribund stage of capitalism.
To cope with such crises, US imperialism in cahoots with the local bureaucrats and compradors intensify their attacks on the Filipino people. We see this in the increasing fascism of the US-Duterte regime, and its desperate clinging to power. Duterte has facilitated in selling off our sovereignty and allowing imperialists to easily plunder our natural resources, not just to the US but also to the growing imperialist China.
That Marcos Jr. is now eyeing a presidential seat and conniving with the most rotten and reactionary factions of the Arroyos, Dutertes and Estradas rouses the legacy of Kabataang Makabayan. Like how the Filipino people have united to oust his father, dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., we shall also ensure to resist his comeback to power and the rehabilitation of their family’s bloody legacy.
External factors favor the strengthening of the revolutionary movement against the triad of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. However, we, as the internal force, are decisive in the triumph of the national democratic revolution of the new type. Like Andres Bonifacio in leading the Katipunan, the nationalist youth of today shall carry the painstaking work of arousing, organizing and mobilizing the broadest masses as they suffer from sharpening socio-economic conditions.
The Kabataang Makabayan must lead the youth into the path of armed struggle under the leadership of the proletariat, veering away from the pacifism that the reactionary state endorses and benefits from. Class contradictions between the ruling class—the oppressor and exploiter—against the oppressed and exploited in society are antagonistic and cannot be merely resolved through non-antagonistic means.
Another important task of Kabataang Makabayan is to lend full support to the New People’s Army, under the absolute leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines. They are the true inheritors of the legacy of the Katipunan and a full expression of the worker-peasant alliance. Without the New People’s Army, we have nothing to move the revolution forward.
In Negros, the fascist army prides itself of obliterating the revolutionary movement with its thousand of fake surrenders, most of which are from the peasant youth. While the intensified attacks of the reactionary state have indeed posed many challenges for us, it is never enough to kill the revolutionary vigor of the militant youth. For as long as there are injustices and feudal exploitation continues to ravage our island, the revolutionary movement will continue to grow in strength. As vanguard of the militant youth, Kabataang Makabayan must serve as a space for more guerilla fighters to bloom in order to lend the much needed forces to the countryside.
Thus, it is no surprise that the reactionary state particularly focuses its fangs on the youth. They are afraid of what an organized militant youth, who seek to unite with the broad masses under the banner of national democracy, could achieve. The youth are being confined inside the auspices of a colonial, commercialized, and anti-democratic education. The repressive state is also pulling out so-called “subversive” books from University libraries; scared of what a revolutionary education can do. The fascist army paints revolutionaries as “terrorists” when they truly are the ones that sow terror in the cities and in the countryside.
Kabataang Makabayan must serve as an organization which supplies the youth’s ideological needs, to raise their level of consciousness of class struggle and of two-line struggle, and equip them with the eternal science of Marxism. Kabataang Makabayan must develop young activists tempered in mass struggles and integrated with the peasants and workers. Advancing in the revolutionary tasks they undertake, a new generation of Andres Bonifacios will grow.###
https://prwcinfo.wordpress.com/2021/11/30/the-ongoing-epic-that-is-the-philippine-revolution-the-new-blood-picking-up-where-the-old-has-left-off/
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.