The political and economic situation is very favorable for advancing all forms of mass struggles and the revolutionary struggle for national democracy firmly. The further political isolation of the Duterte regime must be taken advantage of in order to reach and mobilize an increasing number of people especially in the coming months before the elections.
As Rodrigo Duterte’s Malacañang term draws to a close, his fascist regime escalates its brutal attacks against the Filipino people. This is in line with his desperate attempt to attain his declaration of ending the armed resistance and to carry out his scheme of widespread suppression and imposing martial law on the pretext of widespread chaos. In the cities and countryside, Duterte employs fascist terrorism to tyrannize the people, destroy their unions and organizations, trample on their rights and crush their resistance. The regime’s worsening attacks reveal its mortal fear of a people’s uprising that can be ignited by their rapidly worsening conditions and standard of living.
The Philippine economic crisis continues to worsen. The successive increases in fuel prices over the past ten weeks is bringing gross suffering and misery upon the masses and stokes their outrage. The big capitalists are exploiting the war in Europe to accumulate superprofits, and which also provides the Duterte regime a windfall in the form of increasing tax collections. As a result, prices of food, goods and services are rising, which force the majority of the people into poverty. The value of the peso is nosediving even as wages remain low. Like rubbing salt on the people’s wounds, the regime’s officials announced that more taxes will have to be imposed to cover Duterte’s mountains of debt.
Amid reports of reduced number of Covid-19 cases, the regime “opened the economy” but widespread unemployment remains. This is because a large part of export-oriented manufacturing remains aground. Weak local production is tied to the international imperialist crisis. Global production remains weak due to the crisis of overproduction. The crisis of local agriculture and fisheries continues to worsen due to unmitigated liberalization and the flood of imported rice, vegetables, meat and fish, resulting in the bankruptcy of millions of peasants and fisherfolk. Until now, the Duterte government has failed to carry out decisive measures to strengthen the public health system as preparation for a possible pandemic resurgence.
As the May election approaches, the contradictions among the rival cliques of the ruling class intensify. As the election campaign heats up, large rallies supporting Leni Robredo are gaining ground across the country, bringing together the people’s anger against the Duterte regime’s fascism, corruption and treachery. These put to stark focus the isolation of the ruling clique and its Marcos-Duterte tandem.
The situation is bound to widen and consolidate further the democratic united front, including the possibility of uniting the anti-Duterte parties and candidates. The Marcos-Duterte plot to steal the elections will become more untenable and will undoubtedly ignite massive people’s resistance.
The economic and political crisis of the ruling system, and worsening state terrorism is generating conditions that favor resurgence of different forms of mass struggles against political repression and to advance the struggles for the people’s urgent democratic demands. The people must be mobilized untiringly to fight against rising prices of fuel and commodities, for jobs and higher wages, to reduce land rent, economic subsidies, cancellation of debt, an end to dumping of imported agricultural products, and so on.
All efforts must be exerted and all methods utilized, including taking advantage of the election campaign, to reach factories and communities in the cities and countryside, to arouse, organize and mobilize workers, peasants, the poor, the youth, women and other oppressed and impoverished people. Party cadres and activists must overcome their fear and hesitation, steel their minds and hearts, be ready to face all difficulties, hunger and sacrifices, and daringly and untiringly surpass all past efforts in organizing the masses and uniting their will and strengthening their determination, and in addressing their concrete problems and leading their struggles.
The mass movement must take advantage of the growing political movement against the Marcos-Duterte collaboration and link their mass struggles to the election campaign and the resistance to the plans of stealing the elections. On the other hand, the struggles in the election arena waged by democratic forces must be linked to the political and economic struggles of the masses.
We are celebrating this month the 53rd anniversary of the New People’s Army (NPA). Be ever determined to strengthen and expand the NPA. Further strengthen military discipline and raise the capability in guerrilla tactics to frustrate the enemy’s all-out offensives that are set to heighten further in the coming months. Fiercely resist the enemy’s attacks against the people. Launch tactical offensives with certain victory. Target the detached and small units of the enemy. Expose and oppose the enemy’s psywar that deceives and disunites the masses.
Firmly uphold the interests of the peasant masses and advance their struggles. Continually expand the territories of the guerrilla fronts and build new guerrilla fronts. Sustain recruitment and training of young Red fighters who will bring the people’s war to greater heights in the future.
https://cppangbayan.wordpress.com/2022/03/07/advance-the-revolutionary-struggles-with-full-courage-and-determination/
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