CPP-NPA Pushing for Achievement of Stalemate Stage 5 Years, or More

Posted to the Negros Daily Bulletin (Jan 5): CPP-NPA Pushing for Achievement of Stalemate Stage 5 Years, or More

The Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) and its alliance organization, the National Democratic Front (NDF), is intent on building its cadres and increasing its army or guerilla force to 25,000 within a five-year period, from 2010 onwards in order to be at par with government armed forces including its police force. Previous readings showed that when fighting a guerilla war, the ratio is denominated at 10-1 or one guerilla for ten of the government’s troops, a stalemate issued by the CPP on the commemoration of its 44th anniversary and reviewed by NNF/NDB as an effort to ensure balanced reporting with each of the sides the CPP and government giving its stalemate on the issue.

The CPP added that it is urging the basic masses and the middle forces to defend and to advance the democratic interest of the Filipino people. The underground mass organizations are united in the intent of the NDF to support local organs of political power, also underground. The main mass underground organization of the CPP and NPA is the New People’s Army (NPA), it continued. These are the main organizations, mostly political, which must be established by the democratic people’s republic, it said.

Since the number one instrument of the revolution is the NPA, it has thousands of high-powered firearms possessed by NPA armed warriors. Its objective is to increase its armed forces up to 25,000 in order to reach the level of stalemate or in short, becoming at par or equal in strength with the government’s armed forces. It moves about and operates in more than 100 guerilla fronts and expects to reach the number of up to 180 guerilla fronts within five years starting 2010, it said. Or it could continue its effort towards stalemate for a few years more, it added.

Regions which still cannot keep up with the requirements of the stalemate stage will be assisted and helped so that it could go hand-in-hand with other regions in the country. Political analysts consider the Southern Mindanao region as the strongest of the already established guerilla fronts. Other regions which are the main targets of attacks by the Philippine government’s armed forces are Samar-Leyte and Negros, which it believes should entail the deployment of eight to as much as 12 battalions while deployed as second priority areas are the Bicol, Southern Tagalog, Central Luzon, and Northeast Luzon where deployed have been six to 10 battalions, the military saying it has to deploy these numbers to match the CPP-NPA’s strength, basing on the experts ratio in a guerilla war.

Under such a program, the CPP-NPA intends to establish an equal number of one guerilla front in each congressional district in the Philippines. The leading committees, commands of the regional level inter-guerilla front level are merged when needed and necessary. This, after enough social investigation. Before a guerilla front is organized, its civilian components including cadres and party political organizations are deployed ahead of the armed guerillas.

The NPA commands are also tasked to protect the leaderships of the CPP and its command and the fighting units will be the NPA guerillas.  After this is done, the CPP and the NPA combined establishes the National Operational Command (NOC), which could then be based in any region in the country.

The CPP has not declared the number of armed strength of the NPA, its guerilla army; but said the government has been trying to bloat the strength of the NPA especially during the end of the Marcos years at 25,000 which is not true because its actual armed strength was four times lower the figure, or merely about 6,000 guerillas.

The NPA, more specifically because it is integrated with the basic masses of farmers and workers in the countrysides and have components elsewhere, cannot be defeated no matter what the government says.  In areas like Mindanao where environmental destruction is rampant, it campaigns against mining and illegal logging. It also ensures that the masses are protected especially in their livelihood, said the CPP.  As part of its united front policy, reactionary elections said the CPP are being involved in all aspects of governance in the country. It coordinates and cooperates with all patriotic forces in the country, it said.

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