In honor of Ka Pepe Luneta
The Communist Party of the Philippines honors Jose (Ka Pepe) Luneta as a hero of the Filipino proletariat. Ka Pepe is one of those who reestablished the CPP in 1968. He passed away last May 1 in Bielefeld, Germany at the age of 73 after 55 years of helping advance the Philippine revolution.
Ka Pepe was born of a middle class family in Batangas City but chose the class standpoint, viewpoint and methods of the revolutionary proletariat. He became a mass activist in 1963 and participated in Marxist-Leninist study circles. He joined student rallies and mass work in Manila and Central Luzon.
He was among the leading co-founders of KM in 1964. He was in China in 1968 to help in the Philippine section of Peking Radio. He was a delegate in absentia to the congress of reestablishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in December 26, 1968 and was elected to the CPP Central Committee and Political Bureau. He returned to the Philippines in 1969, joined the Executive Committee of the Central Committee and was appointed General Secretary in June 1971.
He excelled in education, languages and cultural work. He translated from the Chinese original the song “Ang Masa” which spread like wildfire among mass activists during the First Quarter Storm of 1970.
He was arrested in Malabon, Rizal on January 1976. He and his comrades were detained and severely tortured in military intelligence safehouses. He inspired his comrades by telling them that they are fearless because they are selfless for the people. He escaped his prison guards in 1982 when brought outside for a dental checkup.
He worked in the Ilocos-Mountain Province-Pangasinan region until 1984 and contributed to its development. He was transferred to the Southern Luzon Commission (SLC) and served as its Party secretary from 1984 to 1989. He contributed significantly to the development of the Southern Tagalog and Bicol regions and in the expansion work in the islands of Mindoro and Palawan under the SLC.
In 1990, he left the country to undertake political work among overseas Filipinos and help in building solidarity relations with other peoples. He later would go to Germany to seek political asylum in 1984. From then on, he stayed in Germany as a refugee. He devoted himself to propagating information about the struggle for national and social liberation in the Philippines and in forging solidarity between the Filipino and Germans and other nationalities.
In the course of his entire life as a proletarian revolutionary, Ka Pepe made significant contributions to the growth in strength and advancement of the CPP and the people’s democratic revolution in the Philippines, and to the development of proletarian internationalist relations and solidarity relations with peoples of the world.
Based on Ka Jose Ma. Sison’s “In honor of Comrade Jose (Ka Pepe) Ebora Luneta” which can be read at http://www.philippinerevolution.info
[Ang Bayan is the official news organ of the Communist Party of the
https://www.philippinerevolution.info/ang_bayan/20180607-in-honor-of-ka-pepe-luneta/
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