CPP/Ang Bayan: Persevere in arduous struggle, celebrate the Party’s 53 years

Propaganda article from the English language edition of Ang Bayan posted to the PRWC Newsroom Website (Dec 7, 2021): Persevere in arduous struggle, celebrate the Party’s 53 years



The Party calls on its tens of thousands of members, Red fighters of the New People’s Army (NPA), activists and the revolutionary masses across the country and different parts of the world to celebrate this month the 53rd anniversary of the establishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). Let us celebrate its achievements and draw lessons from mistakes, while strengthening our resolve to make the necessary sacrifices in carrying forward the arduous struggle to defend the welfare and interests of the people and advance their aspiration to liberate the country from imperialism and tyranny.

Why will the Party’s anniversary be celebrated? Because the Party and the people’s democratic revolution it leads represent hope for millions upon millions of Filipinos who are fed up with the ruling system that causes them daily suffering and hardships. Amid tyranny’s darkness, the revolution is a beacon that lights the way for the workers and peasants, the pettybourgeois intellectuals, women, teachers, nurses, ordinary employees, drivers, small professionals and low-income earners, members of the LGBT+ community, the unemployed both in the cities and rural areas, and other oppressed and exploited classes and sectors.

The Party and its program for people’s democracy and socialism galvanizes them to act and struggle for genuine change—to end the almost century-old semicolonial and semifeudal system dominated by the imperialists, big bourgeois compradors, big landlords and their armed brutes. In the Party, the people’s hope of finally attaining their desire for national freedom remains alive.

What is going to be celebrated on the Party’s anniversary? There is a lot to celebrate in the upcoming anniversary of the CPP. Let us celebrate how the CPP grew from a small group of proletarian revolutionaries to a Party with tens of thousands of cadres and members that are deeply rooted among millions of people.

Let us celebrate the Party’s establishment of the NPA that serves as the masses’ weapon to fight the ruling classes’ fascist terrorism. Let us celebrate the mutual care of the peasants and the people’s army and the big and small victories in waging agrarian revolution through the past five decades together with the Party and NPA.

Let us celebrate the building of organs of political power, the embryo of their new democratic government. Under these, people practice true democracy, in contrast to the pseudo-democracy of reactionary politics and elections, where fraud, violence, chicanery and money rule.

Let us celebrate how a new economic system is being built by eliminating feudal exploitation of peasants by landlords, and guiding the masses to the system of collective work to raise production and earn more. Let us celebrate how the environment is defended by punishing and driving away the plunderers. Let us celebrate how millions have benefited from the people’s government’s education, health and economic services. Let us celebrate the rich revolutionary culture that reflects the people’s national and democratic aspirations.

Let us celebrate how the people, inspired and guided by the Party, have built their unions, their peasant associations, their student councils and groups, and other forms of organizations to fight and defend the interests of the oppressed for genuine land reform, higher wages and jobs, defend their homes and their right to education, to free expression, and other basic civil, political and socioeconomic rights.

This year, let us celebrate how the Party, the revolutionary forces and people have fought back valiantly against the onslaught of state terrorism, how they are standing up for their rights and how they are showing determination despite the brutal murders and rampant violations of people’s rights committed by the reactionary state forces.

Let us celebrate how the Party and the revolution have so far frustrated Duterte and his armed minions in their annual declarations of crushing the Party and NPA. The Party and the armed revolution remains consolidated, strong and advancing.

Let us celebrate how the continuing growth in the number of Party cadres, NPA Red fighters, and activists of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). The brutal realities of Duterte’s tyranny teaches them to fight and join the people’s democratic revolution.

Let us celebrate international proletarian and anti-imperialist solidarity—the unity of all forces fighting for national and social liberation across the world. The CPP and the Philippine revolution is only one among the numerous revolutionary movements across the world fighting the imperialist monster and all the oppressive and reactionary forces.

Where will celebrations of the Party’s 53rd anniversary be held? Celebrations of the Party’s anniversary will be held wherever there are branches of the Party, units of the NPA and chapters of revolutionary mass organizations: in factories, docks, offices and other workplaces, in communities of the urban poor, inside homes, in school campuses, in hospitals, in government offices, among migrant Filipino communities overseas, and of course, in the guerrilla zones and base areas among the rural communities and mountains camps of the NPA.

Hold big and small meetings and assemblies. Keep the enemy blind and deaf to the applause and cheers of the people. Frustrate Duterte’s evil aim of stopping these celebrations and convocations.

On December 26, all CPP cadres and members are called upon to unfurl and raise the Party’s red flag, pay tribute to our heroes and reaffirm their oath of commitment to serve the proletariat and people, to make the necessary sacrifices, surmount all obstacles, and advance the people’s democratic revolution until victory.

[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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