CHRISTIANS FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION (CNL)
December 8, 2021
“Behold, I am sending you as a sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.”Matthew 10:16, ESV
With the commemoration of the 73 Anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, during the Human Rights Day, 10 December 2021, we continue to journey and fight with the Filipino people in its quest for justice amidst the glaring human rights violations in the country. As Christians for National Liberation, we continue to promote and proclaim human rights, and denounce human rights violations (HRVs) in the Philippines primarily by joining and supporting the armed struggle by establishing and empowering people’s organizations with the aim of eradicating the three root causes of the social crisis in the country US imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat capitalism.
Under the tyrannical administration of Rodrigo Roa Duterte, more than a million Filipinos have been subjected to different forms of HRVs. Such violations include genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, criminal negligence, and grave economic crisis; in which most of the victims are poor Filipino people, coming from the toiling masses of workers, farmers, fishers, national minorities, urban poor, activists, and human rights defenders. Even at the height of the global crisis brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the tyrant Duterte did not hesitate to use and empower the reactionary and corrupt armed forces through billions of funds and incentives. Militaristic rule was prioritized over rapid vaccine roll out, free and accessible health services, economic aid, food relief, and livelihood support for poor Filipino families. The wanton and skyrocketing increase of oil prices, supported by Duterte’s kneel to his imperial masters through neoliberal policies, mercilessly allow millions of Filipinos to die of hunger and wallow on systemic poverty.
Through the National Task Force- to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), which was created under the “whole-of-nation” approach in December 2018, Duterte spent billions of public funds to reinforce tyranny and state terrorism with the junta he has formed. This agency is responsible for the intensified vilification of the work of rights defenders and activists which results in harassment, illegal arrests, incarceration and even killings. More HRVs would be committed by the fascist Duterte regime, especially now that the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 is already in place. All of these are desperate efforts to silence the growing and resounding cry of the Filipino masses for their fundamental rights, and for tyrant Duterte to evade accountability for his crimes. However, all these efforts are in vain, as these only reinvigorate and reaffirm the oppressed and toiling people’s democratic right for revolution, especially against unjust, tyrannical, and oppressive rule.
Amidst the intensified human rights repression in the country, we are now faced with the changing of guards come May 2022. The elections of the reactionary government, however rigged it may be, and albeit dominated by the ruling elite, is a platform where we can maximize to expose and oppose such tactics and politicians that carry anti-people policies. We also maximize the elections in pressing for accountability and justice. We should open our eyes to such ploy—of those demagogues returning to power. We should be wary of the Marcos-Duterte- Arroyo tandem who have formed an unholy alliance in order to maintain and expand power through the rotting system of bureaucrat capitalism. This is a glaring challenge to the Filipino masses to concretely expose and oppose leaders of regimes, despotic political dynasties that have committed insurmountable crimes and rights violations against the people. The democratic forces should not allow the fascist, corrupt, and plundering Marcos-Duterte gang to maintain and root their power any further.
Our continued participation in the elections is needed to amplify platforms that will truly serve the Filipino people — agrarian reform, national industrialization, job security and just wages, quality and free health services, national sovereignty and independence, and social justice. We must support and amplify candidates and their platforms that are one with us in ending decades-long oppression in our land and consistently champion human rights.
Over and beyond elections, the CNL affirms that ONLY THROUGH the unity of the broad Filipino masses in waging the national democratic revolution with a socialist perspective could the rights and dignity of every Filipino could be upheld. This is to say that we all have the reasons to continue the people’s democratic revolution, pursuing it more profusely, even beyond reactionary elections. The people’s protracted war shall continue on!
December 8, 2021
“Behold, I am sending you as a sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.”Matthew 10:16, ESV
With the commemoration of the 73 Anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, during the Human Rights Day, 10 December 2021, we continue to journey and fight with the Filipino people in its quest for justice amidst the glaring human rights violations in the country. As Christians for National Liberation, we continue to promote and proclaim human rights, and denounce human rights violations (HRVs) in the Philippines primarily by joining and supporting the armed struggle by establishing and empowering people’s organizations with the aim of eradicating the three root causes of the social crisis in the country US imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat capitalism.
Under the tyrannical administration of Rodrigo Roa Duterte, more than a million Filipinos have been subjected to different forms of HRVs. Such violations include genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, criminal negligence, and grave economic crisis; in which most of the victims are poor Filipino people, coming from the toiling masses of workers, farmers, fishers, national minorities, urban poor, activists, and human rights defenders. Even at the height of the global crisis brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the tyrant Duterte did not hesitate to use and empower the reactionary and corrupt armed forces through billions of funds and incentives. Militaristic rule was prioritized over rapid vaccine roll out, free and accessible health services, economic aid, food relief, and livelihood support for poor Filipino families. The wanton and skyrocketing increase of oil prices, supported by Duterte’s kneel to his imperial masters through neoliberal policies, mercilessly allow millions of Filipinos to die of hunger and wallow on systemic poverty.
Through the National Task Force- to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), which was created under the “whole-of-nation” approach in December 2018, Duterte spent billions of public funds to reinforce tyranny and state terrorism with the junta he has formed. This agency is responsible for the intensified vilification of the work of rights defenders and activists which results in harassment, illegal arrests, incarceration and even killings. More HRVs would be committed by the fascist Duterte regime, especially now that the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 is already in place. All of these are desperate efforts to silence the growing and resounding cry of the Filipino masses for their fundamental rights, and for tyrant Duterte to evade accountability for his crimes. However, all these efforts are in vain, as these only reinvigorate and reaffirm the oppressed and toiling people’s democratic right for revolution, especially against unjust, tyrannical, and oppressive rule.
Amidst the intensified human rights repression in the country, we are now faced with the changing of guards come May 2022. The elections of the reactionary government, however rigged it may be, and albeit dominated by the ruling elite, is a platform where we can maximize to expose and oppose such tactics and politicians that carry anti-people policies. We also maximize the elections in pressing for accountability and justice. We should open our eyes to such ploy—of those demagogues returning to power. We should be wary of the Marcos-Duterte- Arroyo tandem who have formed an unholy alliance in order to maintain and expand power through the rotting system of bureaucrat capitalism. This is a glaring challenge to the Filipino masses to concretely expose and oppose leaders of regimes, despotic political dynasties that have committed insurmountable crimes and rights violations against the people. The democratic forces should not allow the fascist, corrupt, and plundering Marcos-Duterte gang to maintain and root their power any further.
Our continued participation in the elections is needed to amplify platforms that will truly serve the Filipino people — agrarian reform, national industrialization, job security and just wages, quality and free health services, national sovereignty and independence, and social justice. We must support and amplify candidates and their platforms that are one with us in ending decades-long oppression in our land and consistently champion human rights.
Over and beyond elections, the CNL affirms that ONLY THROUGH the unity of the broad Filipino masses in waging the national democratic revolution with a socialist perspective could the rights and dignity of every Filipino could be upheld. This is to say that we all have the reasons to continue the people’s democratic revolution, pursuing it more profusely, even beyond reactionary elections. The people’s protracted war shall continue on!
https://prwcinfo.wordpress.com/2021/12/08/fight-for-peoples-rights-wage-the-national-democratic-revolution/
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